Cataclysm crash after selecting a menu option on main screen

majesty · 2015-03-03T00:18:33.000Z

hello, i was watching a youtube video of this game, and it seemed really exciting to i followed the instructions, which were to download the latest build and extract it and run it. i did this, and it did not work. after selecting a menu option it crashed on me. running it in compatability mode or admin did not fix this. i went to the IRC chat and they told me to download http://dev.narc.ro/cataclysm/jenkins-latest/Windows/Tiles/ 2815, which i did, and i got the same error. i would love to be able to try this game out, but i would need to solve this issue first. is anyone here experienced enough to help me through this problem? i am using windows 7 64 bit. thank you for reading.

i2amroy · 2015-03-03T02:07:20.000Z

Try opening up options.txt and changing the value for SOFTWARE_RENDERING. Some graphics cards freak out when it’s on the wrong setting there. You will need to restart the game after changing it for it to take effect.

majesty · 2015-03-03T02:17:06.000Z

didnt work

Rivet · 2015-03-03T02:20:04.000Z

Have you tried the ASCII Curses version?

majesty · 2015-03-03T02:31:22.000Z

not sure what you mean there.

Valkjosandi · 2015-03-03T02:34:15.000Z

That would be the not-sdl/tiles version.

Stable: http://assets.cataclysmdda.com/downloads/windows_binaries/cddacurses-current.zip

Experimental: http://dev.narc.ro/cataclysm/jenkins-latest/Windows/Curses/

majesty · 2015-03-03T02:35:18.000Z

ah, yes i have used those.

KA101 · 2015-03-03T02:45:43.000Z

Just tried on my non-dev machine (with a working browser though), and latest dev works fine on Win7 Home Premium 32-bit. Wish I had better news.

Valkjosandi · 2015-03-03T04:40:35.000Z

Resolved

User was hitting spacebar rather than enter when selecting a menu option -> spacebar closes the program when at the title screen. (also program “crashes” anytime it’s shut down).