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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace & FreeSpace Open Support => Topic started by: Trivial Psychic on April 21, 2016, 12:19:02 am
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So I was recently playing through FS Blue for the first time, and I had just completed the last mission after a marathon of many missions, as far back as "The King's Gambit". I completed the mission and was watching the cutscenes. The death-of-Capella cutscene worked properly, then it played the player-survives ending cutscene. During this however, the video suddenly froze, though it took a few moments for the audio to freeze as well. A few seconds later I saw the Windows-7 things-are-happening-so-please-wait cursor on the screen... a telltale sign that FS has crashed. After it closed down, I tried to restart FS so I could see if my final mission stats got saved, but it just froze. I had to go to crtl-alt-del to shut the process down. After that, I tried restarting again, which did work, but there was no sound. I shut the game down and tried to play a video on my vid-player, and it worked properly. I then decided that a reboot was in order. Windows was quite reluctant for me to leave and I eventually had to hit the reset button to get out. When Windows was done booting, I openned FS again but ran into the same issue. Other odd symptoms include: the interface which had previously auto-stretched to match my screen, was now displaying in the old "full-screen" format. Also, the sim-speech, which hasn't worked for a very long time, suddenly is working again. I tried switching builds, but to no avail. I've toggled off and on the more prominent audio-related options with no effect. I've since run a debug build (using FSU-2014 media VPs, not anything Blue Planet) and I will post the debug_log file here.
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the interface which had previously auto-stretched to match my screen, was now displaying in the old "full-screen" format.
That would be this command-line option:
-stretch_menu
Unless by "interface" you mean something other than the various out-of-mission menu screens...?
Also, the sim-speech, which hasn't worked for a very long time, suddenly is working again.
This is possibly related to some registry location tweaks...
Have you tried using OpenAL Soft?
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the interface which had previously auto-stretched to match my screen, was now displaying in the old "full-screen" format.
That would be this command-line option:
-stretch_menu
Unless by "interface" you mean something other than the various out-of-mission menu screens...?
Actually, I had previously NOT been using the -stretch_menu command line, but it was stretching none-the-less. After the incident, suddenly the menu and interface became un stretched, requiring the use of the flag to revert to the previous behavior.
Also, the sim-speech, which hasn't worked for a very long time, suddenly is working again.
This is possibly related to some registry location tweaks...
Have you tried using OpenAL Soft?
Tried switching to Generic hardware/software instead of my actual sound-blaster option, and the sound and sim-speech are working again, so I guess that my Sound Blaster drivers got screwed-up during the incident. I will try to reinstall them, but if it doesn't work, at least I have the generic options. Is there a speed advantage to using generic hardware as opposed to generic software?
Regardless, thank you for your suggestion as it seems to have bypassed the issue, if not 100% resolved it.
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Is there a speed advantage to using generic hardware as opposed to generic software?
Pretty sure there isn't. The major difference should just be sound quality.