Engine crash on start; Windows XP

[Nickmaster24]

I, today, have download the Windows installer for LOVE. Everytime I go to run it, and application box thing pops up that is empty and has no title. Imeditantally following that, I get a message from Windows asking if I want to send an error report because the program has encountered a problem and needs to close. Any help?

[tentus]

Sounds kinda like issue #216, or maybe issue #185. Can you provide any additional data on your machine?

[Nickmaster24]

Intel(R) Pentium(R) Mprocessor 1500MHz, 599 MHz, 768 MB of Ram

[Nickmaster24]

Any help?

[Boolsheet]

Sounds kinda like

Heh, the Windows errors look all the same.
The SSE2 requirement was resolved with 0.7.2 and should not be a problem for that processor (I think).

Can you look in the event viewer if there are any error messages regarding LÖVE and post them here?
You can open it by clicking on "Start" and then "Run...". Type in "eventvwr.msc" and hit enter.

I know of the following things that could cause an error:
- The LÖVE 0.7.2 Windows build on the front page runs only on Windows XP with service pack 2 and up.
- It's possible that an installed VC++ 2008 runtime may help Windows not being stupid.
- Graphics drivers with bad OpenGL support. This would suck because older cards don't get any driver updates.

There are tons of other possibilities and further (and deeper) analysis on your system is needed to figure out what goes wrong.

[T-Bone]

Just wondering, does the LÖVE runtime (the "zipped" version) work?

[Nickmaster24]

@Boolsheet

Faulting application love.exe, version 0.0.0.0. faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00000000...

Data in Words:

0000: 6c707041 74616369 206e6f69 6c696146
0010: 20657275 766f6c20 78652e65 2e302065
0020: 2e302e30 6e692030 6b6e7520 6e776f6e

Or in bytes:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 6c 6f 76 ure lov
0018: 65 2e 65 78 65 20 30 2e e.exe 0.
0020: 30 2e 30 2e 30 20 69 6e 0.0.0 in
0028: 20 75 6e 6b 6e 6f 77 6e unknown
0030: 20 30 2e 30 2e 30 2e 30 0.0.0.0
0038: 20 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 at offs
0040: 65 74 20 30 30 30 30 30 et 00000
0048: 30 30 30 0d 0a 000..

@T-Bone

I don't have an "Un-Zipper" program...

[Nickmaster24]

Windows help thing said to look for event 1001 in the log which is:

Fault bucket o5229227

Data in Bytes:

0000: 42 75 63 6b 65 74 3a 20 Bucket:
0008: 30 35 32 32 39 32 32 37 05229227
0010: 0d 0a ..

Or in Words:

0000: 6b637542 203a7465 32323530 37323239
0010: 0a0d

[Nickmaster24]

@T-Bone

I am downloading a free "un-zipping" program; I will try with the zipped version.

[T-Bone]

@T-Bone

I am downloading a free "un-zipping" program; I will try with the zipped version.

I thought Windows could handle zip files itself, even in XP if I remember correctly... But then again, I haven't used Windows a lot since I learnt about Linux a couple of years ago, so I could be wrong