recently installed the new version of Marathon Eternal, totally clean install
and it crashes upon starting the first level, I have no idea what is wrong, I've reinstalled several times now
Marathon Eternal Crashes
I assume you’re on Windows? If so, the problem is Aleph One for Windows’ memory management. There are two options: you can reduce replacement texture quality for walls under preferences > graphics > rendering options; or you can run the Aleph One 1.3 beta, which runs most levels using the highest graphics quality without a hitch. You may still have to lower your settings for one or two levels here and there.
We should probably put something about this on the website. You’re not the first person to have this problem and certainly won’t be the last.
We should probably put something about this on the website. You’re not the first person to have this problem and certainly won’t be the last.
“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” —V, V for Vendetta (Alan Moore)
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
“If others had not been foolish, we should be so.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
“If others had not been foolish, we should be so.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.” —Frank Wilhoit
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Well since I can't find the 1.3 beta, guess it's option #1
See here. The link is at the top right of https://alephone.lhowon.org, for future reference.
“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” —V, V for Vendetta (Alan Moore)
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
“If others had not been foolish, we should be so.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.” —Frank Wilhoit
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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
“If others had not been foolish, we should be so.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.” —Frank Wilhoit
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Apparently I'm blindThe Man wrote:See here. The link is at the top right of https://alephone.lhowon.org, for future reference.
It’s a really small font, so it’s easy to miss the link. Arguably a design flaw – perhaps they should make the links more prominent. The website doesn’t seem to have been updated in awhile – the Eternal maps up there are still the 1.1 versions, too. I doubt many people are playing those now.
“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” —V, V for Vendetta (Alan Moore)
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
“If others had not been foolish, we should be so.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.” —Frank Wilhoit
Last.fm · Marathon Chronicles · Marathon Eternal 1.2 · Where Monsters Are in Dreams · YouTube Vidmaster’s Challenge
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
“If others had not been foolish, we should be so.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.” —Frank Wilhoit
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The beta links are not prominent for a reason. You need to look for them.
I totally get that you want people to download the stable release unless they have a specific reason to want the beta, but if people actively looking for the beta don’t notice the link, then I think perhaps it’s a bit too concealed. I think it’d probably be fine to make it more prominent and simply accompany it with a notice that it’s an unstable piece of software that hasn’t been tested as thoroughly as 1.2.1. Obviously, it’s ultimately not my call, but since the standard response to “Eternal crashes on Windows” is “Run the AO 1.3 beta”, a lot more people are going to be looking for it, and I’d be grateful as one of the Eternal devs if it were easier for them to find. (I mean, I suppose I could just link it myself, but seemingly half the time I write these responses, I’m on a phone, where copying and pasting links is not a trivial task.)
“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” —V, V for Vendetta (Alan Moore)
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
“If others had not been foolish, we should be so.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.” —Frank Wilhoit
Last.fm · Marathon Chronicles · Marathon Eternal 1.2 · Where Monsters Are in Dreams · YouTube Vidmaster’s Challenge
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
“If others had not been foolish, we should be so.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.” —Frank Wilhoit
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Having the latest beta version didn't do anything to fix it, it seems, I lowered the textures and whatnot but instead that leaves the liquids looking...
odd, let me obtain a screenshot
edit: does aleph one have a function to take screenshots?
odd, let me obtain a screenshot
edit: does aleph one have a function to take screenshots?
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That's a known bug on the to-do list to be fixed, but thanks for letting us know. :-)
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oh so it's...not something on my end? ohhhhhhhhPfhorrest wrote:That's a known bug on the to-do list to be fixed, but thanks for letting us know. :-)
The liquids thing (stripey transparency, right?) has been observed by at least one other Windows user who turned down their texture quality to avoid crashing Aleph One.
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On a PC use f9 and it's put in a subfolder named screenshots in the AlephOne folder. They will be png's.HunterOfShadows wrote:edit: does aleph one have a function to take screenshots?
I just play 'em; I don't know how they work.
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correct, I have no idea how to fix it at the current time, as I cannot turn the texture quality upPfhorrest wrote:The liquids thing (stripey transparency, right?) has been observed by at least one other Windows user who turned down their texture quality to avoid crashing Aleph One.
I wanted to report a bug that the terminals in 'the philosophy of time travel' don't work
They're turned off initially, as are most all of the switches on the level, but that's a feature, not a bug. There's a way to turn them all on.
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oh i seePfhorrest wrote:They're turned off initially, as are most all of the switches on the level, but that's a feature, not a bug. There's a way to turn them all on.
