[nchall]

My old laptop can run 9.11 fine, but when I try the latest builds, both GL and DX it just crashes. As I said, laptop is pretty old and it is running Windows 7 which Intel were kind enough not provide a WDDM driver for, but I am still hoping I can get it working because I use it to try out new tweaks for my larger HTPC.

Any suggestions?

[jmarshall]

A debug log might be useful perhaps?

[nchall]

Here you go:

http://pastebin.com/Lr0ZBXZ0

Thanks!

[jhsrennie]

Hmmm, "FATAL: CApplication::Create: Unable to init rendering system" is obviously the killer. You need to turn on debug logging as it will give us a bit more info, but because you can't start XBMC you'll need to do this by hand.

Open your userdata folder (windows-R and type %appdata%\xbmc\userdata is a quick way to your userdata folder). If there is a file called guisettings.xml then edit it in Notepad, if there is no such file create a new file called guisettings.xml using Notepad, and paste in:

Code:

<settings>
    <debug>
        <showloginfo>true</showloginfo>
    </debug>
</settings>

Now start XBMC and you should find the xbmc.log is a lot bigger and has much more detailed info. Pop this new xbmc.log on pastebin.com for us to have a look at.

JR

[nchall]

Here it is:

http://pastebin.com/r9D4MWej

[CrystalP]

Details still missing in the log. Did you have to create the guisettings.xml from scratch?

Can you install the latest DirectX runtime?

[jhsrennie]

Here it is:

http://pastebin.com/r9D4MWej

Hmmm, that doesn't give any useful clues. I don't know where we go from here. I think one of the guys who works on the rendering code would need to reproduce the problem on a 915GMA so they could debug it.

You could try downloading and running the DirectX installer from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...ceb6d8fa8d just in case there's something odd about the DX setup on your PC. It's a long shot though.

JR

[CrystalP]

Since you have Win7, we try to use D3D9Ex but we don't have a fallback from D3D9Ex to D3D9. It may be required when no WDDM driver is available. I'll have a look.

Although the GL version should be unaffected by this.

[CrystalP]

Please try a nightly >= r32138.

[nchall]

Well that fixed it. Using the latest nightly DX and it is working fine. I bet it was a problem associated with the lack of a WDDM driver as you all mentioned. What changed in the latest nightly to make it work?

[WiSo]

http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/x...sion=32138

[nchall]

ahh thanks. most people probably won't have this problem, but for people trying to run it on old hardware it might be helpful.

[nchall]

this seems to be happening again using the latest dx nightly, particularly in music visualizations.

[nchall]

getting a bsod when i use the milkdrop preset on the latest dx nightly.

[CrystalP]

Can you go back versions to track when this started?

And a debug log never hurt.