The problem with launching the game. about skijump3-sdl HOT 10 CLOSED

EDIT:

It turned out that the game only started when I chose the integrated graphics card. I am still waiting for such a bug to be fixed. Greetings!

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Hey, thanks for reporting the issue!

Could you try to reproduce it with attached debug version? Extract it into fresh SJ3 directory and run from command line. It should print more information than the release version. Thanks!

SJ3-debug.zip

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Hello.
After activating SJ3-debug.exe, more information came out of the command line. I hope this will help solve the problem.

Cheers!

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Thanks! It's indeed helpful and shows that the problem happens within renderer creation.

  renderer := SDL_CreateRenderer(window, -1, 0); 

I checked the parameters we use in Window and Renderer creation and those should be valid. I couldn't find search engine hits for this kind of exception related to that API.

Because you are the only one out of hundreds of users who have reported this and with dedicated GPU only, I'm inclined to say that the issue is either in SDL library, operating system or most likely in GPU drivers.

Which dedicated GPU you have? Is it in laptop? Can you try to update your GPU drivers?

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One thing we could try. This version enforces software rendering instead of defaulting to hardware acceleration. Could you try if this one works with your problematic GPU? Thanks!

SJ3-sw-renderer.zip

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My dedicated graphics card is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, and yes, I have a laptop. As for the graphics drivers, I have everything updated.

However, after running SJ3-sw-renderer.exe file on NVIDIA card, the game started normally, without any errors.

Thank you very much!

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Thanks for testing. What the test actually means is that the problem is indeed only with that particular nVIDIA setup/drivers. The change forced software rendering which means that all the work is done by the CPU. This test was unfortunately only a workaround and cannot be mainlined since it removes any GPU hardware acceleration from everyone.

It all means that there does not seem to be a way to fix the issue in code. Have you played other SDL2 games like what we have ported or maybe C-Dogs? It would be interesting to know if some or all of them work.

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I have not yet played the other games, I would have to look at them in the near future and see if there is a similar error. So, as I understand it, my only option is to play the integrated graphics card. Well, there is always a solution :D Thanks a lot for your help! :)

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I'm adding a command line parameter to prioritize SW rendering. It's at least a valid workaround.

I was looking online and there were some Pascal/SDL issues with similarities. But nothing really promising. I tried to repro on one nVidia laptop but that was ok.

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SJ313-SP4 released with support for enforced SW rendering via command line parameters.

Thanks again for reporting and have a nice flight to Christmas! Stay safe.

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