White Screen in ProQuake Laucher

[Metal Militia]

Hi !

When i try to play quake with ProQuake Laucher, my screen (window) appears white.
But if i run right glquake.exe, my screen (window) appears well.
ProQuake Laucher has any problem??
Can anybody help me?

Thanks.

[Baker]

Hmmm ... what I would recommend doing in the ProQuake Launcher is clicking More Options -> Diagnostics and click "Copy to Clipboard" and paste that info here.

You mean that Quake gets a white screen, not the launcher itself, correct?

[Metal Militia]

ProQuake Launcher does not get in a white window, it work fine.
Only when i click on button to start playing, my window with the game
gets white.

See the Diagnostic Report:
i think any fields are not important but....

Thank you

[Diagnostic Report: s�bado, 16 de Dezembro de 2006]

[Network]

// 1) Someone on the Internet would connect to this
// 2) Someone on your LAN would connect to this
// 3) If you have a router, typically this is what to type in
// your browser to access it (FireFox, Internet Explorer, ..)

1) Internet IP 85.241.114.2
2) Local IP Address 0.0.0.0
3) Default Gateway (unknown)

[Video Mode]

Current Mode In Pixels 1024x768x32 bpp
Primary Display Adapter NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X (1)
Resolution Width X 1024
Resolution Height Y 768
Color Setting (True Color)
Vertical Refresh 85 Hz

[System]

Windows XP 5.1 build 2600 (Service Pack 2)

CPU Clock Speed 2,0 GHz (Gigahertz)
Memory Usage % 52 % used
Total Physical RAM 784.880 Kbytes
Total Available RAM 371.776 Kbytes
Processes Running: 40

[Processes]

// The count usually won't match XP/2000 task manager
// because if you start taskmgr (CTRL-ALT-DEL-> Processes Tab)
// that will be one more process running

01) System Process
02) System
03) smss.exe
04) csrss.exe
05) winlogon.exe
06) services.exe
07) lsass.exe
0 svchost.exe
09) svchost.exe
10) svchost.exe
11) svchost.exe
12) svchost.exe
13) explorer.exe
14) CCPROXY.EXE
15) CCSETMGR.EXE
16) ISSVC.exe
17) SNDSrvc.exe
1 SPBBCSvc.exe
19) CCEVTMGR.EXE
20) spoolsv.exe
21) AluSchedulerSvc.exe
22) NAVAPSVC.EXE
23) nvsvc32.exe
24) vmware-authd.exe
25) vmount2.exe
26) vmnat.exe
27) vmnetdhcp.exe
2 alg.exe
29) CCAPP.EXE
30) acrotray.exe
31) msmsgs.exe
32) msnmsgr.exe
33) acrodist.exe
34) Adobelm_Cleanup.0001
35) Adobelmsvc.exe
36) eMule.exe
37) winamp.exe
3 glpro.exe
39) firefox.exe
40) prolaunch.exe

[International]

Eng Language Name Portuguese
Eng Country Name Portugal

[Baker]

I was going to guess it might be a video card compatibility issue with ProQuake or not enough RAM available, but according to the above it is clearly not the case (heh, your computer's specs > my computer).

Is it happening with both the single player options (which starts Enhanced GLQuake) and the multiplayer options?

[Baker]

Add:

In c:\quake\prolaunch folder there is a file called launch.log.

This file shows the command lines you used to start Quake.

Take the most recent command line that would look something like "c:\quake\glpro.exe -width 640 -height 480 -bpp 16 -gamma 0.70 -dinput -nocdaudio -iplog -heapsize 32768 -zone 1024" and then do Start -> Run and paste it in and run it see if you still get the white screen.

If you still get the white screen, then it is likely that the combination of settings you choose doesn't work well with your PC for whatever reason.

You didn't set your gamma to 0, did you?

[Metal Militia]

Hi Baker!

I watch my log file "launch.log" and i see a lot of lines look something like:

d:\quake i\glpro.exe -width 1024 -height 768 -bpp 16 -gamma 0,50 -nocdaudio -iplog -heapsize 32768 -zone 1024 -ip 85.241.126.118 +exec qview.cfg

d:\quake i\glpro.exe -game prolaunch/demplay -width 640 -height 480 -bpp 16 -gamma 0,50 -window -nocdaudio -heapsize 32768 -zone 1024 +exec playdem.cfg

i don�t see any line with "-gamma 0".

If i try, Start -> Run c:\quake\glpro.exe -width 640 -height 480 -bpp 16 -gamma 0.70 -dinput -nocdaudio -iplog -heapsize 32768 -zone 1024 , the screen gets well.

and also if i try only, Start -> Run c:\quake\glpro.exe without any other command, the screen also gets well.


I think its any conflict with the prolaunch.exe. When i run proquake.exe and then click on the button "View in Window" to see a preview, the window also gets white.

Thanks Baker.

[Baker]

d:\quake i\glpro.exe -width 1024 -height 768 -bpp 16 -gamma 0,50 -nocdaudio -iplog -heapsize 32768 -zone 1024 -ip 85.241.126.118 +exec qview.cfg

Actually, this identifies the problem. I will have to make a change to the ProQuake Launcher.

The comma in the -gamma parameter is what is messing it up and it was an oversight on my part. It doesn't affect English speaking countries but ProQuake isn't going to recognize a comma as a decimal point, so that probably gets interpreted by ProQuake/Enhanced GL as gamma =0.

My fault. I'll address it in the next release.

For now, you could work around it by going to the Control Panel and setting Regional Settings to English (UK), which would cause that parameter to get formatted with a period as the decimal point instead of a comma.

Mystery solved, sorry I didn't ancipate this problem.

[Metal Militia]

Hi Baker!

Finally mystery solved

Thank you Baker for your support.
I will wait to the next release.

[joao93]

Finally someone that speaks portuguese!

[Metal Militia]

Hi Baker!

Forget what i said in the last post, i will not wait for the next release..... i setting Regional Settings to English (UK) in the control panel and then Mystery solved!! Now it runs well!! Thanks.

Quem me dera falar t�o bem Ingl�s como Portugu�s

[joao93]

Você fala bem até.

[Baker]

I am glad the issue is solved for you. I will try to release an update to correct this issue for countries that use a non-English numeric convention -- a major oversight on my part. I was aware of the potential for a problem and sought to avoid it, but never followed thru with testing.

Unfortunately time has not been my friend lately, I thank you for bringing this issue to my attention so I can get that in the queue.