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[QuinnDexter]

Hi there. I need some help because Starsector is not launching anymore.


System specs:

OS Name:                         Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
OS Version:                       6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
OS Build Type:                  Multiprocessor Free
System Manufacturer:          ASUS
System Type:                      x64-based PC
Processor(s):                     1 Processor(s) Installed.
                                  [01]: Intel64 Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~3800 Mhz
BIOS Version:                   American Megatrends Inc. 2803, 5/21/2015
Total Physical Memory:        16,326 MB
Available Physical Memory:   9,099 MB
Virtual Memory: Max Size:     32,650 MB
Virtual Memory: Available:    22,202 MB
Virtual Memory: In Use:       10,448 MB
Page File Location(s):           D:\pagefile.sys
Domain:                          WORKGROUP
Hotfix(s):                    222 Hotfix(s) Installed
Graphical card:               Radeon RX 570
Graphical card drivers:      20.8.3

For some reason starsector is not launching anymore (it used to launch properly in the past). It doesn't even go to the initial prelaunch menu where you can select mods and other things. The icon shows up in the task bar most of the times though. I've tried reinstalling the game and deleting everything in the mod folder. I didn't find any  _JAVA_OPTIONS under system variables like the other people having issues. The only thing that changed since my last succesful launch is that I changed my graphics card to a  Radeon RX 570. Drivers are up to date.



Running starsector.bat from cmd:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Fractal Softworks\Starsector\starsector-core>..\jre\bin\java.exe -Djava.library.path=native\windows -Xms1536m -Xmx1536m -Xss1024k -
Dcom.fs.starfarer.settings.paths.logs=. -Dcom.fs.starfarer.settings.paths.saves=../saves -Dcom.fs.starfarer.settings.paths.screenshots=../screenshots -
Dcom.fs.starfarer.settings.paths.mods=../mods -classpath janino.jar;commons-compiler.jar;commons-compiler-jdk.jar;starfarer.res.jar;starfarer.api.jar;starfarer_obf.jar;jogg-
0.0.7.jar;jorbis-0.0.15.jar;json.jar;lwjgl.jar;lwjgl_util_applet.jar;jinput.jar;lwjgl_test.jar;log4j-1.2.9.jar;lwjgl_util.jar;fs.sound_obf.jar;fs.common_obf.jar;xstream-

1.4.10.jar com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher
0    [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher  - Starting Starsector 0.9.1a-RC8 launcher
1    [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher  - Running in C:\Program Files (x86)\Fractal Softworks\Starsector\starsector-core
1    [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher  - OS: Windows 7 6.1
1    [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher  - Java version: 1.7.0_79 (64-bit)
9    [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.settings.StarfarerSettings  - Loading settings
14   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.loading.LoadingUtils  - Loading JSON from [ABSOLUTE_AND_CWD: null (data/config/settings.json)]
92   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 640x480, 60Hz, 16bpp
92   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 640x480, 75Hz, 32bpp
94   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 640x480, 75Hz, 16bpp
94   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 640x480, 60Hz, 32bpp
94   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 720x400, 60Hz, 32bpp
95   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 720x400, 70Hz, 16bpp
95   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 720x400, 60Hz, 16bpp
95   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 720x400, 70Hz, 32bpp
95   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 800x600, 75Hz, 16bpp
95   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 800x600, 60Hz, 32bpp
96   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 800x600, 60Hz, 16bpp
96   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 800x600, 75Hz, 32bpp
96   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 832x624, 75Hz, 16bpp
97   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 832x624, 60Hz, 32bpp
97   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 832x624, 60Hz, 16bpp
97   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 832x624, 75Hz, 32bpp
99   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1024x768, 60Hz, 32bpp
99   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1024x768, 75Hz, 16bpp
99   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1024x768, 75Hz, 32bpp
99   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1024x768, 60Hz, 16bpp
99   [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1152x872, 60Hz, 16bpp
100  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1152x872, 75Hz, 32bpp
100  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1152x872, 75Hz, 16bpp
100  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1152x872, 60Hz, 32bpp
101  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1280x720, 60Hz, 32bpp
101  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1280x1024, 75Hz, 32bpp
101  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1280x1024, 60Hz, 16bpp
101  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1280x800, 60Hz, 16bpp
102  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1280x800, 60Hz, 32bpp
102  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1280x1024, 60Hz, 32bpp
102  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1280x720, 60Hz, 16bpp
102  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1280x1024, 75Hz, 16bpp
104  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1600x900, 60Hz, 16bpp
104  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1600x900, 60Hz, 32bpp
104  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1680x1050, 60Hz, 32bpp
104  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1680x1050, 60Hz, 16bpp
105  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1920x1080, 60Hz, 16bpp
105  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Found display mode: 1920x1080, 60Hz, 32bpp
105  [main] INFO  com.fs.starfarer.launcher.opengl.GLLauncher  - Assuming native monitor resolution is 1920x1080
324  [Thread-2] INFO  com.fs.graphics.L  - Using refresh rate:60
1134 [Thread-2] INFO  com.fs.graphics.TextureLoader  - Cleaned buffer for texture graphics/ui/launcher_bg.jpg (using cast)
1152 [Thread-2] INFO  com.fs.graphics.TextureLoader  - Cleaned buffer for texture graphics/ui/launch_button_bg.png (using cast)
1157 [Thread-2] INFO  com.fs.graphics.TextureLoader  - Cleaned buffer for texture graphics/ui/play_button0.png (using cast)
1164 [Thread-2] INFO  com.fs.graphics.TextureLoader  - Cleaned buffer for texture graphics/ui/play_button1.png (using cast)
1170 [Thread-2] INFO  com.fs.graphics.TextureLoader  - Cleaned buffer for texture graphics/ui/buttons/toggleA20x_on.png (using cast)
1174 [Thread-2] INFO  com.fs.graphics.TextureLoader  - Cleaned buffer for texture graphics/ui/buttons/toggleA20x_off.png (using cast)
1181 [Thread-2] INFO  com.fs.graphics.TextureLoader  - Cleaned buffer for texture graphics/ui/buttons/arrow_down.png (using cast)
1182 [Thread-2] INFO  com.fs.graphics.TextureLoader  - Cleaned buffer for texture graphics/fx/scanline11.png (using cast)
1200 [Thread-2] INFO  com.fs.graphics.TextureLoader  - Cleaned buffer for texture graphics/fonts/orbitron24aabold_0.png (using cast)
1230 [Thread-2] INFO  com.fs.graphics.TextureLoader  - Cleaned buffer for texture graphics/fonts/orbitron20aa_0.png (using cast)
1256 [Thread-2] INFO  com.fs.graphics.TextureLoader  - Cleaned buffer for texture graphics/fonts/insignia15LTaa_0.png (using cast)
1285 [Thread-2] INFO  com.fs.graphics.TextureLoader  - Cleaned buffer for texture graphics/fonts/orbitron12_0.png (using cast)

[Alex]

Hmm - could you try editing data/config/settings.json, and setting "legacyLauncher" to true? That might get you a little further along, at least, and could possibly let you run the game.

It's hard to say what's going on, exactly - as you can probably see, there's unfortunately nothing too informative going on in the log. I want to say it's probably a driver issue, or interaction with some other software that's running at the same time. Did you install new drivers for the card? If not, then that's for sure worth a shot.

Re: other software, if you're running MSI Afterburner or ROG STRIX GPU Tweak II monitor, these are known to cause problems.

Oh, also! Someone recently pointed out that disabling windows 7 aero effects can resolve what looks to be a similar issue:
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=19034.0

[QuinnDexter]

Thanks for your help. I was running MSI afterburner, and disabled it. That did nothing for my problem. When I changed my windows theme to basic, I was suddenly able to see the launcher that was invisible before. How fortunate that both of the things you mentioned were things I had going on! If this is a regular issue, maybe consider putting a check in the launcher if MSI afterburner is running to inform the user that it might cause issues.

[Alex]

Glad that did it!

Not a bad idea re: having a check, but it seems like it'd be tricky to do in a way that was guaranteed to work even if, say, some things re: MSI Afterburner changed. Plus I'm not actually sure whether it causes problems in all cases, some cases, or depending on its settings, or... well. It's basically an unknown, so a warning may actually be too broad of a thing and scare some people where it'd be fine, if that makes sense.