FTL Closes/Crashes after loading?

[anidiot89]

I believe I have pinpointed the issue, but just in case there is a way around it. So after watching a buddy of mine play ftl for a few hours, he had me convinced to get it. So I got it and I installed it n stuff. I wait for it to load, the loading bar reaches full, few minutes later, it disappears. No window, no process, nothing.

After reviewing the system requirements, I think my video card is the culprit:
Pentium 4 2.8Ghz
512mb Ram
Radeon IGP 345M 64mb
80Gb Hdd
XP MCE SP3
I have Catalyst 6.5 on Omega drivers 3.8.252, so they're updated as possible.
I do not believe this card runs the right version of OpenGL, minecraft does some odd stuff too, which also runs on OpenGL :/

It might be possible that the game checks for ram and closes if you don't have enough?

This makes me confused because my buddy runs it on his netbook with the pos gma 950.

[Matthew]

Your non-video RAM is a bit low as well. If your video card doesn't support some optimization features for the textures, then it looks like you'd just be below system requirements Can you check the output of "stdout.txt" that should be in the installation folder? That will let you know what OpenGL version your card claims to support (often times the drivers lie though). And there might be crash logs in the "crashlogs" folder there as well.

If you bought the game from our website I'd be happy to refund your money.

[anidiot89]

Yeah, hopefully I'll be getting a much newer computer soon.
This was in the stdout.txt file

"No settings file found!
Initializing Video
Video Initialized
Opengl version = 1.3.1072 WinXP Release
Starting audio library...
Audio Initialized!"

If I remember correctly I need OpenGL 2.0/Higher.

There are several crashlogs, they say the identical thing:
"Version = 1.01

Last Player Ship



Last Enemy Ship



Last Event Text =

Stack Trace:

1 - 0x055b9216 atiPPHSN
2 - 0xff5e6e2f"

-No refund needed, being honest my buddy put the ftl installer on a jump drive for me to try out. I will buy it when I get some money.
-Does the Xpress 200M support OpenGL 2? I used to have a laptop with it and never tried MC on it, the new one also has this chip.

[Matthew]

Yeah, with the below minimum requirements on the RAM and the OpenGL support, I don't think FTL can run on that computer. Hope you enjoy it when you get a new computer