I have VASSAL 3.1.6 running on OS X and I’m trying to play the Downtown module. However, none of the Downtown modules on the site are working for me. Every one of them crash on launch (don’t even get to a splash) except for 3-07. However, 3-07 even reports that a long list of image files are missing. I can’t even load up the map on the tutorial.
Am I the only one having problems with this? Can someone point me in the right direction?
I should also point out that I’m not having problems running any modules for the other games I have.
Well, it loads pretty much instantaneously for me, even with the RP4
map option added.
I do notice that this list of Bad Data and missing images is there:
Bad Data in Module: Image not found DRV-plain.png
Bad Data in Module: Image not found DRV-bg.png
Bad Data in Module: Image not found DRV-Su-7.png
Bad Data in Module: Image not found DRV-Mirage.png
Bad Data in Module: Image not found DRV-AS-5.png
Bad Data in Module: Image not found DRV-Generic.png
Bad Data in Module: Image not found Initiative.png
Bad Data in Module: Image not found US-plain.png
Bad Data in Module: Image not found circles.png
Bad Data in Module: Image not found EWRBase.png
Bad Data in Module: Image not found null
Bad Data in Module: Image not found sam-warn.png
Bad Data in Module: Image not found sam2.png
Bad Data in Module: Image not found sam3.png
Bad Data in Module: Image not found sam6.png
Bad Data in Module: Image not found Moved.png
Bad Data in Module: Image not found phase25.png
So, it seems that there are some things missing. IIRC, this used to
be a silent error that now gets reported.
Anyway, it seems to work for me. I think that you should post at
least the first few lines from your errorLog file. It will be in the
“Vassal” folder in your home directory. For example, it would help to
see:
18 Jun 2009 23:06:15.553 0 – Starting
18 Jun 2009 23:06:15.555 0 – OS Mac OS X
18 Jun 2009 23:06:15.555 0 – Java version 1.5.0_16
18 Jun 2009 23:06:15.555 0 – VASSAL version 3.1.6
18 Jun 2009 23:06:16.276 0 – Manager
18 Jun 2009 23:06:42.728 0 – Loading module file /Users/tar/Documents/
Games¥/Vassal/downtown-3-07.vmod
18 Jun 2009 23:06:42.731 0 – Loading module Downtown
You should also tell us about what kind of Mac and which OS version
you are running this on.
Is it an Intel mac or PowerPC (PPC)?
Are you running Tiger (10.4.x) or Leopard (10.5.x)?
How much RAM do you have?
Also, I’m not sure what you mean by not loading up the map on the
tutorial. Do you mean the Vassal tutorial?
I appreciate you guys helping me out here. It seems that the new 3.08 module doesn’t give any sort of errors, but no map shows up for me when I load up the game (neither Vietnam or RP4). Also, it seems a background graphic from the Game State Window does not show up.
So, no errors on startup, but now no maps. Hmm…
I have an 2.17 GHz Intel MacBook running OS X 10.5.7 with 2 GBs of RAM.
When I speak of the tutorial, I mean the Downtown tutorial. It is one of the options when I launch the game via the “wizard” (New, Load, Look online, tutorial).
And now I’m also not seeing the map in the old 3.0.7 version, which
used to work.
– correction. It still loads the map. But very slowly.
At least one other modules are is also not showing its map. (Ambush!)
Other modules are displaying slowly (OCS Tunisia)
And some appear fine (Silent War).
The only real change in my setup is that I (perhaps foolishly?)
installed Apple’s Java update. There have been some other reports of
weird issues with Apple’s latest Java release. Sigh.
I suppose I could try it with Java 1.6 instead…
Nope. No change.
Otherwise, I’m not in a position to troubleshoot. (BTW, you never did send
me the other profiling information I asked for, which is what I need in
order to locate the problem.)