I bought Planetary Annihilation a few days ago on steam, and I have been unable to play the game since. Originally I was unable to do anything, all that would happen after launching the game is a box containing the message "pa.exe has stopped working". This problem went was resolved after I upgraded my system from Windows Vista to Windows 7; however instead of an immediate crash on launch, now I get about a black screen that appears, pa.exe runs in my taskbar, but soon displays the error message "pa.exe is not responding" before closing. I have tried updating my graphics drivers, which came to no conclusion. I have tried re-installing DirectX completely, which also made no change. I would love for this problem to be resolved as quickly as possible as I would like to get on with playing the game. Thanks P.S I have also included my DirectX Diagnostic data as I have noticed in other threads that it is usually required.
Few things: What path to game currently, it's not contain some non-English characters? Can you try to open directory where game installed, then try to run PA.exe directly (not though Steam)? Can you try to open "bin_x86" directory and run game from here? Also please do that: Open directory where game installed Go into "media" directory Create "user" sub-directory here and open it. Now create "log" subdirectory and open it. In result you should have this file structure: /media/user/log Now run game normally and check "log" directory, there should appear file named like "PA-22-28-44.000.txt" If file appear upload it on forum.
I have tried these and nothing changed. I looked in here, and I have two files, one called "PA-19-32-33.000" and one named "PA-19-32-33.16" I'll upload them both to this reply. Thanks for replying so quickly ^^
Are there any fixes for this problem yet, as nothing I have tried and nothing that has been suggested has affected anything.
Really don't sure if there might be some fix for that. Actually there is two persons who have same weird crash on GTX 460 (FS#2432). I have one suggestion which I'm never recommend, but it's only idea I have. Try to download and install older version of Nvidia drivers and try to run game with them: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/63458/en-us http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/62791/en-us http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/59641/en-us http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/57096/en-us http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/55121/en-us Try to start from first link and then try older and older version, might be one of them will work. Please post here about any results.
Okay then let's make proper bugreport. Run game and then (like you did already once, but directory changed) get log file here: C:\Users\ YOUR_WINDOWS_USERNAME \AppData\Local\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\log\ Then open this log (you can edit it using Notepad++) and find there string which looks like that (it's from your old log): Code: [19:32:35.186]INFO Dump written to C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Temp\c3311be6-3c7d-4f43-87a9-3180e6435a02.dmp Find this .dmp file. Then go to bugtracker and create new task, attach your log file and *.dmp: http://pa.lennardf1989.com/Tracker/index.php?do=newtask&project=1 PS: You can check this report as example FS#2432 But I still think you need create own one because this might be different problems.
First want say thanks for reporting properly. (FS#2533) Also I'm find new workaround you can try, probably it's might fix your crash too. Go here: C:\Users\ YOUR_WINDOWS_USERNAME \AppData\Local\ And rename "Uber Entertainment"directory (one which contain "Planetary Annihilation" sub directory) to something like "Uber Entertainment-RENAMED". Then try to run PA again.
