Pioneer-alpha21 not starting

[Deadendgalaxy]

Hi everyone,just joined the forum so forgive my ignorance, but I can't get alpha-21 to run on my laptop. After double-clicking there is simply no response. I must be doing something wrong, but I have no idea.The images of the alpha builds already look amazing, and I would love to try out the alpha game.Thanks

[Deadendgalaxy]

Just some more information:I did unpack the zip package ... and I can open files like the galaxy.bmp, but for some reason clicking on the pioneer.exe (and also on the modelviewer.exe) does nothing.My laptop has an i7 with 2 GB ram and Windows XP SP3Anybody have any suggestions?

[Zordey]

Hi, which OS are you using? The Linux download does not work on my system as some of the dependencies on my machine are newer and fail the validation check of the prebuilt version on the website. I have to download the version from Git and compile myself (which is easy).I have not tried the Windows version yet.

[robn]

Deadendgalaxy wrote:
After double-clicking there is simply no response. I must be doing something wrong, but I have no idea.
In your 'My Documents/Pioneer' folder are three interesting files: stdout.txt, stderr.txt and opengl.txt. Could you please post them somewhere and link to them here? I recommend pastebin.com for this.Those files should provide enough information for us to start figuring out what's going on.

[Deadendgalaxy]

Hi Robn,turns out the my documents folder is the source of the problem. I am using a laptop from work with a networked my documents folder. As I am not connected to the company network (working abroad), the my documents folder cannot be accessed. I guess the pioneer.exe tries to make those files you mentioned on the first run.I have had a similar problem with an application, and solved that by changing the target of the my documents folder to a local drive. I repeated that for pioneer, and ... it works. Pioneer starts! My lunch break is over, so I can't test further, but I saw the main menu.Thanks for your help, and thanks to all the team members for creating pioneer.