I’ve now added the launcher code to all of my games. The most difficult task was adding it to Notrium, since there wasn’t exactly a trivial amount of code, and I needed to get it to compile with modern compilers. As a bonus I spotted some minor bugs in Notrium, and I may have caused a couple of others. Please tell me if the new version crashes at any point for you. So here’s your chance to fire up your favourite mod again! 
Since I’ve gotten Notrium to finally compile, I might as well ask. Are there any outstanding major bugs that you would like to see fixed to get your mod to work?
I found a mistake right on the installation process. The default Notrium installation path is C:\Program Files\Bikez II
The start menu folder is also set to Bikez II.
Later I started playing. It turned out to be everything ok, but the game crashed when I was trying the tutorial, in the climate training section. I don’t know what triggered it, and it didn’t happen again.
By the way, I think being able to open the options application with the launcher would help.
Didn’t manage to launch it still
It seems to want .NET 3.5 which I’m trying to install… but… it doesn’t want to
Thanks E_net4, I’ll have a closer look at the climate area.
Anyone else see that it would want .Net? At what point did it ask for it? It should be plain old c++ app, and not require dotnet or any additional libraries.
Actually, it was saying something like “Application can’t be run because is was set up incorrectly. Reinstalling the program may solve this problem”
I’ve searched a bit and what people said was like this: I need to install
- MS VC++ 2005 Redistributable Package x86
- MS VC++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package Security Update
- MS .NET Framework 3.5
Anyway, I already have MS VS 2005 with C++ installed, so, quite logically I guess, the only thing to do is get .NET 3.5… As I understand…
Hmm, I wonder why that is… Do tell if you can get it to run, maybe I can fix it somehow.
Right now I’ve reinstalled it and tried to launch from the setup that said “launch Notrium” (checkbox). It said the same but with more info: CreateProcess failed; code 14001. Dunno, maybe it’s just the setup.exe error about not running it to config the game… lookup the error codes
Finally, the 3.5 installed, the Notrium launched. The launch screen seems to work fine. The only “but”: its background gets screwed if you minimize any other window (like browser or some directory in windows explorer) that was ontop of it at that time. Looks like it doesn’t know the event to refresh it, while th blog menu, Driftmoon link picture, monkkonen.net link and buttons “Play”, “Exit” and “X” know it well.
starting to rotate in my direction only after I walk up to point blank. Sadly, Notrium did freeze after I killed them (the screen stopped and several seconds passed until the music seized).
I’ve been playtesting Android on Medium. I went as far as to the planetary defense bots. They sometimes act rather stupidly
That’s result #1.
Well, I didn’t have to install the .NET framework. I wonder whether it’s already installed in Windows 7… or maybe VS 2010?
I’ll just keep playing by random and see if there’s any crash.
I think I managed to fix the errors with the launch and with the crashes. Thanks VenoM_31 and E_net4!
If anyone can still get it to crash, I’d be really glad to get a saved game where I can crash it.
I’ve been playing as Alien and the game seems to crash after a while. I did this several times, so it’s probably time-triggered. I can’t be so sure about the other races.
I don’t know if that’s a problem but this Notrium build seems to run a bit slower than the original 1.341. At least footprints started to blink unusually (I’m comaring with original 1.341). Maybe you’ve compiled in Debug
? Either it’s VS worse optimizing or .NET JIT overhead…
Doesn’t crash at all on my laptop, Intel GMA 65 chipset. Nice game, aliens move a bit too fast for my liking…
Well I’m crashing in every single race, after a while. I can’t play if this is not fixed.
[update] I think the slowness and the timed crashing could be due to particles accumulating. I’ll try to fix it later, I’m feeling a bit under the weather right now – got a flu or something.
Thanks for trying it guys!
So. I was just playing Notrium and at one moment all enemies started just to turn around without doing anything. After reload it was okay for a few moments, but then it happened again. I tried to start a new game something like seven times and this bug happened only once. It never happened to me before and I do not see how it can be due to the new patch/screen, but it just happened. What the hell. Also when I tried Werivar mod, it happened ever single time, so it may be somehow connected.
Any idea on how I can make the crash happen on my computer? Just play Werivar or what?
Heh. I would love to tell you, alas I have no idea what caused it. I guess its not really programer friendly bug report. I am not aware of doing anything special. It just happened.
pls read all the bugs i listed below
I have the same problem as Lu Mong in werivar mod
The problem is this: u walk near a enemy, then attack -> usually this makes the enemy notice you, but the enemies spin in circles doin nothing, after a while they return to walking their normal paths. that is until u start attacking again
this mostly happens in the hive sectors
This bug happens to me really often
What i think is: the AI somewhere errors when getting the enemies into attack-mode
Also i get a lot of crashes! ALOT XD
I played notrium for a long time, the last time (a older version) nothing of this kind happened, no bugs no crashes etc…
i use now Win7, maybe it has something to do with it?
Btw: here some crashes/bugs
SOS mod crash: walk near a certain type of enemy, it crashes
It is the enemy that looks like the ones in the psionic life force token mindscape, where u have to use your armor (those tentacle things)
Wazzal2 Mod crash: try opening the buy menu
Default Mod crash: No reason whatsoever, just happens from time to time
Werivar Mod Bug: the AI running in circles, important: reloading/restarting doesnt help, but sometimes it goes away randomly =(
!!! Werivar Mod w/ Psionic!!!
very annoying bug! : i leveled up my psionic, killed the marines on the ship and all this stuff, and only thing left to do is to link into the planet core and kill that green thing who spawns all kinds of bosses. Problem: there is no core… as i go into that green thing in eden, there are some bosses, but the green core thing (suppose to be final-end-boss) just isnt there…
i kill the small bosses and nothing happens =(
!!! (Default (<-not sure here))werivar Mod!!! w/ all races!!!
Turrets dont work!! thats it, if u deploy a turret, there is no turret, not deployed, not in the inventory anymore, gone, blown away =(
I have to say: i always tried this after the "running circles AI" happened, i do not know if the turrets work before that accours
What really bothers me, that a year ago or so with a older version all this kinds of errors would never appear =( pls fix it^^ i luv notrium <3
If u have anything special to ask or want a savegame etc u may send me an email =)
/ps: damn long comment xD sry^^
Thanks for the list Cortez!
Examining this I’ve managed to fix the Wazzal 2 and the SOS. I still can’t seem to get any of the problems of the default mod, so I’ll wait for your save game before I release a new version.
are the new version of wazzal and sos out yet?^^
or do i need to download the main game? xD
Sorry, I haven’t made the new version yet. I meant that if you can send me your saved games from the current version, if you have any, I’ll have a look at them before making the new version. But if you don’t have any, I’ll try to play some more tomorrow and release a new version.
Oh, and I fixed the disappearing psionic boss as well now, thanks for noticing that!
i will send u some savegames tomorrow =) look at your e-mails
In case anybody is reading this, I have a fixed exe here: http://www.monkkonen.net/temp/Notrium.exe
You can just replace the game exe with this one. It should fix all of the things we’ve found so far, but I’m really interested if you can find more bugs with it. And thanks everyone, especially Cortez for that nice list!
So far noone has mentioned an error like this so is it my computers fault? the opening window worked fine, but when i cicked play, i got a black screen and an error noise but no error window. the only way to close it and resume normal operation was through task manager… also in task manager i noticed something wierd. insead of just having notrium open i had 2 windows open… notrium and an unidentified windew called “grim”…. Any idea what this is?
in case you need to know:
windows xp
1024×600 res
30 refresh
its one of those Acer notebooks “Aspire ONE”
if you need any other stats from my computer that might affect this let me know
also forgot to mention, this game and mage bane 2 are the 2nd games to be downloaded from you, i got wazzal on a different site and it worked fine, but this one and mage bane both wont work… =( …. loved Wazzal though
I think this could be due to the resolution, since the default screen mode is 1024×768. Thanks for letting me know, I’ll see what I can do about it in the future.
I’ve fixed many new bugs, so I’m releasing version 1.3.4.4. The only thing that’s changed is the exe, so you can just copy that if you want to update your versions.
somehow i can’t save. I never played before so perhaps it’s a user error but i don’t think so as i tried about every single key on my keyboard.
for your information, my OS is windows 7 professional 64 bit, perhaps that has anything to do with it?
You can find the save button by pressing esc to go to the game menu.
I looked through the files in notriums folder… found the setup.exe which i didn’t know was there… and now it works, should of done that before. Btw, what time zone is this? Because that post i did was at 10:32 pm and it says 9:04 am… kinda confusing for me.
-.- im not THAT stupid, the problem is that when i’m in the save menu the folowing happens:
-I press left mouse on a save slot
-the save slot clears all text
-I can type things, probably the savegame name so i type save 1 for example
-pressing enter or clicking on it clears all text en does not save game! neither does any other button or not pressing any button at all and play on
Oh yes, that one. That’s caused by Notrium saving to the game folder, and the game being installed to the Program Files folder, where windows doesn’t give access by default. As for now you can get it working by installing it to another folder, or by giving Notrium write access to the game folder.
I guess I could try to modernize Notrium to use the My Documents folder where modern Windows versions like to store things, I’ll look into that later.