Planet Centauri Has Stopped Working

[Daeminos]

Game crashes immediately after I try to run it. I am running windows 10 pro

[james3rdeye]

Same here, playing on Mac, OS 10.8.5

[ehyder]

I am not having that problem, Mac OS 10.9.5. Have you tried verifying the files through Steam? Every now and again, rarely, I have to also delete a game and reinstall.

[james3rdeye]

Tried both verifying and re-installing, and unfortunately it still crashes immediately after clicking play. Oh well, looks like I'll be getting a refund on this one.

[onilink_]

Try to open it with the command line, if there is any log paste it here please.

[james3rdeye]

as far as I'm aware I can't open it with a command line as I'm using a Mac. I can post the crash log in here if you want but I warn you - it's absolutely massive!

[onilink_]

You have a terminal in osx (try terminal in the finder), you just need to
cd centauri_folder
./PlanetCentauri

For the crash log you can post it in http://pastebin.com/ , but with the bbcode code markup it's also ok :)

[Daeminos]

I have a pc so 1 how to you use the command line to start the game?, 2 how do you use pastebin to transfer the crashlogs?

[onilink_]

Go into the folder of planet centauri (on steam right click on the game, browse local files), then shift + right clic and Open Command Prompt.
Write PlanetCentauri.exe and press Enter.
For pastebin go here http://pastebin.com/
Paste the content of the console and press Create New Paste.

[Daeminos]

ok I figured the command prompt out but it is still crashing. But I dont understand what "place the content of the console" means what is the console and where do I find it?

[Desolator]

The console is the command window. there should be lines of white text being generated when the game is being launched, you can copy that text with control+C and then paste it where it needs to go.

[james3rdeye]

Originally posted by onilink_:

You have a terminal in osx (try terminal in the finder), you just need to
cd centauri_folder
./PlanetCentauri

For the crash log you can post it in http://pastebin.com/ , but with the bbcode code markup it's also ok :)

Cheers for the info. Here's the crash log from when I try to open via Steam:

http://pastebin.com/zNuVw0Bi

I tried to open with Terminal but it said there was "no such directory" or something!

[onilink_]

Thank you, but I need also the log of the game.
"no such directory": Maybe you have mistyped the planet centauri folder.
To find the planet centauri folder go into your steam library, right click on planet centauri, and select "browse local files".

[james3rdeye]

OK great but I'm really not clear on exactly what I need to type into Terminal to get the app to launch from there... could you please give me the exact command to copy/paste into Terminal? It's not a common operation for us Mac users :) I do know however where the Planet Centauri app is located on my HD if that helps.

[james3rdeye]

It's alright I think I've got it. The error returned by Terminal is here: http://pastebin.com/XPsxQKZU

[onilink_]

Strange, seems to your system don't find the SDL2 dylib (however provided with the game).
In your Planet Centauri steam folder, there is a subfolder lib with libSDL2-2.0.0.dylib ?

You can try to reinstall the game if not. Or to install SDL2 manually.

To install SDL2 manually, the simple way to install libs in mac that I know is brew: http://brew.sh/
When installed go in your command prompt and type:
brew install sdl2
brew install freetype