Can't seem to launch the game under 64-bit Lubuntu.

Maxaxle · Nov 30, 2015

Problem: The launcher comes up fine, but once the game is updated and ready to go, hitting Start Game doesn't do anything. The launcher closes itself and no new processes come up.

Info: System specs aren't important since I ran the game just fine a month ago, but that was an unintentional hard drive wipe ago and I'm reinstalling everything. Here's some stuff about my Java version:

java version "1.7.0_91"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.6.3) (7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.91-b01, mixed mode)

Possible solution: I haven't installed many things I normally take for granted, so I'm probably missing a dependency or two.

Megacrafter127 · Dec 1, 2015

Maxaxle said:
Problem: The launcher comes up fine, but once the game is updated and ready to go, hitting Start Game doesn't do anything. The launcher closes itself and no new processes come up.

Info: System specs aren't important since I ran the game just fine a month ago, but that was an unintentional hard drive wipe ago and I'm reinstalling everything. Here's some stuff about my Java version:

Possible solution: I haven't installed many things I normally take for granted, so I'm probably missing a dependency or two.

In starmade's installation folder, what does the latest logfile state after a launch-attempt? If there is none, it means there is some incompatibility with the version of java you installed(be it java itself, or some drivers).

Maxaxle · Dec 2, 2015

There's no logfile, so I guess there's some form of incompatibility? IDK, I don't think I'm doing anything differently for this install. I even have the same drivers for my video card (NVIDIA binary driver, version 352.63, marked "proprietary, tested").

Megacrafter127 · Dec 2, 2015

Maxaxle said:
There's no logfile, so I guess there's some form of incompatibility? IDK, I don't think I'm doing anything differently for this install. I even have the same drivers for my video card (NVIDIA binary driver, version 352.63, marked "proprietary, tested").

then, I have one more thing to try: open a terminal/console in the installation folder, and run "java -jar StarMade.jar -client"
The resulting error message should be helping.

Maxaxle · Dec 2, 2015

Interesting. Launching the game directly (instead of using the starter) worked perfectly, but launching the game through the starter doesn't work. Maybe there's something up with my starter?

Maxaxle · Dec 9, 2015

Anyone have any ideas on why my starter isn't launching the main game?

Megacrafter127 · Dec 9, 2015

Maxaxle said:
Anyone have any ideas on why my starter isn't launching the main game?

The best one could try is launching the launcher from console, and checking if it has any output when you press 'Start Game'.

Maxaxle · Dec 10, 2015

Megacrafter127 said:
The best one could try is launching the launcher from console, and checking if it has any output when you press 'Start Game'.

FILES-URL: http://files.star-made.org/
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[ERROR] Not applying lok and feel as not all can guarantee all decoration working, resulting in a startup crash
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[UPDATER] trigger versions loaded ./StarMade/
[VERION] loading version from install dir: ./StarMade/
[VERSION] VERSION: 0.19522
[VERSION] BUILD: 20151206_231749
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Group found:
<div class="page-header"><h1>StarMade v0.19519 Cargo, Contact Docking & more</h1></div>
Group found:
<div class="postBody">Hello players,<h2 style="font-style:italic;"> </h2><h2 style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-family: Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none;">#HOTFIX 0-19522: Fixed some balance issues. Fixed some performance issues with cargo on larger servers (more optimization will follow). Fixed som crashes related to cargo. Implemented blockBehaviorConfig merging (after one start in that version, go to the newly created ./customBlockBehaviorConfig folder for more info).</h2><var><big><ins><span style="font-family: Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none;">#HOTFIX 0.19520: Personal inventory can now go over capacity without consequence to allow better adaption for players, including personal <-> storage interaction. Next release will have added features to allow a smooth transition to the full enabled cargo system. Planet optimization has been switch off until it's working right. Factory over-capacity logic signals will now work as intended.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(44, 45, 48); font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" /><span style="font-family: Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none;">We also forgot to tell you about personal cargo: now you tether any storage in the same sector to your personal inventory and switch to it. So you can build a huge station/ship with having cargo ships nearby, without the tedious walking back and forth. <span style="font-family: Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none;">Also there are now teal blocks and lights available for use.</ins></big></var>  cargo has finally arrived. It is meant to improve gameplay mechanics having a physical representation of loaded goods on a ship while at the same time, being as usable as possible. <h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt;">Cargo</h2>Cargo is a physical representation of things loaded in your ship or station/planet. The more you have loaded, the more boxes you will see appear in your cargo area.There were some main concerns for it in terms of scalability, organization, usability and migration which I hope we solved sufficiently. Since it’s impossible to organize your things into different little boxes with limited capacity, your storage block will still be the main piece to use. Because having a limit on both slots and stack capacity would be tedious, we decided to just have a overall capacity for a storage with unlimited slots. Each item’s needed space in the inventory is represented by its volume (which defaults to mass, but can be adapted in the block config if needed). So basically, you can fill up your storage with as many slots as you like, as long as the total volume of all items is within capacity. Because of this sudden change, penalties for being over-capacity are turned off by default in the server config. These penalties will be switched ON by default in future updates. A player whose inventory is over-capacity will move more slowly, and a ship which is over-capacity will leak items out of storage over time. So how do you increase that base capacity each storage gets? It’s simple: just get a few Cargo Area blocks and connect them to your storage. Each block adds capacity to your storage block. They are non-physical and not visible as long as they are empty, but they will fill up with the inventory reaching its capacity. Keep in mind that items in storage now also add mass to your ship. It’s a lot less mass than it would add if you would build the blocks on your ship by using the patented “warp storage technology”, which stores most of the mass in the void. Also please note that the balance is by no means final. We put it at the lower end, because buffing it in future version is a lot easier than nerfing (and also causes less anger amongst players ). <h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;">Factory changes</h3> This same cargo capacity concept also now goes for factories and shipyards. Factories also now only pull as many items as they need to do one tick, so they won’t fill up. And instead of sending a signal to adjacent Activation (full <-> not full) and ‘OR’ blocks (empty <-> nonempty), they will send it to connected ones. <h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;">Docked Cargo pulling</h3> Cargo can now be transferred from or to docked entities. Just connect your docker and rail to the storage you want to pull from or of, then deactivate pulling on the one you want to be pulled from, and it will pull to the other just like it would on the same entity.  <h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt;">Docking on contact</h2> You can now also dock to rails by physically touching them with your docker block. After undocking you will not be able to re-dock to that rail for 5 seconds. In the future this time interval will likely be switched to a distance limit, where if you move a certain distance from the rail you will be able to re-dock.  <h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt;">Optimizations</h2>There has been a nice optimization done for planets which should add some fps for you (after the planet is loaded in)  <h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt;">Balance changes</h2>Thanks to player feedback and the help of the council, we’ve changed several values that should improve your gameplay experience. <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> Power soft cap has been increased from 1 000 000 to 2 000 000</li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> Max shield regen under fire has been increased from 10% to 25% </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> Shields sharing is disabled when you go under 25% shield capacity instead of 50% </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> The system penalties you receive when you suffer damage are now less harsh. </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> Starting cash is now 50 000 credits instead of 20 000 credits for new clients and station cost price has been decreased from 1 000 000 credits to 50 000 credits </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> We’ve introduced multi-slots for lights and their respective light rods, the delay-signal is now also sitting in a logic multi-slot. We’re planning to add controllers + modules next release. </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> Missile + cannon its missile speed has been buffed from 0.5 to 2.0, now it can go 6 times the max server speed. </li></ul>  <h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt;">Bug fixes</h2><a href="http://phab.starma.de/T917" style="text-decoration:none;">T917</a> Emissive mapping make rod lights appear on when they're off<a href="http://phab.starma.de/T839" style="text-decoration:none;">T839</a> Certain weapons mounted directly to an asteroid and then fired will crash the game at the next autosave<a href="http://phab.starma.de/T786" style="text-decoration:none;">T786</a> Players that are attached to a ship via alignment share the ship's shield when shot.<a href="http://phab.starma.de/T680" style="text-decoration:none;">T680</a> Ships not checking for collision before docking<a href="http://phab.starma.de/T655" style="text-decoration:none;">T655</a> Shipyards give free cores<a href="http://phab.starma.de/T258" style="text-decoration:none;">T258</a> All blocks are rotatable Power Supply and Power Drain textures are now correctly labeled.  Thanks for playing StarMade,the Schine Team </div>
RUNNING COMMAND: [Ljava.lang.String;@4c0dfaf6
Exiting because updater starting game

It's a shame there's nothing useful here.

Valck · Dec 11, 2015

Maxaxle said:
It's a shame there's nothing useful here.

I'm just poking in the dark here as I don't use the launcher, but doesn't it have some configuration options for the Java environment where you can specify the allotted memory for client and server? Maybe something went wrong there?

If everything else fails, at least now you know how you can launch the game directly... ;)

Maxaxle · Dec 12, 2015

Uninstalling/reinstalling the game fixed the issue. Still odd, though.

kikaha · Dec 13, 2015

Change your Java maybe. Use the oracle build.

Valck · Dec 13, 2015

kikaha said:
Change your Java maybe. Use the oracle build.

Just as a heads up, I'm using OpenJDK/Icedtea 1.7 (Java 7) here and it runs StarMade just fine. It does currently not run under version 1.8 (Java 8). However I'm running Gentoo, not Ubuntu.

EDIT:
Just double checked to be sure, turns out it's the same version the OP uses.

Code:

java version "1.7.0_91"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.6.3) (Gentoo icedtea-7.2.6.3-r2)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.91-b01, mixed mode)

Could you maybe post the log output when you start the client directly ( java -jar StarMade.jar -client )?

Code:

$  LC_ALL=C LD_PRELOAD="libpthread.so.0 libGL.so.1" __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 java -Xms2G -Xmx8G -Xincgc -jar StarMade.jar -client 2>&1 | tee logfile.out