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Problem with disabled playback devices

Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 10:15 pm
by Rado1
If all sound playback devices on Windows are disabled, ZGE process starts, and immediately terminates, with exception "Exception EZHalted in module ZGameEditor.exe at ..... dsound failed."

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 8:45 am
by VilleK
There is the option to start a ZGE program with sound disabled: "-s". So from a cmd-line, use "mygame.exe -s".

I guess it would be better to start with sound disabled automatically if no sound devices are present instead of an error message, but it seems to be quite a rare occasion so I'm not sure I will make any changes.

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:08 am
by Rado1
VilleK wrote:There is the option to start a ZGE program with sound disabled: "-s". So from a cmd-line, use "mygame.exe -s".
Ville, you are talking about the compiled exe file, I meant ZGE itself. Tried "ZGameEditor.exe -s" but did not help. I would expect to catch this exception in ZGE and put a warning to the log panel after opening. But truly, this is just a marginal case and its fixing has lower priority.