So after a long hiatus, I figured I'd pop into VO and see what was new. Updater took a while, but it finally got me current at 1.8.90.

Instead of tarnishing the reputation of my (back when I played anyhow) moderately highish level Serco character I went in as character that I'd never done anything with. You know, get reacquainted with the VO'verse. Run through the tutorials, etc.

A few jumps into the Basic Flight Test and I get a hard crash. Both monitors blink out, I can hear some VO sounds for a bit. But eventually nothing. Shift-Command-Escape does very little. I eventually do a forced shutdown.

This happens one more time and I opt, at that point, to re-download the application and start fresh. Dragging my old one to the trash and emptying before reinstalling.

Things are going well. Play for a while. Take a break to make dinner. Come back. Restart VO. Play for a minute or four and I get another hard crash.

Error log from earlier crash:
build 9L30
MacOS version 1058
This is an x86 Macintosh with a Pentium processor.
Hardware: (7 4:i386 CPU_SUBTYPE_INTEL(4, 0)) MacPro1,1 @ 3000 MHz (x4), 10240 MB
archive returned 0
[Tue Sep 15 18:21:52 2009] Can't load driver /Applications/Vendetta.app/drivers/gkvc.dylib: not a Mach-O MH_BUNDLE file type
[Tue Sep 15 18:21:52 2009] Can't load driver /Applications/Vendetta.app/drivers/libfmodex.dylib: not a Mach-O MH_BUNDLE file type
[Tue Sep 15 18:21:52 2009] Found driver: "Mac sound driver". Type 1, Version 8.1. Load @0x00642850
[Tue Sep 15 18:21:52 2009] Instantiate address: 0x3a547c
[Tue Sep 15 18:21:52 2009] Found driver: "OpenGL Reference GKGL driver". Type 5, Version 78.0. Load @0x00642d90
[Tue Sep 15 18:21:52 2009] Instantiate address: 0x3b6758
sound driver initialized.
[Tue Sep 15 18:21:52 2009] load_sample_ogg: Couldn't open sound/mission.updated.ogg (mission.updated)
[Tue Sep 15 18:21:52 2009] load_sample: Couldn't open sound/mission.updated.ogg (mission.updated)
[Tue Sep 15 18:21:52 2009] load_sample_ogg: Couldn't open sound/nfz.warning.enter.ogg (nfz.warning.enter)
[Tue Sep 15 18:21:52 2009] load_sample: Couldn't open sound/nfz.warning.enter.ogg (nfz.warning.enter)
[Tue Sep 15 18:21:52 2009] load_sample_ogg: Couldn't open sound/nfz.warning.leave.ogg (nfz.warning.leave)
[Tue Sep 15 18:21:52 2009] load_sample: Couldn't open sound/nfz.warning.leave.ogg (nfz.warning.leave)
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Input driver initialized.
[Tue Sep 15 18:21:55 2009] Flight-Assist mode disabled.
[Tue Sep 15 18:21:55 2009] Auto-Aim enabled.
Welcome to Vendetta Online.

[Tue Sep 15 18:22:03 2009] Welcome to Vendetta Online.

[Tue Sep 15 18:22:03 2009] Welcome to Vendetta Online.
[Tue Sep 15 18:22:55 2009] [100] *** Channel 100 is active.
[Tue Sep 15 18:22:55 2009] You are entering Dau H-3
[Tue Sep 15 18:24:05 2009] [100] <enyon eugenius> maybe two ... i dont have much frinds that are gamers :D
[Tue Sep 15 18:24:25 2009] You are entering Dau K-10
[Tue Sep 15 18:25:29 2009] People in the room: Hemlock Evans
[Tue Sep 15 18:25:29 2009] You are now in TPG Headquarters (TPG Capitol).
[Tue Sep 15 18:25:33 2009] Trading/Commerce +24
[Tue Sep 15 18:25:33 2009] Trading/Commerce +4
[Tue Sep 15 18:25:33 2009] 825 credits added to your account.
[Tue Sep 15 18:25:33 2009] 10x of Cargo sold for a total amount of 825c (profit of 825c)
[Tue Sep 15 18:26:35 2009] [100] <Hemlock Evans> Anybody have issues with the Basic Flight Status Test failing? It's crashed twice on me. Taking the whole Mac down with it.
[Tue Sep 15 18:26:48 2009] [100] <Wild Thing> There's an App for that.
[Tue Sep 15 18:27:02 2009] [100] <Wild Thing> no idea, sorry :-/
[Tue Sep 15 18:27:11 2009] [100] <Hemlock Evans> Nice. Although playing Vendetta on the iPhone. . . .
[Tue Sep 15 18:27:30 2009] [100] <Zaig> thought solution was different OS... =P
[Tue Sep 15 18:27:36 2009] [100] <Wild Thing> hehe Zaig
[Tue Sep 15 18:27:57 2009] [100] <Hemlock Evans> Heh. I do have VMWare Fusion but that'd be a big plate of suck.
[Tue Sep 15 18:28:23 2009] [100] <Bobba Zelios> go to a friends house...pass the mission and come back? XD.
[Tue Sep 15 18:28:23 2009] [100] <Zaig> sorry...I'm a linux fanboy
[Tue Sep 15 18:28:49 2009] [100] <Hemlock Evans> If I had friends I wouldn't play a MMO. :D
[Tue Sep 15 18:28:55 2009] Bhromoh Celhzer has entered the room.
[Tue Sep 15 18:28:55 2009] [100] <Bobba Zelios> lulz.
[Tue Sep 15 18:29:41 2009] [100] <Zaig> so is it standard for faction to only go up by 1 above 974? thinking POS isn't as easy as I though...lol
[Tue Sep 15 18:29:44 2009] [100] <Misterpants> I have friends, but I can't shoot lasers at them and upgrade them like my spaceship
[Tue Sep 15 18:30:00 2009] [100] <Wild Thing> Zaig: do procurements over mimimum 1 wormhole
[Tue Sep 15 18:30:17 2009] [100] <Wild Thing> above 974, they'll bring about +20
[Tue Sep 15 18:30:20 2009] [100] <Wild Thing> 15-20
[Tue Sep 15 18:30:25 2009] [100] <Zaig> oh? sweet..ty!
[Tue Sep 15 18:30:33 2009] [100] <Wild Thing> the real b*tch is above 995
[Tue Sep 15 18:30:34 2009] Bhromoh Celhzer has left the room.
[Tue Sep 15 18:31:06 2009] [100] <Zaig> ack! now you've crushed my small moment of joy... =P
[Tue Sep 15 18:31:17 2009] [100] <Wild Thing> oh, I forgot - BIG, XC procuremnts (more than 120cu cargo)
[Tue Sep 15 18:31:53 2009] [100] <Wild Thing> it's not too bad, for Corvus I went from 800 to POS in about 3 hrs
[Tue Sep 15 18:32:00 2009] [100] <The Fluffy> What faction are you working on Zaig?
[Tue Sep 15 18:32:42 2009] [100] <Zaig> all of them...heh...have all but Corvus to admire....currently Axia
[Tue Sep 15 18:33:31 2009] [100] <The Fluffy> look for the highest dollar value missions you can find, and check stations in different systems. Ie. The uit in ukaria L2 gives the best procs for working
[Tue Sep 15 18:33:33 2009] [100] <The Fluffy> your uit

Running OS 10.5.8 on the following hardware:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 10 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005D.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.7f10
Serial Number (system): G874301QY8F
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0017F20E8056

If it makes a difference, I'm running to two displays. It's happened in both windowed and full screen.

I did skim the the message board and the closest thing I found was some 12 year-old who flamed out when something similar happened on his MBP. Other than that I couldn't get my hands on anything closer.

No suggestions?

Bump.

I don't have a Mac, but someone will / should be able to help ya.

Devs?

Odd. Does the problem happen if you disable the secondary monitor? What video card is in your macpro? Could the video card be overheating?

Try turning off shaders in Options->Video and see if it still crashes or takes longer to crash.

Thanks Ray.

ATI Radeon X1900. I pound the GPU pretty hard in Final Cut and Photoshop and haven't ever had it fold like this.

I'll dump the shaders and try again this afternoon.

Things got busy over here. But. . . Shaders didn't buy me any extra time. Same crash, in about 5–6 minutes. It does seem to happen, consistently, after a jump. Either within sector or via a wormhole. Not sure if that helps.

Firmware is current on the X1900XT.

I'll try killing a monitor next, but I was hoping to not to have to do that to play. Have you guys ever run into issues on a multi-display rig?

Hm, try editing the config.ini file that's located in the Vendetta Online.app bundle to turn off vertex buffers:
[refgl]
dovertexbuffers=0
doindexbuffers=0

If that fails, try turning off texture compression:

[refgl]
tc=0

There will already be a [refgl] section in that file that has a lot of settings. You'll have to find the correct setting and set it as above.
The config.ini file is a standard text file, so any text editor will suffice.

Thanks Ray. I'll give it a shot.

Thanks for the help. Nothing worked. Until I replaced the video card with a HD3870. It's interesting that nothing would kill it quite like VO. I've run Crysis on this (via Bootcamp) and even Doom 3 and never had an issue.

The good news is that I'm seeing a nice bump in Aperture performance.

Oh. And I can actually play VO again. :D

Thanks again.

You're welcome. VO must use some OpenGL feature that noone else uses or something.
Thanks for letting us know your problem is solved in case someone else is having similar problems.