Blank screen & out of memory: why? (1 Viewer)

[triphop]

MediaPortal Version: 0.2.2.0
MediaPortal Skin: Bluetwo
Windows Version: Win XP, SP2
CPU Type: AMD Athlon 2800
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 80Gb
Memory: 512Mb
Motherboard:
Motherboard Chipset:
Motherboard Bios:
Video Card: NVidia Geforce MX440
Video Card Driver: latest
Sound Card: Audigy
2. TV Card: Terratec Cinergy XS

Hi,
Any help much appreciated. I've just stumbled across MP, and it looks great but I can't get it to work, and I've searched high and low across the forums...

It installs fine, config runs OK, but when you run MP, it loads the window but the inside of the screen is blank. Only the top menu of File, Options and Wizards shows (and clicking on these does nothing).

I've run dxdiag tests, all are fine. I'm using the bog-standard Blue2 template, and have even tried others. I found some other people had had problems with this and it related to zapf digbats font. Tried deleting and still didn't work.

Any ideas anyone?? Cheers


The error log shows this:

2007-01-02 18:15:26.906250 [ERROR][MPMain]: D3D: InitializeDeviceObjects - Exception: System.OutOfMemoryException: Out of memory.
   at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename, Boolean useEmbeddedColorManagement)
   at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename)
   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.TexturePacker.AddBitmap(PackedTextureNode root, Image rootImage, String file, Boolean& dontAdd)
   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.TexturePacker.PackSkinGraphics(String skinName)
   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUITextureManager.Init()
   at MediaPortalApp.InitializeDeviceObjects()
   at MediaPortal.D3DApp.InitializeEnvironment()

 

[ccoutts]

I'm having the same problem. Any idea's?

The error log looks like this:

2007-11-21 08:44:05.750000 [ERROR][MPMain]: Exception   :System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: StartIndex cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: startIndex
   at System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Boolean fAlwaysCopy)
   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIGraphicsContext.get_SkinCacheFolder()
   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.TexturePacker.Cleanup()
   at MediaPortalApp.OnExit()
   at MediaPortalApp.Main(String[] args)
2007-11-21 08:44:05.750000 [ERROR][MPMain]: Exception   :StartIndex cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: startIndex
2007-11-21 08:44:05.750000 [ERROR][MPMain]:   site      :System.String InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32, Int32, Boolean)
2007-11-21 08:44:05.750000 [ERROR][MPMain]:   source    :mscorlib
2007-11-21 08:44:05.750000 [ERROR][MPMain]:   stacktrace:   at System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Boolean fAlwaysCopy)
   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIGraphicsContext.get_SkinCacheFolder()
   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.TexturePacker.Cleanup()
   at MediaPortalApp.OnExit()
   at MediaPortalApp.Main(String[] args)
2007-11-21 08:44:05.750000 [ERROR][MPMain]: MediaPortal stopped due 2 an exception StartIndex cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: startIndex mscorlib    at System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Boolean fAlwaysCopy)
   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIGraphicsContext.get_SkinCacheFolder()
   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.TexturePacker.Cleanup()
   at MediaPortalApp.OnExit()
   at MediaPortalApp.Main(String[] args)

 

[tourettes]

Video Card: NVidia Geforce MX440 <-- not a DirectX 9 display adapter.

 

[ccoutts]

Ahhh, I'm using an ancient S3 Virge GX2 video card from 1997 (has RCA-out which works nicely with my 1990's oldschool TV)... would this be the problem?

So do I need a new DirectX9 graphics card to run MediaPortal? Why? Its just normal 2D graphics, isn't it?

OK... heres some more info: http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/Fr...head-2e0c88e138757112f24b4b7a5486a5c702bcc1c4