Media Portal 2 and Windows 8.1 (1 Viewer)

[fluffybunny]

Clean Windows 8.1 install, Add programs/features .net 3.5 from cd
patched via windows update to latest. included DX 9 update
install media portal 2
media portal 2 loads the splash screen then i get a black screen, with just the menu sounds.
So i installed MP1 and that works just fine...
Anyway getting back to MP2 , I check the logs and i get lots of this before termination. any thoughts?? I think its a direct X issue somehow...

[2014-09-30 14:08:17,784] [18913 ] [DX Render] [ERROR] - EffectAsset: Unable to load 'imagecontext_default'
[2014-09-30 14:08:17,791] [18920 ] [DX Render] [ERROR] - EffectAsset: Errors:
[2014-09-30 14:08:17,860] [18989 ] [DX Render] [ERROR] - EffectAsset: Unable to load 'tile_simple'
[2014-09-30 14:08:17,861] [18990 ] [DX Render] [ERROR] - EffectAsset: Errors:
[2014-09-30 14:08:17,868] [18997 ] [DX Render] [ERROR] - EffectAsset: Unable to load 'imagecontext_default'
[2014-09-30 14:08:17,869] [18998 ] [DX Render] [ERROR] - EffectAsset: Errors:
[2014-09-30 14:08:17,876] [19005 ] [DX Render] [ERROR] - EffectAsset: Unable to load 'tile_simple'
[2014-09-30 14:08:17,876] [19005 ] [DX Render] [ERROR] - EffectAsset: Errors:
[2014-09-30 14:08:18,006] [19135 ] [DX Render] [DEBUG] - ContentManager: 0 resources deallocated, next cleanup in 10 seconds. 82.6791458129883/100 MB
[2014-09-30 14:08:18,007] [19136 ] [DX Render] [DEBUG] - ContentManager: Allocation 82.6791458129883/100 MB
[2014-09-30 14:08:18,024] [19153 ] [DX Render] [ERROR] - EffectAsset: Unable to load 'imagecontext_default'

Oh i forgot to add Ive tried it on 2 different machines laptop and desktop running windows 8.1
with 3 different gfx cards on the desktop. same thing every time. cant be gfx memory cos my cards havce 1gb or more

 

[morpheus_xx]

Strange, I think I've seen such an issue before, but it disapeared somehow.

Please post full logs!

 

[breese]

The logs would be very good.
What skin are you running?

 

[fluffybunny]

OK ive pasted in my shortest error log at https://paste.ee/p/QZexZ
The default skin titan. I cant post most full logs theyre like 10MB to 30MB in size. so i picked a short error log at 800KB.
Its just pages of the same error followed by a smoothish shutdown of assets.

 

[morpheus_xx]

Sorry, this doesn't look useful to me

Could you please zip/rar/7zip the C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MP2-Client\Log\Client.log and attach it here? It will be much smaller and we really need the full log to also see startup logging.

 

[fluffybunny]

Umm if it was that obvious id have sorted it myself. There are no error messages, or warning messages, the debug log shows everything loads up to that point.
I can even use media portal, albeit with a black screen. I can hear the sound changes as i mouseover the panels.
So its working just not rendering to the display.... thatd be the DXRender errors for 29.9mb of the log...
I dont have the bandwidth unfortantely to upload 100mb in total of debug logs. I guess its time to go back to Media center and XP 64bit...so nice and smooth.
Media portal 1.9 isnt too bad, it works fine ,just a little too slowly for my liking.

Thanks anyway.

 

[mm1352000]

I dont have the bandwidth unfortantely to upload 100mb in total of debug logs.

If you zip/rar/7z the log file it should reduce the size significantly (tens of MB)... or is the 100 MB you quoted a size after compressing?

 

[morpheus_xx]

I dont have the bandwidth unfortantely to upload 100mb in total of debug logs

Ok, I understand.

Could you at least post the beginning of the log? Only the lines until the first render errors are logged. This should be only < 600 lines until MP2 is running in homescreen.

No idea if this helps us, but it's worth a try to find the cause for this behavior!

I expect some issue like missing permissions, but it's only a guess.