CVS problem :(

[Yan Man]

hey all um... i have stepmania 3.0 final working well but whenever i dl stepmania 3.9 alpha 8 and i try to run it, the program crashes. what i'm wondering is am i the only one with a stepmania that crashes and can i fix this myself or is it just something that will be ironed out when the next CVS releases? i really want to try the new CVS releases but i just can't get them to work! if you can give me any tips or info to get this to work, thanks!
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[Pkmnrulz241]

I have alpha 7, and it crashes every time I get to the song selection page... ;_;

So, you're not alone..

And, for the curious ones, this happens on EVERY skin I have, excluding the default (Which is as choppy as hell, though...). The error I get when it crashes reads:

"Theme metric 'ScreenSelectDifficultyEX : NumChoices' could not be found in 'Themes/DDR Extreme/metrics.ini' or 'Themes/default/metrics.ini'."

And that's the one for the Extreme Skin that I got from one site, but I forget the name. They've been working on multiple skins though, and I know that their side bar was on the right and they had a green-based theme.

Any help is appreciated!

[Aoi-chan]

I have the latest version, 3.9alpha I think. I did a fresh install of the program though. Remove older versions of Step Mania and reinstall the .exe file, that might do the trick. Also, make sure you have the latest Direct X and DivX codecs installed, along with any other min. cpu requirements needed to run Step Mania.

I must say the latest version is by far my favorite and runs much better than any of the other alpha/beta versions I've tried. I even found an Extreme Theme, which still has a few bugs, being a beta version, but works and looks pretty good overall.

[{guitar playing} Xel]

well when you install a new cvs version, it does uninstall the previous one. As suggested, get the new divx codecs and direct x, but also get new drivers for your video card if you have one.

the metrics error i have gotten with bad skin coding, i reccomened going to the stepmania website, and getting links to the new skins that come out to fix the error

[spoonsman]

I forgot which version it was, but one of the newer alpha versions changed the name of some of the skin files, so you have to get skins that have been updated to work with the newest versions. That's probably why the default skin is the only one that works correctly.

[spoonsman]

Double post, my bad. DDR Freak should turn on rate limits so stuff like this doesn't happen.

[Yan Man]

well... i updated my directX and divX codecs and i have still yet to update my video driver but mi log looks like this:

StepMania 3.9 alpha 8
Last compiled on Tue Oct 28 23:27:04 2003.
Compiled Tue Nov 04 01:51:06 2003 (build 18985)
Loading window: win32
Windows 5.1 (WinXP) build 2600 [Service Pack 1]
Memory: 254mb total, 626mb swap (371mb swap avail)
Primary display driver: NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 (HP)
Sound device 0: SoundMAX Digital Audio, 5.10, MID 1, PID 100
DirectSound Driver: Primary Sound Driver ()
DirectSound Driver: SoundMAX Digital Audio (smwdm.sys)
ID: {bd6dd71a-3deb-11d1-3c2b78}
Couldn't load driver DirectSound: Driver unusable (no hardware buffers)
DirectSound Driver: Primary Sound Driver ()
DirectSound Driver: SoundMAX Digital Audio (smwdm.sys)
ID: {bd6dd71a-3deb-11d1-3c2b78}
Sound driver: DirectSound-sw
WARNING: could not input mapping file 'Data/Keymaps.ini'.
WARNING: Error parsing file 'Data/CategoryRanking.dat' at SongManager.cpp:467
WARNING: Error parsing file 'Data/MachineCourseMemCardData.dat' at SongManager.cpp:499
WARNING: Error parsing file 'Data/MachineStepsMemCardData.dat' at SongManager.cpp:372
Video renderers: 'opengl,d3d'

*do the 4 warnings mean anything?*

and my crash log looks like this:

StepMania 3.9 alpha 8 crash report (build 18985)
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Crash reason: Access Violation

Thread 00000b34 (Main thread)
RageThreads.cpp:184
BannerCache.cpp:69 BannerCache::LoadBanner: Cache/Banners/443845455
Thread 00000b78 (Mixer thread)
RageThreads.cpp:184

695c9550: nvoglnt!69500000
695c948d: nvoglnt!69500000
696dc6d3: nvoglnt!69500000
696dc52a: nvoglnt!69500000
696dc437: nvoglnt!69500000
695c6401: nvoglnt!DrvDescribeLayerPlane [69500000+c6300+101]
695cb8dc: nvoglnt!69500000
695c69d1: nvoglnt!DrvDescribePixelFormat [69500000+c69b0+21]
5ed22226: OPENGL32!wglGetPixelFormat [5ed00000+221a2+84]
5ed22968: OPENGL32!wglDescribePixelFormat [5ed00000+228d3+95]
77f5f8ea: ntdll!RtlGetFrame [77f50000+f5d4+316]
77f5f70f: ntdll!RtlGetFrame [77f50000+f5d4+13b]
77e7d92e: kernel32!LoadLibraryExW [77e60000+1d839+f5]
5ed23070: OPENGL32!5ed00000
77f5f70f: ntdll!RtlGetFrame [77f50000+f5d4+13b]
77f60f7f: ntdll!LdrGetProcedureAddress [77f50000+10f68+17]
77c9e8de: GDI32!GetPath [77c70000+2e899+45]
100233ec: SDL!SDL_FreeWAV [10000000+22dc0+62c]
10022fe1: SDL!SDL_FreeWAV [10000000+22dc0+221]
77d43b33: USER32!77d40000
77d444f5: USER32!PostMessageA [77d40000+4448+ad]
77d44500: USER32!PostMessageA [77d40000+4448+b8]
77d44500: USER32!PostMessageA [77d40000+4448+b8]
77d44525: USER32!PostMessageA [77d40000+4448+dd]
77d44535: USER32!PostMessageA [77d40000+4448+ed]
77f75da3: ntdll!KiUserCallbackDispatcher [77f50000+25d90+13]
100121e3: SDL!SDL_WarpMouse [10000000+fb50+2693]
77d48e1e: USER32!SetForegroundWindow [77d40000+8e13+b]
1001220e: SDL!SDL_WarpMouse [10000000+fb50+26be]
1001fcdc: SDL!SDL_SetVideoMode [10000000+1fb40+19c]
0049632f: virtual class CStdStr<char> LowLevelWindow_SDL::TryVideoMode(struct RageDisplay::VideoModeParams,bool &)
00489b16: RageDisplay::VideoModeParams::VideoModeParams(struct RageDisplay::VideoModeParams const &)
004d3e94: virtual class CStdStr<char> RageDisplay_OGL::TryVideoMode(struct RageDisplay::VideoModeParams,bool &)
00402a36: CStdStr<char>::CStdStr<char>(class CStdStr<char> const &)
00489b16: RageDisplay::VideoModeParams::VideoModeParams(struct RageDisplay::VideoModeParams const &)
7c08269d: MSVCP70!Atexit [7c080000+266b+32]
7c08739b: MSVCP70!std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >::assign [7c080000+7320+7b]
7c0873a6: MSVCP70!std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >::assign [7c080000+7320+86]
7c0875c1: MSVCP70!std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> > [7c080000+75a8+19]
00402a36: CStdStr<char>::CStdStr<char>(class CStdStr<char> const &)
00489b16: RageDisplay::VideoModeParams::VideoModeParams(struct RageDisplay::VideoModeParams const &)
004ccb92: bool RageDisplay::SetVideoMode(struct RageDisplay::VideoModeParams)
004d31b0: RageDisplay_OGL::RageDisplay_OGL(struct RageDisplay::VideoModeParams,bool)
00489ce7: class LowLevelWindow * MakeLowLevelWindow(void)
004889d1: class RageDisplay * CreateDisplay(void)
7c0010d8: MSVCR70!EH_prolog [7c000000+1000+d8]
7c0010fa: MSVCR70!malloc [7c000000+10eb+f]
00524db9: void * operator new(unsigned int)
5ad744bd: uxtheme!CloseThemeData [5ad70000+42d7+1e6]
5ad7422f: uxtheme!GetThemeColor [5ad70000+3ab8+777]
5ad7450c: uxtheme!CloseThemeData [5ad70000+42d7+235]
77d43a50: USER32!77d40000
77d4a8fe: USER32!wsprintfA [77d40000+a6cf+22f]
77f58cca: ntdll!RtlFreeHeap [77f50000+8a3e+28c]
77f58ebe: ntdll!RtlFreeHeap [77f50000+8a3e+480]
77f59037: ntdll!RtlFreeHeap [77f50000+8a3e+5f9]
77d43b33: USER32!77d40000
77d444f5: USER32!PostMessageA [77d40000+4448+ad]
7c001194: MSVCR70!free [7c000000+1156+3e]
00496a3e: AppInstance::~AppInstance(void)
0048aa7d: virtual LoadingWindow_Win32::~LoadingWindow_Win32(void)
0048948c: SDL_main()
77f944cb: ntdll!RtlRemoteCall [77f50000+442ea+1e1]
77f58bcd: ntdll!RtlFreeHeap [77f50000+8a3e+18f]
77f59037: ntdll!RtlFreeHeap [77f50000+8a3e+5f9]
00525679: main()
005257c1: WinMain@16()
0052547b: WinMainCRTStartup()
631af1ab: SHLWAPI!Ordinal125 [63180000+2f184+27]
77e814c7: kernel32!GetCurrentDirectoryW [77e60000+21483+44]
631af1ab: SHLWAPI!Ordinal125 [63180000+2f184+27]

Static log:
StepMania 3.9 alpha 8
Last compiled on Tue Oct 28 23:27:04 2003.
Compiled Tue Nov 04 01:51:06 2003 (build 18985)
Loading window: win32
Windows 5.1 (WinXP) build 2600 [Service Pack 1]
Memory: 254mb total, 626mb swap (371mb swap avail)
Primary display driver: NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 (HP)
Sound device 0: SoundMAX Digital Audio, 5.10, MID 1, PID 100
DirectSound Driver: Primary Sound Driver ()
DirectSound Driver: SoundMAX Digital Audio (smwdm.sys)
ID: {bd6dd71a-3deb-11d1-3c2b78}
Couldn't load driver DirectSound: Driver unusable (no hardware buffers)
DirectSound Driver: Primary Sound Driver ()
DirectSound Driver: SoundMAX Digital Audio (smwdm.sys)
ID: {bd6dd71a-3deb-11d1-3c2b78}
Sound driver: DirectSound-sw
WARNING: could not input mapping file 'Data/Keymaps.ini'.
WARNING: Error parsing file 'Data/CategoryRanking.dat' at SongManager.cpp:467
WARNING: Error parsing file 'Data/MachineCourseMemCardData.dat' at SongManager.cpp:499
WARNING: Error parsing file 'Data/MachineStepsMemCardData.dat' at SongManager.cpp:372
Video renderers: 'opengl,d3d'
Language:
Current renderer: OpenGL
Theme: dance

Partial log:
Reading 'statistics.ini' failed: No such file or directory
WARNING: Could not read SM 3.0 final statistics 'statistics.ini'.
WARNING: Error parsing file 'Data/CategoryRanking.dat' at SongManager.cpp:467
WARNING: Error parsing file 'Data/MachineCourseMemCardData.dat' at SongManager.cpp:499
WARNING: Error parsing file 'Data/MachineStepsMemCardData.dat' at SongManager.cpp:372
Last seen video driver:
Card matches 'TNT|Vanta|M64'.
Applying defaults for NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 (HP).
Video renderers: 'opengl,d3d'
RageDisplay_OGL::RageDisplay_OGL()

-- End of report

would this maybe help solve my problem? i really want to try out the cvs sm!
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