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Game Startup Error Help

by Carpenter Software · in Torque Game Builder · 01/09/2008 (5:09 pm) · 5 replies

I try to RUN a game but I get the following:

Game Startup Error

'initializeProject' function could not be found.
This could indicate a bad or corrupt common directory for your game.

The Game will now shutdown because it cannot properly function

I just downloaded the latest Mac version TGB 1.6.0.

IS there a work around for this?

Operating System:
Mac OS X version 10.5.1
Model Name: Mac Pro
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz

Carpenter Software
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Torque Owner Simon Young
#1
01/25/2008 (8:23 pm)
Hi I found I had this problem if I had any spaces in the folder name.

ie "MyGame" works but "My Games" gives the above error

cheers

Simon

Torque Owner Christopher Andrade
#2
01/25/2008 (9:23 pm)
This is a slightly older duplicate thread, he posted it in the bug report forum and all is well.
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=71092

Torque Owner David Janik-Jones
#3
01/26/2008 (7:57 am)
I get the error when in the TGB IDE regardless of whether or not the game project and game name have spaces or not. Mine does not have any spaces but I get this error (in the TGB IDE only, not the built version).

Torque Owner Christopher Andrade
#4
01/26/2008 (7:26 pm)
I replied to this in the other thread but I'll repost it here too. Make sure there are no special characters in the entire path, not just the game project name. Any folders before your game folder that include special characters will confuse TGB.

Torque Owner David Janik-Jones
#5
01/27/2008 (6:50 am)
Thanks, Chris, that was it. My projects were being stored in /myhardrivename/users/documents/david/development/tgb projects/gamename.

The minute I changed the folder name "tgb projects" to "tgbprojects" it works fine.

I'd personally say that's something that needs to be fixed in the next revision of TGB.