Slitherine

Fresh download and install of 1.5 plus 1.8.1 patch. Running on Windows 7 guest VirtualBox inside Ubuntu host. Latest version of VB with Guest additions installed. Other Slitherine apps (eg CGW) run ok in this setting. FoG used to run correctly in this setting before upgrade to 1.8.1. FoG launcher comes up, click start game results in spinning cursor, app never launches. How can I trouble shoot this?

Are you running with administrator privileges? If not, you might try that and see if it resolves the issue. Alternatively, you might try the system log to see if it reports any errors.

If you are using FoG.exe as your launcher, try using autorun.exe as there have been problems reported with FoG.exe.

Chris

Yes, running as admin. which system log? windows or FOG?

I don't seem to have an autorun.exe, it's not in Program Files > Slitherine > Field of Glory, where should it be?

This is the error that occurs when I run FieldofGlory.exe:

Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 1/9/2013 10:38:05 AM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: bonsai
Description:
Faulting application name: FieldOfGlory.EXE, version: 1.8.1.0, time stamp: 0x4e38582a
Faulting module name: VBoxOGLcrutil.dll, version: 4.2.4.0, time stamp: 0x508ac8f7
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00024a79
Faulting process id: 0x114
Faulting application start time: 0x01cdee7f50d8d95f
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Slitherine\Field of Glory\FieldOfGlory.EXE
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\VBoxOGLcrutil.dll
Report Id: 8f20d52f-5a72-11e2-b835-080027ce590a
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-09T15:38:05.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>9139</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>bonsai</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>FieldOfGlory.EXE</Data>
<Data>1.8.1.0</Data>
<Data>4e38582a</Data>
<Data>VBoxOGLcrutil.dll</Data>
<Data>4.2.4.0</Data>
<Data>508ac8f7</Data>
<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>00024a79</Data>
<Data>114</Data>
<Data>01cdee7f50d8d95f</Data>
<Data>C:\Program Files\Slitherine\Field of Glory\FieldOfGlory.EXE</Data>
<Data>C:\Windows\system32\VBoxOGLcrutil.dll</Data>
<Data>8f20d52f-5a72-11e2-b835-080027ce590a</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Where is "autorun.exe" for FOG? I downloaded from an URL provided by Slitherine, the resulting directory does not include autorun.exe.

This was before Slitherine & Matrix combined their installers so there are subtle differences between then depending on where you bought. The FoG.exe is the launcher that then runs the game. You can skip it and run FieldOfGlory.exe directly.