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#14 Biosphere3D crash on startup
Running Biosphere3D on Windows 7 SP1 under Parallels for Mac 14.1.3 on macOS 10.14.5. Late 2014 27" Retina 5K iMac, 4GHz Intel Core i7, 32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon R9 M290X 2GB.
Receive the following error on launching Biosphere3D in Windows.
Trying to open: C:\Program Files\Lenne3D\Biosphere3D-x64\bin../share/Player\data/terrain/BlueMarble/world.topo.bathy.200407.3x5400x2700.jpg.ecw
---- ECW File Import info:
- Initing file: C:\Program Files\Lenne3D\Biosphere3D-x64\bin../share/Player\data/terrain/BlueMarble/world.topo.bathy.200407.3x5400x2700.jpg.ecw...
- FileImplEcw - opening view 1 on file world.topo.bathy.200407.3x5400x2700.jpg.ecw
- Image Size: [5400, 2700]
- Num Bands: 3
- Has Alpha: 0
- Datum unsupported
- Projection unsupported
- CellSizeUnits unsupported
- File Origin: -180.033, 90.0333
- File Cell Increment: 0.0666666667, -0.0666666667
- Tmp Offset: [0, 0]
- Tmp Size: [1.0000000005, 1.0000000005]
- Virtual Image Size: [5399, 2699]
- World Offset: [0, 0]
- Is Scaled: 0
- Value Range: [3.40282e+038,-3.40282e+038)
Using OpenGL version: 2.1 ATI-2.9.26
Info: max texture size is 16384
Info: max framebuffer size is 8192
Info: max 3d texture size is 16384
Info: GPU Vendor is Parallels Parallels using AMD Radeon R9 M290X OpenGL Engine
Biosphere3D 2019042517 encountered a fatal exception during initialization.
Last task:
Biosphere3D seems to be crashed:
If this occurs more often, maybe one of the following can help you:
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Thank you for reporting a problem. If I understand it correctly, Parallels uses a virtual video card, that emulates OpenGL 2.1. A virtual video card isn’t supported by Biosphere right now.
The current development version has better support for OpenGL 2.1, so you can try that, but I guess it won’t work either. Development versions can be found here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/biosphere3d/files/DevelopmentVersions/
An option may be, to run Windows via Boot Camp on your iMac.
Best regards, Steffen
Hello Stephen,
Parallels is a virtual machine that allows one to run Windows on a Mac without rebooting.
Other Windows applications that I run under parallels do not report this problem.
Regards,
Jay
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Bugs: #14
Hello Jay,
The 3D Video Adapter that Parallels emulates behaves in some way different than a real GPU and that makes Biosphere to fail during its initialization. If I had access to a Parallels installation like yours, I could look more deeply into the problem and find a solution.
A few years back we had a native version for Mac OS X, which wasn’t developed further due to time constrains. Maybe it gets reactivated in the future.
After some googling I learned, that Parallels has a setting for the available video memory. Maybe it is currently set to low, a value of 2 GB is advised for Biosphere.
For now, I’m sorry that I can’t help you any more with running Biosphere under Parallels.
Best regards, Steffen