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ALIEN is a CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program.
https://alien-project.org
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Can't initialize alien.exe in Windows 11 #41

Open animanoir opened 2 years ago

animanoir commented 2 years ago

I'm using Windows 11 and I have the latest NVIDIA 3090 drivers. Each time I try to open alien, I just see a quick black screen appearing rapidly and a termina, but then they disappear.

chrxh commented 2 years ago

I don't have much experience with Windows 11 yet. Did you compile the project yourself? If you used the installer: Was it up to date (i.e. not older than one week?)

Some typical error sources and solutions are listed here https://alien-project.org/downloads.html under Troubleshooting.

If that didn't help, there is also a log.txt file. What does it say?

animanoir commented 2 years ago

Sorry I already uninstalled it. But it was via the installer.

animanoir commented 2 years ago

I installed it again. Still doesn't opens. Where can I find that log.txt file?

chrxh commented 2 years ago

The file is located in the program's folder. So normally in c:\Users\Username\AppData\alien\bin. It may be that because of Windows 11 there are compatibility problems. I'll surely have a look at this in the future. It's best to compile the source code yourself. But I fully understand that this is annoying if you don't have the whole toolchain installed.