crashes immedately when starting

[Pieter Hulshoff]

I have someone else reporting the same thing at present its rare though

I have the same problem; SDL crash with version 0.10.20.

Do you have multiple monitors as well?

[wdlwmp]

In case it helps narrow stuff down, I still had the error after disconnecting one monitor (leaving only one connected to the computer) and rebooting.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

It does. As far as I can tell, this was caused by the update to the latest SDL library. This update enables support for sensors, e.g. force feedback, gyro measurement, etc. RetroFE initializes everything by default, but apparently some Windows installations restrict access to those sensors. I'll have to run some trial and error tests (since I cannot reproduce the problem on my own systems) to see which of the flags causes this issue, and to see whether RetroFE can do without that flag.
https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_Init

[wdlwmp]

I'm happy to help test, if you'd like.  My system is very reliable at failing this way.

[Doctrine5D]

I have someone else reporting the same thing at present its rare though

I have the same problem; SDL crash with version 0.10.20.

Do you have multiple monitors as well?

I have one monitor only.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

Ok, try this executable. It should still crash, but if you upload the log file it should at least show me WHY it crashes. I should be able to fix it from there.

[wdlwmp]

Very strange.  Unfortunately (I think) this one didn't crash and it started up fine.

[Doctrine5D]

Ok, try this executable. It should still crash, but if you upload the log file it should at least show me WHY it crashes. I should be able to fix it from there.

It works. Did you modified SDL Function ?

[Pieter Hulshoff]

That’s odd. I replaced the initialize everything with an initialize for each individual subsystem. Unless they forgot to update their documentation, this should have crashed....
Oh well, if it works, it works.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

Turns out they forgot to update the documentation. I just checked the source code, and there’re an additional flag in the latest versions that initializes the sensors.

[wdlwmp]

Nice find -- thank you!