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I installed Minetest 4.0, and extracted all of the files and everything, so it shouldve worked. But when I try to start up the exe file to play the game, and then it said "Minetest.exe has stopped working" and Im forced to quit the application. I dont know what to do, I have not changed anything or added any mods, and this is the Debug for the error, so im guessing its a "Access Violation" error. I have also tried running it as the Administrator, but still nothing.


18:23:04: INFO[main]: logfile = debug.txt
18:23:04: INFO[main]: path_share = C:\Users\shelia\Desktop\Downloads\minetest-0.4.dev-20120606-win32 (3)\minetest-0.4.dev-20120606-win32\bin\..
18:23:04: INFO[main]: path_user = C:\Users\shelia\Desktop\Downloads\minetest-0.4.dev-20120606-win32 (3)\minetest-0.4.dev-20120606-win32\bin\..
18:23:04: INFO[main]: minetest with SER_FMT_VER_HIGHEST=23, VER=0.4.dev-20120606 BUILD_TYPE=Release RUN_IN_PLACE=1 USE_GETTEXT=0 USE_SOUND=1 INSTALL_PREFIX=//Vboxsvr/home-celeron55/minetest_install_win32
In trans_func.
Access violation at 0473B9C0 write?=8 address=74693056
18:23:06: ERROR[main]: ERROR: An unhandled exception occurred: Access violation

In thread d5c:
C:\tmp\minetest\src\main.cpp:1740: main: Assertion '0' failed.
Debug stacks:
DEBUG STACK FOR THREAD d5c:
#0 main

Minetest 3.1 works fine, but Im trying to download 4.0. Please Help! D':

ok ill give instructions on how i did it
go to minetest.com
click download minetest
click latest dev build here
click
https://github.com/downloads/celeron55/minetest/minetest-0.4.dev-20120606-win32.zip
once it downloads exstract file to desktop
once thats done open file and go to 0.4/bin/minetest

that should do it, hope this helps tell me if it did.

I got the same error as last time :( I did the steps you said to do, but it happened again anyway

Maybe this thread helps you a bit further

http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=747

You can try copying the desired/working lines out of minetest.conf.example into mintest.conf (or copy them from here. Use search or find when in the minetest.conf.example and search for # Video back-end.. You'll find this:

# Video back-end.
# Possible values: null, software, burningsvideo, direct3d8, direct3d9, opengl
#video_driver = opengl

So put in your mintest.conf --> video_driver = (one of the underlined)

Other suggestions: before starting up:
- delete the minetest.conf file and or
- delete the files in the worlds folder/map/directory (make a backup if you like)

- or make your own minetest.conf, using the minetest.conf.example. (Remove the # for the desired lines)

Probably you and others know more about this stuff, then nvm. Otherwise maybe it helps :-)