Please help me!!

[Pyro_man7]

Ok. I just get stepmania 3.9 alpha 20 from a friend and im ready to play. i open it and much to my dismay... it crashes. im posting the crash log and if anyone out there can make sense of it and tell me what i need to do, i would DEEPLY appreciate it.


StepMania 3.9 DIPSTICK BUILD crash report (build 27515)
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Crash reason: Access Violation

Thread 00000f20 (Main thread)
RageFileDriverDirect.cpp:321
RageFileDriverDirect.cpp:328
RageFileDriverDirect.cpp:331
RageFileDriverDirectHelpers.cpp:254 C:/Documents and Settings/Brett/My Documents/download/upbeat432/StepMania_CVS/Themes/default/Graphics/*
RageFileDriverDirectHelpers.cpp:254 C:/Documents and Settings/Brett/My Documents/download/upbeat432/StepMania_CVS/Themes/default/Graphics/*
Thread 00001458 (Decode thread)
RageThreads.cpp:237
Thread 000014a0 (Mixer thread)
arch\Sound\RageSoundDriver_Generic_Software.cpp:53
arch\Sound\RageSoundDriver_Generic_Software.cpp:53
arch\Sound\RageSoundDriver_Generic_Software.cpp:53
arch\Sound\RageSoundDriver_Generic_Software.cpp:53
arch\Sound\RageSoundDriver_Generic_Software.cpp:53
Thread 000014f8 (MusicThread)
RageThreads.cpp:237
Thread 00000928 (MemoryCardMount)
RageThreads.cpp:237


Static log:
StepMania 3.9 DIPSTICK BUILD
Compiled Wed May 26 00:38:52 2004 (build 27515)
Log starting 2004-09-08 23:33:54
Loading window: win32
Windows 5.1 (WinXP) build 2600 [Service Pack 1]
Memory: 254mb total, 623mb swap (294mb swap avail)
Video driver: VisionTek XTASY 9200 [ATI Technologies Inc.]
6.14.10.6387, 9-12-2003 [pci\ven_1002&dev_5961&subsys_7c251545]
Drive: "SAMSUNG SV6003" Driver: IdeChnD DMA: yes
Drive: "HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8400" Driver: IdeChnD DMA: yes
Drive: "TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M161" Driver: IdeChnD DMA: yes
Sound device 0: Avance AC97 Audio, 5.10, MID 1, PID 100
DirectSound Driver: Primary Sound Driver ()
DirectSound Driver: Avance AC97 Audio (ALCXWDM.SYS)
ID: {bd6dd71a-3deb-11d1-f52c18}
DirectSound sample rates: 8000..48000 (continuous)
Couldn't load driver DirectSound: Driver unusable (no hardware buffers)
Sound driver: DirectSound-sw
Video renderers: 'opengl,d3d'
Language:
Current renderer: OpenGL
Theme: default

Partial log:
00:00.782: Player 1 memory card: none
00:00.783: Looking for a card for Player 2
00:00.783: Player 2 memory card: none
00:00.804: Reading profile data 'Data/MachineProfile/Stats.xml'
00:00.952: UnlockSystem::Load()
00:00.964: Last seen video driver: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
00:00.964: Card matches '(unknown card)'.
00:00.964: Video card has changed from NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 to VisionTek XTASY 9200. Applying new defaults.
00:00.966: Video renderers: 'opengl,d3d'
00:00.977: RageDisplay_OGL::RageDisplay_OGL()

-- End of report

please help me. im really tired of playing the same old songs over and over on ffr.

[Pennybags]

Your video card may not be able to handle OpenGL. Try updating the drivers for it. I got a similar error when I first downloaded Stepmania and updating my drivers worked for me.

[Pyro_man7]

thanks so much

buuuuut... one more thing.
how do i do that ^_^;;

[Pyro_man7]

nevermind
i found out how