Help Interim Apex crashing

[korninja]

Interim Apex is immediately crashing as soon as i open it.  A small white box appears for a brief second and then it vanishes.

Toshiba Satellite C655;  WIndows 7;  64 bit;  3.00 GB RAM, 2.86 usable;  Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU;  925 @ 2.3GHz  2.29GHz

221 GB Hard Drive 37.2 Available.  Using Microsoft Security Essentials.  No addons. 

Haven't managed to get the game to launch yet but Renegade will play otherwise.

errors.log

[Veyrdite]

>  The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.

Is the date and time on your device correct?  This is very important, despite how silly it sounds.  SSL/TLS needs your computer to have an accurate date and time for (amongst other things) checking if certificates have expired.

EDIT: other things to check whenever you have SSL/TLS problems:

• Are you using the internet in a country or through a provider (or at a workplace) that does traffic analysis & spoofing (aka MITMing)?  This can lead to invalid certificates being presented.
• Do you have any special software installed designed to provide device tracing or security?  These can fiddle with certificate checks.

[korninja]

Yeah, although I just turned it on for the first time in six years 😛. I managed to resolve the issue though fortunately

[Veyrdite]

How did you fix the problem?  Any ideas, or did it magic itself?

[korninja]

I changed the MSAA mode to 0. I don't know what that means but it fixed things

 

[Veyrdite]

Ah, sorry, I thought your W3Dlauncher was crashing.  The log you attached is for the launcher, not the game. This logfile is probably from some point where you (temporarily) didn't have working internet, hence the TLS connection error.

MSAA is a type of anti-aliasing.  It makes thing prettier but it's completely optional.

Thankyou for telling us, this is useful in case someone else encounters your problem.

Edited September 14, 2020 by Veyrdite

[korninja]

I'm not very tech savy lol.  I wonder why changing the MSAA mode the game work. Are my computer specs just too low or something? This is a pretty low end laptop from 2011

 

[Veyrdite]

The blame will likely sit somewhere in either the game or your graphics drivers.  There's a really big list of potential problems, not much can be found out without performing extensive debugging on your device. 

If you are running integrated Intel graphics on that old processor then you will be running some form of period graphics drivers too.  Intel (like most companies) gives up on providing notable updates or development for older models.

Whether you blame the old hardware or the old drivers is arbitrary; they both need each other to work.  Whether you blame the game instead depends on arguments about "standards" and other such fun   Technically anything can run anything, it just takes human effort.

Edited September 14, 2020 by Veyrdite

[Dghelneshi]

This laptop has an integrated GPU from 2008. I'm surprised it can run anything at all. It straight up doesn't support MSAA.