"SDL failed to initialize the video subsystem."

When I try to start a route in openBVE, I get a error.

openBVE
SDL failed to initialize the video subsystem.



Is there anybody who can help me with this?

Now there's one I've never seen before
Are you on Mac or Windows (The window appearance suggests Mac)?

If Mac, is it a PPC Mac or a newer Intel one?
If Windows, try updating the graphics drivers as a first stop.

Cheers

Chris Lees

http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk

That typically is a sign of not all dependencies being installed correctly. Are you sure you did all of them? Try reinstalling them. Make sure you put everything exactly where it is supposed to be.

I think this error can also be caused by things like incomaptible screen resolutions or windowed openBVE being set to be larger than the actual screen.

Unfortunatley although openBVE detects that SDL components have failed to load and tells us that, it however doesn't tell us why. Which isn't very useful when you have problems, in my opinion its a slight design flaw as SDL can be queried for the error.

I just encountered this problem. 
Solved it by reducing the screen size in the settings (fullscreen).

Think it is because I'm playing it on TV (from my laptop)

I've just got myself a new laptop (late Christmas present to myself) and I've been getting the same problem when I launch oBVE in full screen mode, no issues in windowed mode though.

I could recommend launching it in windowed mode then once the game has started and you're at the starting station, if you press CTRL+F, it might have a different result. 
But check your desktop screen resolution in width and height for example 1024x768