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Thanks, blast! That was it! Not sure how it got changed to Experimental....

Recently, my bzflag install spontaneously changed to have certain special effects that I really don't want. Examples: large bloom when firing laser, brackets around a tank targeted with GM, Red\Green markers following the Red/Green flags. Not sure how these were toggled on. Fancy Effects are turned ...

Sure enough. Don't know what I was thinking!

Happy BZFlagging!

It is curious that the Fedora package didn't have SDL2-2.0.16 as a dependency. No matter now that it is working for me after the SDL2 downgrade.

Upgraded back to 2.0.20, including SDL-static, and BZ hangs. Downgraded again and all is well.

I downgraded SDL2 to 2.0.16, and BZ now works with the Fedora rpm! During the downgrade, SDL2-static was installed. Now, when looking at the available updates in DNFDragora, SDL-static 2.0.20 is listed. Got me wondering if this package was needed all along to get BZFlag working even though it appare...

Glad you figured it out. I did compile from source, and got the same hang. I guess I'll downgrade SDL and see what happens.

Thanks for the help, but unfortunately, it still won't go past the start screen. Not sure what got messed up on my system, if anything. Blender works fine. Suppose it could still be the video driver, but I'm still suspect of how the bzflag packages are being built to work with SDL2. I could be way o...

Forgot to mention that in window mode, the cursor is locked in the window. I have to wait for bzflag to timeout to terminate it, or toggle over to a terminal and kill it with top. Kind of frustrating that I can't get it going. I can boot up F34 on my old harddrive and play there if I really have to ...

The start screen shows that the detected Audio Driver is PulseAudio. PulseAudio isn't installed in F35, though the libraries are. The audio is handled by pipewire-pulseaudio. I'm wondering if this might be the problem? Is there a way to specify an audio driver to bypass the auto-detect?

I installed LXQT and LXDE desktops. Same problem. On LXQT, launching bzflag completely locked up my system.

I installed, and got working the latest nvidia driver (495.46). There is no difference. I forgot to mention that I did install xfce just to see if Bzflag would run from that desktop..nope. XFCE appears to use KDE components, even displaying objects that I have on the KDE desktop. I turned of Composi...

This is on Fedora 35 w-the KDesktop using the Plasma X11 session with a nvidia gtx 750ti on the 470.xx nvidia drivers. The 495.xx drivers didn't work for me. The cpu is at about 80%, and I have to kill bz off with top. It worked fine yesterday. I did make some changes in the loaded driver packages, ...

Forgot to thank everyone for their suggestions which helped me narrow down the problem to my network.

I'm up and running. Found the solution here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comment ... fedora_33/ BZFlag, Flatpak and dnf are all working.

When I finally get a response pinging amazon.com (prob not the best target), it is running about 120ms. I'm heading over to the Fedoraforum to see if they have any ideas.

After a long wait (2-mins), curl returned the server list.

K Seems like Discover is having the same problem as dnf. I shut down the instance of Discover that was searching for bzflag, and started it back up. No install button this time, just a remove button even though I don't have anything installed under Flatpak, and it is sitting there fetching updates. ...

Thanks for bringing this up as a new topic. Had added this into to the original topic: I installed v2.4.18 and v2.4.22 from the Fedora Repo(s) using dnfdragora. I already had Flatpak installed, and Discover is now looking for bzflag rpms. One is listed, but it has been 15 mins or more looking for mo...

I get the server list with my browser.

Admin Note: This was split off another thread that had a different problem. I'm having the same problem. Just upgraded from Fedora 32 to 33. The server must be reading my user name as it shows it's registered, but it seems be be having a problem with the password. Looks good in the config, and have...