Tank intermitently stops moving

[G67P]

I'm running Manjaro Linux and never had any major issues running BZFlag. With the latest Manjaro update I've been experiencing intermittent tank movement. I'll be moving, then all of a sudden my tank will stop moving. I then need to release the keyboard "up arrow" key and depress it again to begin moving again. That is my major complaint but another is minor and I found a work-around for it, is that when exiting the game it will not save my brightness (gamma) setting. So, to get around that, I just set the option for save settings to "NO" and edit my config.cfg file with the gamma setting I like.

Anybody experience any of these issues? Any help would be appreciated!!!

Thanks

[Bullet Catcher]

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27222 may be related to the gamma problem.

For movement, maybe there is now a time limit or a repeat limit when holding down keys. That's just a wild guess.

[alfa1]

In case you are running it from your official repository, I suggest to try compiling it locally (or even using Wine), and, then, compare the results. Pay attention to the warning messages. Sometimes repo versions have issues, and, apart, local builds always tend to run better.

I see you updated your operating system; I also suggest, in second place, to do an installation from scratch of it, better.

[G67P]

So, I think it's something with the NVidia driver. I ran it with nouveau driver and didn't have any issues. Then I reloaded NVidia driver and issues comes back. I also took it out of full-screen mode and maximized the window with no issues. Strange!!!

[G67P]

Update....so it still happens, even with the nouveau driver. So aggravating!!!!!

[G67P]

So, I'm narrowing this thing down. I'm finding out it's something to do with key repeat on the keyboard. When it's enabled, if I press and hold the up a key to move the tank, the tank will move without stopping. If I'm holding that key down and press and let go a second key, the tank will stop moving after a few seconds. So, I went into my keyboard setting and disabled the key repeat option and the tank stops a few seconds after I start moving, regardless of how many keys I press.
Never did before and in windows it works flawless.
Freaking weird!!!!

[hawthorn]

Can confirm that I have the same issue running the latest version of Manjaro Linux, with the tank behaving exactly as G67P describes.

[G67P]

Can confirm that I have the same issue running the latest version of Manjaro Linux, with the tank behaving exactly as G67P describes.

I installed MXLinux and no issues at all. MXLinux doesn't use systemd and wondering if that is the cause.

[tainn]

I use Fedora and have no issues, so it is probably not a general systemd issue.

The only thing that would come to mind is that you had a kernel update but not a respective driver update alongside it, which might be messing it up for you.

[G67P]

I use Fedora and have no issues, so it is probably not a general systemd issue.

The only thing that would come to mind is that you had a kernel update but not a respective driver update alongside it, which might be messing it up for you.

I did a new install of manjaro a few weeks ago but have same issue. I can't figure it out.