Are you willing to test new features of bzflag?

Post by **trepan** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:11 pm

toaster, the 1.11.x graphics system is about to
undergo an overhaul. your problems may be related
to GL context switches, or the order in which GL
resources are being allocated. besides resetting
your config, you can also running in windowed mode
and resizing it (to do this, you may have to change
the mouse confinement option under input settings).
A quick alt-tab may also fix your problem. if neither
of these work for you, then you'll have to wait for the
rewrite to be committed. it should prove to be faster,
more stable, and have a couple of fun new features
that can be applied to maps.

trepan

toaster · Post by **toaster** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:12 pm

Running winxp pro, have an AMD2200+ processor with a VIA chipset motherboard and onboard S3 Savagepro. I did have a Geforce 5600XT board with latest drivers, and the onboard S3 disabled. The only 3D game that was unstable on it was BZflag 1.10.6. So I took it out, reverted to the onboard video. It has the absolute latest drivers from S3 as of last week. Also, the latest drivers for the motherboard chipset, onboard sound, onboard networking, etc.

It now runs 1.10.6 reliably, but you see what happens when I run 1.11.15 and 16. 1.11.10 was okay, the last beta release I was testing, alongside 1.10.6.

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:35 pm

the nvidia should run a hell of a lot better then that savage pro crap.

toaster · Post by **toaster** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:56 pm

Yeah, it should, and it did until I upgraded to 1.10.6. Then, random crashes while running BZ. The board was hot, but the Nvidia folks told me that's not a problem. I installed a fan directly on it, anyway, which kept the heat sink cooler, and I added another cabinet fan to the chassis to force more air through it. Ambient temp in the chassis is down by 12 degrees F.

I went through 4 sets of drivers for that nvidia card once this started, awaiting updates. Finally got tired of fighting it - other things to do.

I can get semi-decent frame rates with the S3 if i turn off some of the features. It's not as good as it was, but at least I can play.

toaster · Post by **toaster** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:04 pm

Okay, it's working now. Trepan, I tried your suggestion, and cycling through let me find this: It only works in 8 bit color mode, no matter the resolution. Any of the 16- or 32-bit plane modes yield results like I posted.

Yet, the 1.10.6 is running fine in 32 bit mode.

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:32 pm

the current nvidia drivers REALY want directX9 as well, you will want to make sure you have it installed.

the savage sucks in blend modes

oblomov · Post by **oblomov** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:43 pm

Ah, thanks for the hint about DX9, Patlabor, it might help some graphics glitch I'm having.

toaster · Post by **toaster** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:44 pm

DirectX 9.0c installed already about the day it was released, while I was trying to fix the GeForce board problem.

I tried turning off blending, shadows, lighting, and all other features. Tried all quality levels. Problem remains. No combination I tried would clear it up.

Oh, and Trepan, the windowed version retains the problem no matter what resolution is selected, or the number of bit planes.

Also, new feature: I run Windows at 1280x1024, 32 bit. Same with BZ 1.10.6. Now, when I configured 1.11.16 at 8 bit, close the program, and restart it, it takes up only the upper left quarter of the screen, leaves the Windows display background visible on the other quadrants. If I go through options and change the resolution, it reverts to full screen. (This is not the windowing version I'm describing.)

Really odd behaviour. Is there a newer OpenGL driver out there somewhere?

oblomov · Post by **oblomov** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 6:01 pm

toaster, not always the latest nVidia is the best; you can have a look at www.laptopvideo2go.com for more info and many drivers. This is true for the laptops, but I think it might help for the desktops too.

Patlabor: what about the "no servers/wrong version" problem? Is 1.11.16 really 1.11.16? Why does it report itself as 1.11.15?

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 7:46 pm

the only dif between 15 and 16 is the list server thing, so the build may have been done before the app version changed, it's the same protocoll as 15

oblomov · Post by **oblomov** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 10:12 pm

there seems to be a server (trepan.something.somethingelse?) using a later version, though?

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 11:26 pm

posibly, trepan is working on changes, so he makes servers that are in "future" versions.

Basicly he hasn't checked in his changes yet so he is the only one who has the code. When he's done and sure it works, he Commits the code to CVS and then we all can get it and build it.

that's the beauty of the versioning sytem, it lets him test servers ,and not have to deal with regular users coming in and poibly crashing because they don't have his new cod.e

Post by **trepan** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 12:17 am

I've only got 1.11.16 servers running. (0006)
Looks like Tup bumped the protocol without
bumping the rev number. No biggee.

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 12:35 am

that bastard

we can bump to 17 thisweenend and squeep out a new build for them.

oblomov · Post by **oblomov** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 11:24 am

Thanks guys

Of course it would be eveng greater if there actually was anybody online around noon GMT+1 (+DST) ...

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 8:04 pm

I've made a new build of 1.11.16 that has the new protocoll version that the server are running..

you all want to get this http://bzbb.bzflag.org/builds/1.11/bzflag1.11.16.1.exe

oblomov · Post by **oblomov** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:25 am

Cool!

romfis-austria · Post by **romfis-austria** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 1:06 pm

HI

on trepan.homelinux.net:8192 is server version BZFS0007 !!

W32 here ?

cu.

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 5:02 pm

version in cvs is still 0006, you'll just have to wait, as I said, those devs who do protocoll changes can run future versions. His others ervers are running the CVS version.

Remmember that dev servers are just for testing, they are not up for just playing, so they can change/go down at any time.

brad2901 · Post by **brad2901** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:05 pm

is there a mac build yet?

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:29 am

we don't really have anyone who can make mac builds of the testing versions.

best way if you are on a mac is to build it yourself.

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:35 am

new version 1.11.17

http://bzbb.bzflag.org/builds/1.11/bzflag1.11.17.exe

oblomov · Post by **oblomov** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:57 pm

Crashes with "Runtime error" after downloading the world map, on my system.

Post by **blast** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:49 pm

oblomov wrote:Crashes with "Runtime error" after downloading the world map, on my system.

Same thing for me. Even tried running bzfs locally with no options, and it still bombed.

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:08 pm

welcome to the world of development