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Offline The E

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Re: Problem With FSO 3.7.4
Yes, it absolutely is. There's noone on the team willing to support it, and even if there was, its usefulness is strictly limited. wardog here is the only person out of the FSO userbase that actually meets the conditions (as in, absolutely zero budget for anything that could qualify as a gaming PC). That makes it an eminently cuttable feature, and given that it's likely broken by now, cutting it is the logical choice.
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Re: Problem With FSO 3.7.4
Do you have an expansion slot open?  What kind (AGP, PCI, PCI-E)?  What's your system specs and what PSU is it using?

No expansion slots open, PCI, Intel 2 Duo E4500 2.2GHz.
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Offline Cyborg17

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Re: Problem With FSO 3.7.4
I meant confirmed that it was broken, not whether it was being cut.

 

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Re: Problem With FSO 3.7.4
I meant confirmed that it was broken, not whether it was being cut.
It takes less than a minute to confirm it. I haven't done an exhaustive check to see which version it broke in, but it definitely hasn't worked since I joined the SCP. You get the HUD (not terribly surprising that 2D drawing works fine), but behind the HUD you just get a black screen.

If somebody wanted to do an exhaustive binary search to find the exact commit that broke it, it might possibly lead to the feature being restored. Otherwise, nobody has the time or inclination to work on it.
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<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
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Re: Problem With FSO 3.7.4
No expansion slots open, PCI, Intel 2 Duo E4500 2.2GHz.

Nuts.

 
 

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Re: Problem With FSO 3.7.4
Do you have any expansion slots at all, occupied or not? If so, what cards are plugged into them? And are you actually using all those cards?
« Last Edit: March 25, 2016, 11:02:13 pm by Yarn »
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