[Alan Bolte]

Getting a problem on Post Meridian (and possibly other missions) on RC4 that doesn't happen in RC3. (also holy frak I forgot how awesome WiH was)

Here's the RC4 log where it happens.
Here's the error message it spews; this doesn't happen on the release build so it may be completely irrelevant.
and Here's the RC3 log, I get past the point where it usually happens but then I die because Tevs

It's normally shortly after I've killed Aquarius wing and the Vilnius has jumped in.

I tried playing the mission in (non-debug) RC4 but it didn't crash. It did, however, feature completely unbearable audio. I'm gonna see if I can figure out how to capture a sample.

EDIT: And today I learned that when using Stereo Mix on my Realtek High Definition Audio (driver 6.0.1.6069) I need to switch the default playback device to Speakers or I won't get any sound.

Attached are three minutes of pain.

But man, it's the weirdest thing: if I switch to WaveOut, the sound is nearly perfect, but I only get the left channel.

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[Molaris]

this is prob a newb question, but I dump the Shaders stuff into MediaVPs folder or the MediaVPs 3612 folder?

[Jeff Vader]

Preferrably \mediavps_3612\ .

[EternalRuin]

I've tried using the RC4 while replaying WiH. However, on the very first mission (the opening cutscene), the screen "flashes black" every few seconds, and very regularly. This also happened when I loaded a checkpoint. Otherwise, however, the game has been fine, and if I use RC3 instead, there are no blackout flash things. Any idea of what's wrong here?

[CaptJosh]

Known bug with the fade out sexp and short fade times. There's a topic about it around here somewhere...

[Ramzee]

I love what's being done here at the SCP so please don't take this as a criticism and I know everything here is done for free and with love.

1. RC4 HUD - Lower screen resolutions have off-centred or missing elements.

Tested under Win7 using fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4.exe, Training mission 3 of FSPort 3.3

640x480 - All the HUD elements seem oversized and centred about the bottom RH quarter of the screen.

800x600 - Radar and 12 O'clock element offset slightly to the left

1024x600 - No HUD elements on screen.

Higher resolutions seem correct ie. 1024x768 and 1920x1080 .

The HUD is correct when using 3.6.12 at 640x480, etc

I realise the focus is to make FS bigger, better and prettier but I also love playing at 640x480 on my HP netbook. I tried a nightly build from June and had the same issue so if it's well know and I've missed the FAQ where it's covered I apologise in advance.

2. In Game Dialog Box Mouse Trials

When the "New User Tip", "Do You Really Want To End The Mission?" and "Exit Game" dialog boxes are displayed the mouse pointer leaves "Mouse Trails" over the background but not the dialog box on my slow HP-110 netbook.

It was a minor issue with the TBP that was fixed with the DVD release (3.6.9) but is present in FSO 3.6.12 and RC4.

On my faster i7 desktop the glitch is almost invisible with the mouse pointer leaving only one after image on background (where it was as the dialog box appeared?).

[Valathil]

The mouse trail problem is a known bug that was already fixed in updated shaders and is going to be fixed once the new mediavps come out. As for the hud problems it would be great if you could open a Mantis issue at http://scp.indiegames.us/mantis/ to speed up the process of someone looking at it.

[shiv]

Is there a chance someone could check good-secondary-time sexp? I don't know if it's me or fs2_open, but this sexp doesn't seem to affect AI behaviour and they still tend to launch tons of warheads.

[Ramzee]

As for the hud problems it would be great if you could open a Mantis issue at http://scp.indiegames.us/mantis/ to speed up the process of someone looking at it.

Done and updated - seems the HUD issue is limited to FSPort as the vanilla FS2 and BP:AoA HUDs are correct at 640x480 (but not STR).

[Alan Bolte]

One thing interesting I've noticed - while the music stutters horribly in Blue Planet missions where there's lots of ships and weapons fire, the moment I hit 'esc' to see the restart/quit menu, the music continues on normally.

[Alan Bolte]

Reproducible crash while docking with a support ship in the last mission of the main FS2 campaign (Apocalypse).

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Assert: goal_objp != NULL
File: aicode.cpp
Line: 10160

ntdll.dll! ZwWaitForSingleObject + 21 bytes
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObjectEx + 67 bytes
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObject + 18 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! SCP_DumpStack + 354 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! WinAssert + 208 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! ai_get_dock_goal_indexes + 238 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! ai_cleanup_dock_mode_subjective + 215 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! ai_dock + 144 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! ai_execute_behavior + 457 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! ai_frame + 2083 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! ai_process + 290 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! ship_process_post + 1828 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! obj_move_all_post + 565 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! obj_move_all + 352 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! game_simulation_frame + 1115 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! game_frame + 469 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! game_do_frame + 239 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! game_do_state + 379 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! gameseq_process_events + 237 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! game_main + 782 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! WinMain + 330 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! __tmainCRTStartup + 358 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_14_RC4_DEBUG.exe! WinMainCRTStartup + 15 bytes
kernel32.dll! BaseThreadInitThunk + 18 bytes
ntdll.dll! RtlInitializeExceptionChain + 99 bytes
ntdll.dll! RtlInitializeExceptionChain + 54 bytes
I tried attaching the fs2_open.log, but the forum told me the 'upload folder is full.' Lost my post too, good thing I hadn't written much. Put it on pastebin instead:

fs2_open.log

BTW, you'll note in the log that my movies don't play - for some reason I had them in AVI format. I'm downloading the OGG versions now.

[cyrus41592]

Hey guys, im new to the forum, but have been getting mods and scp from here for a couple of years now. Love what you guys are doing to keep FS2 alive. That being said, i've run into an issue with the graphics in the RC 4 of 3.6.14. When i run the game, the new textures and shaders are present and seem to run correctly, however the ships lack the metallic textures seen in older versions of the mediavps and builds. While the graphics still exceed the stock graphics, the clay like ship textures seen in the original are present to an extent for most of the ships. If any one has an idea of how to fix this, or could direct me towards a solution, i would appreciate it. Thanks guys, and keep up the awesome work.

[Macfie]

It's intentionally that way.

[The E]

Hey guys, im new to the forum, but have been getting mods and scp from here for a couple of years now. Love what you guys are doing to keep FS2 alive. That being said, i've run into an issue with the graphics in the RC 4 of 3.6.14. When i run the game, the new textures and shaders are present and seem to run correctly, however the ships lack the metallic textures seen in older versions of the mediavps and builds. While the graphics still exceed the stock graphics, the clay like ship textures seen in the original are present to an extent for most of the ships. If any one has an idea of how to fix this, or could direct me towards a solution, i would appreciate it. Thanks guys, and keep up the awesome work.

you should post an fs2_open.log so we can see if there's an issue with custom flags not being active, or shader compilation failing for some reason.

[Alan Bolte]

After further testing, it's not mission dependent. I'm not sure why I was aborting my rearm repeatedly, but that's what does it - any aborted rearm gets that assert.

EDIT: Oh, hey, this one was in Mantis. My bad.

[cyrus41592]

Alright, here is the fs2_open log. Ran the game from launcher 5.5g running 3.6.14 RC4 debug NO-SSE and Blue Planet 2. Some ships have a slight metallic look, but it is noticeably reduced over the older builds. It is most evident when viewing the GTF Draco in the tech room database. Thanks for the help guys.

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[The E]

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  OpenGL Renderer  : ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470
  OpenGL Version   : 3.1.9210
I am using that very same graphics card. The same line on my end reads

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  OpenGL Renderer  : ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series
  OpenGL Version   : 4.1.10666 Compatibility Profile Context
You should REALLY update your GPU driver. The 12.1 drivers are so far stable and have no issues with FSO.

[Zacam]

Why the No-SSE? I don't see how or why somebody having that video system on a laptop would have it joined with an non-SSE or SSE2 capable processor.

[The E]

I'd say so as well.

[cyrus41592]

Thanks for the help guys, problem resolved it self after i updated the GPU drivers. Looking forward to playing through and enjoying the new updates. Running an SSE build now. Seems to run a little better as well.