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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: RandomTiger on July 25, 2002, 01:16:23 pm

Title: Need testers, please help
Post by: RandomTiger on July 25, 2002, 01:16:23 pm
Hello, I need help test my new freespace exe that fixes a bug.
I just need people to take my exe and load it up have a quick look at the Hall graphics and tell me if its working right.

The exe is about 700 k rar'ed up.
Or 1 Meg as a zip file

Cards tested so far:

Member Card type OS Result

OUTSIDER Voodoo 3 win98 Works fine
OUTSIDER Geforce 2 2000 Works fine
Me Geforce 4 PNY 4600 XP Works fine
JBX-Phoenix Geforce 4 PNY XP Works fine

Send me an e-mail for the exe.
Please help.
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: Hudzy on July 25, 2002, 01:33:18 pm
:lol:
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on July 25, 2002, 02:07:01 pm
You need testes? Surely no-one needs more than two?:D
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: RandomTiger on July 25, 2002, 02:10:09 pm
Oh, and I need testeRs as well.
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: RandomTiger on July 25, 2002, 02:12:46 pm
God damn it! I cant change the tile. Oh well, I'll just have to sit here and look stupid.
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: JBX-Phoenix on July 25, 2002, 02:15:07 pm
:p
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on July 25, 2002, 02:45:11 pm
BwaHaHa!
You see, it's my purpose to make people look stupid, HaHa.:mad2:
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: RandomTiger on July 25, 2002, 07:49:06 pm
Ok heres something to make this easy on you all:
OK, for now the exe is at http://www.ijbrooks.demon.co.uk/tom/XPGF4.rar

But its very important that regardless of whether it works or not you report:

Your graphics card name, type and any other info
Your operating system

What you are looking for is any defects in the display of the fonts and if the animation of the doors and stuff in the hallway bit changes size when you move your mouse over and away
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: Grey Wolf on July 26, 2002, 12:06:51 am
I'll test it with my TNT2 Model 64 (16 MB) on W98SE.
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: IPAndrews on July 26, 2002, 03:00:29 am
A fantastic way of drawing attention to your thread masquerading as a spelling mistake. I'm impressed.
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: karajorma on July 26, 2002, 03:10:48 am
What bug have you fixed with this update anyway?
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: RandomTiger on July 26, 2002, 06:04:34 am
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Originally posted by IPAndrews
A fantastic way of drawing attention to your thread masquerading as a spelling mistake. I'm impressed.


Yes... of course! I'm very clever.

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Originally posted by  karajorma
What bug have you fixed with this update anyway?


It was a bug on geforce 3 and 4 that made font look horrible. Thats fixed but now Im testing if my fix has caused any problems for other cards before I put it in the CVS. So far it looks good.

TNT2 and Voodoo 3 are happy. However if you have a different card test it now. If you cant be bothered dont blame me the next version of fs2_open doesnt look right.
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: karajorma on July 26, 2002, 06:57:46 am
Aha. The famous anti-aliasing bug. I`ll give it a try.
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: vyper on July 26, 2002, 07:07:25 am
:lol: Oh what a title.... :lol: (sorry for the spam, but really...)
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: RandomTiger on July 26, 2002, 09:51:54 am
Laugh if you like, but take part as well
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: Black Wolf on July 26, 2002, 10:59:54 am
ROTFLMAO :lol:

I literally fell offmy chair at that title. If you'd been here just a l;ittle longer, you'd probably get a custom title for that, just to ensure you'd never live it down :)
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: Martinus on July 27, 2002, 08:11:03 am
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Originally posted by RandomTiger
Laugh if you like, but take part as well


[bad chinese movie dub-over] Your random Tiger style impresses me. [/bad chinese movie dub-over]
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: Space_Sheep on July 27, 2002, 06:35:45 pm
I would test it for you but ths comp wont open .rar files so if you could post a link of a file type such as .zip i will test it for you.
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: vyper on July 27, 2002, 06:42:59 pm
will test and get back to you
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: vyper on July 27, 2002, 06:50:46 pm
Actually I won't be testing it at all - the rar is corrupted according to WinRar
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: DragonClaw on July 27, 2002, 07:39:30 pm
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Originally posted by vyper
Actually I won't be testing it at all - the rar is corrupted according to WinRar


Works fine for me... redownload it.
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: RandomTiger on July 27, 2002, 09:25:53 pm
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Originally posted by Space_Sheep
I would test it for you but ths comp wont open .rar files so if you could post a link of a file type such as .zip i will test it for you.


I dont have the space to post a zip Im afraid. I used a rar because its smaller. I could e-mail it to you if a meg is not too much. You should consider getting winrar, its actually a lot nicer than winzip and on the last check it does a lot more.

Looks like my fix is OK, though I could do with someone testing on a matrox card. I might not check it in yet because some major things seem to be happening to fs2_open.

The change (which has been posted in the code formum) is very small and simple can be implemented and anyone can always get a copy of the exe of me.

But people please remember: IF YOU TEST IT TELL ME THE RESULT AND WHAT GRAPHICS CARD AND OS YOU HAVE. Otherwise theres not much point.
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: CP5670 on July 27, 2002, 10:42:19 pm
This I would really like to see, since I have been getting a bit annoyed with the blurry text and screen glitches lately. (I can fix it by doing a registry hack, but then I cannot use AA) The rar file appears to be unreadable though, according to Winrar.
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: RandomTiger on July 27, 2002, 10:47:10 pm
Totally sucks doesnt it. Also you can play FS1 through FS2 exe and avoid it there as well.

What on earth did you change in the registry to fix it?
And whats AA?
Also what graphics card do you have?

Just downloaded it. Opens fine for me. Try getting the latest version of winrar. Or I'll e-mail you it if you want. Or compile it yourself with the code that I have posted.
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: CP5670 on July 28, 2002, 12:40:43 pm
Here is a post I made some months ago about this problem:

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There are two ways two work around this problem:

1: Turn on antialiasing - side effect is the funny black lines crossing through the screen

2: Go into the following directory in Regedit:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Volition/Freespace2

Add in a DWORD value in here called D3DTextureOrigin and set its value to 1. Things should now look just like they did with your old graphics card. The deficiency here is the lack of antialiasing, which makes the game look far better in my opinion. Also, be sure not to use both methods at the same time, since that messes up the text once again. Hope that helps.


AA is anti-aliasing. ;) I usually use 2x, but "quincunx" also works well. I have a standard (non-Ti) 64MB Geforce3 running at 250/575mhz (25% o'c). Could you email this exe to me at [email protected]? (I would compile it myself but I know very little about c++ and will probably end up doing it wrong :p)
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: Mad Bomber on July 29, 2002, 08:36:33 am
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Need testes, please help


Hmm. Ask around, someone's bound to have a spare. :lol:

sorry I couldn't resist :D
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: Space_Sheep on July 29, 2002, 05:18:56 pm
It would be much appreciated if you could email the .zip file to me at :- [email protected]
Title: Need testes, please help
Post by: Flipside on July 29, 2002, 06:19:36 pm
ROFLMAO!!! I know it's probs wearing a bit thin, but I've only just seen the post title, and I just had to leave the room to stop myself from keep reading it and bursting out into fits of laughter!
I'll give it a go on my GeForce 4 and let you know what happens :)

Flipside