[Rampage]

A ZIP file version of the release would be helpful, for I have a poopy videocard that doesn't support DX8.

[Inquisitor]

Cpt: Bugzilla is web based, link in sig...

Rampage: Well, since we took out DX5, you might be stuck with 3.4...

[CP5670]

I think I found the source of that collision issue I mentioned earlier. It seemed to occur only with ships that had bad (zero) mass values set in their pof files and ceased to be a problem when I corrected those.

CP: can you tell us in bugzilla some specifics about your hardware and what mode you are running in (yes, you can also tell us here, too)? Open GL or Dx8? Is your system running DX8 or 9?

This is what I am using at the moment:

Athlon (TB) 1400mhz running at 1475mhz
A7M266E AMD-761 ata/100 raid motherboard
512mb 266mhz ddr ram
Geforce3 (standard) running at 250/575mhz
two
SBLive x-gamer soundcard
Windows ME 4.1 with DirectX 8.1a

The game is running on Direct3D, 2x antialiasing (forced in the control panel) and EAX. The D3DUseLargeTextures, D3DTextureOrigin and D3DPreloadTextures flags in the registry have been set to 1 and D3D8_AAType is at 1. All of the ingame graphics settings are at five (max) except for the nebula detail, which is at four. Lots of game modifications are present as well (tables, models, effects, etc.), but I have not encountered any problem yet that appears to be related to those.

Also, I noticed that the text looks very slightly different in 3.53 than it did in previous versions, but in this case it is better than it used to be. As I mentioned earlier I use AA in FS2, which causes the menus and text to look blurry but the game to look better, but this time the text seemed to look a bit sharper and brighter than what I am used to.

[Rampage]

Originally posted by Inquisitor
Rampage: Well, since we took out DX5, you might be stuck with 3.4...

Thank you for telling me that my Freespace 2 career is over.  I had a good run.

[Runs away, shrieking, waking wife and children]

Anyway, can you still post a standalone EXE of the newest version?  For me?

Last test: DX8-Direct3D works on NVidia RIVA 128, my video card.  DX9 does not.

Belay that request.  I made a stupid mistake in that I forgot to copy the files into my Freespace 2 folder.  Please throw tomatoes at me for this stupid mistake.

[Goober5000]

*throws a tomato at Rampage*

Food fight!

[Inquisitor]

DX9 will not be required

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Does this build have those play-music and play-sound SEXPs? I can't find them in FRED.

[Grey Wolf]

Does this version fix the bug I had with Fred2 crashing when I selected the team loadout screen?

[Goober5000]

Yes and yes.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Well where are they? I've looked through all the SEXP menus and I'm damned if I can find them.

[Goober5000]

Change menu, Music and Sound subcategory.

EDIT: You're right - that subcategory doesn't show up.  I'll have to fix it.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

I love it when I'm right.

When can we expect this fix0red version, O noble coder of the SEXP?

[Goober5000]

Re-uploaded. Download from the same link.

[Bobboau]

I think I have nearly merged most of my code back, but for some reason my code.dsp seems to be fubared, I am getting the link errors saying that it can't resolve "void __cdecl gr_opengl_init(void)" and "void __cdecl gr_opengl_cleanup(void)"
there were five others becase the code project was missing the ddsutils folder and now I only see one OGL (I seem to remember there being 2 of them before, one being something like grogl32 or something)
could someone post a working code.dsp to see if that is my problem

never mind I just did a fresh checkout and the thing isn't working,
what re all the preprocesor defs I need for DX8 and OGL, maybe they aren't set right

code.dsp is srewed up

I got it to compile but I had to medle with the OGL code, I don't think I broke anything but I quite easily and likely could have

mkay, it runs but everything is whited out, like realy realy realy brighter than it is suposed to be, anyone know why this would be?
also file loading seems to be realy realy realy bad, as in longer than it should be, and I get an odd green screen when starting up

interesting... when I try to take screen shots of the white out effect the shots don't show the problem they all look the way they are suposed to

I've gotten glowmapping to work useing texture stages

[Bobboau]

I'm compileing a relese build, I'll upload it when done, check to see if you're stuff still works I tried some jiggy stuff to get everything in, also check to make sure any bug fixes you have med in the last month or so is still working in the build I am going to upload

[Bobboau]

here

[Amon_Re]

Ingame graphics look sweet, no visable corruption during flight, however, briefing was unusable, text showed up as green bars, nothing was readable (i suppose i miss something/some file here)

During flight however, it was sweet, no glitches, no problems with the brightness or gamma (this is in 640*480*16).

However, it did crap out on me with an access violation.

"fs2_open caused an Access Violation in module fs2_open.exe at 001b:00490d4b.
Exception handler called in Freespace 2 Main Thread.
Error occurred at 4/13/2003 13:42:32.
C:\Program Files\fs2\FS2\fs2_open.exe, run by ochal.
1 processor(s), type 586.
128 MBytes physical memory.
Read from location 00000020 caused an access violation."

I still got the logfile, if needed, but seeing that this isn't an official build i won't file a bug yet.

Any idea's on why this one works & both 3.5.1 & 3.5.3 would die on launch on my system? Did you do any changes in the init code?

Ok, scratch that, i figured out what's wrong, seems my FS2 install is rather messed up, i reinstalled & both your copy & 351 work now, however, my drive's making awfully arkward sounds when reading my CD so i think it's time i back it up

I'll keep you guys informed

Cheers,

[Amon_Re]

Ok, i'm screwed, seems my FS2 CD is smacked up, if anyone knows where i can buy me a new copy in Belgium, drop me a mail plz

Cheers

[kasperl]

FS2 anywhere in Europe, World Peace, Frozen Hell, Money growing from Trees, anything else?

edit: you can download it legally from HOTU, here:

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=4150

[kasperl]

whoops, pressed quote instead of edit, srry.