[phreak]

what graphics mode are you using?
what command line options are you using?

[MatthewPapa]

Hey, would you rather us report bugs here or on Mantis? I have found a few and would like to start helping out finding bugs.

[phreak]

Report all your @!*$ing bugs to Mantis so we can @!*$ing fix them

[Fury]

PhReAk, take a break.

[phreak]

im just quoting my sig

[TopAce]

[Sesquipedalian]

So is anyone going to deal with the warp.pof problem?  I really, really think that the player's decision to install the 3d warp.pof is all that is necessary.  Making the mission designers go and change a setting in every single mission in order to use it is ridiculous.  Especially since installing the 3d warp.pof breaks the original campaign missions under this system!  It is like requiring us to go and change a setting in every single mission to use Lightspeed's new nebulae, instead of just installing them and setting the command line argument.

[Trivial Psychic]

*Seconded*

[taylor]

I'm working on the warp thing now.  It shows up fine in OGL so it's something in the D3D code I beleive.  I will put in a cmdline option to use 3d but it's going to stay with the 2d version by default.  If I get it fixed tonight I'll go ahead and release a new build since there have been a number of other fixes since the 20041106 build.

[Trivial Psychic]

Eeexxccellleennnnttt!

[Sesquipedalian]

Thank you, sir.

[taylor]

Alright it's fixered.  Cmdline option is "-3dwarp" but will probably be depreciated when I get the time to finish in SCP options screen and move it there.  No build for a while yet though.

[thrawn]

Okay, just tested this build (had it on my HDD for some time, but did not find the time) with Sol: A History, a campaign for Inferno R1. In one mission, I ran into the problem with sudden crashes back to  the desktop, but I couldn't track the problem down and was able to finish the mission the fourth or fifth time. The only real problem I ran into was the warp effect sometimes not able to decide wether to show that 'tunnel'-thingie or that trekish white effect. But otherwise, no problems.

[c_n00b]

this crashes on my pc before it does anything other than changing the screen mode and sticking my mouse to the corner of the screen.  here's all the debugger outputted:

Setting language to English
soundcard = DirectSound
** MAX_CHANNELS set to 17.  DS reported 17.
No sparky_hi_fs2.vp in directory C:\games\freespace2
GR_CPU: Family 6, MMX=Yes
Window in debugging mode... mouse clicking may cause problems!
Alpha texture format = ARGB, 4:4:4:4
Non-alpha texture format = ARGB, 1:5:5:5
D3D_32bit 1, bits_per_pixel 32Direct3D Initialized OK!

it starts then stops about 10 seconds later, but doesn't actually show anything at all.  my system specs are:

celeron 1ghz
sis onboard gfx adapter, either 8 or 16 meg ram
256 mb sdram

sorry it's not much to go by... :-(

[Bobboau]

gees, not much ram atall. what are your vurtual memory settings?

I'm afraid your not going to get much out of this till you get a real graphics card and more ram.

[c_n00b]

virtual memory:
min 360 mb
max 720 mb

i think i can probably increase this a little, ive got an 80 gb hd w/ 30 gigs free, but im not sure

i know about the gfx card, but all the new ones need huge power supplies and ive only got around 150 watts and they need 300 or more.  so until i save enough money to build a new one, im stuck with this one.

[redmenace]

May I suggest a radeon 9600 pro
http://www.pricewatch.com/h/prc.aspx?i=37&a=5591&f=1
http://www.pricewatch.com/h/prc.aspx?i=37&a=5162&f=1

[DaBrain]

I think Nvidia cards are better for FS2_open as they do not have problems with the shinemapping with new driver versions.
So you don't have to decide whether you want to play new games or FS2_open with shine maps.


Other than that, ATI cards are great.

[Bobboau]

I'd try getting a gig of virtual memory at least, FSO has  (depending on what enhancements you have downloaded) more than three times as much texture data being used

[c_n00b]

couple problems getting a new gfx card:  this motherboard doesn't have any agp slots, it has onboard agp gfx, and like i said, the power supply is really small.  guess i'll have to wait until i can get a new computer for better gfx :-(

and i set the vm to 1 gig min 2 gig max but it made no difference, still nothing happened.

the pf usage doesn't look to be to problem though, according to task manager pf usage never got beyond 50%.