Nexuiz 2.1 - here is a real release candidate

[Urmel]

Isnit possible to show ahnything else than this blank screen?

[divVerent]

Isnit possible to show ahnything else than this blank screen?

No, the "black screen solution" didn't work right. It wasn't changed to disconnect/reconnect because of the black screen - displaying a LOADING... screen would have been possible instead if just that were the problem.

But a FULL content download without reconnecting would have required quite some redesign of the engine, and that was out of scope. The map reloading actually crashed because of some surprise in the engine code I still don't fully understand how to fix. And the "reload all models" method doesn't work with map sounds, sky boxes and some other things anyway.

[BusterDBK]

Okay, now I know why I experienced those crashes in 2.0 after downloading maps.

I also believe there was something wrong today when I played the running man 1on1 level in the single player campaign. Right after the game loaded it had some small pauses because of the lack of memory (this is common in my case), and after that happened the footsteps sounded a bit odd. It was as if there were more sounds and a bit higher pitched or something (and like broken), I can't really describe it. I don't remember hearing that thing before and all went okay after the next level got loaded. Anyway, it's a minor bug if it even was a bug.

This happened on my Sempron running with 256 RAM, a GeForce4 MX440, on a Gigabyte K7 Triton series motherboard (it has an nForce2 chipset and I think the soundcard is AC97 compatible). OS is SuSE Linux 10.0, I was using Window Maker and the sound sistem was set to Autodetect (I think it uses TOSS), with the default drivers.

[SavageX]

Well, as far as I know Nexuiz has no code whatsoever to pitch up/down sounds and I don't see how that would happen.

Was it still playable for you afterwards?

(How is Nexuiz running on your machine, btw?)


edit: BTW, I think the new compiler options may very well improve performance on Celerons or Semprons because the engine executable is much smaller now and thus may run a tiny bit faster on machines with small caches.

[BusterDBK]

Oh it was perfectly playable even with the weird sounds and, as I said, these got fixed when I got to the next level.

The game usually runs ok, I use 800x600x32, textures set to 'best', no anisotropic filtering, particles set to 1.0, and the rest of the details to off, except for deluxe mapping and gloss. Usually there is no trouble with the framerate, as I get as much as I need for fluent gameplay (over 30fps).

The big problem is when I enter a game that has a lot of weapons or is crowded with a lot of stuff going on. It seems the pretty low RAM doesn't stand much of a chance and the system keeps using swap, causing those long long pauses at the beginning of the game that make me a very easy target .

[divVerent]

It was as if there were more sounds and a bit higher pitched or something (and like broken), I can't really describe it. I don't remember hearing that thing before and all went okay after the next level got loaded. Anyway, it's a minor bug if it even was a bug.

Sounds like you use ALSA and dmixer. You could disable dmixer, but if it only happens sometimes for you, you maybe rather want to live with this flaw than to live without dmixer...