Some thoughts on the dev versions of 2.4

[melk]

Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is the difference between the SDL version (and non-SDL) anyway?

[Psychcf]

Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is the difference between the SDL version (and non-SDL) anyway?

One uses sdl, which acts as an abstraction layer to hardware, so it's much more portable at the cost of performance.

[Eragon]

I haven't had any problems with the svn SDL version so far, with or without ogl2 on. The previous SVN version lagged a bit, but the latest version is absolutely great.

Running the linux version (ubuntu 7.10)

Intel core 2 duo e6300 @1.86 GHZ

1 GB RAM

512 MB Nvidia GeForce 7 7500 LE

[Irritant]

Couple of bugs that cropped up on latest SVN.

Two weeks ago, these probs didn't exist - so -

In Vista, the sound is lagging behind badly. Also on startup, you have to apply the sound settings(regardless if you change them or not) or the sound is very choppy.

Also, client side prediction is doing some crazy things that it wasn't doing two weeks ago(maybe it was off by default before).

[divVerent]

This is a sound interface change that had to be done because Microsoft deprecated DirectSound (which means, it may disappear at any time from Windows, even by Windows Update), so we should no longer use it. It now uses wave out, which exists on any Windows - and works fine on the tested systems.

However, it may indeed be causing problems elsewhere. For now, use the nexuiz-sdl.exe build instead then.

As for why Microsoft did that - they are pushing OpenAL now. However, if a game uses Vista's version of that, it won't run on any previous Windows any more, so that's no choice for us.