HELP PLEASE!!!!!

[cosecti]

Hi I'm new and I need to know why I can't see the other players or my opponents when I'm playing... in the videos of youtube I see them o_O I can't see my weapon either...it's the game like that or there's something missing? Please help me they always kill me cos I see nothing but the gameroom. Thanks a lot.

[natrob87]

In order to get help you're going to actually have to post useful information like your OS, hardware, etc....

Are your video drivers and (if applicable) directX updated?

If you're running linux read this response here: http://www.forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?t=4504

If you want anyone to help you, you're going to have to give them something to go on though. Lets start with your OS and video hardware.

[C.Brutail]

Hello!

Have you downloaded 2.5 yet? There's a new version, 2.5 is the latest.
In case you have 2.5, have you extracted the zip correctly? You can see how the directory structure should look like at the Nexuiz site (www.nexuiz.com) in the faq.
Also, are your graphics drivers up to date?

[cosecti]

OS WINDOWS XP HOME, SP 3, 1GB RAM
The video card: VIA/S3G UniChrome Pro IGP
Direct X 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904), aceleration -direct draw,3D, etc...Everything OK
I download the game from the original site about 2 days ago so I think it's the latest version....Am I right?

What else? ...and thanks for reply 8D

[cosecti]

By the way I found this on the faq...

Using Linux (In my case Windows) I only see the map but no players and items

This happens when the engine has trouble to initialize OpenGL. The reasons could be:

the engine could not initialize OpenGL. Please install the latest drivers for your graphic card. You will probably find one for your card there: intel ati nvidia
You do not have permissions needed for 3d acceleration. Usually you need to add yourself to the group video, you can do that via console as root like this: usermod -a -G video YOURUSERNAME. You need to logoff/in afterwards.


...and that's exactly what happends to me!! So I'm going to chek out cos sometimes I got problems with the OpenGL mode when I use Google Earth.

[C.Brutail]

Just to let you two know, Nexuiz doesn't use DirectX, it uses OpenGL, so that inso here is useless.

Also, reading on the video card further, I've found that's an integrated card, that has a rather poor performance. I'm sorry to say that, but that card barely hits the minimum system requirements.

I'm not sure if it helps, but you might try this: http://forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?t=4508

[cosecti]

I know my desktop has a poor video card. But you know? I'm gonna try the Nexuiz on the laptop, it's new, the problem... ... it will be a little difficult to play, more unconfortable I mean.
In the last case I'll try to get the windows version of the DSN - Damn Small Nexuiz cos is available for 32-bit Linux only and I don't know how to add the Windows binaries and dlls.
Anyway... thanks, at list I know what happends. So folks I'm gonna try with the laptop and let you know later ok?

[esteel]

Well there have been a few changes from 2.4.2 to 2.5 in the render engine. And it seems like some 'bad 3d hardware' like some intel and your VIA/S3G dislikes those changes.

Well some things to try: Disable offset mapping in Settings/Effects, disable vertext buffers in Settings/Video. In the same menu disable the Texture compression, disable GLSL for gamma control and maybe finally try disableing the 'Use opengl 2.0 shaders'

Please make sure to test one of those after the other, pressing 'Apply' inbetween and checking if it helped. It will be very useful to know which of those settings helped!

Now something that can be done via the ingame console.. Open it with shift-escape and then enter:

Code: Select all

r_coronas_occlusionquery 0
vid_restart

and test again..

One other thing you might try but can't be done in game: Right click nexuiz.exe or nexuiz-sdl.exe, click 'create shortcut' and then right click that new shortcut.. choose Properties and to the line 'target', after the .exe add seperated with a space: -notexturenonpoweroftwo
and start the game again (BY DOUBLECLICKING ON THAT SHORTCUT.. so those options are used.. just making sure) to test if that helped.


If you are still having problems then.. hmm, we'll think of something
Again, please try/test only one of those changes at once and then add the next one.

[natrob87]

Just to let you two know, Nexuiz doesn't use DirectX, it uses OpenGL, so that inso here is useless.

Also, reading on the video card further, I've found that's an integrated card, that has a rather poor performance. I'm sorry to say that, but that card barely hits the minimum system requirements.

I'm not sure if it helps, but you might try this: http://forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?t=4508

That's not right, considering that Nezuiz uses SDL (Simple Direct Layer). This means on Windows is uses DirectX dude. Try Google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_DirectMedia_Layer

[esteel]

No, actually you are wrong here natrob87. The SDL build only uses SDL for input/sound the rendering still uses OpenGL! Really, belive me.