Shattered nerves #5

[elrica]

Hi Canon,

One problem I've found is:

if you are lagging and try to screenshot, it is severely delayed.
With the server having a constant loss of 10% for me, and the server kicking me every 5 minutes, it makes it impossible to get screenshots because it is waiting for the server to respond.

Unfortunately I didn't have FRAPs on or anything.

[SpaceTime]

It happens sometimes, when I launch to space, my screen turns black and doesn't do anything.


Edit:

One more bug: it would appear that ships can now fly through asteroids in an asteroid field without bumping off of them. It's pretty weird. Seeing as only people with newest dsace installed can do that...

Noticed that too.

[Blodo]

The use of alt-tab or the evil microsoft windows key no longer causes freelancer to make your computer catch on fire. Probably.

Using alt-tab here makes the screen flicker to black and I can't do anything except keep trying to alt tab back and click the screen furiously in a desperate attempt to allow freelancer to regain focus. I suppose its part of the issue with windowing, though I noticed window mode still refreshing screen content now after losing focus unlike the -w window mode. Very nice.

One more bug: it would appear that ships can now fly through asteroids in an asteroid field without bumping off of them. It's pretty weird. Seeing as only people with newest dsace installed can do that...

[Error]

Using alt-tab here makes the screen flicker to black and I can't do anything except keep trying to alt tab back and click the screen furiously in a desperate attempt to allow freelancer to regain focus. I suppose its part of the issue with windowing, though I noticed window mode still refreshing screen content now after losing focus unlike the -w window mode. Very nice.

One more bug: it would appear that ships can now fly through asteroids in an asteroid field without bumping off of them. It's pretty weird. Seeing as only people with newest dsace installed can do that...

Collision detection in asteroid fields seems to work just like usual to me. Tested with a Broadsword in the Badlands field in NY.

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[Zeb Harley]

There might be an issue with the /si -keybinding. I had bound the key "p" to it and it activated the /si command even with the console open. But for some strange reason it did so not every time.

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for those who missed it: the moral of it all is ----> traders with teeth are fun for pirates. - within reason.

[elrica]

Using alt-tab here makes the screen flicker to black and I can't do anything except keep trying to alt tab back and click the screen furiously in a desperate attempt to allow freelancer to regain focus. I suppose its part of the issue with windowing, though I noticed window mode still refreshing screen content now after losing focus unlike the -w window mode. Very nice.

Even on the last version, if you windowkey+d after altabbing it should fix itself. Well, it does for me at least.

[Dashiell]

I agree with Govedo here. I thnik turret zoon in & out should be swapped. Feels unnatural now.

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[Echo 7-7]

I CTD'd when undocking from Pueblo Station in a Raven's Talon.

Not sure if it's related, but anyway...

FLSpit:

[4/09/2011 4:05:41 PM]
ERROR:General:StreamingSound: missing MP3 codec?
ERROR:General:StreamingSound: missing MP3 codec?
WARNING:General:set_gamma_function() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:EffectTypes: unknown type
WARNING: Failed to get start location
ERROR:General:StreamingSound: missing MP3 codec?
ERROR:General:StreamingSound: missing MP3 codec?
ERROR:General:StreamingSound: missing MP3 codec?

This happened again, undocking from Pueblo Station.

The FLSpit again:

[5/09/2011 5:45:35 PM]
ERROR:General:StreamingSound: missing MP3 codec?
ERROR:General:StreamingSound: missing MP3 codec?
WARNING:General:set_gamma_function() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:EffectTypes: unknown type
WARNING: Failed to get start location
ERROR:General:StreamingSound: missing MP3 codec?
......
ERROR:General:StreamingSound: missing MP3 codec?
WARNING: [CockpitCamera] unknown property 'znear = 2.000000'
ERROR:General:StreamingSound: missing MP3 codec?
......
ERROR:General:StreamingSound: missing MP3 codec?
WARNING:General:begin_scene: D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
ERROR:General:StreamingSound: missing MP3 codec?
WARNING:General:create_device: D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
WARNING: RenderMgr - failed to create_buffers(1680,1050) 32,-1
WARNING:General:set_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_texture_stage_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:get_texture_stage_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:get_texture_stage_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_texture_stage_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_texture_stage_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:get_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:get_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:get_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:get_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:get_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
........
WARNING:General:set_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_texture_stage_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
........
WARNING:General:set_texture_stage_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_texture_stage_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_texture_stage_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_texture_stage_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_texture_stage_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:end_scene() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:set_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
.......
WARNING:General:set_render_state() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING:General:swap_buffers() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers


The ellipsis indicate repeated lines. (I think you get the idea.)
This sort of problem has never occured previously.


Edit: Please don't suggest that I take my ships off Pueblo for now. I have a loooot of ships there.

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There was a sig here, once.

[Dashiell]

I checked out the User's Interface. Nothing there about Turret Zoom or Turret Steering settings.

Pressed H and held the Ctrl-key while moving the mouse wheel. Nada.

You have to bind keys. by default, pitch up, down and turn left, right are bound to mouse movement.
For turret steering, you have to set keyps under 'ship controls' or whatever for pitch up, down, turn left right.

Those keys will be the ones you steer with after you press H for turret view

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[stardust47]

Loving it, especially the folding wings.
Makes me think of the X-Wing from Star Wars.

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