2 Problems that I have

[ruhtraeel]

Hi, I love this project, but there are two problems that I have:

1. Whenever I start a game, it has this strange coloured text that does half revolutions and says "Press F11 to enablde/disable widgets", with some eyes that follow your mouse in the corner. This is VERY annoying, so I was wondering if there was any way to get rid of it?

2. The game lags whenever I view a screen with a lot of moving parts and action, and whenever I switch the graphics in springsp to very low, save and quit, it never does anything; it pretty much ignores what option I have selected and turns it back to medium again. How would I fix this?

Thanks!

[LordMatt]

Press F11 to enablde/disable widgets

[Sertse]

1. Deselect "eyes" from the widget list. That would remove the eyes and annoying test. Press f11 to open/close the widget list.

[ruhtraeel]

Ok, that solves the first one, but why doesn't the quality change when I change it and press save?

[Starcraftman]

Are you running on Vista?

[koshi]

using springsettings for changing engine settings, it's right there in your spring directory

[ruhtraeel]

Are you running on Vista?

Nope, XP Home.

Maybe it's just me, because whenever I open the settings, the resolution saves, but the quality doesn't.

PS. Does anyone know any mappacks that I could download? I don't want to download every single map one-by-one. Thanks!

[koshi]

Maybe it's just me, because whenever I open the settings, the resolution saves, but the quality doesn't.

that's a minor bug i fixed already, but isn't in installer yet.
happens when you save manulally before exiting, yes?
if you don't save, you're asked on exit and your choice will be remembered

[ruhtraeel]

Maybe it's just me, because whenever I open the settings, the resolution saves, but the quality doesn't.

that's a minor bug i fixed already, but isn't in installer yet.
happens when you save manulally before exiting, yes?
if you don't save, you're asked on exit and your choice will be remembered

So I just exit and save when it asks me to?

I'm afraid that even lowering the quality won't speed it up, because it lags A LOT when there are two or more units on the screen.

[Acidd_UK]

2 or more units cause it to lag for you? I think you're likely to have problems no matter what quality settings it's on. What sort of computer do you have?

[ruhtraeel]

2 or more units cause it to lag for you? I think you're likely to have problems no matter what quality settings it's on. What sort of computer do you have?

Nah, probably about 8+ units lags for me, which is a problem because you could see hundreds of units at a time.

Here are the Specs:
Dell Dimension DIM3000
512 MB RAM
2.66 Ghz Intel Celeron CPU
Intel 82865G Graphics Controller

[Peet]

You have very similar specs to the guy in this thread, take a look at it.

[Acidd_UK]

In short - buy a cheap 5-series Nvidia graphics card off ebay.