Spring 0.79 is out (partially)

[zwzsg]

Another release that adds many bugs without fixing old ones or introducing the features I'm awaiting.

[zerver]

http://ftsf.joeltron.com/images/spring0.79text.jpeg

I have the same.
1024x768 here.

The simplest fix is to shorten the text. I will do it.

[Societal]

Tactical Divide with just KAIK bots (5vs5) and there was no crash in an hour long game.

Small Supreme Islands V2 with just RAI bots (3vs7) and another crash. After a certain point in the game it became really choppy, freezing every other second then suddenly updating during the smooth periods. This worsens over time from highly annoying until it's well beyond playable. I only continued for the inevitable crash.
http://pastebin.com/d4a32e79c

[AF]

shortening the text isnt a fix, its a kludge

[Tobi]

Of course shortening the text is a fix.

Another release that adds many bugs without fixing old ones or introducing the features I'm awaiting.

Sounds like you didn't bother checking the changelog or mantis.

[zwzsg]

Yeah, I'm probably a little over-negative. But the things I really wanted, like Spring.Rehost and tile reindexing, are not in, while I had a flurry of new bugs to fix in KP. Including some I don't even know how to fix and that completly break a unit, like with the obelisk.


The part relevant to my interest in the changelog are:
- 2nd try to fix red&blue swizzle in FBOs on ATIs <- I still have red & blue inversion
- gave fix for the ominous red/blue swizzle bug in ati drivers an own option called "AtiSwapRBFix" <- Ohh, had not seen that, indeed I should have read changelog more closely. Gonna try brb. Uhm, how do I enable it? AtiSwapRBFix=1 written manually in springsettings.cfg?
- fixed incorrect ground rendering after extreme heightmap changes <- Why do you thank me? I keep moaning in rude ways.
- scars & tracks: only construct the final image via red:=brightness & green:=alpha, if the image is a bitmap (only those don't have an alpha channel themselves). NOTE: this can give strange results if a mod already use png's etc. for scars & tracks <- Yes, that explains the explosion marks I had, which I fixed shortly after noticing it
Edit: Oh.. I was reading only jK changes... I thought it was one paragraph per version, not be per contributor.


That doesn't explain me how to fix the obelisk behavior, nor how to fix groundflash being too light. I have only a day left, and from the look of things, 79 will debase KP a little more, without benefits.

[[Krogoth86]]

I have a problem with CEG spawning. While in an earlier release certain effects didn't show up I now have "flickering" CEGs. It's the case for those animated bitmap effects you (e.g. try NOTA and give a cortoast to see one of those which flicker). Flickering means that one frame is shown, then the entire bitmap dissappears and then the next frame is shown which completely dissappears until the next frame shows and so on...

Any big changes on CEGs and suggestions to fix that? I also got this behaviour for all other effects I built up on the same basis NOTA uses...

I also still have a sound delay. It seems though that it got a bit better. I can hardly tell a difference for weapons firing (although I think there IS a delay) but it's really noticeable for the unit sounds when getting orders - they really are delayed for something between like 200-400ms (hard to tell). I'm using a Xonar DX on this system. Didn't try yet though if your changes accidentally fixed the sound vanishing behaviour when running Spring for a while. I'll also check if the described issues are the same on a system with a X-Fi...

[zerver]

I have a problem with CEG spawning. While in an earlier release certain effects didn't show up I now have "flickering" CEGs.

I had problems with flickering projectiles, now fixed. Likely to be related...

[zwzsg]

Spring.SendCommands("quit") does not work anymore.

[Auswaschbar]

Spring.SendCommands("quit") does not work anymore.

"quitmenu" - to show the quitmenu
"quitforce" - to force an insta-quit

[zwzsg]

Thanks, fixing my widgets.

Added AtiSwapRBFix=1 to my springsettings.cfg, pointer shot trails still blue instead of orange.

[Stealth870]

Well, I've been holding out for the week to see if 0.79 was gonna be deployed today on main. Besides the ATI stuff, is 0.79 a go, or should I wait for a 0.79.1 floating around?

[R-TEAM]

Hi,

have found that the problem with replay from games with HvsAI is
not general spring related - but AI related (IMHO).
With S44 and the CRAIG AI replays run fine - with RAI the AI doing
nothing in replay and comes errors ... als always.
(besides that RAI dont know to play S44 )

Regards
R-TEAM

[hoijui]

yeah.. CRAIG is a Lua AI. Therefore, it works technically compleetly different from the other AIs.
i still did not get aroung to have a look at the save/load problem since i know it is AI related.
thanks for the info!

[DreamWorker]

Font problem - order menu (seems due to font autosize) - orders text becomes too small so it is impossible to read it.
spring 0.79.0.1
1024x768 BA Mod
http://pic.ipicture.ru/uploads/090523/2MR5nUvGNV.png
Also when i swich on commander cloak ability then when energy level become near zero all Gui (order menu, build bar, minimap) blink, commander cloak disable, energy level raise when I have some E cloak enabling and cycle repeat. -> when energy level reach ~0 All gui elements blink (seems elements dissapear for ~50 ms and appear again)

[hoijui]

New player here. I was fine with 0.78.2.1 but 0.79 crashes every time. I updated to Catalyst 9.5 drivers from 8.12 just in case but obviously that hasn't helped.

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[  78764] Spring 0.79.0.0 (0.79.0-0-g1c77feb{@}-cmake-tdm) has crashed.
[  78764] Exception: Access violation (0xc0000005)

http://pastebin.com/m10456831

http://pastebin.com/d6c9a6608

http://pastebin.com/d55b77212

http://pastebin.com/d7d12e4c7

it is probably fixed now, thoug not in any release yet.
(MAX_TEAMS did not include GAIA)
if it was this, then Agon was right

[knorke]

just tried to log in and saw this confusing stuff:

http://img1.abload.de/img/springpatchh2sg.jpg

i installed the new version to a new folder because i thought i needed to keep 0.78.2 to play online?

[lurker]

You do realize that news post was a week ago and there have been two more since? One of which explicitly says the server is now on 79?

Edit: I was going to suggest you clear your cache, but now that I look at that image a bit more it doesn't match a single page in layout. What's the url?

[zwzsg]

Reread the frontpage. It is friday.

[knorke]

Thats the news TASClient.exe showed me in this news section when i logged in just few minutes ago. No idea what the url is?
The image was edited to show both the news and the log.
Tbh i didnt realize its a week old.

full image of the old news in taclient:
http://www.abload.de/img/bla160b.jpg