Spring RTS Engine

ok i have bnothing but sync errors any mod and m,ap and its redicules now i cant play ee or kp or ba or gundam or war evo. heres what the infolog sais. PLEASE HELP!!

Map: Marble_Madness_Map.smf
Mod: "Kernel Panic 1.0" from Kernel_Panic_1[1].0.sd7
Sync warning: FPUCW 0x027F instead of 0x003A or 0x003F ("CPreGame::Update")
You are missing an OpenGL extension needed to use shadowmaps (fragment_program_shadow)
Number of damage types: 7
Spring 0.74b3
Reloaded ctrlpanel with: LuaUI/ctrlpanel.txt
LuaUI: bound F11 to the widget selector
LuaUI: bound CTRL+F11 to tweak mode
LuaUI v0.1
Sync warning: FPUCW 0x027F instead of 0x003A or 0x003F ("CGame::Update")
Player ninja_sandwich joined as 0
Player [LLJK]Drive_By joined as 1
Player _Overkill[KoTBT]_ joined as 2
Player mh8168 joined as 3
Sync error for _Overkill[KoTBT]_ 2531 Y
Sync error for _Overkill[KoTBT]_ 2591 Y
Sync error for _Overkill[KoTBT]_ 2651 Y
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Bit is being attacked
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Bit is being attacked
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Bit is being attacked
socket is being attacked
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Bit is being attacked
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Bit is being attacked
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socket is being attacked
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Bit is being attacked
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Bit is being attacked
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pointer: Can't reach destination!
pointer: Can't reach destination!
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<mh8168> gg
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pointer: Can't reach destination!
pointer: Can't reach destination!
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<_Overkill[KoTBT]_> die
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Game over
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Player [LLJK]Drive_By left
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Player mh8168 left
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Path cache hits 65 45%
Path cache hits 83 17%

ive reinstalled many times and deleted spring even emptyed my rec bin

overkill wrote:Sync warning: FPUCW 0x027F instead of 0x003A or 0x003F ("CPreGame::Update")
You are missing an OpenGL extension needed to use shadowmaps (fragment_program_shadow)

The first line sums it up as "don't bother playing", the second indicates that you may be using a laptop or have a old machine. Share your system specs.

well my computer is a dell optiplex gx520 and ive alweays been able to play im a star and i alway run it on full sttings so its not the computer but heres some stuff about it
intel(R)
Pentium(R) 4 cpu 2.80ghz
2.79GHz, 0.99gb of ram
so i think its pretty sound but i dont know what the grafix card is but its not good

overkill wrote:ive alweays been able to play im a star

Anything changed in your hardware/software configuration since the last time you played succesfully?

Added any hardware?
Removed any hardware?
Updated any drivers?
Installed any windows updates?
Installed any other software?
etc.

It would definitely be interesting to figure out what causes this weird bug...

well ive updated my drivers but spring ran fine but who knows what the auto updater(win XP) installed. ill look into it thoa

find out what the graphics card is in the device manager in system in control panel.

thats most likely half the problem.

find out what the graphics card is in the device manager in system in control panel.

Can the graphics card cause sync errors? I would think that the game simulation code would be totally separate from any graphics code.

i have an intel(R) express chipset

RogerN wrote:Can the graphics card cause sync errors? I would think that the game simulation code would be totally separate from any graphics code.

The drivers can. (by messing with the FPU control word.)

Spring Without Sync Errors is not Spring :D

is some1 gonna help or not??

by the way i actually have sync warnings and its constant

I can not help any more then asking again what you changed in your configuration between the last time you played succesfully and the first time it failed in this way.

Or by making resync, which I'm already doing and which will take a fair while until it's finished. And even then, I fear you'd extremely often need to resync compared to other players, so I can't guarantee it will be really well playable.

overkill wrote:is some1 gonna help or not??

by the way i actually have sync warnings and its constant

You mean you get this message continually:
?

i get that message when the game starts then i get sync errors

The errors seem to be something we must live with when playing open source games. The developers do what they think is fun, and it is not reading through the code in the hope of finding something that makes a few people desync.

What causes the random desyncs for all players out there is a whole different story. It just seems the developers are over their head here, and have no clue in whats causing it or how to fix it.. So we just have to wait. wait for CommandEngine. As i really dont think spring will ever evolve to a state where it could be called stable.

Kuga, the developers are currebtly working very hard to implement a resync feature for all of us so...

The resync is nice, but lets face the facts - this is to patch something that should not be happening in the first place. A workaround - not targetting the problem but trying to circumvent it.

And as he said, you will probably not benefit from this a bit, since it will probably immediately desync once the game is started after the resync.

hehe if its my network or computer thats gonna change in a few months (im moving) and right now im testing ntai and making a cnfg pack.

kuqa wrote:The resync is nice, but lets face the facts - this is to patch something that should not be happening in the first place. A workaround - not targetting the problem but trying to circumvent it.

Right, but you forget quite some positive side effects:
If it's possible to serialize the gamestate, which is needed for a non hacky resync, this lowers the barrier by a great amount for other stuff like:

• savegames
• joining midgame / rejoining on connection lost
• debugging desync

And you forget (or you are ill-informed maybe) that we (I mostly) have been targetting the problem itself for a long time already, and sometimes it's just more cost effective to work around a problem then to keep being stuck on it.

Also you forget that no human has ever developed a reasonable sized piece of software without bugs, so by definition it never hurts to check for things / patch things that should never happen in the first place (especially if you know they *will* happen in practice).

(ie. every (commercial) program has a crash reporter / recovery, but crashes shouldn't happen in the first place so why have they bothered making a crash reporter??)

overkill wrote: i get that message when the game starts then i get sync errors

Ah, so apparently the FPU control word is only borked while loading, otherwise you should get spammed with the error.

Could you try the most recent automatic build? It includes the code which performs the check & gives the warning after every loading step so with that version it should be possible to narrow down the bug a bit.

Just back up your spring.exe and unzip the zipfile with the highest revision number there in your spring directory. Then test it & post infolog here. Don't forget to restore your original spring.exe afterwards.

Tobi wrote:Wisdom

Let the devs be devs and all will be right with the world in the end.