Spring RTS Engine

Posted: **10 Dec 2006, 13:58**

Hi !
I've got a really strange problem :
I'm running spring 0.74b1 on gentoo linux, and when playing an online game, I always get desynced after a short time (maybe 1 min).
I happens whith every mod, and regardless of the other's players OS, with the svn install from trunk (latest) or from 0.74b1/. It seems not to be a connection problem : I play on a lan and I sniffed a bit, all is ok (no packet loss or corruption).
But what's really strange is this : I tried running a binarie compiled by a friend who has approximately the same hardware, and same OS (gentoo linux), and I also used his data-files : Same problem for me, works perfectly for him. Moerover we are on the same lan, and on the same switch.

Then I tried to build with the dsyncdebbuger option (as describe in the file "howtodsyncdebug" included in the sources), but it's not working : when the first sync error occurs, the game pauses and that's all.

Anyone have an idea ? How can I use the sync debugger ?

thanks

PS : when I use wine to run the windows version, I've got the problem describded in this post : taspring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=8238 (I'm not allowed to post links)

Posted: **10 Dec 2006, 14:54**

Which gcc did you compile it with? (gcc --version)

How does your datadirectory look like?

What does /etc/spring/datadir contain? And the SpringData variable in ~/.springrc?

Posted: **10 Dec 2006, 16:45**

gcc is : gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r1)

I am sure that springdata is ok, as is .springrc because as I said, I tried with exactly the same install (same binarie, same data-files, same springrc) as a friend who has the same system as mine, and it's working for him.
Since we have the same connection I asume it comes from a difference in the libraires I have and the one he haves or maybe the kernel config. But I can't find what.

anyway :

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SpringData=/home/nano/spring/spring-linux-data-0.74b1/
~/spring/spring-linux-data-0.74b1 $ ls
AI                  ctrlpanel.txt  infolog.txt  PALETTE.PAL     shaders
ArchiveCacheV4.txt  demos          Luxi.ttf     readme.txt      startscripts
base                docs           maps         script.txt      uikeys.txt
cmdcolors.txt       ext.txt        mods         selectkeys.txt

Posted: **16 Dec 2006, 06:14**

I am also having a weird sync problem. It lets me play and I can't see anything wrong but all throughout the game it gives me these stupid meaningless error messages saying stuff like " sync error 134 Y " and they are always different, and very annoying. It also says I'm missing an OpenGL file (w/e the heck that is) I'm not sure if this is related.

Posted: **16 Dec 2006, 06:57**

Ok, after re-installing spring I continue to have this problem and apparently i can't see the enemies units and the enemy can't see my units. we were literally on top of e/o and had no clue where the other person was. So either this is some freaky connection problem, or a full-fledged bug. We were playing on AA mod ver. 2.23.

Spring RTS Engine

Weird sync problem

Weird sync problem