The new system is an improvement.. mostly for new players.
It's been mentioned above here that rebalance is needed and I do feel the same way. Progression Points become useless for people who trained their stats to the max. So I'd expect an adaptation to that.
Quests need to be reviewed, but I guess that's already a work in progress.

Rebalance the game and this makes a nice improvement.

I'm using radeon driver myself, but then on a legacy ATI mobility radeon X1300. (that's the reason why i'm stuck with it. ATI doesn't support legacy products anymore with recent kernels and newer xorg) It works and is playable performance-wise. Graphics do flicker sometimes, but it can be lived with.

As you have a 'newer' card, the only thing I can recommend is installing the official ATI driver (fglrx) either from the ATI website, or by making use of package manager.
Performance will be much better and you'll get support for everything PS needs.

Up to date drivers, shadercache already removed (even more than once, when there are updates being done)
KMS is disabled in kernel config, that wont be the issue. I tried KMS but performance is really crappy.

...so back to the beginning

Thank you very much for sharing this information with us.
I've tried the same thing as i'm experiencing some problems with the client and found the game running better with this adaptation. I renamed the file instead of deleting in case a revert should be needed.

With this confirmation, I'd like to show others this is a rather safe option to try if they experience problems of this kind you discribed.

greetz, and thanks again!

Your discription indeed confirms that nvidia driver seems ok.

You could try to remove the folder .crystalspace in your home directory. I did that once 'cause i had a suspicion there was something wrong with it and it didn't hurt me.

About compiz... I have no idea if that causes any trouble. I'm not using it anymore since i had problems in the past with 3D games relying on opengl. But as far as i know these issues should be gone with latest compiz packages.

Back to the audio because that was your main problem...
Do you have Openal installed? if not, try to instal it with your package manager provided with your distribution.

Before i continue to explain how to enable sound further, i'm waiting for you to answer about the openal thing.

Since the release hit 0.5, i haven't been able to play anymore. 0.4 series worked like a charm here.

From segfaults to errors en back and forth.

Now, as of today... i'm seeing something new. this is the ending of te output when trying to start psclient:

crystalspace.syntax.shadervariable:
  Texture '/lib/std/shadow_noise.png' not found.
  [node: shadervars,shadervar(name=tex shadow noise)]
ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  130 (XFree86-VidModeExtension)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  10 (XF86VidModeSwitchToMode)
  Value in failed request:  0x2c00002
  Serial number of failed request:  300
  Current serial number in output stream:  304

I'm guessing that the major opcode of failed request means something and the number should explain what. Although googling it for a half an hour didn't return much.

Can anyone explain what's wrong? I'm anxious to test (and perhaps play) the new release.
It's been way to long since i walked the plains of yliakum  


aditional info;
Opensuse 11.2  x86_64
ATI mobility radeon X1300
Mesa-7.7-15.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-7.4-166.1.x86_64
video driver: radeon of radeonhd (both work almost equally and give me these errors) No, installing FGLRX isn't possible as my card is legacy and the driver doesn't support opensuse or kernel and/or xorg version