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Support => Technical Help: IN GAME bugs (after loading world) => Topic started by: Sanderfox on January 17, 2005, 04:44:46 pm

Title: Weird mouse pointer problem
Post by: Sanderfox on January 17, 2005, 04:44:46 pm: Hi,

I installed PS yesterday with success, but when I\'m at the screen to make my character and I move my mouse pointer, the image keeps behind, so finally the entire screen gets full of mouse pointers.

For a screenshot see here:

http://www.sanderfox.nl/Screenshot-PlaneShift-Crystal-Blue.png

Anyone an idea how to solve this ?
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Post by: beerke on January 17, 2005, 05:00:53 pm: Guess you got the old art content. Try to update your client with the updater
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Post by: Sanderfox on January 17, 2005, 05:03:19 pm: I did that after the first time I noticed, but it didn\'t help. I\'ll try to update again...
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Post by: Sanderfox on January 17, 2005, 05:14:29 pm: The updater said all files were up2date, so I pulled PS from cvs again in a new directory, renamed the old art folder to art2 and copied over the new art dir (that\'s still empty ofcourse). I\'m now getting the art with the updater. I hope this\'ll work...
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Post by: Sanderfox on January 17, 2005, 06:24:15 pm: Nope, it didn\'t work. I now have the latest art, but still I have the problem.

Anyone any other ideas ?
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Post by: Seytra on January 17, 2005, 07:37:42 pm: It looks like your setup got mixed up with an old version of MB. The background on your screenshot is the MB login screen... You are having a path problem somewhere, maybe it\'s using an old compile of CS?
My recommendation: delete every version of PS that is on your system, along with all compiled folders, and even the sources, for there might be configuration files that have incorrect info. (You can of course back them up to some other, unrelated folder or zip them, if you wish to keep them).
Clean the registry by using regedit, find all entries that relate to CEL, Crystal Space, and of course PS itself, if any. Furthermore, search the registry for all folders you have installed / compiled / copied PS to, and remove all of these registry entries.
This should give you a fairly clean registry.
Open a command window and look at the output of \"set\", it may also have some paths that point to CS, CEL or PS. Remove these parts from c:\\autoexec.bat
Now download the sources to a fifferent folder and compile them there.
Make sure that your compiler (Visual Studio?) doesn\'t have any project info saved. To be sure, create an entirely new project and look through all project settings and paths.

This is how I would go about it, and see what it does.

Note that you may do serious damage to your system by messing with the registry, so be careful.
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Post by: Sanderfox on January 17, 2005, 08:30:24 pm: I\'m using linux, so I don\'t have a registry :P

I compiled _everything_ from cvs yesterday, so I think I have very up2date sources, but in other words: I should just remove PS, Cel, etc. and than compile it again from scratch ?
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Post by: Seytra on January 17, 2005, 08:37:27 pm: Yes. Also, there may be some symlinks in the /lib and /usr/lib folders (and whereever your distro might put them), and / or old compiled versions with different names. The objective is to remove any trace of MB and previous CB instances before compiling. There may also be some environment variables set that point to old locations.
The fact that the MB login screen is there is proof that there is at least one old instance of MB (or parts of it) around somewhere.
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Post by: Sanderfox on January 17, 2005, 08:55:46 pm: I used this guide:

http://laanx.fragnetics.com/gentoo.html

So everything is very local and only There, and I never even had MB installed :S
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Post by: Seytra on January 17, 2005, 09:06:23 pm: No MB ever? In this case, I\'m out of ideas ATM. :(
The only thing I can suggest is trying the Linux installer to see if it will change something, but otherwise... sorry.
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Post by: beerke on January 17, 2005, 09:32:02 pm: You didn\'t add the art mirror to the updater. Do that and update again. Read the guide how to add it
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Post by: Sanderfox on January 17, 2005, 09:48:03 pm: I think I did, but I\'ll check...
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Post by: Sanderfox on January 17, 2005, 10:05:08 pm: Oops, sorry, I forgot :)
I updated again, but still: all files are up to date.
So....what should I do ?
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Post by: Seytra on January 17, 2005, 11:31:33 pm: I should slap you for that. :P
Anyway, check whether the art subfolder is approx. 210 MB in size. If it isn\'t, there still is something wrong with the updater setup.
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Post by: Sanderfox on January 18, 2005, 07:41:57 am: I was 220.1 mb, but I copied over a clean art folder, so I\'m re-updating the art again, maybe it will go right this time...
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Post by: Sanderfox on January 18, 2005, 05:22:27 pm: Didn\'t work....:(

Anyone ?
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Post by: Seytra on January 18, 2005, 08:06:53 pm: You should try the Linux installer, if only to see if that works. If it does, there\'s something wrong with the setup of the compiled CVS on your machine, if not, there\'s something wrong with the setup of your machine.
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Post by: Sanderfox on January 18, 2005, 09:01:38 pm: Yay!!! it worked !! Tnx a lot !! :D
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Post by: Androgos on January 18, 2005, 09:09:22 pm: *sigh*

To get the new art you will need to copy these files too:

data/gui/releaselist.xml
planeshift.cfg