PlaneShift
Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Talad on May 03, 2002, 12:56:13 am
-
Hi planeshifters,
the tech demo is finally out! You can download it from the main PS Site.
Thanks to all members for the effort and hope you will enjoy it!
If you experience bugs, please report to info@planeshift.it with this template (any bug report without that info will be rejected):
Time of test:
OS:
Processor:
RAM:
Video Card:
Video Card Memory:
PS Client Version:
Video Mode:
Description of the bug:
Example:
Time of test: 29 April 2002, 20:00 PM GMT
OS: Windows 2000
Processor: Pentium III 600 Mhz
RAM: 256 Mb
Video Card: nvidia geforce 2
Video Card Memory: 32 Mb
PS Client Version: 0.1.003
Video Mode: OpenGL
Description of the bug: The client is stuck at \"Receiving world\" (step 6) after 20 mins of waiting.
Also, if the bug has a visual result, please attach a screenshot of what happens.
Enjoy PS World!
-
Good Job! (or so im told) See ya there tommrrow...or the next day...or maybe next week....or maybe a year after now :D
-
it won\'t let me start downloading it says that there is some network error preventing the download
-
:D :D :D :D :D :D
Dang!! taking me 30 minutes on cable. thats a long time. hehe. not for some tho. :/
-
What do you put for server?
-
srv1.gamiix.com methinks, btw hey bill havent seen ya in a while :D
-
Sup. ;)
-
Hehe, I\'ll be on in about 3 hours!!! Soon as I get out of work...
gee, I hope people are still on by then :rolleyes:
-
Cool, it works!
Nice job, I just hope the \"walk through walls because of lag\" bug will get fixed :D
-
yah well you got it, it sits at the recieving world thing....how long have the rest of you had to wait? it must be a pretty big world.....
-
yay....that receiving world thing took my computer 10-15 min to load
-
Originally posted by Tok\'ra
:D :D :D :D :D :D
Dang!! taking me 30 minutes on cable. thats a long time. hehe. not for some tho. :/
me and my turtle modem will take about 3hrs X( :( damn i wish my cable company would speed up the processes and get the service up and going over here X( they said that the \"order was sent throught\" yeah right it was suppose to be ready since auguest 2001 lol X(
-
am i the only one who CANT click the upload button??? u can click on it ALL u want and it wont do sqaut
also where did u read it was
srv1.gameiix.com
-
Everytime I ran it it gave me a blue screen that said diffrent things everytime.
I have a pent 2, voodoo3. I know it\'s crap. but the very 1st time I ran the game, it worked, lagged a lot, but it worked. but now it won\'t. :( ;(
-
Is it just me or is any one else getting time out when they connect to the server?
-
Why cant I download the client, does anyone know? It keeps saying:
\"File request does not exist download aborted\".
I see that a few of you have already dl the client so why cant I?
lol, gimme a shout if you know what Im doing wrong :)
-
Well I had problems with the upload button not working and now I can\'t even use the first alias I put in. The password and username combination don\'t work, and it says the username is already taken.
Other than that I fell through the floor once.
-
Time of test: 3 May, 12:00 AM EST
OS: Windows 98, First Edition
Processor: AMD Athlon 800 Mhz
RAM: 384 Mb
Video Card: Voodoo 3 3000
Video Card Memory: 16 Mb
PS Client Version: 0.1.003
Description of the bug: Title screen and menu screen are experiencing graphical glitches. No mouse appears, either, to select the different option. I have to ctl-alt-del out, because I cannot read/click on the menu. I tried to take a SS, but when I pasted it into PSP, it looked even more messed up than the actual image I was seeing.
I\'ll post one if you wish, but I don\'t believe it would be very representative of the graphical error I am getting.
[EDIT]Above error is in OpenGL mode. Safe Mode won\'t start at all.[/EDIT]
-
More tips for the clueless:
1) The server IP is 203.109.172.22
2) Bug reports are supposed to be EMAILED to the said address
3) If your video card doesn\'t have hardware GL acceleration, I suggest you use the \"Slow\" version.. which will in actuality be faster depending on your CPU speed.
-
Thanks. Its still helpful to post here to get feedback from other users who may have similar problems, so I\'ll leave my above post.
-
well if people post it here we can help out eachother.
i dont understand why everytime i wanna go to play i have to wait 40 min for it to receive the world... thats just INSANE!
-
I am soooooo looking forward to seeing you all there. Damn it, I\'m at work, I\'ll have to wait 8 or 9 hours untill I can get home, then probably another day to download. Arghhhhh life is so cruel ;( .
I hope I can install it at work and none of the filters block me ;)
-
Three of the things i want to see most fixed is...
1. The Exit/Join Lag
2. The loose joints in which you can move through a wall.
3. The Falling threw the floor effect which i think Ties in with 2
-
sorry about this thread... had a problem but solved now.
-
<
Now, onto my observations:
1. Even though I had created female characters, when I log onto the server, the chars are male. Is everyone supposed to be male for the tech demo? On the creation screen, I chose female twice, but when I\'m in the world, lo and behold the char I am propelling is male.
2. There is definitely a \"falling in the abyss\" bug, which I had encountered when walking in the town fountain area.
3. Little laggy, but that is to be expected.
4. The housing structures and dimensions are very nice.
5. Still no consistency with arrow control with regards to zooming in/out. When I had walked into the anvil area, the side arrows were zooming me in and out. Very odd. Otherwise, the forward and back arrows were fine.
Wonderful work, development team. >>
-
there are only 3 skins available in the tech demo: the male Stonebreaker Dwarf, the male Enkidukai, and the male Ynnwn. I\'d say the Enkidukai looks the most female of the three :)
(i was able to download the client in 1 min 42 sec on cable so there is no problem with the server)
-
AH! My computer is all messed up and won\'t let me download .exe files anymore! Is there a possibility that it could be put into a .zip file?
-
MInimize why cant i minimize well anyway we should be able to minimize ;(
-
I also donloaded the game within 2 min, but i lag soooooooo much. I cant even move around :( :( the only way to get out from the game is by pressing
alt + f4...
So liteerally all i can od is stand on top of the fountain and look at a screen with 2 houses...not too much fun if i may say my thoughts...
-
Originally posted by Certz
AH! My computer is all messed up and won\'t let me download .exe files anymore! Is there a possibility that it could be put into a .zip file?
just right click the link and click save target as...
-
Wohoo , finnaly the demo.
Atm i am downing it , i hope it will run because i am having a break , got to work again within 30 min so lets hope i can chack the demo a bit.
Thank you Devs, !!!!
Gion.
-
I have got as far as character creation (this is tricky at work, especially with not being able to minimise quickly ;) (Alt+Tab seems to often result in fatal errors)).
What I have seen so far is looking amazing, well done for getting it this far! :D
But will I ever be able to use my full name with the no spacing character rule? :(
-
wow.. the city is really looking great!
i think this game will really be cool, but we just havent got much to do now.. but heej, its just a tech demo..
only lil bug thing i have is that you can walk trough walls at a moment of lag..
yo can get out of the city then.. (look here to see it: http://members.lycos.co.uk/alcapalis/viewtopic.php?p=17#17 ) but unfortunatly i dont have much lag.. so i cant get there a lot..
well.. keep up the good work! i think it will become really cool
-
Looks like there is a problem if you are behind a firewall that does NAT. I reconfigured mine at work to tunnel everything to me and it worked fine. If the Development team could comment on the ports the game requires to open on the server end, I would be more than happy to put together some documentation on configuring a firewall for use with the game. I will see if I can figure the ports out from the firewall log as well. A few thoughts:
Works great on a Athlon 1800 XP, 512 mb ram, with a 64 MB Gforce 2 400 MX and sitting on a T1. :D
I am so used to tab-ing between fields so this would be a nice feature.
Minimize is a must for those who like to test at work ;) .
Everything seems a bit dark (hard to make out facial features of others). Are there going to be torches in the real thing?
GREAT work development team!
-
Looks like I may have those firewall problems you spoke of Delmar. Do you or anybody else have tips how I might be able to reconfigure to get around this problem. At the moment I can\'t get any further than character creation :(
-
I stand corrected on the firewall. I just went back behind it and connected no problem. It may be only an issue with uploading a charecter. Will investigate further. Stay tooned... Nope I can upload a charecter fine. As long as your firewall is not specificly blocking outgoing ports and only doing NAT then you should be OK. Many companys will specificly block outgoing ports to limit what the people can do (ie only allow web and mail access).
-
OK, looks like the game talks on UDP port 13331. If this outgoing port is blocked (will probably be in most company settings that have a firewall) then your out of luck - unless you know the administator ;)
-
Time of test: 3 may, 2002
OS: Windows ME
Processor: 800mhz
RAM: 32mb
Video Card: geforce2 MX
Video Card Memory: 32mb
PS Client Version: 0.1.003
Description of the bug: Opening screen showing a girl and some monsters.
Girls nipples is oprated. No warning of pornish pics are showned.
-
Here are some SS of what I\'m getting. It isn\'t exactly the same, because \"Print Screen\" seems to be distorting the image even further, but it gives a general idea. My system specs are on the previous page of this thread.
This is the Title Screen:
(http://members.fortunecity.com/c13paradyse/images/ps1.jpg)
This is the main menu:
(http://members.fortunecity.com/c13paradyse/images/ps2.jpg)
Any suggestions on how to fix this, people?
Thanks.
-
heY! in the title screen! cant you see the nipple I was talking about!
no?
LOOK FURTHER! :rolleyes:
-
Time of test: 3 may, 2002
OS: Windows XP home
Processor: 1600mhz
RAM: 260mb
Video Card: geforce4
Video Card Memory: 64mb
internet conection:dail up
Description
works fine until i hato do enything involvign conecting to a server because thast when it crashes
-
Originally posted by malverian
More tips for the clueless:
1) The server IP is 203.109.172.22
2) Bug reports are supposed to be EMAILED to the said address
3) If your video card doesn\'t have hardware GL acceleration, I suggest you use the \"Slow\" version.. which will in actuality be faster depending on your CPU speed.
Ahum, *looks with puppy eyes* What the hell IS a GL acceleration. I don\'t know if I have one. And if I use the slow version, it takes ages to even connect, and then it still has to load the world and everything!
-
OK, I\'m back. I tried the slow version, everything went fine, connected fast, everything loaded, until the world, I waited about five minutes and suddenly planeshift dissapeared.
Comp:
350 Mhz
64 Mb RAM
Lots of junk.
-
The \"slow\" version doesn\'t even start for me... my mouse thinks for a minute, and then goes back to normal, as if I never even tried to run the program.
[EDIT]Not to mention I installed OpenGL on my computer, so it *should* work[/EDIT]
-
If you are having performance problems with OpenGL, you can do 2 things:
a) Try \"safe\" mode, which does not use those drivers. This should display better also if you have glitches on your screen. It should also be faster if your OpenGL drivers do not use h/w acceleration. (H/w acceleration is like using a calculator instead of paper&pencil to do math.)
b) If \"safe\" mode is better, go to the web and try to find updated video drivers for your card. You can determine your video card by right clicking on the My Computer icon and selecting Properties. Then go to the Devices tab and you will see Video Display Adapter as a choice (I think). That is the device whose new driver you seek.
Hopefully that will help some of you with display problems.
Good luck,
- Venge
-
Well, can anyone suggest some OpenGL drivers for a Voodoo 3 3000? I tried WickedGl and GLSetup, but I\'m still getting the same graphical glitches that I was prior to installing them.
-
I could be wrong but I don\'t think a 3dfx card will run in OpenGL. I think it will only work in 3dfx glide. I could be wrong though. *shrugs*
-
hmmm my specs r
900 celeron
250 meg ram
geforce 2 mx
win xp
connection is 56k :(
well i tried open gl it was slow as and if i tried to move i fell down into the nothingness looking up at the bottom of everything :P
then i tried slow mode, lolz it was way faster and the colours were right:) but i still fall:\'(
any1 know where to get compatible drivers for geforce2 for win xp?? that actually work current ones reboot my com if i press alt tab arg
-
are u guys getting extremely long receiving world times???
mine is about 40 min... ... i thought it was like a 1 time thing but it seems its EVERYTIME... X(
how long does it take u guys??
-
Originally posted by Abemore
Originally posted by Certz
AH! My computer is all messed up and won\'t let me download .exe files anymore! Is there a possibility that it could be put into a .zip file?
just right click the link and click save target as...
It won\'t let me... :(
-
With mine ive downloaded it ok but its the connecting bit i typed in server 203.109.172.22 it started to work when it got to getting world its taking ages i aonno if its crashed or just taking a long time ;( someone tell me im SOO ?( and X(
-
If you had read above your post you\'d have seen that almost everybody spends more than 30min. downloading the world...
But it just took me 30 sec. so I don\'t really know what\'s going on... perhaps the adsl
-
Originally posted by stickman
are u guys getting extremely long receiving world times???
Takes me 20/30 mins, but I\'m afraid when I get there the first thing I do is fall through the floor. My current spec and internet connection renders the demo unplayable for me anyway at the moment :(
Looks lovely from what I\'ve seen though, nice to see progress :D
-
I got ADSL too, but it neither takes me 30sec or 30min.
Maybe about 15min. But then when I get on the game its so laggy as when I just take a step of the fountain I fall right down to the floor......and through the floor.
And then I have to start it all over again.
but I if I start it up before I\'ve restarted the comp It just crashes when it\'s starting to download the world.
I\'m feeeling so..... ?( ?( ?( ?(
Dont know wut to DO!! ;( ;(
So worried! :( :(
-
would it help any if put the demo on my site??? is that legal?
-
u guys do realise that when it says receiving world it aint accually downloading anything... its offa ur computer... just watch the lights on ur modem
that is why i dont understand why it takes 40 friggin min!!
-
it works great for me... but can you le us move a little bit faster, and how can i display fps?
-
Arzosah if u tell me what video card you have then i can tell you if it supports opengl..
you can find out your video card by going into display properties and then clicking on settings.
you probably just need a driver update.
-
I cannot upload a character. I click the buton to upload and absolutely nothing happens. No indication of any sort of anything happening at all in any way.
Some other people mentioned this. Any way to fix this, do you know what causes it?
-
Did you remember to type in the server-ip?
203.109.172.22
-
i had that problem! i tried SOO many different times
somoen said u type.. srv1.gamiix.com
for me it just magically went one time... dunno why
-
Originally posted by Vengeance
If you are having performance problems with OpenGL, you can do 2 things:
a) Try \"safe\" mode, which does not use those drivers. This should display better also if you have glitches on your screen. It should also be faster if your OpenGL drivers do not use h/w acceleration. (H/w acceleration is like using a calculator instead of paper&pencil to do math.)
b) If \"safe\" mode is better, go to the web and try to find updated video drivers for your card. You can determine your video card by right clicking on the My Computer icon and selecting Properties. Then go to the Devices tab and you will see Video Display Adapter as a choice (I think). That is the device whose new driver you seek.
Hopefully that will help some of you with display problems.
Good luck,
- Venge
No offense, but I shouldn\'t have listened to you. I updated my video driver the wrong way, and guess what: I HAD TO FORMAT C:!!!!!!!!
Sorry, getting a bit angry.
-
Originally posted by elKano
If you had read above your post you\'d have seen that almost everybody spends more than 30min. downloading the world...
But it just took me 30 sec. so I don\'t really know what\'s going on... perhaps the adsl
Listen, I tried downloading the world, but my comp really crashes, with error messages and all!
-
Originally posted by crazzykid
Arzosah if u tell me what video card you have then i can tell you if it supports opengl..
you can find out your video card by going into display properties and then clicking on settings.
you probably just need a driver update.
I\'ve got 3d blaster banshee and I tried updating, but... take a look at my other posts.
-
All modern cards support OpenGL, sicne OpenGL and direct X are teh main standards now days, although Direct X is more popular. Things like Glide3D and such are now long gone, people who have old Voodoo2 chip based graphic cards, and probably voodoo3\'s would have problems since they wouldnt support OpenGL (well my old computers card never did, then again Voodoo is no longer in buisness).
Id suggest upgradeing to at least a 32meg card either a Geforce or a a Raedeon(sp?) since they support OpenGL. Card costs are coming down all the time, and with the release of cards like the geForce4, the older cards will become even cheper than they curently are.
Safe mode runs useing software mode, ie. your CPU does all teh graphical work, and if you havent got a fast CPU (im talking about at least a 800mhz) then you will get crap framerate in this demo.
If you install new video drivers and end up having to reformate yoru HD you have a major problem with your machine, or you dont realy know what your doing ^^...
-
Umm... Hi.
I am a new player of planeshift, and I just wanted to tell you.... IT DOESN\'T WORK!!! Each time I start it, it loads the world and everything ( after 5 mins on a cable modem) then it is really laggy. I can\'t even see my character much less move him. It takes 2minutes and 32 seconds for me to type one word and ( I\'m not sure if I have said this enough) IT IS WAY TOO LAGGY!!! If anyone else has this problem or knows a way to solve it... just tell me
Nobleknight
-
No offense, but I shouldn\'t have listened to you. I updated my video driver the wrong way, and guess what: I HAD TO FORMAT C:!!!!!!!!
I apologize... I guess I should have specified that you must install the video driver \"the right way\". I\'ll try to be more specific next time. :-)
If you do mess up your drivers though, you should still be able to boot in \"safe mode\" in Windows 95 or later and switch out the bad driver again though without reformatting.
- Venge
-
Originally posted by Vengeance
No offense, but I shouldn\'t have listened to you. I updated my video driver the wrong way, and guess what: I HAD TO FORMAT C:!!!!!!!!
I apologize... I guess I should have specified that you must install the video driver \"the right way\". I\'ll try to be more specific next time. :-)
If you do mess up your drivers though, you should still be able to boot in \"safe mode\" in Windows 95 or later and switch out the bad driver again though without reformatting.
- Venge
Well, my comp was already quite messed up without the problems with my card, but now i\'ve formatted, i\'ve reinstalled everything and Planeshift works, so: :D:D
-
Safe mode runs useing software mode, ie. your CPU does all teh graphical work, and if you havent got a fast CPU (im talking about at least a 800mhz) then you will get crap framerate in this demo.
I have 1600 mhz and it\'s still lagging the shit out of me in safe mode, besides I have Windows XP which doesn\'t support openGL X(
It worked in openGL mode the first time I ran it and it didn\'t lag that wonderful time.