PlaneShift crashes during random actions

[Strelok]

When playing Planeshift, it seems to crash almost at random. For instance, I will load the game, select a character, and I start walking. I hold shift to start running, hit "w" to move forward, and it crashes to desktop. Yet other times it works fine. Examples of other times it has crashed: running down a hill, colliding with a wall, closing a menu, using "wasd" or the arrow keys to move, using the middle mouse button to change views. Sometimes it even crashes within seconds of logging into the game.

I am using Opensuse 11.1 x32, on KDE 4.2.1. I used the official 32 bit client from the website (not the repository), and have updated it fully. It is running on a single Nvidia Geforce 8800GT by XFX. As far as people having issues with compiz, I'm not sure if compiz directly is running, however Desktop Effects are, and this may be a compiz implementation.

Rather than post an excessively long console dump, I uploaded it here: http://www.pastedump.com/paste/303

Because this is more of a client issue, I have not made a bug report, and am unsure if I even should. It may be an isolated incident. I would appreciate any tips or clues on fixing this, but I honestly don't know if it can be fixed. I used to play PS regularly about a year ago, and everything worked fine, however that was on Opensuse 10.3, and a different PS version than today's. Thanks for your time.

[Beeblebrox]

Hi Strelok

Try to disable shadows in the ingame Graphic Options menu. It works for me.

regards Beeble

[Lanarel]

This is the leaf_replaced bug, that is now fixed in newest CS (and stable and trunk version of PS). If you are able to build your own client, you can fix it for you too. Unfortunately, getting this in via an update is not easy, so it is not known when this will be fixed for everyone.

[Strelok]

Wow.. well thank you both for your help. I will try the shadow option when I have the chance, but it looks like I will be compiling my own. This is going to be interesting...   

*EDIT* After looking at the guide to compilation, I think I would rather suffer with crashes than attempt that..

I just tried it without shadows being enabled, and it does seem to work alot better. So far no crashes and it's been up for about half an hour. This may have helped some, we will see how it goes throughout the day.

[Shade-SK]

I have same problem as you can see on this log. Disabling shadows doesn't helped. But I am not quite familiar with compiling of source codes, so can someone provide some help please? I really like to play, but with crashes every few minutes it's unreal.
A help for compiling or some another magic help would be apreciated

Btw. I am runnung on HP 530 notebook and Ubuntu 8.10.

[Aurelynt]

The compiling guide can be found here.
You can ask for help in IRC, server freenode, channel #planeshift-build: webchat.

[Shade-SK]

hell, I lost nerves on this.

I tried to compile it by myself. After installing cal3D from repositaries and compiling crystal space (as is in guide written) i tried to compile planeshift... dunno where exactly is fail located and I have logs just from configure and jam from planeshift itself.
Here it is:
http://shade.cicolina.org/garbage/texts/planeshift_comp_configure.txt
http://shade.cicolina.org/garbage/texts/planeshift_comp_jam.txt

Maybe I am blind already, but I can't see launcher scripts created for client. And I am really tired for finding that mistake.

[Prolix]

One alternative to recompiling is to play on the ezpcusa server. It has the same problems but a lot of times the crash occurs because someone else triggers it.  Being less populated those instances are vastly reduced. Another thing to consider is that the further away from others the less likely someone else will crash you. I have found that in places like the arena you tend to get into crash/restart cycles and the only thing to do is start moving as soon as the game loads and get out of there on the double.

Then again if you are running into solid objects you are likely triggering it yourself. Take care of how you move and you can reduce it further.

[Shade-SK]

Well, ezpcusa is, as far as I know,  non-RP. I choosed PlaneShift becouse of RP. So, I like to be in locations with people and also on RP server.... :-/

[Prolix]

So go on a camping trip with your buddies and venture out past the confines of town.

It was only one of the suggestions I made.

[Shade-SK]

However, they are just temporary.

[Prolix]

So is the problem, next client release will have the fix. No way to say for sure when that will be, could be July could be December.  It might be sooner than either and unlikely to be later.

[Shade-SK]

I hope so. Now I started to experiment with emulation of windows client through wine. However, thanks for suggestions and try.