Is it playable now?

[CrazyYlian]

Before I waste a tank of gas & the hours to download, please, please, please, is it playable on Linux again?  As in, not crashing every 20 seconds (leaf bug or whatever)?

[bloodedIrishman]

You'll probably crash alot.

[Idoru]

Or not. Disinformation is not good.

The Client runs flawlessly for me. If you follow simple fixes and have hardware made this decade the chance of success is very high. The bug refered to is fixed.

[Xanthan]

When he says "this decade" he means in the last five years.  There's some work being done for older (pre-shader) video card support as well.  the leaf node and sticky ground bugs are fixed, and I haven't had a crash yet.  The only issues for me now are related to video card support.

[Earowo]

not really the only issues for everyone though, i freaze whenever im in hydlaa and have to log in as an alt to get a gm to move me, and i get those little annoying access violation crash things

[Maju]

I freeze very occasionally too (what is very annoying because, as I run in fullscreen, and alt-tab or alt-F1 doesn't get me out, I have to re-start the PC). I have a couple of other "minor" issues: total lag in some fights (what is dangerous) and the trainer icon not working after I have been playing for a while (I used to relog in such cases but I've taught that clicking P works around it - this seems to happen also to some Mac users).

Otherwise I am very happy with the new release (I have Ubuntu Hardy, I believe), I think I have never been able to play Planeshift so well since many versions ago (either in Linux or Windows, though this last was probably because my PC was old - from this decade but not the last 5 years).

[Earowo]

heheh i have mine not in fullscreen for that reason, since it isnt i can just get task manager to pop up and end the program
so i suggest taking it off fullscreen, not sure weather it helps lag or not though

[weltall]

1) you can always go in a tty and kill it ctrl alt f1, put your username and pass and then killall -9 psclient.bin
2) if you use gnome i suggest to set planeshift to the same resolution of your screen and windowed then in system => preferences => keyboard shortcuts the second option under window management (or something similar) it says full screen set a combination there and use it on the client. you will get full screen and the window manager will still work. kde has probably a similar thing but i can't help you there

[khoridor]

Before I waste a tank of gas & the hours to download, please, please, please, is it playable on Linux again?  As in, not crashing every 20 seconds (leaf bug or whatever)?

I'd say yes, it seems to be playable again.
I gave up on the previous version for the reasons you mention. I installed the 0.5 yesterday, and so far I haven't crashed. Better: I can see in the outdoors (no more darkness), I can walk in the outdoors (no more getting stuck), I haven't crashed when changing map, etc. I still need to check if I can hold a proper conversation without crashing, but you should definitely try the new client.

(Besides, the new feature making us able to re-login when not logged out properly shall make crashing much less troublesome, would it happen for new reasons.)

[Maju]

1) you can always go in a tty and kill it ctrl alt f1, put your username and pass and then killall -9 psclient.bin

I know you are trying to help with this but I don't understand anything. I tried removing alt+tab and alt+F1 from the PS shortcuts but did not help.

[quote2) if you use gnome i suggest to set planeshift to the same resolution of your screen and windowed then in system => preferences => keyboard shortcuts the second option under window management (or something similar) it says full screen set a combination there and use it on the client. you will get full screen and the window manager will still work. kde has probably a similar thing but i can't help you there
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This may be useful. I'll try it, thanks. 

[weltall]

ctrl+alt+f1 it goes on a virtual terminal, linux has various ones and x.org (the graphical server) usually runs on the seventh of them

[Thedrish]

I have installed PS on CentOS 5.4 and it runs without a problem.

[CrazyYlian]

YAY!   Downloaded & installed, and so far only crashed once, although that one is kind of puzzling...  does planeshift start the artsd server?   The output after the crash said it was in artsd, but I normally don't run artsd, I have KDE setup to use alsa instead.  And sound overall is choppy. 

BUT I'm in Hydlaa!  Feels like coming home after a long absence.  Now to get reacquainted with old friends and meet some of the new ones.

[weltall]

YAY!   Downloaded & installed, and so far only crashed once, although that one is kind of puzzling...  does planeshift start the artsd server?   The output after the crash said it was in artsd, but I normally don't run artsd, I have KDE setup to use alsa instead.  And sound overall is choppy. 

BUT I'm in Hydlaa!  Feels like coming home after a long absence.  Now to get reacquainted with old friends and meet some of the new ones.

openal doesn't follow kde settings you have to check the alsoftrc file in order to use alsa, probably your distro ships with one which enables artsd, in any case you can remove it from the list of plugins so openal doesn't use it if it's being auto selected (check the openal soft sources there is a commented sample of the file, probably you'll find a copy also in etc)