missing spell book buttons

[Gillis Norone]

Hi everyone

I just started in Planeshift yesterday and I already encountered a prob in the tutorial. I don't have any buttons to click in the Spell Book. I just see the labels at the top and a small square window right of the labels. How do I post a screenshot?

I tried relogging. I tried updating. (I'm not sure though if this updater ever did anything.   ) And I searched the forum and read all sorts of stuff. Still I didn't find anything.

So who can help?

I'm Gillis Norone on the Ezpcusa Server. I play PS 0.5.6 on a MacBook running OSX 10.6 with an Intel Core 2GH and 1GB RAM.

Thanks.

[LigH]

How do I post a screenshot?

a) Simple: Enter the command /screenshot; upload this resulting JPG to a free image hoster in the internet.

b) Advanced: Enter the command /screenshot lossless; edit the resulting PNG, crop the interesting area out, save it as web optimized JPG - then upload that.

Where to find the screenshots: Read here or here.

I play PS 0.5.6 on a MacBook running OSX 10.6 with an Intel Core 2GH and 1GB RAM.

Even more interesting: What kind of graphic card does it use?

[Earowo]

You say there are no buttons, but what about symbols, the buttons, that are supposed to be on the right of the spellbook are all pictures, a purple orb, a windy looking swirl, ect

[Gillis Norone]

The screenshot:

http://img135.imageshack.us/i/shot01z.jpg/

Graphic card: Intel GMA 950

If I say no buttons, I also mean no symbols, no icons, just nothing.

Other windows like the chat or the inventory work just fine.

[LigH]

  Why ImageShack, why?! They really messed that thing, you are not anymore able to zoom into these images, and you can hardly spot anything in 320 pixel wide previews. Or did you scale this image down before uploading?

Well...

Who knows the reason; it is possible that the graphic drivers are unable to handle a specific variant of the DirectX Texture Compression; intel GMA 950 is not exactly a recommendable graphic chipset for games, and their drivers are an understatement itself.

[weltall]

Why ImageShack, why?! They really messed that thing, you are not anymore able to zoom into these images, and you can hardly spot anything in 320 pixel wide previews. Or did you scale this image down before uploading?

Well...

Who knows the reason; it is possible that the graphic drivers are unable to handle a specific variant of the DirectX Texture Compression; intel GMA 950 is not exactly a recommendable graphic chipset for games, and their drivers are an understatement itself.

use the direct link listed on the right

[Gillis Norone]

http://img215.imageshack.us/i/shot01j.jpg/

now it should be big enough to see something.

I know that my graphic card is not the best for games. Been in trouble before. The weird thing is that the inventory for example works just fine. As do all the other windows. (At least as far as I know.)

[Lusserall]

Right click window and set "max transparency" to 0% in window settings.

[LigH]

I know other windows do have non-transparent areas. So these buttons may need a kind of non-transparency flag?!

[Gillis Norone]

thanks very much

The transparency change did wonders.

There's just one thing left. While fiddling around yesterday I managed to damage my PSLaunch. Which means, I can't change any settings from outside the game or run the updater or anything else. Couldn't find anything relevant in the forum. How can I repair it?

[Earowo]

If the repair button, in PSluanch doesnt work, you cant update, and there really 'are' problems with psluanch and in-game options, id reccomend reinstalling

[Gillis Norone]

Well it's not only the repair button that's not working. PSLaunch crashes immediately on starting.

Do I have to reinstall the whole game? How can I save my progress then?

[Mask]

Your in-game progress isn't saved on your local machine but on a server-side database afaik. Only your settings, descriptions, books and suchlike is saved on your computer. Backup those files (there's a topic on the forums where to find those files) ocassionally might be a good idea.

[Lusserall]

Just deleting some of  the settings may be enough depending on what you did to break PSLaunch

Code: [Select]

/Users/<your user name>/Library/Application Support/PlaneShift/

[Gillis Norone]

I managed a reinstall. The PSLaunch still crashes sometimes, but at least not all the time. I still think the updater is not running though. I guess, I'll deal with that, once I actually need it. Until then, I prefer to enjoy the game... 

Thanks everyone for helping me out.