Character Creation Woes

[Moose-Alini]

Hi ho. Running on Fedora Core 1 Linux and followed all the instructions to build. Everyhthing went smoothly, running the game (although I have to export cel and CS every time I want to run it) unstall I hit Create to make a character.

I can go to the conenct screen, and see the credits, but as soon as I hit Create it freezes.  I looked around a bit but couldnt find this addresses. I cannot input anywhere or select anything, and Planeshift doesn\'t refresh if I open something over it. If im real fast I can mash the keyboard and get a couple characters into the name field before it freezes. Anyway, the music keeps going and I eventually have to kill Planeshift. Heres my console:
[moose@wintermute planeshift]$ ./psclient
Xlib:  extension \"XFree86-DRI\" missing on display \":0.0\".
block_size: 8192
Mounting maps: dungeon podium hydlaa temple tower.
planeshift.application.client: Planeshift Molecular Blue
planeshift.application.client: This game uses Crystal Space Engine created by Jorrit and others
planeshift.application.client: 0.97 rdev [Unix-x86-GCC]
crystalspace.font.freefont2: Could not open fontfile /fonts/ttf/arial.ttf!

        loading definitions file /planeshift/gui/psgui.def...
        load successful (0 windows, 1 skins loaded.)
aws-debug: setting up global AWS palette...
aws-debug: finished palette setup.
planeshift.application.client: psEngine initialized.
Loading Race Part Regions...Loading xml regions for race...
Loading xml regions for race...
Loading xml regions for race...
Loading xml regions for race...
Loading xml regions for race...
Loading xml regions for race...
Loading xml regions for race...
Loading xml regions for race...
OK!
Loading RPG Data.....Loading RPG Data.....1OK!
PreloadModels: Preloading complete

Frustrating indeed.  Any thoughts?

[elscouta]

I think it\'s a problem with your fonts (not sure though). Try to cp -a the data/fonts/ dir to fonts/ (in Planeshift dir)

or something like that (damn my memory is running away ;()

[Leander256]

Originally posted by Moose-Alini
crystalspace.font.freefont2: Could not open fontfile /fonts/ttf/arial.ttf!

I got the same error message yet everything works fine.

Originally posted by Moose-Alini
Xlib:  extension \"XFree86-DRI\" missing on display \":0.0\".

IMHO here\'s the real problem. You probably didn\'t install the drivers for your graphic card, so it fails rendering openGL scenes. Depending on your graphic card manufacturer, the installation procedure will differ.

[Moose-Alini]

No, I most certainly did install NVIDIAs binary drivers. Was a major pain on Fedora Core.

[Leander256]

What happens when you launch glxgears from an xterm? If an error message of this kind appears, then you didn\'t setup correctly Xfree after installing drivers (probably something to change in your /etc/X11/XF86Config).

glxgears works even without acceleration, but then FPS drop down to a few hundreds, instead of a few thousands (can be worse if you got an old video card). For instance I got ~5000 FPS with a GF4 Ti 4200 in 1152x864x24.

Note: glxgears isn\'t a benchmarking program at all, it\'s just an useful tool for checking everything\'s fine.