Topics

1

Bugs in stable version (2.5) / Weight penalties

« on: November 08, 2012, 09:23:10 am »

I did compile new version from source few hours ago and noticed that there are now weights reported on inventory screen, also my soldiers have only around 16TU's while before they had nearly 30.

If I understand correctly weight penalties have been implemented, at least can't remember seeing weights before this in my short trip to UFO:AI world.

One of my soldier has 16.7kg/25kg load and it shows up as red which probably means weight penalties being in effect.

Soldier has following equipments:
Laser rifle
2x DF-L cartridges
Frag. grenade
Flashbang
Medikit

Soldier has also Nano armor.

With bit of testing I found out that it is not possible to wear nano armor without weight penalty which in practice means that can't use medikit at all because only 16TU's is maximum.

Probably balancing of feature is still under way as feature is very new one?

Thought to let you know about what I found out, but might be planned?

What I think is that maybe there is bug making weight penalty so early before reaching that 25kg, but as I'm so new I can only guess and be probably wrong in many aspect, don't hit the face

2

Windows / Missing update tool + gpu usage

« on: November 04, 2012, 11:05:20 pm »

First, thank you from this magnificent project, truly amazing that you offer this huge game for free

Now I did read that there should be a way to update 2.5 dev version that I downloaded to latest nightly by startmenu option, however I have not seen that option and I could not find any update utility from UFO program folder either, this I found to be the case in two machines that I installed it.

I think my version is Nov 1st, has update tool removed or is there error on my end?

Second thing I did notice was that I'm getting bit lower performance of what I would except, CPU Core 1 at 90% and Core 2 at 20-30%, GPU usage around 50-60%, it seems not to go above those numbers but changing graphics settings does affect how well battlescape runs.

Very old hardware with WinXP:
Core 2 Duo E6750
Nvidia Geforce 8800GTS 512 with 304.79 beta driver (need this driver to one another project to run flawlessly)

With search I did found many interesting things, but not quite answer to these questions, however I suspect there been some discussion about these, but I failed to find any of such, so, sorry if things are often brought up.