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Bugs prior to release 2.4 / Re: 30320 - Awaiting Game Start (0) - hangs..

« on: October 14, 2010, 11:44:02 pm »

i had the same problem, so i just restarted the game, since its happened twice morein both cases playing auto and passing some time ~until you shoot down another UFO "fixed" it for me.

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Bugs prior to release 2.4 / Re: [32025] can see -1 alien

« on: October 14, 2010, 11:40:02 pm »

i had a similar problem in 2.3, after stunning the last alien the visible count stayed 1, clicking on it done nothing and i couldnt finish the mission, had to abort. (this only happened once)

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Windows / Re: no geo map shown

« on: October 13, 2010, 11:26:09 pm »

ko i just started a new game and avoided the hang at the 'Awaiting Game Start (0)'
but still the same textures problem,this time i made screenshot using the ingame F12, here:

http://i53.tinypic.com/fldan5.jpg
http://i53.tinypic.com/29uwo55.jpg

EDIT: fixed it,there was another shader related setting GLsomething and setting light to normal worked.
and since i started a new game i there was no more 'Awaiting Game Start (0)' occurrences, so finnaly i just finished an hour+ gameplay   

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Windows / Re: no geo map shown

« on: October 13, 2010, 09:46:55 pm »

thanks this worked.

only now i have another 2 bugs, when i entered a mission all of the textures was made of latter's 123456789qwertyyuui.... i assume i have nother video setting problem or its some kind of default texture that where loaded because of some other problem, so i tried to go to windowed mode to take a screenshot but now i keep getting this problem: http://ufoai.ninex.info/forum/index.php?topic=4935.0 every time enter a mission ( not sure how do i make console_log.txt to help you out with this)

EDIT:
tried skiping few mission still the same, scout/base attack hangs at Awaiting Game Start (0)
one more thing that thread i linked to is in the 2.4 subforum but i have the 2.3

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Discussion / Re: Will 2.3.1 fix reaction fire?

« on: October 13, 2010, 08:28:33 pm »

off topic, request if there will be a 2.3.1 can there be a deferential patch, DL another 0.5GB on this crappy WIFI here its a nightmare.
dont mind me i am just browsing the forum.

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Discussion / Off-base Installations ?

« on: October 13, 2010, 08:23:05 pm »

i played few UFO games but i never seen the Off-base Installations yet, the problem is that not ufoOpedia nor right clicking gives an explanation about what they are.

so i googled it found this: http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/Proposals/Off-base_Installations

do they have an upkeep cost or should i spam them as much as i can to provide better support for my other forces
i seen they can be bombed, so i shouldnt deploy them to far away from base and what is the rule of the thumb when defending is 2 SAM Site enough to defend a UFO Yard?

and what does this means "All operations on ufo's will be modified by the distance of the base to the yard."  ?


thank, sorry for the noob questions.

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Windows / Re: no geo map shown

« on: October 13, 2010, 08:12:07 pm »

anything simple, for someone who have no idea what sdl bug is, something like dl patch and install otherwise its just to much of bother.
in any case thinks for your help.

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Windows / Re: Attn Windows players with lag/slow performance w/2.4 dev builds

« on: October 13, 2010, 07:48:44 pm »

I found this works well and makes a *profound* performance difference on my new 64-bit Windows 7 i7 (eight cores) machine. 

...

- Change the "set sys_affinity" value to exactly one greater than the total number of cores in your computer.

i dont know how this game works but i had similar problem with HOI on my PC at home, it was a simple case of no support for multiprocessing thus more cores = worse performance, since usually each core has lower clock speed.

so you may want to try a different solution for your problem, instead of editing the game files, simply go to task manager, right click your game process and set its priority higher and then change its affinity to anything but the first core which ~will give the game a core of its own (more or less)

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Windows / Re: no geo map shown

« on: October 13, 2010, 06:44:38 pm »

mattn, thanks disabling the shaders fixed it for me, thanks 
although i might have encountered another problem, after Alt+Tab the cursor is stuck in the left upper corner but its not that important.

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Windows / no geo map shown

« on: October 13, 2010, 05:02:01 pm »

i am new to the game so, its possible that i just missed something but after i start the campaign, i get the menus and no map...

its not stuck since i can place my base (blindly) but the map doesnt show up, passing some time and playing with some video option changed nothing.

here i added a screenshot to illustrate the problem:
http://i51.tinypic.com/mhfvkj.jpg