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Dejan, others: while I only have one player's gdb output to go on and one player's info that a crash occurred when summoning, I have a fix that I'm going to try out tonight.

 

Anyone who wants to meet up for a big Try-To-Make-Me-Crash spellcasting fest this evening, I'll probably try for one at around 10:00 PM CST. My testing char's name is hyekyet; just PM me. :(

Edited by KarenRei

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I noticed a couple small things on my first try with the eye-candy stuff turned on:

 

1. It does not appear that the new effects are reflected in water. For example, walking around with a glowy sword in Portland (155,88) next to the water, all I see is the sword's reflection none of the sparkle or trail left behind.

 

2. The smoke from the chimney on two of the buildings in Portland are miss-aligned. You can see it standing at (91,26) and (94,52) and rotating the screen. Other smoke I noticed in Portland seemed to be correctly aligned.

 

3. There's a teleport-spot beam visible in Portland Manu School (Portland Insides). Stand at (354,128) and rotate the camera South. I believe it's coming from the next cave over on the map (I can see a part of it if I turn off isometric view and rotate the camera North). This would seem to be more of a map bug (the two caves are to close together and you can see the effect in one cave from the other cave).

 

4. The Portland General Store has smoke coming from the chimney, but there's no fire in the fireplace (if I wasn't to lazy I'd check more of the buildings).

Edited by bkc56

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Ok, I updated the file, everyone please redownload it again.

Would you mind editing this thread's first post and put a timestamp behind the link to the zip?

 

Thanks.

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First of all, I love these effects :lipssealed: I did notice two spots so far where I had significantly lower FPS though. In WSC where the fountain is near Mira my fps went from around 35 down to 14 when I was near the fountain. Vakana was also visible and holding a glowie. There were no other effects visible on my screen when my FPS dropped and I checked by doing a full 360 around my char with the camera angle. With the regular client my FPS was 34.

 

In the C2 portals room my FPS ranged from 16-22 depending on where I was. Near the little fountain with 4 portals in view was when I had 16. With the regular client I range 31-33.

 

Another thing I noticed was that while summoning if I did multiple summons in a row, or if a few of my summons died in succession (or a mixture) then my FPS would drop as low as 14. Regular client has 30-33.

 

When any single effect happens (ie. restore, teleport nexus, radon pouch etc) my FPS will go from 36 to 29 and will go lower if another spell/event happens soon after.

 

I have on the poorman setting and limit my FPS to 35. In the eyecandy client my FPS will goto 36 though.

 

Running the client on:

Windows XP SP2 Media Center Edition

Intel Pentium 4 HT 3Ghz

Intel 915G 128mb (integrated)

512mb DDR 3200

 

**EDIT: C1 portals room FPS of 14-17

Edited by CelticLady

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Wow I love the eye candy, it looks really cool :lipssealed:

I installed it the way Ent said and everything seemed to work fine but now an error came up... I thought no big deal so I started El again but this happened to me 5 times in half an hour (I just got it)

Any idea what's wrong? I can like play EL 7 mins and then I have to restart because the error occured..

 

this happended when I was training on fluffies in skf

 

Greets,

 

Nos

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ok when you rotate the camera to the southwest in votd the screen goes black but you still see like the elemental weps and names and hp bars and things but everything else is black

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Wow I love the eye candy, it looks really cool :lipssealed:

I installed it the way Ent said and everything seemed to work fine but now an error came up... I thought no big deal so I started El again but this happened to me 5 times in half an hour (I just got it)

Any idea what's wrong? I can like play EL 7 mins and then I have to restart because the error occured..

 

this happended when I was training on fluffies in skf

 

Greets,

 

Nos

 

Ive got exactly same problem, after a while of playing there is an error. You said about 7min, i can play 1min max.

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Wow I love the eye candy, it looks really cool :lipssealed:

I installed it the way Ent said and everything seemed to work fine but now an error came up... I thought no big deal so I started El again but this happened to me 5 times in half an hour (I just got it)

Any idea what's wrong? I can like play EL 7 mins and then I have to restart because the error occured..

 

this happended when I was training on fluffies in skf

 

Greets,

 

Nos

 

Ive got exactly same problem, after a while of playing there is an error. You said about 7min, i can play 1min max.

Perhaps you could try to be more specific? Are we talking about a crash, a freeze, a panda bear leaping out of your screen and eating your ficus that was muling on your evil twin's char?

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ok I'll try...

I'm playing then my screen turns black and then windows says he has a error and asks me if I want to send it to them.

 

Nothing wrong before that, eye candy works... evrything works ok and then all of the sudden the screen turns black and the windows message apears.

 

After that I can just start EL again, nothing wrong with the rest of the programs I'm running then.

 

Any idea what's wrong ? :lipssealed:

 

Greets,

Nos

Edited by Thorongil

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Perhaps you could try to be more specific? Are we talking about a crash, a freeze, a panda bear leaping out of your screen and eating your ficus that was muling on your evil twin's char?

 

Its application error, it is closing el when i click ok or cancel after its shows up.

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ok, sorry if I'm wrong... I kinda suck with computers and pls delete this post if it doesn't make any sense

 

I run the client on

Microsoft Windows XP

Home edition

Version 2002

 

1024 MB DDR 400 MHz

Intel pentium 4 3.2 GHz

Processor 640

2MB L2 Cache

800 MHz FSB

 

Hope that this was what you asked for Entropy ;)

 

Greets,

 

Nos

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Specifics are important for debugging.

 

1) It sounds like you're talking about a crash. Is this correct?

2) What were you doing at the time?

3) What were others near you doing at the time?

4) What was on your screen at the time?

5) What effects were running at the time?

6) Where were you?

 

And, a big one:

 

7) Was there any summoning going on?

 

(I ask #7 because there are some confirmed bugs with summoning, some of which were fixed last night)

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my specs are:

Windows XP professional 2002 service pack 2

 

Barton 2500+

768mb ddr

gforce ti 4800 64mb

 

I was alone in grubani penninsula fighting fluffys, I didnt summoned anything

I tried about 5 times and always same effect - application error of EL

Edited by Marro

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ok lets see...

 

1) a crash of EL yes, NOT from the rest of the programs or my PC (iirc I was listening to music... I had windows media player open, the map where my music is in and I was looking on the EL forums while training on the fluffies)

 

2) I was killing Fluffy Rabbits

 

3) I was alone, it was daytime (perception) and I didn't see anyone around me.

 

4) What was on my screen? eehm well I had Inventory open. What do you mean with what was on your screen?

 

5) EL crashed 5 times and I had blood enabled and I healed (NOT every time when it crashed I healed)

2 times I was fighting the fluffs, 2 or 1 time I was just walking and 2 or 1 time I was healing and then in 10 seconds or so EL crashed.

 

6) I was in Southern Kileran, the fluffy rabbit spawn under the summoning arena.

 

7) No, there was no summoning involved.

 

maybe it has something to do with the map or with the summoning arena? I'm just guessing

 

Greets,

 

Nos

 

 

<edit>

 

I normally have my FPS around 200 sometimes 300 and even 400 from time to time.

 

so I have my eye candy maximum at 100 and my minium at 50.

Edited by Thorongil

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Oh, also, re: performance:

 

You have lots of pretties now. Pretties use up processing power ;) However, you can adjust the balance between their quality and the framerate. Go into your preferences, and under the second to last tab (details?) you'll see where you can set the maximum and minimum eye candy framerates. If your framerate is over the maximum, it uses the maximum quality effects. If your framerate is below the minimum, it uses the minimum quality effects. Anywhere in between, the quality is in-between. So, if your max was 60, your min was 30, and your current framerate is 45, it will use half-quality eye candy.

 

We could adjust the default max to be higher, if that is desired.

 

Thanks, Thorongil. I'll check into that this evening.

Edited by KarenRei

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Ok, I'm going to the test server to see if EL crashes again while using eye candy. if it does I'll make a screenshot of the error ;)

 

more will follow

 

Greets,

 

Nos

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I just got back from the test server... this is what I tested

 

-tele to range

-killed a beaver, deer, artic chim, forest chim and a giant

-harvested veggies (needed them for food level to summon :))

-summoned 5 rats

-f9 fire

-life drain, harm, remote heal, restore and heal.

-portal rooms (where I got low fps, 17 (normally 200s) and it was a bit laggy there, when I got out everything was fine again)

 

all these things worked fine, animations were nice and EL didn't crash... and not when I was summoning, that worked fine as well.

 

there was 1 thing, when I was ready killing the giant I was going to willowvine forest (I killed it in AA) I couldn't go into willowvine... the door icon came on my mouse but he didn't go in... then I tryed kasumaru (or something :)) and I could go into there.

 

Greets,

 

Nos

 

<edit>

should I try the eye candy client on the normal server 2 now?? since I played for 45 mins on the test server trying all the new things and EL didn't crash?

Edited by Thorongil

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Now I've just had some problems with crashes while fighting cyclops. Both times in Egratia near the dock. Both times i was double teamed by them. I was not casting any spells and did not see any effects on screen when it happened. I just got the "this program has encountered a problem and needs to shut down" message. I'm back on the regular client and I'll go back and try again on this one to compair. I'll edit this and let ya know if I crash or not.

 

Oh, I was running the eye candy client all day today while harvesting/mixing with no crashes 8hrs+ These two crashes happened within 10 minutes of eachother.

 

EDIT: Just got done fighting some cycs with the regular client. Was double teamed a couple times. Didn't crash at all.

 

EDIT 2: Had a crash today in DP Crystal Caverns. Just got to the silver ore and clicked the button to sit down. Got the same message "This program has encountered a problem and needs to shut down". One other person already sitting at the ore. No effects.

Edited by CelticLady

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There are crashes involved with combat/summoning in the last released version. They are believed to be patched in the CVS. There will be a new release in a day or two.

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