Schmurk

Well, if you had read the thread correctly, you would have seen that this issue has been addressed several times and the answer to this "problem" was given twice. However the other bug that you are pointing out has not been reported yet so I'll try to see if I can reproduce it and fix it.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux Bur!

I seem to be having a similar problem, I haven't tested out the sky feature, but I've been seeing these flashes of sunny daylight. Right now I'm harvesting toads in South Redmoon Island. Its gloomy weather, I think I can recreate it but it happens more when I change settings in Sky & Cam. No comment... It's a known bug that happens with some ATI cards and it seems to be related to the transparency. Turning off the UVP doesn't resolve totally the problem though because you can see that the ground isn't correct on your last screenshot. What you can try is turning on the opaque background for the windows to see if that helps.

Also saw this, it seems to happen when the shadows are adjusting... They all strech real far in one direction, then snap back to where they should adjust to (it appears...) Also having troubles getting a screen shot of this as "it happens so fast"... That's most likely caused by the lightning What ago said. @phrank: if your fps is very low, it's because your cpu and video card is really really busy so if you are noticing more crashes when it happens then I think it confirms what I was thinking but maybe I'm wrong. So you can try to reduce all the details to the minimum, reduce the maximum viewing distance if you're using the extended camera and reduce your fps limit to 20-30. Installing something that is able to monitor the temperature of your video card and your cpu would be interesting too.

Have you the same problem with other games? And what value are you using for your fps limit? If you have the same problem in other games and if you have a high or uncapped fps limit, it can be an overheating problem so you can try to reduce your fps to see if it's better. Have you tried to reduce your maximum viewing distance in the options? If you enable the animation program while in game, you have to restart the client in order it takes effect and you can see the chars again.

The sky, the new weather, the new rotation for the camera and that's all I think.

I've helped someone in game to install the same drivers and he has exactly the same problem. He had black chars before installing the driver and after he had black chars only when he was close to the wraith or when he had some windows opened. Unfortunately he had the old client and he's not at ease with computers so I wasn't able to make him turn off the vertex program to see if that helps. Kwas, with this client, you should have an option to disable them in the video tab. It's called "Use animation programs". Can you try to disable it and see if that helps?

If you can't find a suitable driver, you can also try to rename the shaders directory in the directory where you've installed EL to something else and see if that helps...

Interesting... by any chance, have you compiled your client with the MISSILES_DEBUG flag? If yes, could you post the corresponding lines in time of the missiles_log.txt file? In the other case, I'll try to reproduce it later to see what happens... BTW, I'm just thinking about something else. If your client is compiled with the DEBUG flag, can you check if the client aiming option is disable in the control options?

I'm sorry if I was a bit harsh. Though, I supposed that someone who was able to find an image in the directory where is installed EL was also able to check a path in the options window... And I asked my question twice and didn't have any answer so it's a bit frustrating when you try to help someone by giving him simple instructions and that he doesn't even bother answer you questions... no? About the data directory, it is saved in you personal settings so if you uninstall the game and reinstall it, the settings will always be the same (it's like that on linux, my apologies if it's not the case on windows), so it's worthless to uninstall/reinstall it countless times because it'll never change anything (the proof is that it's what did this person and it didn't change anything). Anyway, I've spoken to the_grud ingame and he told me that he'll wait his son to try to look at the problem. So now, if the problem isn't still fixed, I'm still ready to help. BTW, I can also understand that someone is not a computer guru and don't understand what I ask. But in this case, why not just tell it instead of not answering to a simple question?

To see the last messages when this happen, open and look at the end of the chat_log.txt file that should be in the "Eternal Lands\main" directory in your documents and settings. @phrank: do you also have the problem when you don't install the RC2? If yes, it's probably a problem related to your data directory setting. So check if it's pointing to the good directory in the misc options tab.

Wow, first time I see that! Did it happen after an harvesting event and if yes, which one please?

Are you lacking reading abilities? I didn't tell you to reinstall the game, I told you 2 times to look at the "data directory" field in your options and this is because there is a reason, it's not just for the "fun". So I would gladly help you but if you don't want to do what you were asked to do then good luck fixing the problem by your own because I have more important things to do than speaking to a wall...

Is this the same problem, or a different one? Hmmm, that one is interesting. Sounds sometimes were getting "stuck on" because of bugs in the clean-up routine, but that is only relevant for individual sounds, not streams. Streams are handled completely differently. In theory that sound is a streamed sound and is triggered by entering a defined sound "area". When you are standing still it's not meant to check if you are still in the area to reduce the number of loops needing to be processed. It should then start updating again once your actor position changes. Once it detects your actor coords are outside the area the sound should be faded down and killed. I don't know if it's exactly the same problem as Alberich's one but the fact that he got a fire sound that has started just after hitting a teleport nexus seems quite similar to me. Maybe it's linked to the addition of the char in the scene? And even after going far from the area related to the sound it doesn't stop or fade. BTW, the sound is really loud too. EDIT: I've noticed another problem which is still related to the teleport nexus. I've put a sound warning when I stop harvesting and the sound doesn't play when I hit a teleport nexus or it plays but only partially I think.

If you have two clients installed and if one is older than the other, so yes it can be the problem. Have you looked at the "data directory" field in the misc options tab like I said? If not, then look at it and modify it if it's not pointing to the directory where you've installed the client.

By any chance, do you have an old installation of EL somewhere? If it's the case, look at the data directory in the misc options and see if it's pointing to the right place. If not, just change it.

I have similar problems in the titanium cave between willowvine forest and kusamura. When you hit a teleport nexus that send you not far from the water, a water sound is starting and it doesn't stop unless you turn the sound off. BTW, it was also doing that before the new version...

I haven't seen any difference so far. Working nice for me.

Scotty Died: I can make my own rings and I always carry some with me so I don't care. Power Hungry: 3 free pps. You can still wear a power saving cloak while mixing if you don't want to lose food and eating while training a/d is quite useless, moreover if you're TSed down. Godless: I'm patient, I don't care training more than people who have +20% XP in a skill. And I prefer using potions rather than moving to the NPC to have a blessing (even if the potion is less powerful).

Honestly, I think the problem is more related to the nexus removal stones than the nexus NPC. I voted no.

I had a look and I don't understand why enabling the alpha test fixes the problems. For the icons and the rules background, the alpha test should be disabled because they are plain. However, the alpha test has to be enabled when drawing the rules text. For me, the problem is like it can't bind the texture and uses the first texture it knows instead but I have strictly no clue why it happens. Do you have any errors in your logs?

The black water is normal for inside maps (it has been changed) but what is not normal is if you don't have any reflections even with a shader set to 0 and reflections enabled. Is it the case?

With reflections enabled and water shader to 0, you have black water and no reflections? If yes, is it inside or outside? During day or night? What value are you using for the maximum reflection distance?

A solution could be just to add perfect versions of some flowers/plants. For example, you could have a regular sunflower and a perfect sunflower. Then, at each harvest round, you would have a chance to get the regular version or the perfect version and this chance would varies according to when you're harvesting... EDIT: to stay in the same idea of tirun, you can also forbid the storage of these flowers/plants or this will transform them to the regular versions

Rename the shader directory to something else? Anyway, what is the link with the original thread if you are playing on windows?