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Faster than 40d, no problems

42 (26.1%)

Faster than 40d, problems

72 (44.7%)

No slower than 40d, no problems

14 (8.7%)

No slower than 40d, problems

16 (9.9%)

Slower than 40d, no problems

2 (1.2%)

Slower than 40d, problems

3 (1.9%)

Doesn't work (please explain)

12 (7.5%)

Total Members Voted: 160

[Baughn]

Not much I can do, then.

I've got the same GPU you do, and driver version, so I don't think that's it. Is it possible that your system just doesn't support OpenGL?

Windows has a built-in software renderer for OpenGL 1.1, which covers what 40d uses (though it'd be slow), but not any of the newer versions. You can test by seeing what GLView (http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/) says.

[Feldrin]

According to the extension viewer I've got everything 100% up to version 2.1, and I've got 86% of the stuff that version 3.0 uses. Just to give something else a try I've updated my nvidia drivers to 181.22, downloaded and installed this and gave the extension viewer another try but nothing seemed to be different, nor did the updated DF work.

I do have a bunch of extension verifications coming up in bold font at the end of the report list though, but that might just be normal. I don't see how I could fix this, if it needed fixing, since that sortof stuff ought to be part and parcel of the basic video display drivers.

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Extension verification:
GL_ARB_framebuffer_object has the entry point glFramebufferTexturLayer missing!
GL_EXT_color_subtable was not found, but has the entry point glColorSubTableEXT
GL_EXT_copy_texture was not found, but has the entry point glCopyTexSubImage3DEXT
GL_EXT_paletted_texture was not found, but has the entry point glColorTableEXT
GL_EXT_paletted_texture was not found, but has the entry point glGetColorTableEXT
GL_EXT_paletted_texture was not found, but has the entry point glGetColorTableParameterfvEXT
GL_EXT_paletted_texture was not found, but has the entry point glGetColorTableParameterivEXT
GL_EXT_subtexture was not found, but has the entry point glTexSubImage3DEXT
GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra has been added to the extensions list of GeForce 8800 GT/PCI/SSE2
GL_KTX_buffer_region has the entry point glBufferRegionEnabledEXT missing!
GL_KTX_buffer_region has the entry point glDeleteBufferRegionEXT missing!
GL_KTX_buffer_region has the entry point glDrawBufferRegionEXT missing!
GL_KTX_buffer_region has the entry point glNewBufferRegionEXT missing!
GL_KTX_buffer_region has the entry point glReadBufferRegionEXT missing!
GL_NV_geometry_program4 was not found, but has the entry point glProgramVertexLimitNV
GL_NV_half_float has the entry point glVertexWeighthNV missing!
GL_NV_half_float has the entry point glVertexWeighthvNV missing!
GL_NV_present_video was not found, but has the entry point glGetVideoi64vNV
GL_NV_present_video was not found, but has the entry point glGetVideoivNV
GL_NV_present_video was not found, but has the entry point glGetVideoui64vNV
GL_NV_present_video was not found, but has the entry point glGetVideouivNV
GL_NV_present_video was not found, but has the entry point glPresentFrameDualFillNV
GL_NV_present_video was not found, but has the entry point glPresentFrameKeyedNV
WGL_NV_swap_group was not found, but has the entry point wglBindSwapBarrierNV
WGL_NV_swap_group was not found, but has the entry point wglJoinSwapGroupNV
WGL_NV_swap_group was not found, but has the entry point wglQueryFrameCountNV
WGL_NV_swap_group was not found, but has the entry point wglQueryMaxSwapGroupsNV
WGL_NV_swap_group was not found, but has the entry point wglQuerySwapGroupNV
WGL_NV_swap_group was not found, but has the entry point wglResetFrameCountNV
WGL_NV_vertex_array_range was not found, but has the entry point wglAllocateMemoryNV
WGL_NV_vertex_array_range was not found, but has the entry point wglFreeMemoryNV
WGL_NV_video_output was not found, but has the entry point wglBindVideoImageNV
WGL_NV_video_output was not found, but has the entry point wglGetVideoDeviceNV
WGL_NV_video_output was not found, but has the entry point wglGetVideoInfoNV
WGL_NV_video_output was not found, but has the entry point wglReleaseVideoDeviceNV
WGL_NV_video_output was not found, but has the entry point wglReleaseVideoImageNV
WGL_NV_video_output was not found, but has the entry point wglSendPbufferToVideoNV
GL_HP_occlusion_test was not found, but is available in driver version 2.1.0
GL_NV_framebuffer_multisample_ex was not found, but is available in driver version 2.1.0
GL_NV_texture_compression_latc was not found, but is available in driver version 2.1.0
GL_OES_conditional_query was not found, but is available in driver version 2.1.0
WGL_ARB_create_context was not found, but is available in driver version 6.14.11.7789

[Baughn]

The missing functions are OpenGL 3 stuff. I don't use anything anywhere near that, so that's not the issue.

It doesn't seem very likely to be the problem anyway. If absolutely nothing shows up, and especially with it spinning the CPU... about the only possibility is that something is really horribly, catastrophically wrong, and even if I was sitting at your computer chances are I wouldn't be able to fix it. You can, though - fix your OS.

[Andir]

It doesn't have to be OpenGL... it could be sound or something else that's causing it.

[brainfire]

In Linux, I sometimes get clusters of a message: "Mouse reset; this should not happen" (printed to the terminal i ran df in). It seems to happen when my mouse is right on the edge of the window, just inside the window border. (Even though I have MOUSE:NO)

[Baughn]

That's due to a fencepost error in 40d9. It was fixed quite a while ago, actually.

[Shades]

That's due to a fencepost error in 40d9. It was fixed quite a while ago, actually.

Is there bug list of known (and fixed) bugs for 40d9? would stop the same ones being mentioned

[Aegis]

I think I finally understand the FPS and G_FPS things in the init file. Can anyone please correct me if I'm wrong?

The FPS_CAP controls how fast the game advances.
The G_FPS_CAP is how often the screen refreshes, so if this is low and your FPS is high then the dwarfs jump around.
Is that right?

[Footkerchief]

Yes.

[EvilCheerio]

So with this version i'm getting a good increase when i use very large areas, but if i stick to 80*50 i'm getting little to no increase, is that wierd?

[Baughn]

It optimizes display output.

The work the simulation has to do is mostly independent of the size of the grid, but the display code gets worked harder the larger the grid is, and that's where the improvements are.

[Warlord255]

Yea, I'm immensely late in coming, here... I wanted to go on break until the next release, but I want to do some testing for tilesets and see how much better this "optimized" version runs.

But downloading the OSX folder contains... a .exe that I can't run on mac. ._. wut?

[Baughn]

Well, we're still waiting for someone to actually create a .app bundle, but the .exe is in fact the mac executable - not a windows one. Odd, I know.

It won't run as-is, though. You'll need to open a terminal, change to the directory you unpacked DF in and run the df shell script to start it.

[Warlord255]

Well, we're still waiting for someone to actually create a .app bundle, but the .exe is in fact the mac executable - not a windows one. Odd, I know.

It won't run as-is, though. You'll need to open a terminal, change to the directory you unpacked DF in and run the df shell script to start it.

...How does one change directory. I know next to nothing about this stuff.

[Footkerchief]

...How does one change directory. I know next to nothing about this stuff.

The "cd" command.  http://www.ss64.com/osx/