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Same speed, no problems

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Slower, no other problems

Slower, problematic

Doesn't work at all

[lizard]

Your post to head fixes text display in Karmic in konsole and gnome-terminal.  Doubles my framerate from 9 to 20 in full-screen mode    DF over ssh commenced!  Now to get it running on my cluster ...

[bombcar]

Yay! With the new version, and making sure LANG=en_US.UTF-8, it works over SSH!

However, it doesn't seem to delete the previous characters during the movie, and if my screen is anything but 80x25 when the movie starts it looks wrong.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Malicus]

My memory is bad, and I don't want to read through the thread again to see if this was already mentioned, so...

My [G_FPS_CAP] is set at 20.  However, occasionally the GFPS drops down to about 15, and the FPS drops with it.  Even scrolling is rather sluggish when this is happening.  I'm not running anything that makes significant use of the graphics card other than DF, so I have no idea why this would happen.

Oh, and I'm running in PARTIAL:0, and my window size is 1270x736.  Resizing the window smaller seems to fix this, but it does not ALWAYS run slowly while the window is large.   ...and also, restarting DF seems to make this go away temporarily, even though I had had DF paused for a while while typing this and it was still running slowly before I saved the game and restarted.

[Baughn]

bombcar: Yeah, the movies being broken is a known issue. I'm looking at it.

Malicus: That happens if the GPU decides to block for some reason. It's particularily a problem with ATI cards, because nvidia allows a larger backlog before it does that. I've got a fix in the shader branch (not yet in -head, thus) that solves this by explicitly skipping graphical frames instead, but it depends on the ARB_sync extension; you might want to check if you have it.

(That'd be with http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/ on windows, glxinfo on linux)

Re: framerate: Shader mode is just as fast as textmode. Just thought I'd mention that.

[Baughn]

Movies now fixed. Text-mode movies too. Not sure about the running out of color pairs issue.. how did that happen?

[illiterate]

I am getting this output when I try to run df after installing the head. 

./dwarfort.exe: error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I think it has to do with me running 64-bit karmic, but haven't found a way to fix it.    /usr seems to contain that file. 

[Daenyth]

You have the 64bit copy of that library, and you need 32bit

[rdwulfe]

rdwulfe: Does it actually /feel/ faster, or are you going only by the FPS counter?

It felt a bit slower, but I will do better testing today and get back to you, Baughn, now that I have a few good maps to try things on. A recent crash erased all my old forts.

   Wulfe

[Baughn]

I've got a new 40d18-head up now that displays the old FPS counter as well, for your comparison porpoises. It's a lot more jumpy, but I'm not sure it's all that much less accurate overall; hopefully someone will tell me otherwise.

Anyway, it goes "FPS (G_FPS) / old_FPS".

(Download! Please, think of the porpoises!)

[illiterate]

You have the 64bit copy of that library, and you need 32bit

forgive my ignorance ..  how would I do this? 

[Malicus]

Malicus: That happens if the GPU decides to block for some reason. It's particularily a problem with ATI cards, because nvidia allows a larger backlog before it does that. I've got a fix in the shader branch (not yet in -head, thus) that solves this by explicitly skipping graphical frames instead, but it depends on the ARB_sync extension; you might want to check if you have it.

(That'd be with http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/ on windows, glxinfo on linux)

This is worrisome.  I can -not- find that extention in glview.  Again, my card is an nvidia Geforce 9400 GT.

Edit: And as far as glview's database claims, few cards DO have that extension.

[Baughn]

It's a very *new* extension; it was approved in november 2009. My 8600M supports it, though; try checking for new drivers.

Also, the game will keep working exactly as before if you don't have the extension; the code is conditionalized.

[Ogantai]

It's a very *new* extension; it was approved in november 2009. My 8600M supports it, though; try checking for new drivers.

Also, the game will keep working exactly as before if you don't have the extension; the code is conditionalized.

Is Shader mode in the -head version posted today already?

[Malicus]

The following are listed as cards that support the ARB_sync extension in glview:

GF 8400, GF 8400M GS, GF 8800 GT, GF 9500 GT, GF GTX 275, GF GTX 285, Quadro FX 3800.  ...only one of those isn't a GeForce, and my 9400 GT isn't included.  I'm trying a driver update anyway, though.

Edit: Huzzah!  The driver update worked.  I guess their database is just out of date.

[Baughn]

Is Shader mode in the -head version posted today already?

No. There's no way to implement it without making DF unstable, short of a recompile of DF, so it'll be in 40d19.