TA5 Bugs or Issues (Someone had to start it)

[lastmsg]

A reflection in shiny water bug thing...

WELL the picture pretty much says it all, the sky dome reflection as a very noticeable split near the bottom on each side

http://op6xyq.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pp6tZDwPqF2jOSyBuqvMjXXqo7TW8XlR_8ycOGqRVfhTeOgekDc8URTkH8AQnd9e-qUJghshq2UXyMrtpi7qrmn7GcZuaskeK/sky%20reflection.png

[TheJamsh]

yesterday i noticed that terrain wasnt be ing clipped properly on reflections again. i was getting big black terrain coming up above water.

somewhere... fixes to the reflection code were broken again. will mantis shortly

[Russian Roulette]

I was on alien dunes last night with normal ai settings, I aborted the game, then exited to the main menu and got this:

---- Battlezone II Log File ----
//=====================================================
App version: Patch 1.3TechAlpha5 Apr 23 2009 13:36:08
Windows version: Windows Version: 5.1.2600 'Service Pack 2' PlatformID=2

Last few battlezone.log lines (may or may not be relevant):
DIAG|            runcodes:113  |00:06:11|1274038|[View] Clearing runcode [PauseScreen]
DIAG|      MissionHandler:1269 |00:06:11|1274038|Expanded game UI file of 'bzescape_exit_640x480.cfg' not found. Using default of 'bzescape_exit.cfg'
DIAG|            runcodes:154  |00:06:12|1274874|[Main] Entering run code [SHELL]
DIAG|              icroot:193  |00:06:12|1274876|Root window now 640x480
(done)

Exception code: C0000005 (ACCESS VIOLATION) WRITING to 17880800h
Message :  Exception
Error occurred at 4/30/2009 00:06:18.
C:\Program Files\Battlezone II\bzone.exe, run by ******.
C:\Program Files\Battlezone II\bzone.exe, run by ******.
CPU: 1 processor(s), Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU      1200MHz
     x86 Family 6 Model 11 Stepping 1
Process Memory :   1679 MB free out of   2048 MB total
Physical memory:     89 MB free out of    512 MB total
Page(swap) file:    709 MB free out of   1250 MB total
This exe is using 141 MB, peak use 190 MB

Fault address:  7855B37F 01:0003A37F C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.VC90.CRT_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.1_x-ww_6f74963e\MSVCR90.dll

Registers:
EAX:00000000
EBX:00000500
ECX:00000140
EDX:00000000
ESI:17880800
EDI:17880800
CS:EIP:001B:7855B37F
SS:ESP:0023:0209EE30  EBP:0209EE60
DS:0023  ES:0023  FS:003B  GS:0000
Flags:00010202

Call stack:
Address   Return    Function            SourceFile
7855B37F  00000000  0059F2FB  memset+0x0000005F
0059F2FB  00000000  0059F99B  Open_RAD_3D_image_lin+0x0000006B
0059F99B  00000000  0059C59E  BinkHelper::Allocate_3D_images+0x0000003B
0059C59E  00000000  0059C93F  MovieClass::Init+0x000001DE
0059C93F  00000000  0045962F  IControl::SetMovie+0x0000002F
0045962F  00000000  005D70F8  ShellHandler::Command::Process+0x0000017F
005D70F8  00000000  00577993  VarSys::VarItem::TriggerCallBack+0x00000018
00577993  00000000  00000000  TBuf::NextToken+0x00000043

[lastmsg]

Also I just noticed, as you see in the pictures that I have of the satellite view, doesn't the trapezoid on the mini map look a bit squished for the ankle that the camera is at?

[lastmsg]

The red building on green block is still there :/

http://op6xyq.blu.livefilestore.com/y1psaQrN3zy-2LUP9gLFbAkCqvdVGjMau-9zzyFRMw-9N0uJwS-PTOPZuY-2Jkek4ARbNOLmikddxJCcYJ5EcbbZsTtQ2EZz5wt/red%20green.png

And the blue box gets messed and starts lines flash on it near the bottom of the screen when in satellite mode.

http://op6xyq.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pQDNBAtBEUanvBeUwyHPmNS32KO4GX2SYS-V1epBljCw8aj7r2YWVL2M5pjrv46xBSfoVh0LeF1poTF6E5ls_rBCRF1Eu3e1o/Line.png

[Nielk1]

The red building on green block is still there :/

http://op6xyq.blu.livefilestore.com/y1psaQrN3zy-2LUP9gLFbAkCqvdVGjMau-9zzyFRMw-9N0uJwS-PTOPZuY-2Jkek4ARbNOLmikddxJCcYJ5EcbbZsTtQ2EZz5wt/red%20green.png

And the blue box gets messed and starts lines flash on it near the bottom of the screen when in satellite mode.

http://op6xyq.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pQDNBAtBEUanvBeUwyHPmNS32KO4GX2SYS-V1epBljCw8aj7r2YWVL2M5pjrv46xBSfoVh0LeF1poTF6E5ls_rBCRF1Eu3e1o/Line.png

Both of those are NOTHING. One is an object that needs PERFECTLY flat terrain and only had somewhat flat, and the other was very similar. ONLY report BUGS that are either not trivial or do not also exist in pb4a please. You are just muddying the water with crap atm Dat.

[lastmsg]

The other blue box bug happens on super flat terrain to.

And I tried to go into multi-player, I got this http://op6xyq.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pcBJ7MKTLM1vJWt45oTVLH0gB17IEnN8dtL1udpnWdKN_T8MWNtZBbgrpV6MA9yik11G6BT63bF1sC7w1iEAuh0ctbU1xXwQu/Multi%20player.png

[AHadley]

Possible causes: Incomplete patch, or broken mod. Try downloading it again.

[lastmsg]

No mod, I just clicked ok and went to the main menu and back into multi-player.

[RAVEgun]

So I recently joined General BlackDragon in some Battlezone Classic testing and also TA5 with that. I got across a bug which GBD told me he is new to, so though I might share it here, perhaps some wiseguys here see the connection and are able to make a fix

Symptoms
About 30% - 50% of frames have graphical artifacts, seems like bad rendering. Triangles are misinformed, stretched out over the screen space, only lasting one frame. Some terrain polygons also fail to render.

No performance or gameplay impact it seems.

Bug concerns PB3, PB4 and TA5 so far. Haven't tested on any other updates. Graphics card: 9600GT.


Fix
Set skydetail to none.

Screenshots
http://img245.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=bz20041.png

[TheJamsh]

We already know that updating drivers for PB4 and PB2 will result in serious problems on an nvidia card in the 8 series or above. theres a wacking great post about it.

Remember that TA5 is still in alpha stage. A LOT of map changes were made to.

upgrade you're drivers to ones that NVidia suggest (NOT NOT NOT MICROSOFT), and try again.

[Nielk1]

My source engine games do that when they indicate OS Page Memory low (often when it is NOT).

[AHadley]

Av and GBD won't be best pleased now BZC screenies are on the net

[General BlackDragon]

It's the demo, and there's already several screenies and a video of live gameplay on the net...Where have you been?

http://www.theoutcastsclan.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3326

But yeah, hopefully updating drivers will work. I updated mine but i didn't notice any differance. I'm using 7600.

[AHadley]

I was joking