Voodoo3 and in game menus.
by Jason Palmer · in Marble Blast · 02/15/2003 (6:13 am) · 4 replies
Just wanted to let u know that the Linux game runs ok with the Voodoo3 but the menus are all hosed up. The button on top that you click to play doesn't even show up its just white there (I just started clicking around in the whiteness to get it to play.) Other than the menus not showing up correctly with Voodoo3 everything seems ok.
Another thing I noticed when I first installed the game I have some funky firewall rules. Lots of filtering. The game didn't like the packets being filtered when it first ran when it tried to phone home or whatever it wanted to do and it just kept hard locking my machine (forcing reboot). Until I rebooted, flushed the rules and re-ran it. Not good that is hard locks the machine.
Also the game does crash alot. I found pressing lots of buttons (a s d f repeatedly) in between levels while clicking next (to go to the next stage) will cause the program to segfault.
I started exiting the game after every level so it would save. :( Not having the game save after beating each level is a very very very BAD thing.
Great game though so far. Quite a few laughs and lots of fun. Thanks!
Another thing I noticed when I first installed the game I have some funky firewall rules. Lots of filtering. The game didn't like the packets being filtered when it first ran when it tried to phone home or whatever it wanted to do and it just kept hard locking my machine (forcing reboot). Until I rebooted, flushed the rules and re-ran it. Not good that is hard locks the machine.
Also the game does crash alot. I found pressing lots of buttons (a s d f repeatedly) in between levels while clicking next (to go to the next stage) will cause the program to segfault.
I started exiting the game after every level so it would save. :( Not having the game save after beating each level is a very very very BAD thing.
Great game though so far. Quite a few laughs and lots of fun. Thanks!
#2
Ironically the reason I know what the menu is supposed to look like is because when the game crashed one time it had left the device open (by device I mean whatever is necessary to initialize the 3d device) and the next time I ran it, it used software mode. In software mode the menu drew normally (of course very slowly).
It's not something I ask to be fixed because I would rather have you spend your time porting another game to Linux. Wink Wink Nudge Nudge (more games drool).
I have to say that this game is the shiznit. Whooo. Very massive ammounts of imagination.
And I'm still only on the intermediate levels.
I am waiting to try the orbz demo for Linux when it comes out.... :)
02/15/2003 (11:52 pm)
Yeah, don't worry about the menus. It's really not something thats worth taking the time for. The game itself plays with flawless graphics its just the menus and it's pretty obvious that the empty white space above the top icon is the button to click to play.Ironically the reason I know what the menu is supposed to look like is because when the game crashed one time it had left the device open (by device I mean whatever is necessary to initialize the 3d device) and the next time I ran it, it used software mode. In software mode the menu drew normally (of course very slowly).
It's not something I ask to be fixed because I would rather have you spend your time porting another game to Linux. Wink Wink Nudge Nudge (more games drool).
I have to say that this game is the shiznit. Whooo. Very massive ammounts of imagination.
And I'm still only on the intermediate levels.
I am waiting to try the orbz demo for Linux when it comes out.... :)
#3
But since it doesn't affect the gameplay, it's no big deal. The game itself runs smoothly most of the time, with only minor slowdowns on some levels. The stated Linux system requirements are a bit exaggerated, it seems. :-)
02/16/2003 (8:02 am)
I haven't had any problems with the game crashing, but I've noticed too that some graphics - the intro screens and the background for the level selection dialog, to be specific - won't show up with my Matrox G400. I just assumed it was trying to use too large textures for my wimpy 16 MB card. (At least, that seems to be the reason why the XScreensaver OpenGL hacks that try to use a whole screenshot onto an object won't work with it.)But since it doesn't affect the gameplay, it's no big deal. The game itself runs smoothly most of the time, with only minor slowdowns on some levels. The stated Linux system requirements are a bit exaggerated, it seems. :-)
#4
I have been having a similar problem, in that the program cashes every once and a while after exiting. This has happened to me 6 or so times and each time i get further ( im on lvl 20 advanced) but as soon as i exit it resets me back to lvl 1. This game came with my new iBook G4 and im addicted it and has been a blast, but it is getting frustrating when i get very far and when i quit it sets me back to lvl 1. What really gets me is i have begun writing on this forum several times but everytime i try to make the game crash so i can get the error message it starts working again. I currently have version 1.5.3 and was wondering if there was a newer version that i can get that can hopefully help me out.
The error message is:
The application Marble Blast Gold quit unexpectedly
Mac OS X and other applications are not affected.
Click Reopen to open the application again. Click Report to see more details or send a report to Apple.
Thank you for any and all help.
Nathan Olech
10/02/2005 (3:03 pm)
Hello,I have been having a similar problem, in that the program cashes every once and a while after exiting. This has happened to me 6 or so times and each time i get further ( im on lvl 20 advanced) but as soon as i exit it resets me back to lvl 1. This game came with my new iBook G4 and im addicted it and has been a blast, but it is getting frustrating when i get very far and when i quit it sets me back to lvl 1. What really gets me is i have begun writing on this forum several times but everytime i try to make the game crash so i can get the error message it starts working again. I currently have version 1.5.3 and was wondering if there was a newer version that i can get that can hopefully help me out.
The error message is:
The application Marble Blast Gold quit unexpectedly
Mac OS X and other applications are not affected.
Click Reopen to open the application again. Click Report to see more details or send a report to Apple.
Thank you for any and all help.
Nathan Olech
Torque Owner John Quigley
We're probably not going to do anything to support the voodoo 3 better at this point.
I will investigate the between level crash problem to see if I can reproduce it. After that, I have time, I'll take a look at the firewall problem.
Bummer that you have to exit the game to save progress. I think you can do the following instead:
press ~
type: onExit();
This will cause the game to save progress without needing to restart. I tested this briefly and it worked, but if you have problems you should switch back to exiting the game.