2010-12-10, 02:08 AM
^Did you apply the patch.zip attachment?
The XP SP3 machine I tested the patch on (worked fine) has practically nothing installed on it. I wonder what the hell the prob could be if there really is one.
It might be a driver related thing. Though the only thing I can think of is the driver rejecting textures with an alpha channel for GDI usage. My drivers just ignore the alpha channel, but the software renderer rejects them. Docs say that is undefined.
If you get in touch with me I can give you a debug build with extensive logging enabled that will generate a huge file / hopefully point to where things are going south (mainly by whatever the last log entry says)
PS: I setup Ex to promote the zbuffer as high as possible up to 32bits, and that pretty much fixed the z-fighting, though that machine still feels a little dirty... I'm guessing the hardware is just skimpy (ION chip)
Need to figure out how to keep the computer from shutting off the monitor (and probably eventually going into auto-sleep) while the joypad is the only input. I suspect that's just an XP thing. Only I can't get at the joypad interface last I tried... though I was able to overwrite individual entrypoints in the virtual function table!! So I can probably just keep doing that. I suspect I can also fix the jankiness of the menu press detection by switching over to buffered input. I hope so anyway, because that's the best idea I got. And that is a serious bug.
The XP SP3 machine I tested the patch on (worked fine) has practically nothing installed on it. I wonder what the hell the prob could be if there really is one.
It might be a driver related thing. Though the only thing I can think of is the driver rejecting textures with an alpha channel for GDI usage. My drivers just ignore the alpha channel, but the software renderer rejects them. Docs say that is undefined.
If you get in touch with me I can give you a debug build with extensive logging enabled that will generate a huge file / hopefully point to where things are going south (mainly by whatever the last log entry says)
PS: I setup Ex to promote the zbuffer as high as possible up to 32bits, and that pretty much fixed the z-fighting, though that machine still feels a little dirty... I'm guessing the hardware is just skimpy (ION chip)
Need to figure out how to keep the computer from shutting off the monitor (and probably eventually going into auto-sleep) while the joypad is the only input. I suspect that's just an XP thing. Only I can't get at the joypad interface last I tried... though I was able to overwrite individual entrypoints in the virtual function table!! So I can probably just keep doing that. I suspect I can also fix the jankiness of the menu press detection by switching over to buffered input. I hope so anyway, because that's the best idea I got. And that is a serious bug.