Wurm Online

benny · August 19, 2003, 1:53am

[quote]Error starting Wurm Online: Illegally formatted OpenGL version identifier: “1.2 Mesa 3.4.2”
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I don’t think Mesa is true OpenGL. Isn’t it like a software rendering version of it?

[quote] tried running Wurm from the JavaStart and it complaints about my openGL not being 1.4. I then downloaded the new drivers from nvidia, but still it says I have openGl 1.2
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I recently downloaded the Detonator XP drivers from NVIDIA for my Geforce 4 MX 440 SE. It says I have OpenGL 1.4. All Detonator XP drivers should have OpenGL 1.4

troggan · August 19, 2003, 5:44am

Yep, MESA is the Software Renderer. You need your Admin to get a OpenGL Driver installed. Good look

benny · August 19, 2003, 4:09pm

Cool, server’s running but when its nighttime you can’t really see anything. Seriously, one time i thought that the game didn’t even load. Then I saw the stars. Maybe you could provide a torch?

Markus_Persson · August 19, 2003, 7:55pm

Yeah, I know… I raised the ambient light a bit until we get around to implementing light sources.

Btw, there are now 50 mobs hanging around the central plate. They’re not very chatty, but they stress test the model rendering methods quite nicely. =)

sugarshark · August 22, 2003, 10:43am

[quote]How do I find out the HW-config of a Linux box when I have no admin rights? (Better give me some shell command, as the desktop is “secured” and I had trouble enough opening a shell and installing J1.4.2 here …)
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There are a lot of informational files in the /proc directory.
For example try this:

cat /proc/pci
cat /proc/cpuinfo
cat /proc/interrupts

If you have an nvidia card:

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/*

Explore the other files in /proc by yourself. You also can see a list of loaded modules (drivers) by calling:

/sbin/lsmod

sugarshark · August 22, 2003, 10:53am

Btw, Markus: Wurm did once run on my Linux box, but now it terminates just after opening it’s main window with: “Error starting Wurm Online: Error making context current”.
I’m trying to start it in a window with OpenGL check enabled.
I have a Nvidia card with nvidia OpenGL and JDK 1.4.2.

selendic · August 22, 2003, 12:43pm

It runs on my Suse8.2 + Nvidia nicely. (disclaimer: I haven’t tried it for 5 days). I had the same err message, but when I put my Linux box in 16 color mode, it works perfectly. However, Markus, newer versions give me strange results on my new 3 GHz, hyperthreading, NVidia FX 5600 256 MG with newest drivers, Windows XP SP1 box. It starts around 20 FPS and newer goes more than 50,55. I have yet to install Suse onto that beast, so I don’t know for Linux FPS. On my old 2.4 GHz Linux with NVidia 4200, I’ve had >70 FPS! What on earth am I doing wrong? Is opengl that much slower on Windoze? Or newer versions of Wurm are that much slower?

Markus_Persson · August 22, 2003, 12:53pm

The absoluetely latest version of wurm is extremely slow, as the new dynamic clouds code is running at full detail.

sugarshark · August 22, 2003, 1:14pm

[quote] I had the same err message, but when I put my Linux box in 16 color mode, it works perfectly.
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Ahh, ok, mine runs at 24 bits color depth. It’s probably the old problem, X reports a depth of 24 but really has a 32 bit framebuffer.

benny · August 22, 2003, 2:48pm

There’s something really wrong with the resolution and refresh rate of the game in fullscreen. My monitor keeps saying overange even though my monitor can support up to 1024x768 resolution at 75 Hz. Help!! I hate window mode.

Markus_Persson · August 22, 2003, 3:17pm

Yeah… it uses the best refresh rate it can find, so it’s probably trying to use 100hz or some other insane rate.

The fullscreen code isn’t exactly final yet, as I pretty much exclusively play it in windowed mode.
(makes debugging it a tad easier. ;))

Plans for this weekend: Clean up the cloud-code, add rain and thunder. Probably finally implement proper streams and bodies of water.

Markus_Persson · August 23, 2003, 5:22pm

There, now it uses the lowest refresh rate it can find instead.

Uploaded a new version that has constant rain.

troggan · August 24, 2003, 4:24am

Setting the refreshrate to the lowest it finds ?! now it rans with 60 hz on my pc.
can’t you add the mhz to the selector in the options-menu? or try to find a resolution with 75/85 hz and use that ?

troggan

Markus_Persson · August 24, 2003, 9:14am

You’re just going to have to live with 60 hz for now.

Markus_Persson · August 25, 2003, 5:14am

Yeah, lightning and rivers didn’t really happen… I got sidetracked writing an erosion engine for the landscape creation for some reason.

I was looking for articles on generating rivers on a heightmap and, well, it all went downhill from there.

http://www.theintraclinic.com/erode.gif

[edit: oops, used ]

swpalmer · August 25, 2003, 10:38am

I just tried the latest version… now I get an error message sometimes when I move the console window around or switch the focus to it. This happens after walking around for a bit, or right away…
“Error starting Wurm Online: Error swapping buffers”, press OK and the game goes bye bye.
Is this a JOGL problem?

Markus_Persson · August 25, 2003, 11:20am

I certainly hope so. =/

The exception comes from jogl, but I’m not certain if it’s my fault or if jogl just isn’t as awt/swing friendly as it claims.

Orangy_Tang · August 25, 2003, 1:31pm

I get the error swapping buffers exception infrequently in my own Jogl project, seems to be brought about by simple things like resizing the window or alt-tabbing, so i think its a Jogl bug…

selendic · August 25, 2003, 7:08pm

Ups, very strange. Windows download says 1.6 Meg, Linux 2.2 Meg. And Linux never finishes. It says “corupted jar” or something like that. Btw. Linux Web start is working, I’ve downloaded few other programs without a glitch. Help, Markus! I want to test my new machine!

Markus_Persson · August 25, 2003, 8:15pm

I re-uploaded all the lib jars in case any of them were broken… Try now.