Bug: Bug Thread: Discussion

[TurboNoob]

A pretty big bug, I can't start the game because all I see is this:

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs115&d=07186&...nions3brok.jpg

I have the necessary requirements for the game (RAM and video card) but I'm running vista, is that the problem?

[lch]

Have you got Vista-certified drivers from your graphics card manufacturer? Do you have any similar problems with other games?

[Edi]

The problem is probably related to Vista. Dom3 has been developed mainly on Linux and intended to be multiplatform (Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris). Vista was nowhere near out when Dom3 was completed, so not meshing with Vista, especially given the dismal state of Vista driver support at the moment, is no surprise.

[TurboNoob]

is there any way to uninstall vista and install xp?

[Ballbarian]

Not sure if it will help, but I use another pc as a server and had some really strange graphics glitches until I adjusted the video settings via the command line switches. Then everything worked like a charm.

Code:

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******* Video Options *******

-T  --textonly      Use this with --tcpserver to get graphicless server

    --opacity X     Set gui opacity 0 - 100

-r  --res X Y       Set screen resolution / window size (default=800 600)

    --animback      Use animated backgrounds

-a  --noanimback    Don't use animated backgrounds

    --fade          Use fade effects

-f  --nofade        No fade effects

    --nopopups      No helpful popups

    --fps X         Aim for this nbr of frames per second (default=20)

    --maxfps X      Maximum nbr of frames per second (default=50)

    --filtering X   Quality of OpenGL filtering 0-3 (default=2)

    --maxtexsize X  Max texture size in pixels 32-4096 (default=unlimited)

    --treequal X    Tree quality 1-5 (default=3)

    --texqual X     Texture quality 1-5 (default=3)

    --nolightfx     No light effects in battles

    --partamount X  Max nbr of particles 0-8 (0=none, 4=default, 8=max)

    --nograss       Don't draw the grass

    --noarcade      Don't draw floating damage numbers

    --noglext       Don't use any OpenGL extensions

    --vsync         Enable vsync

-V  --novsync       Disable vsync

    --renderpath X  Use different optimizations 0-1 (0=good for low mem cards)

-x  --fastgrx       Faster graphics (use 3 times for best performance (-xxx))

-p  --perftest      Run a performance test and exit

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[MaxWilson]

Blessed Sepulchrals don't get full blessing effects. In attached save game (Wisp's Home battle or Upper Skelde battle), D9E9N4S4 Sepulchrals appear to receive the E9 blessing but no other effects (including +2 morale). Unknown whether this generalizes to all sacred undead.

-Max Wilson

Edit: 2 things. It turns out that there was no partial blessing applied--Protection was boosted by another mage casting Legions of Steel, not by the blessing. Also, DrPraetorious' hotfix (message #500877, "Black Tome of Alisophocus / Blessing Hot Fix", not sure how to create a link to it) corrects the problem. Nice work, Dr. P!

[Of course it's not really a .txt file.]

[Edi]

The blessings have always been either straight out broken or otherwise strange with undead, so that issue is on the list.

[Olive]

mivayan said:

In 3.06 I've seen it happen both ways in different games. Might depend on the map used or something else.

That's it, it happens on Glory of the Gods (small), but not on Cradle of Dominions.

Edit : no, I've run some tests, it's not that. I've still one of the games where the capitol has been searched by spells, but I'm not able to reproduce it. Don't know how it happened.

[Edi]

Bug Shortlist has been updated to reflect the currently unresolved issues of version 3.08.

[MaxWilson]

Thanks, Edi! I'm glad to see that #startspell is considered a major bug.

-Max