MantisBT - Zandronum
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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0001970Zandronum[All Projects] Bugpublic2014-10-21 14:032014-10-22 19:22
ReporterSilentDarkness12 
Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeveritytextReproducibilityrandom
StatusclosedResolutionunable to reproduce 
PlatformMicrosoftOSWindows XPOS VersionSP 3
Product Version2.0-beta 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0001970: Chat text doesn't display properly
DescriptionWhen I was playing a multiplayer game in 2.0 alpha, sometimes the chat text would be somewhat garbled, with odd green squares displaying where the letters should be. I can't always reproduce this, though.
Steps To ReproduceChat with friends in Zandronum?
Additional InformationI was using Samsara 0.3 at the time.
Tagsclient, text, zandronum
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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2014-10-21 14:03SilentDarkness12New Issue
2014-10-21 15:05DuskNote Added: 0010654
2014-10-21 15:27SilentDarkness12Note Added: 0010655
2014-10-21 16:51SilentDarkness12Note Edited: 0010655bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=10655#r5842
2014-10-21 17:39DuskNote Added: 0010656
2014-10-21 18:19Konar6Note Added: 0010657
2014-10-21 18:28SilentDarkness12Note Added: 0010658
2014-10-21 19:06Torr SamahoNote Added: 0010660
2014-10-22 19:21DuskStatusnew => closed
2014-10-22 19:21DuskResolutionopen => unable to reproduce
2014-10-22 19:22DuskNote Added: 0010671

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(0010654)
Dusk   
2014-10-21 15:05   
Considering your existing problems with hardware drivers, I'm inclined to think this is another consequence of those problems.
(0010655)
SilentDarkness12   
2014-10-21 15:27   
(edited on: 2014-10-21 16:51)
Then updates need to be made to whatever opengl renderer Zandronum runs off of, if that's what it actually is. I'm not sure.

EDIT: I'll toy around in the software renderer for a while, see if I can repeat it.
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Dusk   
2014-10-21 17:39   
Considering pretty much nobody else has complained of this issue before? Sounds very much like the problem is on your end. You are using an unsupported operating system and graphics drivers that have proven to cause trouble. So the first suspect is definitely not the codebase.
(0010657)
Konar6   
2014-10-21 18:19   
Dusk: while I agree with the rest of your post, AFAIK Zandronum was always supported on Windows back to 98. The binaries are compiled in Visual Studio 2005. There are still players using operating systems even older than XP. We are not Microsoft to tell them to buy new computers just to have a new shiny system.
Silent: this is why said 'downgrade' your video drivers in the other ticket. Latest Nvidia drivers are known for causing more problems than they solve sometimes.
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SilentDarkness12   
2014-10-21 18:28   
And I have downgraded the drivers, Konar. I'm not running into the problems at the moment....funny thing is, I know all to well about driver updates breaking everything. I updated in the name of fixing a bug with another game, and Zandronum broke instead. xD

You'll surely know if I still run into this problem.
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Torr Samaho   
2014-10-21 19:06   
Quote from Konar6
We are not Microsoft to tell them to buy new computers just to have a new shiny system.
No, we are not telling them to buy new systems, but I still strongly advise everybody to stop use XP immediately (and of course even older Windows versions). There are free alternatives that work on old hardware.
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Dusk   
2014-10-22 19:22   
It's pretty clear that this is a driver issue. Please re-open if new information arises.