Segfault

[tcorner]

I have been playing the game for about a week, but now it segfaults right after I login.
:sad2:

Tom Corner (lasulu)

[tcorner]

Tried:

Restart X
Reboot Machine
Reinstall game
delete .egenesis file
loging in with udp communications.

Nothing helps. I don't understand I have played for hours without a problem.

lasulu

[tcorner]

I was able to play with Linux on another machine with Nvidia graphics. The segfaulting laptop has Radeon graphics with ATI's Linux driver. After playing on the other machine, the laptop worked again. However, after hours of play it segfaulted again and I had to play on the other machine again to fix it. Weird!
:sad:

[Pluribus]

Did you recently update your ATI driver or Kernel? (ATI has this NASTY tendancy to break the client on a fairly regular basis... Like every other driver rev.)

Try running the client using the -noext command line option and see if it fixes it.... NOTE: It WILL be ugly in this mode.

the nvidia driver should be rock solid.

[tcorner]

My desktop has nvidia - no problem. Works great. Will try -noext

[Pluribus]

That most likely wont work since both are nvidia... Which cards are you talking in the box that is having the crash issues and have you tried re-installing the driver? ou dont say what distro or give any details of your system so REALLY I could guess what you are trying to do OR I could offer good advise based on a good set of information.... However, All the information that you have given me is that it used to work, now it doesnt, and that you have some kind of nvidia based video card... (Be that a riva tnt or GF 6800 ultra, I have no idea :-) )

[tcorner]

I have 2 Linux systems. Slackware 10.1 and 10.0. Kernel 2.6.11.7 & 2.6.10. The 10.0/2.6.10 system has an nvidia card and nvidia's latest Linux driver. It works great - beautiful graphics - no segfaults. The 10.1/2.6.11.7 system is on a laptop with Mobility Radeon 9200 graphics. It uses ATI's latest xorg driver: fglrx_6_8_0-8.12.10-1.i386.rpm. The driver works ok except for 3D games. It is commonly known to be an inferior driver. In ATITD the game segfaults occasionally and cannot be restarted until after I have logged in and played a while on the machine with nvidia graphics. I have registered complaints with ati. They do not provide good Linux support. The hardware is proprietary and the malfunctioning driver is closed source. Not only does the game segfault occasionally, but the graphics are in general inferior to the nvidia machine. Tall grass does not display. The colors are not as good either. Very noticeable in the plants when doing the school of the body init. I am only complaining now. Perhaps the commercial Radeon driver from Xi would work better, but I don't feel I should have to pay for a driver.

thanks,

Tom Corner

[rhyddereh]

Not only does the game segfault occasionally, but the graphics are in general inferior to the nvidia machine. Tall grass does not display. The colors are not as good either. Very noticeable in the plants when doing the school of the body init. I am only complaining now. Perhaps the commercial Radeon driver from Xi would work better, but I don't feel I should have to pay for a driver.

Not a linux guy, but that's inherent in the pre-9600 radeons on any platform (not the crashing thing). It's how ATITD deals with (or rather doesn't deal with) the ATI specific way of doing things. Newer Radeon cards do it the standard non-proprietary way. In short you will never get the same kind of graphics on that card unless the Devs spend the time and money to recode alot of the graphics engine to allow it on those specific cards. (no small task I'm told).

[Pluribus]

Ryd is right... ATI card < 9500 lack one support for ARB_fragment_programs. eGenesis has made a choice currently to not do a ATI specific codepath that uses the ATI propietary meathod of achieving the correct lighting and effects... (Nothing that I can do about that, it is a dead horse... Beat eGenesis not me :-( ) That said, have you tried using the newer ATI driver with the 2.6.10 driver...

There is SOMETHING up even with the nvidia drivers that cause "oddness" with 2.6.11. (For me with NV 66.x or latest 7x.xx drivers and the 2.6.11 kernel, I get oddball video corruption and lockups... However, same drivers and 2.6.10 it seems to work fine :-( )

[tcorner]

Thanks for the tip. Right now I am just working around the problem. I assume ati and the kernel will get in sync again. I think I need 2.6.11 for ndiswrapper and my wifi card. I hate to go backwards. I will wait until I can go forwards. You have given me concerns about upgrading the kernel on the nvidia machine.

[shoguntaganara]

I have also a segmentation fault occurring after 5-10 minutes of playing. I tried every single options when I launch the eclient (noext, nosound, etc). I don't know if someone can help me?

I'm using Ubuntu 5.04 on a kernel 2.6.10-5. My video card is an nvidia, running with the latest drivers (1.0-7664)

Thanks

[Pluribus]

I wish that I could help... So far nvidia has been less than helpful in getting my Geforce 3 card to display anything other than a black screen on X11 startup when running 76.64 :-(

However, I have heard a lot of complaints from people recently, the only only commonality is that they are all running the 7x.xx trees

-Pluribus