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Hammerwatch Discussion / Re: Community Growth?

« on: July 23, 2014, 08:41:35 AM »

Would that be a dedicated IRC channel for HW? A server like Freenode or even Rizon may be better for that. Anyway, if it's a stable thing, I'll stick around on it. I still use IRC.

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Technical Support / Re: net code acting strange

« on: July 23, 2014, 08:39:37 AM »

For linux you're likely going to need to add forwarding rules to the router as well as the IPTABLES of the host server (if applicable). Make sure you're using appropriate local addresses, and not public ones. Some routers get confused when you try to access your own public IP.

Alternatively, I did write a port changer if needed.

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Hammerwatch Discussion / Re: Modifier

« on: July 04, 2014, 11:12:50 PM »

I was actually referring to player level, but acts works nicely too.

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Technical Support / Re: Game plays sound, but no video or window

« on: July 04, 2014, 10:13:14 AM »

Right, because the OpenGL driver is provided by the graphics driver. And, no problem. It's unfortunate I couldn't help you get it running. This is an odd case.

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Technical Support / Re: Game plays sound, but no video or window

« on: July 04, 2014, 10:04:31 AM »

Looks like this issue is either specific to SDL/OpenTK or Hammerwatch then. I've searched around, but I can't find much information on issues like this where the drivers weren't the problem. It could be something in the code HW uses to create/manage the graphics context, but I have no real way of accurately debugging that without the actual source (well, it'd be difficult.)

Hoping a dev can chime in here and maybe do some tests or provide a different game binary with more debug output enabled.

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Technical Support / Re: Game plays sound, but no video or window

« on: July 04, 2014, 09:49:28 AM »

Hm, that is odd. Can you run the editor at all?

Did the rendering tests all complete successfully?

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Technical Support / Re: Game plays sound, but no video or window

« on: July 04, 2014, 09:43:17 AM »

It's just Hammerwatch.exe, same name as the main client. The difference is that the one in the editor folder should be a debug client.

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Technical Support / Re: Game plays sound, but no video or window

« on: July 04, 2014, 09:37:45 AM »

Hm, so when OpenTK looks for a generic interface it might not be seeing one, and that could be the problem. Unfortunately, this might be a limitation of either your drivers or the way HW is coded, I'm not sure which it is. Try running the debug Hammerwatch client from the editor folder, then checking those logs.

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Technical Support / Re: Game plays sound, but no video or window

« on: July 04, 2014, 09:22:48 AM »

Windows will usually install a generic driver for anything it can.

Go ahead and download the OpenGL Extensions Viewer for Windows and install it. After it's installed, run it and check the summary for both the Generic driver and your nVidia driver, which you'll see in the dropdown at the top. You should see something like this:

The important part is the OpenGL information. You should see version 1.1 for the Generic, and at least 3.X for the nVidia. Can you confirm that?

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Technical Support / Re: Game plays sound, but no video or window

« on: July 04, 2014, 08:58:41 AM »

Try enabling hardware acceleration for HW. Other than that, I'm not quite sure what is causing it. Try deleting your game log and error log (if present) and running it again. Has anything changed in the log?

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Technical Support / Re: Game plays sound, but no video or window

« on: July 04, 2014, 08:12:10 AM »

The line from your log that says "OGL: " should say something like "OGL: 3.2.1" or at the very least "OGL: 1.1.0" which is the basics provided by most drivers to Windows.

Since your drivers are up to date, you'll have to check your nVidia Control Panel settings, and possibly add exceptions for Hammerwatch.exe to get things to work.

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Technical Support / Re: Game plays sound, but no video or window

« on: July 04, 2014, 04:57:57 AM »

Looks like the game is unable to load OpenGL at all, since it's retrieving an empty version string. Can you ensure that there are no newer graphics drivers for your card? OpenGL on Windows is provided directly by the graphics drivers, so when it's missing, it means your card either doesn't support it, or there's something wrong with your drivers.

Looks like this is the driver you want: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/75996

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Editor Discussion / Re: Tiles not rendering?

« on: July 04, 2014, 03:34:12 AM »

This is a common issue, and there are other threads about it as well. The only real solution available is to update your graphics drivers. OpenTK (which the editor uses to render the tiles) has some issues with Intel chipsets [and possibly others] that can also cause this.

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Hammerwatch Discussion / Re: Modifier

« on: July 04, 2014, 03:31:12 AM »

I like the idea of having the price go down per-second. Additionally, for those who are a bit impatient, maybe make it tick more than 1 gold per second while you're lower level, and have it scale as you level up. i.e. 1 per second at level 5, 1 per 2 seconds at level 10, etc.

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Technical Support / Re: Game plays sound, but no video or window

« on: July 04, 2014, 03:28:16 AM »

Hi,

I looked at the Speccy output, and it looks like your graphics drivers are up to date. Can you check error.txt and game.log from the Hammerwatch folder?