Comprehensive Bug List

Suncho · Post by **Suncho** » Sat Sep 29, 2001 1:25 pm

Nagromme, thanks for the Mac bug list. I'll look into it more closely later. My friend, Fergwad, had Chocobo World and Team Pyroglyphic crash. Try playing those levels for an extended period of time and see what happens.

Roncli, and Vertigo, I tried the Energy/Shield converter thing and when I had 100 shields (not damaged yet) it wouldn't let me use it. But then I ran into some walls and brought myself down to 99 and I was able to use it. I think maybe the bug is that it doesn't let you use it when you haven't been damaged yet? That's what I'm gonna put on the list.

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Teddy · Post by **Teddy** » Sun Sep 30, 2001 7:59 pm

heres are some to put on the list...
-d3d pauses when going into new rooms(32 bit color and height resolutions make it even worse)
-bumpmaping screws up lighting on some levels(go into basement of apparition and look at mirror at 80 degree angle). this happens on radeon and I believe GeForce 3, both cards support bumpmapping.

not sure if this is a bug or on purpose...
- bumpmapping only works on 1 ship at a time all other ships only have the team color texture bumped (texture that is usually on the fins or wings)

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Suncho · Post by **Suncho** » Mon Oct 01, 2001 11:48 pm

Thanks Teddy

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sw Max_T · Post by **sw Max_T** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 10:44 am

He Suncho, i have no time 2 read through the whole post, and what i am about 2 suggest is not even a bug, but i think it's worth mentioning:

Have any1 asked them if they would include TRUEFORM support in 1.5 patch? From what i understand it's not that much of goding, but the results might look great 4 ATI Radeon 8500 users.

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Vertigo Zero · Post by **Vertigo Zero** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 11:56 am

I want to post this first item again because I'm positive it's not on the list and I think it should be.

- When you drop countermeasures, D3 sometimes plays the sound for firing a Flare.

- I forgot to mention this: Like Teddy, I too saw the lighting problem when bump mapping is enabled. The easiest place I can think of to demonstrate this is at the very beginning of the first level in Descent:Retribution (D3 single player). When the camera pans across the room with your Pyro-GX in the center, you will see the lighting problem.

- One more thing: I have "use item" assigned to one of my controller buttons. When the Energy-To-Shields Converter is the active item and I press and hold the controller button the Converter only works for a brief moment, as if I had only tapped the button instead of holding it down. It seems that D3 only accepts a held down key on the keyboard to continuously run the Converter. If I can assign the function to a button on a controller, then it should work exactly as it does on a keyboard key. Otherwise, there's no point. I would really like this to work properly because the way I have my controlls set up, getting the Converter to work properly is the only time I have to use the keyboard (other than typing messages). I end up taking my hand off of my controller and putting myself in jeopardy when I shouldn't have to.

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Suncho · Post by **Suncho** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 3:12 pm

thanks

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Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 5:10 pm

Regarding that, is that flare thing really a bug? I remember that D1/D2 used to recycle sound effects if the system was low on resources...

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[MS]Testiculese · Post by **[MS]Testiculese** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 9:28 pm

Has anybody thought about asking Outrage to enable remapping of the weapons bindings to alternate keys?

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Deathwinger · Post by **Deathwinger** » Thu Oct 04, 2001 12:48 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by pATChes11:
 "*Ability to use custom .str files for different ships" Uhh... why in D3's name would you need to??? If the weapon names are loaded out of a string file, then have a string entry for each ship. If not (unlikely due to language support), then you're just plain dumb.

Shouldn't be too hard... although I think it would be more of a hassle having seperate files like that. It should be in one well-formatted file

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Patches, Don't quite understand what you mean here. send me an email xbdw@yahoo.com and we'll talk. How's inferno going BTW?

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Vertigo Zero · Post by **Vertigo Zero** » Thu Oct 04, 2001 1:39 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Solrazor:
 Regarding that, is that flare thing really a bug? I remember that D1/D2 used to recycle sound effects if the system was low on resources...

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Just so you can see why I would doubt the problem being a shortage of resources, here are my PC's specs:
http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?rigid=10960

Of course, I could be wrong. I do however vaguely remember people talking about this problem a while ago; I don't think it was ever fixed.

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Suncho · Post by **Suncho** » Thu Oct 04, 2001 2:02 pm

Testi, this thread is about bugs, not feature requests, sorry.

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[MS]Testiculese · Post by **[MS]Testiculese** » Sun Oct 07, 2001 12:54 pm

It is kind of a bug though

Been a bug since D1!

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[MS]Testiculese · Post by **[MS]Testiculese** » Sun Oct 07, 2001 12:54 pm

Vertigo · Post by **Vertigo** » Sun Oct 07, 2001 2:12 pm

I think it's more of an unimplemented feature

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Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon Oct 08, 2001 3:04 pm

It's not like it would be that hard to do really. In D3 SP the server runs though sevral levels. You just need to be able to set a list of MN3's that you want the server to run.

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Suncho · Post by **Suncho** » Mon Oct 08, 2001 6:08 pm

The whole point of mn3's is that you have multiple levels and the server "wraps" through them. Oddly enough, though, most people make their missions with single levels.

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[MS]Testiculese · Post by **[MS]Testiculese** » Mon Oct 08, 2001 7:08 pm

But what if I wanted to cycle between Indika and Kata?

UT has a Map List. You go through the maps and add them, and the server will cycle through those maps.

Outrage could look to UT for a lot of things

given time, resources, etc..

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Deathwinger · Post by **Deathwinger** » Tue Oct 09, 2001 3:59 pm

Perhaps when the server is changing mn3, the client gets msn info from the server then the autodownload screen comes up asking which site he wants to get the level. when he finally gets the level successfully, the mn3 loads its data and starts as though the client just joined the server for the first time.

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Suncho · Post by **Suncho** » Tue Oct 09, 2001 11:07 pm

This is definitely a feature that would help a lot. I agree. But I don't see it as a bug and I'd rather see them fix as many bugs as they can. You know what I mean?

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Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 2:49 am

#define UT nifty, but there will be better.

Nightshade · Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 6:11 pm

Bug I have noticed!

My setup: PIII 800, Win2k, Voodoo3 3000, Glide, mouse player.

I noticed that when my FPS (framerate) went over 100 or so, my mouse buttons wouldn't hold down (like for fusion charging or MD zooming)- instead, it would fire randomly as if being tapped at random intervals instead. I switched mice and the same deal happened (from a PS/2 analog to USB digital optical)... However, when I switched to another video card in OpenGL mode or capped the framrate, it would work normally.

I could reproduce this bug in all levels on all types of servers including starting my own.

Testiculese commented that he encountered the same bug. You may want to ask him about it as well...

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MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Thu Oct 11, 2001 6:00 pm

I don't have time to read every post in this thread so I'm going to just list the ones I know about. If they've already been mentioned, I appologize. These are for the RC version only. I'm running v1.4 with Merc installed. All drivers are up-to-date.

1. Vauss Firing Bug.

Cause: Pulling trigger rapidly

Notes: When pulling the trigger on my joystick, I can actually cause one cannon, instead of both cannons, to fire. Even the scorch marks verify this.

2. Napalm Missile bug.

Cause: unknown

Notes: When I play one of the included levels in D3 (the one with the enemy pyro gl's...I think its called BlueDevil), I can fire a napalm missile at the ceiling and the napalm doesn't fall down. It flows outward, but clings to the ceiling! I'll take a screenshot if you want. This happens everytime, so it will be very easy to replicate.

3. Doors bug.

Cause: unknown...table file is a suspect.

Notes: When firing at a door, it takes approximately two seconds for it to even start opening. This is not the case in D1 and D2 where they respond immediately. This has gotten me killed more times than actual dogfights! Its extremely annoying to have to wait for the door before you can advance.

4. Resolution bug.

Cause: using ALT TAB

Notes: When pressing ALT TAB to do something, and return to the game, the screen is in a "widescreen" format. However, nothing is visible other than the environment! The reticle, and everything else is not rendered. I even tested this by recording a short demo and took screenshots to make sure it wasn't just a glitch. The demo and screenshots showed the exact thing I saw while playing! The only way to fix this is to change resolution back and forth within the game, or to completely exit the game and rejoin. Unfortunately I don't have the demo nor the screenshots with me because I've reformatted since then.

5. Vauss Tracers

Cause: unknown.

Notes: They're only renderable in OpenGL. I've tested this on multiple video cards to be sure it wasn't just mine.

Thats about all I can think of for now.

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Daguer · Post by **Daguer** » Fri Oct 12, 2001 1:32 am

hmm I have a matrox g200 wioth the 4.51 driver, and i see the vaquss tracer on d3d

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Fri Oct 12, 2001 5:49 am

1) Interesting, but by the sound of it not something I'd lose sleep over. It may be easy to fix though.

2) This is because of the way the level's designed - the author used reverse gravity. By the sound of it, it isn't a default D3 level, so it can't be fixed by Outrage (and might have been intentional anyway).

Suncho · Post by **Suncho** » Fri Oct 12, 2001 8:21 am

1) The vauss fire alternates barrels in the pyro ships. If this happened in a pyro I don't see how it's a bug... If it happened in one of the other ships, how were you able to reproduce it because I can't.

2) This is probably intentional (or you were upside down

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3) This isn't really a bug. In D1/D2, if you're playing, the door would open on your computer and then it would send out the packet to everyone else telling that it was open. In D3 the server decides if the door's open. So you have to tell the server you want to open the door, then the server opens it for you. This makes it more consistent between the different players but is affected worse by lag.

4) What video card, API, and drivers are you using? Are you able to reproduce this? I've had this happen only a couple times in a couple years. Various rendering stuff has already been fixed in 1.5. It's possible that this has been fixed but it might not be.

5) They render fine in Glide for me on my Voodoo5. They only work when the target is far away though. This is a feature of the game. If you get close to something, while shooting vauss at it, there will be no tracers. I'll try OpenGL and Direct3D. Either way I don't think this is a big deal at all.

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Suncho · Post by **Suncho** » Fri Oct 12, 2001 8:28 am

Roncli there are actual updates in 1.5 that might help with this problem including a new Parallax Online.d3c file. I'm not gonna mark it as not fixed just yet. =)

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MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Fri Oct 12, 2001 5:16 pm

My system:

AMD Duron 700Mhz (running at 700)
Asus A7V
Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 (64MB DDR, AGP 4x)
Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! Value
IBM 45GB HDD (7200RPM, ATA100)
Western Digital 3.2GB (5400, ATA33...a temp replacement for my Quantum 170MB that died when my 250W PS burned out on me. Its in a removable drive-bay..which is hot swappable btw.)
Acer 10X DVD-ROM (doubles as a 40X CD-ROM)
Mitsumi 1.44MB Floppy
Logitech Wheel Mouse Optical (US

Diamond SupraMax 56k v.90 modem
Logitech Wingman Strike Force 3D (KICKASS joystick!)
CTX 17" CRT Monitor (16" viewable, .26 dot pitch)
Altec Lansing ACS33 3pc speaker set w/Sub

1. I can reproduce it everytime in every ship except for the pheonix since its double-fire in that particular ship. (like the microwave is double-fire in the BP)

2. I was right-side up. I think I can tell when I'm upside down or not.

3. They open in the same ammount of time, whether singleplayer or multiplayer.

4. see specs above. I also mentioned that I use OpenGL later in the post. However, 1.5 isn't out yet (just ran auto-update to be sure) so....

btw, I also stated that I am running v1.4 with Merc installed.

5. My card only supports D3D and OpenGL and I only see them in OpenGL, regardless of range.

Go here if you're curious how my system handles benchmark wise.

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Skyalmian · Post by **Skyalmian** » Fri Oct 12, 2001 11:01 pm

Bug or not, I dunno, but:

Name: "Looping Sound End Bug"
Trigger: Turning SFX and/or music down to 0 and then back on again.

Repeating, looping sfx tend to either shut off for some reason by itself somehow, or when you do the trigger above. You can silence any constant sfx being played by doing that.

Suncho · Post by **Suncho** » Sun Oct 14, 2001 11:09 am

MD:

1. It's still not a bug. That's the way it's supposed to work.

2. I was joking about the upside down part. Even then it's not a bug. It's a setting that the level designer used.

3. If I you're talking about what I think you're talking about then that's a feature of the door. Have you noticed that different types of doors take different amounts of time to open depending on what latches they have and whatnot?

4. Are you able to reproduce it?

5. I still wouldn't call it a bug but rather a feature that wasn't implemented for a certain API.

Skyalmian and Roncli: Thanks I'll check them out.

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MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Mon Oct 15, 2001 12:29 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Suncho:
 MD:
4. Are you able to reproduce it?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I can reproduce it everytime. Its not related to my video card because it happened on my old Viper V550 as well.

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Gooberman · Post by **Gooberman** » Mon Oct 15, 2001 3:28 am

I don't know if this is on the list, and I am to lazy to check, so forigive me if it is

but what about the pilot name hack that people use, like instig8, so that no name appears. It really gives them an advantage when hudnames are on. Perhaps if a Pilot just uses a space, it will show as a _.

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