Sauerbraten Problems

Tefrem34 · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 7:41 am Post subject: Sauerbraten Problems

Hello forum members,

I have been having some strange issues with the FPS game Sauerbraten. First of all, my computer can handle the game easy, I have a AMD six core processor, with 16Gib of ram, and a Nvidia gtx 780ti GPU. One of the problems I am having is, unless I have my music player (Clementine) playing while I am playing the game the jump-shoot (fire at the ground after jumping in order to jump higher/further) gliches the game. The gun will not shoot at the ground and the frame will just jump to another view. If it does happen to work, then the gun just keeps firring until I am out of bullets or I die. I have to exit the game server for it to stop then join again. Another thing that is wrong, music player or not, is that intermittently when I click to fire, nothing happens. I really sucks. I think that Sauer is the only game that this happens in. My steam games all seem to play just fine.
If anyone has an idea how to fix these issues, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks.

Roman_Gruber · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 6:06 pm Post subject:

First suspect? Which init system do you use?

Any weird CFLAGS / GCC FLAGS? you may post your emerge --info or make.conf here.

did you try any other nvidia-drivers?

The version portage provides is the same version i used to play a few months ago on my 6 years old hardware. on nvidia-binary driver.
i suspect that your card maybe use opengl 4 or something else which causes the issue.

and i would not compare it to steam plattform, thats a different issue.

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

Sounds like there's a problem with it not trapping mouse events properly; Sauer's UI has always been a bit iffy. Do you get different results depending on whether it's fullscreen/windowed/maximised windowed? What WM?

Tefrem34 · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:48 pm Post subject:

Thank you for the responses.

@tw04l124

Roman_Gruber · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:18 am Post subject:

well try the newest nvidia-dirvers with newest kernel / or try around with different versions.

you may try to run it in a plain x-session with a new user in the game group without anything. kde may screw it up.

as you do not use systemd, you have one error source less to worry about. yes taht was my intention why i asked. (it screw up too much )

Tefrem34 · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:34 am Post subject:

@tw04l124
I think that the nvidia driver I am using was just released, according to the nvidia site anyway. There is the Beta version 343.13, if the numbers are anything to go by, is older.
Well I was looking again at what is installed, currently I am trying to upgrade kde and I

Roman_Gruber · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:39 am Post subject:

plain x-session without fancy anything.

on a new user ti should just load one x-terminal and the x-clock and thats it.

if you have a loginmanager try to choose something less bloated.

maybe just try typing for once xdm and see if it just loads plain x-server without too much.

Tefrem34 · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 1:04 am Post subject:

I will give it a try and see what it does.
Just to clarify, at the tty, after logging in, type xdm and that should just load the basic shell. Correct?

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

Something I just thought about: do you have any cpufreq things enabled? Does your CPU have "C1E" enabled in the BIOS (may show up in dmesg too)? The latter in particular is buggy on some CPU models, and does cause serious problems with interactivity. It sounds like a possibility since you said the music player prevents it; that'd be keeping your CPU out of deep sleep states.

Tefrem34 · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 1:09 pm Post subject:

@Ant P. I am not sure. How would I check it?

I installed razor-qt and played sauerbraten for about 15 min and I didn't have any of the clicks not reister and it doesn't glitch when I jump shoot. So something is going on in kde that screws up the game.

Roman_Gruber · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 5:42 pm Post subject:

maybe something with randr, it was depreciated or something for kde what i read in another topic.