Windows v6 beta test

[Admins]

A new version (5.261) has been packaged and will be released soon. Following modifications have been done:
- fixed mouse wheel scrolling
- fixed keys getting stuck when pressing the Alt key
- improved switch from fullscreen to window mode
- the setup is working, if possible test this by renaming Graal.exe to GraalSetup.exe (it has now a scripted folder selection for better compatibility or later use on other platforms)

[alskdjfhg]

Still wanting to check out how this beta performs...

[MrOmega]

I'm intrigued too, and I wonder how soon.

[TSAdmin]

Originally Posted by Stefan

A new version (5.261) has been packaged and will be released soon. Following modifications have been done:
- fixed mouse wheel scrolling
- fixed keys getting stuck when pressing the Alt key
- improved switch from fullscreen to window mode
- the setup is working, if possible test this by renaming Graal.exe to GraalSetup.exe (it has now a scripted folder selection for better compatibility or later use on other platforms)

These all seem to be functioning correctly. There is another bug I have found which I thought had already been reported but going through all the pages I couldn't find it. Tile related.

V5: v6:

Notice in the V6 one, where there were pure black tiles suddenly became "Motion blurred". The post I thought had already pointed this out was relating to the Laser Tag lobby (Also on Era).

v5: v6:

• Also, if the client (v5.261) has been running for an extended period of time and you try to close it, the client stops responding. I'm not entirely sure exactly how long "extended period of time" is, but long enough to have a decent game play session and ready to close it.

Sidenote: I'm not entirely sure if this counts towards the "Slowdowns" you mentioned before when altering the Log Window, but it appears the memory leak is back in this version. After an hour of gameplay, the Graal.exe process got upwards of 250,000K - 350,000 K Memory (Private Working Set). This has only happened to me once as I haven't spent longer than an hour on it today, but it had at least stopped going anywhere near that high (Most ever was 100,000K) in previous betas.

Also, there are still a few things on the first page by Tig's first post that aren't fixed. Things like canresize, canclose, etc on external windows.

[Admins]

Originally Posted by TSAdmin

Sidenote: I'm not entirely sure if this counts towards the "Slowdowns" you mentioned before when altering the Log Window, but it appears the memory leak is back in this version. After an hour of gameplay, the Graal.exe process got upwards of 250,000K - 350,000 K Memory (Private Working Set). This has only happened to me once as I haven't spent longer than an hour on it today, but it had at least stopped going anywhere near that high (Most ever was 100,000K) in previous betas.

Have you checked if there was a lot of stuff in the log window?

[DustyPorViva]

What?

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

What?

It's been happening for like a year, ever since external windows came out (at least on Mac, not sure if it's new on Windows).

[TSAdmin]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Have you checked if there was a lot of stuff in the log window?

I haven't checked, but after an hour of gameplay it would be easy to assume the log window gets pretty large during a single session, yeah.

[Admins]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

What?

Seems to be a problem of the script, like using fixed font size for calculation of the text.

Originally Posted by TSAdmin

V5: v6:

The problem might be that some tilesets are containing transparent pixels, someone should fix the tileset if that is not intended.

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by Stefan

The problem might be that some tilesets are containing transparent pixels, someone should fix the tileset if that is not intended.

Happens on pics1 lol.

[Catbert]

It ain't Stefan's fault... he tried so hard but he's still a victim of these streets...

[Tigairius]

I was reading this in some update file:

PHP Code:

when another game (or another Graal window) is going into fullscreen then
    Graal is correctly reinitialized after closing the other game 


but this is not working for me. If I hold the Windows key and press L to switch users, then I log back into my username, Graal will be frozen and I have to restart it. This is quite annoying because it's automatically doing this every time I go AFK and screensaver pops up. Also in Windows 7/Vista, if a window pops up asking for permission to use administrator privileges it will freeze Graal permanently until I restart it.

[alskdjfhg]

What?!?!? Public Beta?!?!?

[Twinny]

Originally Posted by Tigairius

I was reading this in some update file:

PHP Code:

when another game (or another Graal window) is going into fullscreen then
    Graal is correctly reinitialized after closing the other game 


but this is not working for me. If I hold the Windows key and press L to switch users, then I log back into my username, Graal will be frozen and I have to restart it. This is quite annoying because it's automatically doing this every time I go AFK and screensaver pops up. Also in Windows 7/Vista, if a window pops up asking for permission to use administrator privileges it will freeze Graal permanently until I restart it.

Resize the window and it will work again

[jkldogg]

what???? where's the beta download link????????????


EDIT:

Stefan please make v6 not lag on windows 7 thanks