Linux v6 beta test

[Admins]

I don't know why it would crash on that, haven't experienced that at all yet. Is it only happening on certain scripts or always?
We could disable the syntax highlighting for you for now if you want.

[Emera]

Originally Posted by Stefan

I don't know why it would crash on that, haven't experienced that at all yet. Is it only happening on certain scripts or always?
We could disable the syntax highlighting for you for now if you want.

If I am using the white script editor background window, then it will always crash with certain words. Although, if I start the line or script with // or /*, then it won't crash. It's not even a crash, it just closes instantly.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by Emera

It's not even a crash, it just closes instantly.

Which is a crash.

[WhiteDragon]

Just throwing this out there, but there seems to be garbage collection issues when there are large amounts (20k?) of TStaticVars.

It seems like it decides to do the GC cycle whenever you click the mouse or move the mouse out of the screen, and the TStaticVars all survive until that cycle, then the CPU is pegged at full load for ages.

Of course, the solution is to manually destroy() the TStaticVar when it is no longer needed, but I feel like there should be nicer GC being done that doesn't choke entirely on what is not a large amount of memory usage.

Stats:
System:
Time: Sat Nov 5 00:57:55 2011
Client-version: 6.011
OS: linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 UTC 2011
CPU: x86

Memory (in bytes):
Total: 29261456
Bitmaps: 1051648
Drawing panels: 1204224
Textures (possibly in video RAM): 2695168

Game engine profiler:
Measured time: 41.655651092 seconds
Ordered by non-sub total time:
%NSTime % Time Invoke # Name
57.035 57.035 4 GarbageCollector
...

[Admins]

The graal garbage collector is going quite deep (makes full circular reference check) that's why it might be slower with lots of variables. It is recommended to destroy the variables if not needed.

[Emera]

Since Era Radio has just released itself, a new bug has become apparent. V6 can't receive any radio signal. Nothing plays over radio, although V5 plays Era Radio perfectly.

[Admins]

Yes the Linux and Mac versions don't support streaming yet. There is no 64bit version of the sound library we were using before x-x

[Emera]

For some reason findimg() won't show any images for V6 on linux. Gui Image Controls are fine though.

[Admins]

Is anyone still using Linux on 32 bit?

[WhiteDragon]

64-bit here.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by WhiteDragon

64-bit here.

Also using the 64-bit Linux client. I think 32-bit could be dropped with minimal impact.

[dylan]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Is anyone still using Linux on 32 bit?

I use Linux 32bit.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by dylan

I use Linux 32bit.

Why?

[dylan]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

Why?

I don't have a 64bit processor.

[Admins]

Ah and you run Graal on it? It's 5-6 years since the last 32 bit Intel/AMD CPUs were produced

Well anyway:
A new version for Linux (64 bit) has been uploaded: v6.037
It brings a lot of new stuff since the last v6 release and of course plenty of new things compared to v5. Download it as usual from the website although the download from login server should work if you have installed it as user:

http://www.graalonline.com/downloads/Graal6_linux64.zip

This new version is not scanning the current folder anymore, so it should be much easier to just put it anywhere and then run it. Unzip the file, make it executable, then run it:

unzip Graal6_linux64.zip
chmod 775 Graal
./Graal

All files will be download and saved to ~/.graal/graal4 in case you want to clear them or need to find the screenshots or recorded videos. The new version is using "SDL mixer" for playing sounds and music. Depending on the hardware and drivers this should work pretty well, but if there are problems then just disable sounds or music in the options on the login server.