Windows v6 beta test

[dragonfire08]

not sure why graal lags for me crono, heres my specs

windows 7 ultimate x64 service pack 1
ati radeon hd 5770 pcie 2.0 gfx w/ amd 12.11 beta 4 driver installed
amd phenom II x6 2.8ghz cpu

not sure of my exact RAM and HD names/specs but i know theyre fine because i've ran test programs for them. i can currently run modern warfare 3, dishonored and rage on full graphics settings with vsync off, sometimes i need toturn shadows off too but i always achieve frames in the 100s with these games. graal shouldnt lag for me lol my computer is in nice shape.

[Admins]

Originally Posted by dragonfire08

found another bug. when having the "external" playerlist open in v6 in directx mode you cannot "dock" the playerlist without losing the "x" out button on the playerlist. hitting f7 again will undock it and give you the "x" out button back though

You can drag the window away from the border to undock it.

[dragonfire08]

u misunderstand me mr knorr

[Crono]

Originally Posted by dragonfire08

not sure why graal lags for me crono, heres my specs

windows 7 ultimate x64 service pack 1
ati radeon hd 5770 pcie 2.0 gfx w/ amd 12.11 beta 4 driver installed
amd phenom II x6 2.8ghz cpu

not sure of my exact RAM and HD names/specs but i know theyre fine because i've ran test programs for them. i can currently run modern warfare 3, dishonored and rage on full graphics settings with vsync off, sometimes i need toturn shadows off too but i always achieve frames in the 100s with these games. graal shouldnt lag for me lol my computer is in nice shape.

What kind of lag is it? Is it smooth for a while and then suddenly FPS drops, followed by smoothness again? This used to happen to my laptop and I never figured out the problem. Same exact o/s as my PC, same HD speed (5400rpm, don't ask why my main gaming PC had that), same GFX brand (nvidia at the time, now it's amd but I have no problems), and both have over 2GB of ram.

Very strange issue. :[

[Draenin]

I don't know if it's been addressed yet, but it's kind of annoying not being able to set or enable the fullscreen resolution there's a drop-down box for in the options menu.

I don't want to see it dropped as an option, because right now players are tiny and I can't change or enable it with the newest version.

[Ducati_Link]

Forgive me for not wanting to read 108 pages to find this.... but is there a way we can use our own .wba themes on graal?

Edit: Okay - I have worked it out - neeevermind.

[Admins]

Put in the levels/guistyles folder and restart Graal, then it will show in the list.
The fullscreen resolution is only available with DirectX mode.

[dragonfire08]

Originally Posted by Crono

What kind of lag is it? Is it smooth for a while and then suddenly FPS drops, followed by smoothness again? This used to happen to my laptop and I never figured out the problem. Same exact o/s as my PC, same HD speed (5400rpm, don't ask why my main gaming PC had that), same GFX brand (nvidia at the time, now it's amd but I have no problems), and both have over 2GB of ram.

Very strange issue. :[

my game runs smooth until these things happen

- if i run without having my screen move, meaning as if i had /focus on during a spar or something my lag is fine, but when my screen moves as i run my frames drop.

- the cooldown timer on zodiac causes fps drops

- hovering my mouse over a play while moving cause a fps drop

- pretty much any heavy npc/effect spam causes huge lag, like 10fps

idk man i had graal 5 running fine on a pentium 3 700mhz 192mb ram nvidia something 32 mb gfx card on windows xp pro just fine lol. youtube would never quit lagging though .

[Tricxta]

Something that'd be cool to try and fix is when you lock your computer with graal open, it locks up the game, so when you unlock your computer you have to restart the client. I don't know if others find this annoying but I do. It'd be cool to see it finally fixed espcially if it's just something simple.

[Admins]

The playerlist and options window should work better now. It now destroys the playerlist and options window when the OpenGL/DirectX mode is switched, and it prevents wrong values of the playerlist position. In the next release we will also try fix the destruction/switching of the windows.
If the playerlist is still not showing, then close Graal and delete scriptfiles/playerlistoptions.txt to clear all the playerlist options and stored position.

[Admins]

Anything else to fix before the official v6 release?

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Anything else to fix before the official v6 release?

I noticed that you fixed the highlighting thing we had issues before, you go Stefan!

I don't know what the default style options are currently but you should make 'Default' the default in-game style, and vplusblue the default external style.

[alskdjfhg]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Anything else to fix before the official v6 release?

Do it. Any other changes can be made after.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Anything else to fix before the official v6 release?

The theme FP4 posted should be the default external skin for Windows users. It will keep the players coming from v5 more happy.

Graal is not opening in the position that it previously was when re-opening it.

PM position is not saving after closing and re-opening Graal. (external)

Can't highlight the Level: text in player's profiles. (external)

Still have the weird bug where when you close external PM windows and playerlists background Windows will show instead of Graal. Like it's automatically alt-tabbing out of Graal or something.

Crono is not GM of Graal. :]]]

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by Crono

The theme FP4 posted should be the default external skin for Windows users. It will keep the players coming from v5 more happy.

That one needs a lot of work (Scrollbar is ****ed, Weird Textbox/ComboBox Issues), I'm currently just using a modded vPlusBlue with the regular Windows buttons and tabs from the XP theme.

Not sure how many people know this or not but if you rename the wba to zip, you can go in and modify everything inside it. The lack of documentation makes it a pain and you pretty much have to brute-force different settings.