smite-meister
July 29th, 2005, 05:06 AM
Q: The game crashed, formatted my hard drive and caused my monitor to explode, showering me with white-hot fragments of glass. How come?
A: It's still at alpha stage, so something like this can be expected.
(And no, it does not really format your hard drive or damage your computer in any other way.)
Q: How can I know why the game just crashed?
A: The game keeps two log files, stdout.txt and stderr.txt. See what they contain.
Q: What great new features does version 2.0 have?
A: Quite a few, most importantly Hexen support. You can find the documentation in the docs/ directory.
Q: Feature XXXX does not work. Why?
A: Some features are disabled for now (but will return in the beta). These include:
- Netcode. Currently only single player and splitscreen games work. New netcode based on OpenTNL is on the way.
- OpenGL. Use the software mode. Hurdler is currently writing a new OGL renderer.
Q: What kind of bugs should I report, and how?
A: If you know how to use a debugger, Valgrind or something equivalent, feel free to send us stack traces via e-mail.
Otherwise, follow these guidelines:
- Only report bugs in the latest released version. Report the bugs in the release thread.
- Try to report only new bugs, i.e. see if someone has already reported the same bug.
- Include the following information in your bug report: Operating system, graphics mode (software/OpenGL), IWAD used
- Describe the bug and how it can be reproduced
A: It's still at alpha stage, so something like this can be expected.
(And no, it does not really format your hard drive or damage your computer in any other way.)
Q: How can I know why the game just crashed?
A: The game keeps two log files, stdout.txt and stderr.txt. See what they contain.
Q: What great new features does version 2.0 have?
A: Quite a few, most importantly Hexen support. You can find the documentation in the docs/ directory.
Q: Feature XXXX does not work. Why?
A: Some features are disabled for now (but will return in the beta). These include:
- Netcode. Currently only single player and splitscreen games work. New netcode based on OpenTNL is on the way.
- OpenGL. Use the software mode. Hurdler is currently writing a new OGL renderer.
Q: What kind of bugs should I report, and how?
A: If you know how to use a debugger, Valgrind or something equivalent, feel free to send us stack traces via e-mail.
Otherwise, follow these guidelines:
- Only report bugs in the latest released version. Report the bugs in the release thread.
- Try to report only new bugs, i.e. see if someone has already reported the same bug.
- Include the following information in your bug report: Operating system, graphics mode (software/OpenGL), IWAD used
- Describe the bug and how it can be reproduced