Flare enough

@Severin

What happens if you remove USR: assign? I just ran the program without one and it still worked with PROGDIR: / relative paths just like the original README suggests.

edit: I didn't alter any code for these versions.

@Thematic,

Works now with new version.

Thanks

@Thematic

usr: doesn't seem to make any difference.

I found that env:mplayer is coming from an envvar HOME which was somthing I had to sort out an mplayer problem which was later fixed.

deleted it and going to retry after rebooting.

EDIT:

Flare is now working properly, a userdata drawer was created with saves and mods drawers inside etc.

Thanks all!

There's even more stuff: http://flarerpg.org/index.php/mods/other-mods/

oops... posted by error.

Tried the game today on my X5000 and works great.

It is a pity that hardware surface has problems, because the game becomes very smooth even on HD screens. Tried it and everything seems to work, except the texts in dialogs, buttons, loot etc.

It would be great if someone could have a look on that.

On my Sam460, the game is very slow in fullscreen mode. It was exactly the same with the previous version. If I switch to window mode, then, I must edit the config file and change screenmode to 1024X768. I can play quiete well but it's not smooth.
With older versions, it was smoother. Is there a way to improve that ?
Thanks

@pseudaxos

The minimum resolution should be 640 by 480, so that change gives NOT a 156 % speed increase (other things need doing than minding the bus), but is probably still substantial.

@Thematic

If people can run OpenGL ES 2.0 then here is one trick that can be tested.

setenv SDL_RENDER_DRIVER opengles2

and restart flare. I haven't tested this myself other than for the setenv general behaviour: it works for "software", "compositing" and "opengl" ("opengl" can't be used due to missing render targets, though).

@Capehill

Doesn't work here on my X1000, just gives a black screen.

@Capehill

Doesn't work here either on my X1000.

setenv SDL_RENDER_DRIVER compositing gives the best result (the less slow).

@walkero

Don't works for me.
Freezes after one or two seconds.

:(

Virginio

@Capehill
But should that "setenv SDL_RENDER_DRIVER opengles2" works at all with plain opengl apps ? Imho it can't and shouldn't , as not only plain GL use more functions than GLES, but also creation of context, handling of it and co are different.

@kas1e

No, it should not do anything for application that don't use renderer subsystem. https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_HINT_RENDER_DRIVER

@Capehill
I still didn't get. I mean, does not matter what, but opengl app can't works over opengles as it (only wrappers can help there, like gl4es one). Even if it not pure context creation, but just some renderer , still ogles2 renderer will works only over ogles2 context , which will mean nothing will works in opengl app which targeted to opengl calls, and not to opengles ones. Right ?:)

I mean, how it supposed to work, if one compile pure opengl app with opengl calls, over ogles2 renderer, if, its just different in context meaning and gl calls ?

@kas1e

Application doesn't need to know anything about drivers or versions if it uses the renderer subsystem. Flare, for example, is not an OpenGL application. Quake 3 is.

Based on a very brief look at Flare's code, it either requests a SW or HW renderer. Meaning that by default, "compositing" renderer will be preferred in case of HW acceleration, unless programmer or user sets a hint.

@Capehill
Ah, ok got it, sorry. Was sure that flare gl based (dunno why).

I tried on my system the following values of SDL_RENDER_DRIVER

opengles2 - it gives a black screen but music keeps playing at the back, and I was able to quit it by pressing the esc

opengl - gives black backgrounds but the menu gui works

composite - everything works just fine

None of the above works help HW Surface.

@walkero

"composite" is not supposed to do anything, it's not recognized so SDL will choose something else, probably depending on the HW/SW setting.

Flare could print the renderer name, then it would very easy to verify.

@Capehill

Here Flare says:
Quote:

Only the first line is ambiguous to me.