Batlle Squadron on AOS Final Edition

Hi,
I've installed AOS4 FE. all is ok but only one thing doesn't work anymore ... Battle Squadron :
I have a grim when I lauch the game... Impossible to play with even if I reinstall the game...
Please .. help ! I love this game !
Thanks

@pseudaxos

Tested, demo of the game seems working on my 4.1 FE system

@pseudaxos

Works in my SAM 440 flex.
Give's a DSI error. But after close works fine.

@RibDevil,
I can't ignore DSI errors.. just kill soft ...
I have sent a mail to copecom... I wish they could find what's wrong....
Arff....

Just tried update update 6 => Batle Squadron works well......

It works here on x1000 os4.1 FE. No crashes on boot nor on exit. But i have only the demo version of it. Im regged to android version.

Problem oki now !
Daniel MüBener has resolved the Bug. So, if you have the same problem, delete the alsoft.conf file in Envarc: and hop => it works
I have sent my crashlog and the alsoft.conf file to Daniel.

on my X1000 it works without problems on AmigaOS 4.1FE

No problems on my X1000 +FE

I have the full game and it works fine herewith amiga os 4.1fe and competition pro usb

Lately the game stopped working. It loads just fine, but when you go into the game the screen inside where everything happens is black. The game seems to play behind, as I hear the SFX of shooting etc., but there is no action to view.

I tried to reinstall it, and tried to delete anything Cope-Com stored in env and encarc, but this didn't work. Tried it on Fullscreen and window, the same problem is there. Tried also the demo version which has the same problem as well.

The only thing I changed on my system is the Graphics card, which is a Radeon R7 250X, which replaced my previous Radeon HD 4650.

Any clues how to fix it and make it work again?

@Walkero
I have the same "black screen" problem some time ago with this game (while no graphics card changes, or anything changes), and after some boredom fix it by deleting not only the game config files, but also some other config from some open source library which used in game, and also create some config file somewhere in ENV: if i remember right. I can remember it all wrong, but it was something like OpenAL config, or OpenSomething.. If i remember right, i also found it via Snoopy (i.e. run snoopy, run game, see what files it tries to open, and delete all of the files which looks like configs).

@kas1e
tried what you said, but didn't find any other config file on my system that is used by Battle Squadron in both env: and envarc:.

@walkero

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Switch back to the Radeon HD 4650 card

Battle Squadron uses big-endian 16-bit bitmaps with compositing. Unfortunately, AMD removed support for big-endian 16-bit bitmaps starting with the Southern Islands series, and there's no feasible workaround. So, those are unsupported.

For Battle Squadron to work with Southern Islands GPUs, it needs to check whether big-endian 16-bit bitmaps are supported by the hardware (the easiest way being a test CompositeTags() operation with the HW-only flag set) before using them. If they aren't supported, then they can either:
- Use little-endian 16-bit bitmaps (an easy byte-swap conversion), or
- Switch to using 32-bit bitmaps.

I did email Cope-Com about this problem months ago, and offered to test fixes for them if they didn't have a Southern Islands graphics card available.

Hans

@Hans
Do you know if a lot of others programs will have problems with Southern Islands GFX cards like R7 or R9 ?

Thank you for your reply.

@TommySammy
According to your signature, you use a Radeon HD 7850. It's a Southern Islands GFX card and BattleSquadron works on it ?

@zzd10h

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Freespace (the first one) has this problem. AmiCygnix does too. There may be a few others, but these are the only two that I remember.

It shouldn't be too hard for developers to update these programs so that they work with Southern Islands GPUs too.

Hans

@zzd10h
No Battle Squadron caused a black screen.
I will contact the coder today, is a friend of me.

Contacted the Battle Squadron coder.
Edgar got a few days ago a hint about the problem with Southern Islands graphic cards. He will have a look at it.

@Hans & tommysammy

Thank you for your replies

@walkero
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sorry can't remember right now what config it was, but its for sure was some config file which uses by opensource library in the game (openal or open_something). And problem was exactly like you describe: i run BS, and then black screeen. Deleting configs in game directory didn't help, deleting configs in the env/envarcs also didn't help, but then i somehow found inderectly used config which game create (or change) on the running.

Probably you can go that way: delete all game configs, then run snoopy (and set to catch all open() ), and you should see what else they change.

At least for me it was like this, and i fix it like this. And it was the same as for you : days and weeks all was fine, and then, one day, black screen.

@kas1e

"and then, one day, black screen."

yes, but he changed his gfx card and according to Hans, it's the problem.