Dune 2 Redux Beta 1 Is Out!

[neonext]

i'm not sure about the freezing, if anyone (besides vidi) is experiencing freezing and/or crashes, PLEASE tell me about it and what u think might have causesd it.

[bdac]

I noticed several other bugs:

-when queuing one type of unit and then queing another, it adds to the 1st unit queue (ex: I queue a siege tank. Then I queue a combat tank, but instead of a combat tank being queued, another siege tank is.)

-units only come out of the bottom of buildings (if there is something below the building, units won't come out)

-construction of buildings gets real slow after refinery/outpost (is this a issue with power being down and not coming back up after more windtraps are built, perhaps?)

-when siege tanks (and possibly combat tanks) are near the edge of the scrolling screen, their turrets disappear

-AI players just seem to sit there when playing as blue player (when I changed ini file to play as green, AI attacked like crazy)

Hopefully I haven't repeated anything others have said. IMO, you did an excellent job with Dune 2:Redux.

[neonext]

bdac, thank you for your comments and your bug report

[neonext]

-units only come out of the bottom of buildings (if there is something below the building, units won't come out)

i have never seen this, anyone else have this problem?

-construction of buildings gets real slow after refinery/outpost (is this a issue with power being down and not coming back up after more windtraps are built, perhaps?)

hmm, it might have to do with the amount of slow-down (noticable or not) that occurs during that part of the game. see if it builds faster late in the game when there are very few units and players left

[neonext]

you know if your radar is down can still click where the map would be if you want to jump to a spot on the map. should i leave this or change it so you cannot jump anywhere unless u have radar online?

[bdac]

-construction of buildings gets real slow after refinery/outpost (is this a issue with power being down and not coming back up after more windtraps are built, perhaps?)

hmm, it might have to do with the amount of slow-down (noticable or not) that occurs during that part of the game. see if it builds faster late in the game when there are very few units and players left

After playing again, it seems that both unit and structure build time is longer after refinery.

Speaking of the refinery, when the refinery is near the edge of the scrolling screen, the pad where the harvester unloads the spice has a few problems. When the refinery is at the bottom of the scrolling screen, a purple harvester appears there. When it is at the top and you scroll downwards, the patform slides with the screen fo a short time.

Also, I noticed that when scrolling, a black rectangle flashes on the left side of the screen.

[LPC-Disco_Inferno]

i have the same problem with building getting slower when i ave a refinery.

But my tanks get out on top of buildings to.

Big problem i have is most of the time i can only create units at my heavy fac. Trikes quads and inf won`t come out. Some tis it works but most of the time they dont get out.

Bless

[neonext]

if you are building a barracks, light factory, heavy factory, or anything else that makes units, make sure you build it NOT on the map edge. there is a bug which will cause your units to not come out. this has been fixed for beta 2.

[neonext]

it appears the game becomes considerably slower when the harvesting animations are displayed....

[vidiware]

thats not good... well drop the animation then just have a not animated "tail" check your inbox neonext

[neonext]

i am having trouble narrowing down the source of all the lag. now that there is an fps display i am doubting that the cause is lack of video memory. i get serious frame rate drops regardless of the system i am using.

many of the problems seem to be related to harvesters and refineries, as some of you have pointed out. this includes complete system freezing, which finally happened to me once.

still lots to do, but i'm making progress. beta 2 in a few days.

[stefanhendriks]

well, if its only with harvesters there is definatly some buggy code at the harvesting code?

[nemafakei]

I seem to get freezes after a few structures. Not always refineries, eiher, I don't think.

[vidiware]

well i got the same problem nema... does u too have a not so good graphicscard or something? my 332 is freesing in about 10min ingame

[neonext]

i get crashes with single soldeirs. i removed them temporarily and haven't had any crashes so far..

[neonext]

i might release beta 2 soon, but is only some fixes, better pathfinding code, and build restrictions for units that have bugs. other than that there probably won't be any releases for awhile because i am moving and working and many other things that are taking up my time. i can no longer work full time on this and that has been the case since the release anyways.

i am considering restarting and using my code as a guideline, but this time using classes/oop and multiplayer from the ground up.

[Twin-Head]

Whenever i run it, i get an error messege that says

The DUNE2REDUX.EXE file is linked to a missing export DDRAW.DLL:DirectDrawCreateEx.

Do you know what is wrong?

[DukeLeto]

Try reinstalling DirectX. Do you have version 8.1? If not, you can get it here:

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp

[Twin-Head]

Whenever i go to that link, it says,

the latest version is for windows 2000 and windows XP users only

[DukeLeto]

Ah, it is...

Hmm...your computer may not meet the min. requirements, being 80MhZ and all...

[Twin-Head]

Hey, my comp isn't THAT slow. My comp is 90 MHz LOL ;D

[DukeLeto]

Sorry. ::)

[Duncan_ghola]

whats the news on dune generations why isnt that game out yet?

[DukeLeto]

The company making it, Cryo, went bankrupt. :P

[Frodo]

yes cryo went bankrupt but look at all of the other games that are being made in it's place. Dune 2 Redux, Dune Legacy, The Lord of the Rings RPG (go to www.chapterhouse.cjb.net for more info), and Celestial Revelations (www.kaoswurx.cjb.net).