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Sunxi Go Screen Saver Discussion

SunXi : If you encounter any problem with this screen saver, if you want to help (I'm looking for help for this page and another in french), if you would like to now anything about this software, leave a message here.

amnoti? : I often get the following error msg. when stopping the screensaver: The instruction at "0x693d8014?" referenced memory at "0x00000044". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program.

kritz : Grid lines seem to be missing in the new version ...

SunXi : Hi kritz ! If grid is missing on the board, that can mean you're running in software emulation, download the last drivers for your graphic cards. If you still have problems, then please send an email with a complete bug report or just let a message here.

quantumf : Intel 82915G, version 6.14.10.4308, Windows XP Pro, version 3.01 of screensaver, no gridlines

SunXi : I always have problems with intel 3D chips, that can only means one thing : drivers are not correctly written. All works perfectly on other gfx card and never on intel series. Other possibility : OpenGL extension (and especialy GL_ARB_multitexture) is not present and can be replace by something else... Sorry for inconvenience...

Quicksilvre: Mine works pretty well, but I wish you could assign a folder to play out instead of a single file--so it doesn;t repeat the same file over and over.

Other than that, I love it. Keep up the good work.

SunXi : My dear Quick (may i call you quick ? :) The last version V2.0 include a complete playlist with many features, you can choose one folder and play it randomly or not, construct your own playlist with as many files as you want (on any location) ... All that since the 21 feb 2005.

Quicksilvre: Oooh, let me check it out then.

(later) Got the update; the new features are fantastic. Thanks!

Rellik : I have over 1300 sgf in one directory. It plays one or two files correct then it stop at the end of the file and didn't do anything else. Is there a logfile that I can send you? Maybe there is some spezial code in some of my sgf ?

SunXi : I check that immediatly... (after checking) I've just tried with 3851 files and it works perfectly. Just tell me how you use the playlist, if you use random playing in a folder or if you use random/normal playing in the playlist. Even if a .sgf file have an error inside, it should work, the parser is not that bad and can detect errors and warnings. If too many errors occured while reading or if too many files does no longer exist in your playlist, you will have a warning on screen and the default game will run (only once and the program retry after that). If you have enought time, try to compress your directory and send it by email please (only if it's less than 5Mb, or the mail won't arrive due to quota security). If you still have problems, please tell me in details what is happening, does the board appear ? Black screen ? ... Thanks in advanced.

Rellik : I use random in a folder. The board freezes at the last move. The SGF's are on the way, it has 4,8MB. I hope it goes through your quota.

SunXi : Thanks for your mail Rellik, i've just checked and it's a bug from your files (most from SGFC 1.13b), sometimes the cordinates are going out of the goban... I've just added a security, those moves won't appear/exist, all will run correctly in next release. Thanks for your help.

Rellik: Wow, everything is done. Only a view graphics are missing. Can't wait to see it. What may be the BIG suprise???

SunXi : The famous big surprise ... You'll have to look around the board to see it, ... may be ...

SunXi : Please make comments, suggestion, bug report here, i release V3.0 today and need your feed back, thanks !

Rellik : The new version looks realy great. Can you make the kibiz area set to the same transparents as the 2d goban? A carved in grid (maybe as bumpmap) would look nice.

SunXi : I'll put custom opacity for kibitz in next release.

uxs: Very nice screensaver. Outrageous request: at work, I have 2 screens which are set up as one desktop. When I run the screensaver, the 3D board is stretched on the 2 screens, which looks horrible. So I disable the 3D board and show the 2D board at 70%. (Any bigger and it becomes centered - which splits it on the 2 screens and makes it look bad again.) So I was wondering if it's possible to make the 3D board only show on one of the screens, leaving the other black or, even better, for the 2D board. (Or make it a choice.) Either way, some explicit support for multiple screens. I told you it was an outrageous request.

SunXi : Outrageous ^_^ ! But you're not the first to ask that. I'll put a dual screen support for next release.

SunXi : You'll find a dual screen support in new release, check also faq on the web site for more informations.

C.S. Graves: Afraid I don't know the version I'm using offhand (away from my home computer) but no matter what type of stones I select, I can't see any difference. Am I missing something? Otherwise, great screen saver!

SunXi : You can see the difference only in 2D mode (for the moment), don't forget to put the 2D board size large enought.


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