Posts made by furyritchie

@brutus5000 @clyf Well the last few games I played I didn't disable IPv6 on my PC and it worked fine. It was only a handful of games with one friend where I did that. It looks like everything is working the way it is meant to. Great news.

I'm optimistic that the new version will continue to work for those of us that use IPv6. The current version does as it all uses IPv4 by default. I guess my comment is merely to make you mindful that we exist. It's actually the default in my country (Australia) on Telstra for example.

I'm happy to be a tester when it becomes available.

@blackyps said in New Website Bugs/Feedback:

To load MBs in milliseconds you need gigabit speed. Only a handful of people will have this.
We could embed a YouTube video in the website if you feel we need a video. I think this would have more opportunity to "sell" the game as well as the graphics are not revolutionary or anything compared to modern standards. So I doubt that a few tanks exploding will automatically create the emotional effect you want to have.

Video's are actually streamed so it doesn't hold the page load up. Use a <video> tag.

Since we use Cloudflare now this should be a non-issue and it's worth experimenting with at least.

EA did it with an 8MB 30 second or so clip for C&C classic that worked quite well.

Javi - the page is looking great!

@thomashiatt said in FAF Website Main Video:

A silly idea with no real benefits

The benefits are that we modernise our website and it follows current gaming industry trends. It will demonstrate gameplay which cannot be achieved with a static image as well.

draws out several pages of stupid arguments

If you don't like discussing the issues then you don't have to but people came up with some legitimate concerns that we can incorporate into the solution. It also brought up the CDN discussion which needs to be revisited.

The website is the one area of FAF that is pretty much fine and not in need of any work.

Well for starters we are using an image from a different game that we are going to replace.

At this point, the unit database should just be removed because it is only updated when I personally complain about it in zulip after every server update or outage.

Any chance you want to help us update it?

@eternal said in FAF Website Main Video:

It is a slowly server work.

We should already be using a CDN and we will discuss that separately to this but it would completely remove that as a problem.

@ftxcommando It will actually be substantially faster than it currently is since it streams the video.

Though we're optimising images and taking 2.6MB out of the page load so the comparison evens out once that is sorted out.

We also need to look at a CDN for at least the main faforever domain. Some of the hold up here was the possible issues with Cloudflare and MSI files but we can just move them onto a separate subdomain (edit: the main page links to github, I can't recall where the client pulls them from but putting them on a separate domain away from the webpage/news would remove that as a problem).

@katharsas said:

Yes, it is streamed, and if you go down this route please make sure that an Australien user with 16 Mbit downstream shared by family can experience the page without problems (but i will assume that nobody will test that, because this is what usually happens). Most likely they will end up with a stuttering, buffering background, because a full HD video stream can easily require 5-10 Mbit.

The C&C demo we're testing with is 3.2mbps and Rowey has experimented with making it even lower than that.

Also the ad-blocker story was not supposed to be a "case", i just wanted to tell you that even a 2 MB image on a landing page has the potential to effectively break the page, and that we have already had problems with content being hosted by our servers being slow to download in the past.

Good call out. We're going to fix all the images because of your comment. The main image is 1.6MB when it can be 190KB. The footer image is also 1MB when it should be 100KB.

If whatever end-result will work on 3G mobile phone in a country not close to Germany, as well as on a 3-5 Mbit desktop connection im gonna stop complaining, but this whole idea is in my mind still really bad from a technical standpoint, and likely to end up with people coding something that "works for them" an then being called "good enough".

Yes it will default back to a static image for mobile phone users.

And all of that just so that things move in the background. I really don't get it. A good web page is fast and lighweight, and does not include a auto-on video.

The world has moved on from that. We want to showcase what the game is.

@jip Yeah, it's a bad choice when the console command works for the majority of people. It will also likely be fixed again soon.

Also it's worth noting that this prevents people from using the NVIDIA Control Panel and there's possibly other consequences that make it not desirable for us to interfere with it.

@kazbek Any chance you could make a version with no audio track and just 20 seconds worth of the best action scenes with a very short transition to and from black at the start and end so that it can loop without being jarring?

The scenes would need to be selected with consideration for the text that will sit on top of it.

@rowey The video should be no more than 3 to 8 MB. We will strip the audio track to save size.

The 20 second C&C video shows the kind of content we want. Action shots transitioning into other action shots. A typical trailer or existing video likely will not be suitable.

@RandomWheelchair Good point - we will use a static image for mobile devices.

Also I wasn't aware the current image was 2MB. We can optimise that too.

@Brutus5000 If you're worried about server bandwidth then it's yet another reason to use Cloudflare...

@Eternal MP4 is fine for streaming content like this. If we included webp we would need to provide an mp4 failback anyway.

@Katharsas Hosting a video of this size ourselves doesn't really suck.

1. It will be cached by browsers.
2. It is streamed not downloaded.

YouTube is out of the question for a background video.

You are also an edge case that blocks the existing background image. We cannot design a webpage for someone using an adblocker to block existing images.

What we can do is keep this file super small and make it so that it falls back to an image for mobile phone users. We can optimize the current fallback image somewhat too.

@el_syd
Yes. You might have to downgrade your video driver until NVIDIA fix it if nothing here works.

@morax I like the news hub side banner. I think the UEF commander might need to be a little higher to match the Seraphim one. Maybe in front of the logo though.

@Giebmasse Simple, not too much going on which I like. I wonder if the information could even be below the commander.

@Femboy I like this one the best but the perspective on the commanders needs a bit of a look.
Cybran looks a little small and probably shouldn't be on top of UEF but slightly moved over, Seraphim looks like it is in front of Cybran when AEON is behind UEF - doesn't make sense.

@el_syd
If you're using multiple monitors then disabling the NVIDIA Display Container LS service will work.

That said if you have multiple monitors but don't use both in game you can check another setting.

1. Open the NVIDIA Control Panel
2. Under Display then Adjust desktop size and position
3. For all monitors set Perform scaling on to GPU and apply the setting.

This fixed issues I had with a number of games.

This issue has returned.

@Jip has said

We're going to add the 'Nvidia fix' to the base repository with the next patch 3726 on the 26th of November.

In the mean time you can use the console command or Nvidia fix mod.

@uveso said in Solved a Direct3d Issue, gained a new issue:

or enhanced sound does not work.

I just want to add that this is only for certain sound devices. I believe Realtek.

My Creative Sound Blaster AE-7 works with 5.1, 32-bit, 96,000 Hz sound with audio enhancements turned on just fine.

Should the trailer already exist I'm sure it could be nominated for this purpose. But until this is all concluded it should be treated completely unofficial.

I rarely get any lag in game but you will be kicked from public lobbies a lot. Use 1v1 / 2v2 matchmaker or host your own matches and this isn't a problem.

Although your internet is particularly bad (I'm on 50/20).

@blackyps said in "What will you do if you lose the election" and 5 Questions for FTX:

FtX applied to be an association member in the beginning of June. As far as I know there has been no communication why he was not approved yet. Saying that he is solely responsible for the drama, because it's toxic when he gets mad about the lack of communication seems a bit unreasonable to me.

His attitude and behaviour is being observed until a later date.

@ftxcommando

perpetual petty drama

Please note that passive or actively aggressive comments like these are the petty dramas.

Your attitude when things don't go the way you like seems to be the entire cause of these dramas. Nobody wants to constantly read seething posts or comments. The answer is not for the board to just give in under those kind of pressures but rather to resist toxicity. Nobody is ever going to miss not having to read an inflammatory post.

I hope over time you reflect on how you present yourself to others and have an epiphany of sorts and begin speaking non-violently.

Give matchmaker a go