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Llewen

I have finally managed to get Open General working with full video support on Debian 12. I have updated the instructions in the OP.

Llewen

You do a beautiful job on those maps.

Llewen

randowe wrote: ↑2024-01-19 13:56, Friday I swear, this was not planned So still two more maps by me this year. Then i am finished with my map plans.

We all know you can't stop. Now is the time for acceptance...

Llewen

UPDATE: I have yet to get video playback working properly under Debian bookworm, which is now full wayland. I have also added a note to the OP, I have discovered two packages that improve the running of just about any application under wine. So much so that I'm surprised it took me so long to find ...

Llewen

I'm going to mark this as closed. It appears that the behaviour I described was accurate, but it wasn't an issue with Open General. It was a problem with wine. I have found some packages which are wine preloaders (wine32-preloader, wine64-preloader). What they do is reserve the memory address ranges...

Llewen

This reminds me of how much time I've spent optimizing images for the websites and software I've worked on...

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What I am describing sounds to me, after some consideration, to be some form of caching behaviour gone wrong.

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:howdy It is also likely that the sounds that follow each other actually overlap The sound starts the audio process --> before this process ends --> the next sound wants to use the same music player calling the same process This may cause a conflict Can your default audio player be open by several ...

Llewen

I think I understand a little bit of what is going on with this, at least in a general way. What appears to be happening is that the Open General executable is trying to write what is probably an audio file, or files, to a specific memory location or locations, but is unable to. When it is unable to...

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The solution for me was to turn weather animations off in the user interface settings. This is not meant to be a harsh criticism, so I'm going to say what I hope I have said before. I love Open General. It is my favourite version of, perhaps, my favourite computer game of all time. I think what Lui...

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This has been across several versions of wine, and as you see, others are experiencing the issues on Windows. I don't think it's a Linux specific issue. My memory is hazy, but I might have also experienced this when I was running Windows. I think this issue has been with OG since just about day one....

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:howdy Which game engine are you using DD(DirectDraw) or SDL2? All sounds are in mp3 format? What is your default audio player? SDL2 and, I believe, WMP (legacy?). The sounds are in whatever format they are in OG. I haven't changed anything. I'm using the AK efile. This happens all the time, not ju...

Llewen

I'm posting this here because I'd like to know if anyone else has experienced something similar. Open General has always made my system work hard, and that has often puzzled me, because it doesn't seem to me that Open General is a game that requires a lot of resources, in terms of processing time an...

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I use a lot of experience ranges for units, so if you want to total the experience, you would need to take the average of the experience range. So 100 - 200 the experience value for that unit would be 150. Still do not understand this :huh What do you want to sum if the unit has an experience level...

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It is probably not too much work if result is output to a .csv file with just 5 rows (one header + 1 row/player) and sums in columns. So you can load in Excel to further process Then, columns would be totals (per player) for: sp exp bars sa ha aa na gd ad cd rdm attach1 (total units having it) .. a...

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No question that it wouldn't be any kind of magic bullet for scenario design, and all of the scenarios in the original SSI Blitz campaign were designed to be both part of the campaign and as standalone scenarios. I think it would be useful for both those contexts. No question as well that location a...

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Something that might be a useful tool in Open Suite for scenario design is a tool which totals up all the experience and all the strength points for each side/player. I don't think it would be too difficult to code, just a matter of iterating through all the units and totalling the numbers, multipli...

Llewen

Video playback is working properly, I have updated the OP.

Llewen

Once again taking a stab at getting the video replay working properly on wine. Will report back.

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Open General is 32 bit is it not? yes, it is, i just wondered whether the x64 libs in linux had backward compatibility, as ubuntu planed to drop the entire i386 support, but it seems it's necessary for running wine, and at least the ubuntu 20.04 lts supports the i386 packages :phew That's one reaso...

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Open General is 32 bit is it not? If it is, then yes, you need those 32 bit packages. If it isn't, then you don't. I just assumed it was because most games of this vintage are. But seeing as Luis is compiling it, it's entirely possible it isn't... :) And yes, 1GB seems like a lot until you realize y...

Llewen

Updated the OP.

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I actually meant 50%, 25% would be drastic. A variable on a campaign level would also be good.

Llewen

Is it time to take the liberator leader special to the woodshed? It has always been the most powerful leader special available, so much so that many people playing Open General or PG2 will either reload when they get that special or edit it out of the game save. Simply reducing the prestige increase...

Llewen

Thanks for that response. I'm thinking I won't do that.

Llewen

What I like about the idea of adding a liberator leader to the recon unit is it evens out the playing experience across replays. Getting a liberator leader on a unit like a recon unit really changes the way the whole campaign plays. So if you just add one at the beginning of the campaign, it makes i...

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I'm considering adding a liberator leader to the starting recon unit. That would certainly fix any issues with not enough prestige. Would that be too much?

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The trick with Malta, btw, is to use your capital ships to deal with the enemy destroyers, and destroy the enemy caps with your subs. Take the final objectives with armoured units and use your navy to soften the defences. I won't move "soft" units much past halfway in the direction of the ...

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I think that German campaigns have the potential for 3 ugly scenarios: - Windsor/Invasion England '40 - Crete - Malta Part of what made that original SSI Blitzkrieg special was that, way back when, it seemed like each person had a scenario or two that would ball them up. But there are a few that mo...

Llewen

(just in case, because i'm bad at explaining: i generally agree with you) (just in case, because i'm bad at explaining: i wasn't arguing and I appreciate the comments... :) ) I basically worked on this campaign for three reasons. The first reason was that Open General, at it's heart, is a mod of Pa...

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There are a few things I attempted to "fix" when I reworked this campaign, without creating a completely new campaign. One of those things was that players almost always would deliberately refuse a BV at Dunkirk so they could avoid the first Windsor and go through the North Africa campaign...

Llewen

A lot of effort was put into balancing the prestige available, and the caps, in this campaign. I suspect it is very sensitive to changes in prestige levels. You should notice a pretty huge difference between 100/100 and 75/100 in terms of overall difficulty. If you want to mess around with prestige ...

Llewen

There is one note I'd like to make. Ivjtn suggested that prestige be increased by 20%. This campaign was designed and play tested at 100/100, and that is in the readme. Ivjtn play tested this at 75/100. Raising that to 100/100 would cover the 20% increase and be at the settings the campaign is desig...

Llewen

I was also genuinely afraid that I had made it too easy. I'm very happy that is not the case.

Llewen

I very much appreciate the playtest. I realize I'm a little slow responding here, but I don't tend to follow the forums much. I will try to go through them in detail. You are correct, you simply cannot manage more than a few air units, or you run out of $$. That was intentional. Novgorod is always a...

Llewen

It appears that the audio in the intro video to Open General is not working. Not sure why that doesn't work, it is working in the campaign videos. Suffice to say that you may need to mess around with Shark007's settings to get that working, and if you do, please post here with the solution so I can ...

Llewen

***UPDATED Oct. 22, 2024*** Open General working with all the bells and whistles including weather effects, audio and video playback, on a multi-monitor setup. Linux Distro: Debian 12 bookworm Desktop: KDE Plasma wayland Application Launcher: Lutris Wine Version: 8.27 Architecture: 32 bit Hardware W...

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1483.png 1483_starayarussa.mapx Number: 1483 Name: Staraya Russa Google Location: Staraya Russa Period: WWII August 15, 1941 Region: Russia Map size: 1632 X 1920 Comment: This is a minor modification of the original SSI Novgorod map to address some tactical issues in the scenario. edit: Added the m...

Llewen

Might have to wait for a while for that bug report. I'll try to send a save game the next time I see it, and it is reproducible.

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Yes, I'll mail them to you. Give me a few minutes, still trying to fix the dshow errors on Linux/wine.

Llewen

My vote would be an option that isn't on the list. Just fix bugs and strange AI 3.0 behaviours, such as suicidal supply depots.

Llewen

randowe wrote: ↑2019-10-25 19:46, Friday
Llewen wrote: ↑2019-10-25 19:30, FridayGeneral Mess
Du you want to change your suggestion? General... reminds me of some HIMYM running gag

Yes please. It has a double meaning, and a sense of humor.

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General Mess

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Grumpy Old Man Reporting!

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