Unvanquished Forum

So um, hi.

I've been following Unvanquished for a while now, but never got to actually play it on my old computer: failed at compiling on Linux because of some dependencies, and, even with the old renderer, I got 2 FPS on average on my Windows partition.

Now, I've got a new laptop (Windows 7 for now), which can run Unvanquished, so naturally I wanted to try it out. However, it hangs, freezes and crashes for no apparent reason, with such a regularity that the game is unplayable for me. I'm trying to think of more details to provide, but I can think of none. I'm a spectator, press 'P' because it's my 'join aliens' key in Tremulous, and it freezes. I join the aliens through the menus, interrupted by it hanging for about 15 seconds, start running around a bit, and it crashes, for no apparent reason. I honestly can't think of any specific action of mine that would trigger this kind of behavior.

I know this isn't much to go on, but if anyone knows how to fix this, so that I could finally try Unvanquished, it'd be greatly appreciated.

Check if you have all the necessary assets in the right directory. It's not much to go on but that's what I would do first.

Interesting. could you give us the hardware specs for your new laptop? Also, a condump would be useful.

I'm merely using a .zip file, I didn't include any additional assets: maybe that's a mistake on my part. It might explain at least why I can't see the human weapons. Was I supposed to download and place assets in addition to the files included in the .zip?

I also ran Daemon.exe in a command prompt and tried to store output using > unvfreeze.txt, but that didn't work, and the condump I made seems to be lost forever in de depths of my HDD. I can still manually type it over though, and it did give something useful on the freeze:

UnnamedPlayer#1 ^7entered the game
UnnamedPlayer#1 ^7joined the aliens
WARNING: CG_ReadNextSnapshot: way out of range, 3118 > 1469
]/echo Well it just froze.
Well it just froze.
]/condump freeze
Dumped console text to freeze.
]/quit

Also, my fancy new laptop's specs are:

Intel Core i3-380M (2.52 GHz Dualcore)
6GB DDR3 RAM
Intel HD Graphics

Are you running the game with +set cl_renderer GL? If not, you should be.

I wasn't, but I tried just now, and it worked like a charm. I can't believe it was something as simple as that! Anyway, thanks :)