Release Notes - January 30, 2009

[Commodore Larence]

I just found a massive bug in the game today. I was on the new Port Royal testing out the privateer lookout (which i can not find a way to turn off once activated)... But back to my story. While sided with Spain, I came across another player on the French side. He began to hack his sword, and I hacked back at him... we were damaging each other. You can fight other players who are either in lookout for privateer or sided, I'm not sure on the specifics of it... It may just happen while on the new Port Royal. Is this supposed to be this way? I dont think it is... this seems to me like a giant bug in the game. Sorry if this is old news, I have not seen it posted any other places.

Larence Tuppington
GM: Skallywag Alliance
Lvl-40

[Poison elf]

This looks like a altercation from the svs bug I have been posting. This a big bug I thought, but apparently not taken as so from the reports I sent in on test.

If in a crew before entering your ship in svs this occurs. Soon as you dock, you can no longer get back in svs on your side. (maybe you can if 1 or more ships are on other side than your side)

Any Case this seems to break the svs, you remain to have privateer chat, though it can't be used. As well your entire crew shows flying a flag for your side of svs.

Last I saw this was still happening, I haven't got to live and checked this particular one. I tried many things in test but only way to get this off you is logging out from what I could find.

[Crazypirate]

Can anyone answer for me why I can run shader lvl 4 with openGL or DirectX9 but with DirectX8 it tells me minimum hardware not detected and doent give me the option to use it at all. DirectX8 its the only one that doesnt lag real bad when I sail now with new updates.

[drwr]

Originally Posted by Crazypirate

Can anyone answer for me why I can run shader lvl 4 with openGL or DirectX9 but with DirectX8 it tells me minimum hardware not detected and doent give me the option to use it at all. DirectX8 its the only one that doesnt lag real bad when I sail now with new updates.

DirectX8 doesn't support shaders, so you can't enable shaders when you are running with DirectX8. Incidentally, this might be why it doesn't lag as bad as the others. Have you tried disabling shaders on OpenGL or DirectX9 to see if it smooths out there? A lot of cards have performance issues rendering shaders.

David

[Crazypirate]

Thx it helps alot but just wondering why it started I never had any lag issues b4 update with graphics turned all the way up even in svs or abasa.