PRACX v1.10 Release

[DrazharLn]

That report says that terranx.exe tried to access some memory it shouldn't at offset 0x001e076d, hopefully Plotinus will know what to do with that.

[Vidsek]

  As per your request:  Greetings Lxndr!!

  My solution for Win 10 disfunctions has been to wait to install it until at least the first round of bugfixes is issued.  Being an unpaid beta tester for a big, rich corporation ranks low on my priority list.
  I have done the free pre-release download, so when it's declared by users to actually be a step up from 7 I'll be good to go.

[Lxndr]

Other than this one quirk with PRACX, it's not been a bad OS. That said, I'm not sure there's a "Take it back" button for OS upgrades.

[DrazharLn]

I realize that I probably caused this issue by being an early adopter, but after upgrading to Windows 10, if PRACX is enabled, it crashed terranx (sometimes after the second turn I play). Any tips on how to troubleshoot this?

I've PM'd PlotinusRedux.

Did you successfully use PRACX on the same physical machine and desktop resolution before upgrading to windows 10? If the machine was different, how was it different?

[Lxndr]

The hardware and resolution haven't changed (besides Windows 10). Though the installation of Windows 10 required me to update the BIOS of my mother board.

[DrazharLn]

And just to confirm, you played Alpha Centauri with and without PRACX on that same machine before installing windows 10?

BIOS shouldn't have an effect.

[PlotinusRedux]

I'm absurdly busy IRL currently, probably will be until the end of Sept, but I'll try to squeeze in looking at the Windows 10 thing.  I have it installed myself so it shouldn't take long. 

[Vidsek]

  Thank you, and our hopes that things are going well for you.  But then the 3rd century CE was a busy time for you too, so you're probably used to that....

[Nevill]

Not sure whether to post it here or in Yitzi's patch thread.

Yitzi's patch is said to contain PRAX 1.06, but something got weird. Like, this weird:

Thankfully, reinstalling PRAX over helped. If I had to guess, it's the icons.pcx file that is at fault.

Also, the white rectangle on the minimap showing the location of the current screen does not move/refresh during scrolling and vanishes if zooming in/out. It only redraws once you click on a tile. Is this a known issue?

I also hate to repeat myself, but is PRAX 1.06 compatible with kyrub's? I've launched it and it seemed to work fine, but I don't know what exactly it patches in terran.exe.

[PlotinusRedux]

Yes, icons.pcx definitely needs to be distributed for PRAC/X to work properly--it contains the new images I used.  Yitzi, could you include it in your install?

It looks like Yitzi's patch already includes Kyrub's patch.  Since they are both just the terran.exe file, installing Kyrub's would overwrite Yitzi's changes, whereas installing Yitzi's gets you both.  PRAC/X, on the other hand, modifies the existing terran.exe during installation, so you can install it over Yitzi's or just Kyrub's, as long as you install PRAC/X *last*.

I'm hating Windows 10.  The first thing it did was corrupt my RAID 1 array, both drives, I'm still recovering stuff from that.  I downloaded a Start button replacement that at least lets me pin things to the Start menu again.  I'm also still re-installing all my apps and dev kits, so I haven't had a chance to try PRAC/X on it yet.  It should be an easy fix--if it was something fundamental it would crash on start up.

[Yitzi]

Yes, icons.pcx definitely needs to be distributed for PRAC/X to work properly--it contains the new images I used.  Yitzi, could you include it in your install?

It looks like Yitzi's patch already includes Kyrub's patch.  Since they are both just the terran.exe file, installing Kyrub's would overwrite Yitzi's changes, whereas installing Yitzi's gets you both.

That's true if he meant Kyrub's terranx.exe, but mine is purely SMAX (although it can imitate SMAC), so installing Kyrub's terran.exe will have no effect on my terranx.exe.

[PlotinusRedux]

Ah, I didn't notice that, Yitzi.  Yes, PRAC should be compatible with Kyrub's SMAC patch, as long as you install PRAC last.

Both will need icons.pcx, Yitzi.

Vidsek, time is the moving image of eternity, so the more things change, the more they stay the same.  Except for this Windows 10 thing--and I thought Attila was bad....

[Nevill]

Yes, PRAC should be compatible with Kyrub's SMAC patch, as long as you install PRAC last.

Thanks!

Also, some in-game windows can't be scrolled up or down with a mousewheel, since those actions affect map zoom instead. The most noticeable is perhaps the unit list in the editor which is long enough that you would want to scroll it, often.

Would the minimap rentagle be hard to fix? For the moment it is probably the only issue that prevents me from switching to PRAX for good.

[DrazharLn]

I've just checked and Icons.pcx is not redistributed with Yitzi 3.4, so that's probably the problem.

[Lxndr]

Upon reading the previous conversation, I went ahead and installed PRACX independently from Yitzi's, just in case it was icons.pcx causing my crashing problem.  Further testing gave me more of the same behaviour.