In-Game textures have vanished!

[heatwave]

AHH! Where'd my textures go? Ready for the creepy part?
Fresh installs (Which include deleting the Warzone folder in application support) of 2.2rc1, 2.2beta1, and 2.1.3 yield the same result.

[cybersphinx]

We want... information.
Information.
Information.

[Kamaze]

Hurry up heatwave, tell us more! Otherwise cybersphinx will start to throw chairs around! *duck & cover*

[heatwave]

Well, I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.7, and on the same day that your servers went down (when you had issues with your routing) my textures disappeared. It makes no sense. Does Warzone create any other files besides the one found in the Application Support folder? It's scary. After noticing the problem, I put Warzone in the trash, I put the "Warzone 2100 2.2" folder in the trash (found in Application Support), I emptied the trash, tried fresh installations of prior versions that worked fine, and the problem remains.

I don't know what else to tell you. Tell me what I need to tell you.
I really hope this isn't one of those odd, unfixable, unexplainable, "The problem's on your side" kind of problems.
Thank you for you help.

[stiv]

It is a problem on your end. You have apparently either changed your display settings or trashed your video driver. Fix that problem and you are golden! Any system updates lately?

[heatwave]

We did update to 10.5.7 just recently. I thought I remembered playing it w/o any problems since the update though. Any one else out there with a 10.5.7 Mac that can confirm/debunk this?

Display settings haven't changed. I wouldn't even know where my video drivers are, and I'd never trash something I didn't recognize. I'm on my own profile too, so it's not like someone else screwed it up. Is there any significance in that it happened the exact same day that the Warzone website/servers were down?

Just tested AssaultCube, and everything runs normal, textures and all.

[cybersphinx]

See http://developer.wz2100.net/ticket/538 and complain to Apple/Nvidia (I guess you have a Nvidia GPU, right?).

[heatwave]

Yeah. Phew. I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing these problems. Do you think if a bug report is filed that Apple will take any notice of it? As far as I know this is the only game affected by the 10.5.7 upgrade.

[cybersphinx]

No idea. But it doesn't hurt to try I guess. None of our developers has a Nvidia Mac to reproduce this, so right now there's nothing we can do about it.

[heatwave]

I can submit a bug report, as my dad created an ADC account with Apple for me a while back, but its beginning to sound like it might be Warzone's problem, judging by this picture posted in the other topic:


Still, I've started writing, in case it is indeed Apple's problem.
Here's what I've got so far. Critique? Improvements? Re-wordings?

Summary: Warzone 2100, a game currently developed by the Warzone Resurrection Project, is an RTS game for Mac/Windows/Linux. The game ran flawlessly on my Mac until I updated to 10.5.7. I had been using Warzone 2.2rc1 with OSX version 10.5.6 with no problems. After updating to version 10.5.7 without altering Warzone, the terrain textures have vanished. (They can still be found in Warzone's file structure, but they are completely absent in game, see attached image)

Clearly, the problem is directly related to the switch from 10.5.6 to 10.5.7.
Reinstalling the game (completely) has no effect.

It works correctly on other Macs without NVIDIA cards. It works on Macs with NVIDIA cards pre 10.5.7. It works on other operating systems with and without NVIDIA hardware.

Steps to Reproduce:
• Launch Warzone (fresh install or otherwise; any version)
• Start a game (campaign, tutorial, or skirmish)

Expected Results:
• Terrain loads using standard textures bundled within the application.

Actual Results:
• The terrain will load, but will appear perfectly white in place of the usual textures. (See image)
Regression:
• Occurs with any version of warzone (2.2.0 and earlier) as long as the user is running 10.5.7

Notes:
All other Mac users that have posted in the forums have reported the same problem, that is to say that no Mac users have reported correct behavior after updating to 10.5.7.

Warzone Resurrection Project Homepage:
http://wz2100.net/

Forums Threads Concerning this issue:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3026
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3129

[cybersphinx]

but its beginning to sound like it might be Warzone's problem, judging by this picture posted in the other topic

That picture is from trunk, and the textured terrain you see is rendered differently than in 2.2. The untextured terrain is rendered the same. And you say it yourself:

It works correctly on other Macs without NVIDIA cards. It works on Macs with NVIDIA cards pre 10.5.7. It works on other operating systems with and without NVIDIA hardware.

It works on basically any system with working OpenGL drivers. Perhaps Warzone uses an otherwise seldom used function, and it didn't appear in their tests. But unless you (or someone else with that problem) can find out what is wrong to fix it, all I can say is: Complain to those who made the broken driver.

[Vermithrax]

AHH! Where'd my textures go? Ready for the creepy part?
Fresh installs (Which include deleting the Warzone folder in application support) of 2.2rc1, 2.2beta1, and 2.1.3 yield the same result.

As you've determined, NVIDIA equipped Macs running OS X 10.5.7 exhibit this problem. Curiously, I've not been able to find any NVIDIA specific development between 10.5.6 and 10.5.7. Instead, some work on the ATI drivers was done. Curiously, I gather that work is being done on those drivers to fix ATI related issues. That tiny subset of Mac users that also run Warzone 2100 should await the 10.5.8 release, and hope.

[heatwave]

It'll probably be Snow Leopard after 10.5.8.

[Buginator]

It'll probably be Snow Leopard after 10.5.8.

Why don't you revert to 10.5.6 again then? Or use the 10.5.6 drivers on 10.5.7?

[heatwave]

That'd be nice, as I haven't noticed any difference between .6 and .7, but I don't have an admin account, and I'm sure I'd have to go through about a thousand of theseto revert back to .6.

.... Which my parents would be über suspicious about.