Black screen on login fix, upgrade clients

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Black screen on login fix, upgrade clients

Postby loftar » Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:49 pm

I'm restarting the server to fix the problem with a black screen on login that some people are having.

It involves a change to the protocol, so you will need to upgrade your clients to log in on the server after the restart. I've already installed the upgraded client, so you can download it beforehand.
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Re: Black screen on login fix, upgrade clients

Postby Creadth » Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:51 pm

loftar wrote:I'm restarting the server to fix the problem with a black screen on login that some people are having.

It involves a change to the protocol, so you will need to upgrade your clients to log in on the server after the restart. I've already installed the upgraded client, so you can download it beforehand.

Updating sources for custom clients and rebuilding required as well?
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Re: Black screen on login fix, upgrade clients

Postby yozzik » Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:53 pm

Love you guys. Thanks for a new Haven.

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Re: Black screen on login fix, upgrade clients

Postby Kitamie » Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:53 pm

Where do we download the upgrade from?
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Re: Black screen on login fix, upgrade clients

Postby bojackson » Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:54 pm

I got that pre download loftar sweety thanks - every second counts ;)
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Re: Black screen on login fix, upgrade clients

Postby bojackson » Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:54 pm

Kitamie wrote:Where do we download the upgrade from?


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Re: Black screen on login fix, upgrade clients

Postby loftar » Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:55 pm

Kitamie wrote:Where do we download the upgrade from?

Java Web Start should upgrade you automatically if you just use the "Play" button again.

Creadth wrote:Updating sources for custom clients and rebuilding required as well?

Indeed. The specific thing I needed to fix was that the new tile map was so large that people having trouble with small PMTUs and/or IPv4 fragmentation never got the tilemap packet, and therefore also no later package. This change puts a local tilemap in each map-data packet instead, containing only the tiles used therein.
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Re: Black screen on login fix, upgrade clients

Postby Creadth » Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:24 pm

loftar wrote:Indeed. The specific thing I needed to fix was that the new tile map was so large that people having trouble with small PMTUs and/or IPv4 fragmentation never got the tilemap packet, and therefore also no later package. This change puts a local tilemap in each map-data packet instead, containing only the tiles used therein.

Nice, already rebuilt, working like a charm. Thanks for the update!
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