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Posted: **18 Jan 2007 14:50**

Release Candidate 4 is out and on schedule.

Translators have done a great job; we've had quite some work with backporting all the changes. But as a result, both Japanese and Slovenian are now finished.

Downloads over at http://www.openttd.org/downloads.php. Please be patient while SF distributes the files and we compile more binaries.

NOTE: The changelog only contains fixes for issues prior to 0.4.8. RC4 fixes a newgrf coredump added to RC3, fixes several desync issues (a big cheers to Rubidium for finding and fixing them), and as an added bonus doubles the spritecache size, so performance should increase with newgrf's used

Link to RC3 forum post: OpenTTD 0.5.0-RC3
Link to RC2 forum post: OpenTTD 0.5.0-RC2.
Link to RC1 forum post: OpenTTD 0.5.0-RC1.

Known bugs for RC4:

The russian file has been broken slightly in a recent commit, causing OpenTTD to start the first time in Russian instead of English when not using the current locale. Solution: delete russian.lng or set language=english.lng in openttd.cfg or in the options dialog select english if you can find your way through all the '?'-s.
For RC5 (or the final, depending what else is found) the -h help output will go to stdout instead of stderr on consoles.

Changes since RC3:
[list][*]- Feature: Increase spritecache size to 2MB, will increase performance in games using newgrf files (r8218)
[*]- Feature: OS/2 support with GCC (Watcom is dropped) (r8042)
[*]- Codechange: Add Japanese, Slovenian language as an official translation and split Norwegian into Bokmal and Nynorsk (r7987, r8084, r8069)
[*]- Codechange: Show error messages about our own data files as a popup, or to stderr if console is available (and not to stdout) (r8013, r8134)
[*]- Codechange: Change the ordering of the network list, compatible servers just missing grf files are below fully compatible servers, not on the bottom (r8118)
[*]- Fix: Return proper error value when unthreaded save fails, prevents server sending 0-sized files (r8171)
[*]- Fix: Network client crashes when a server sends a 0-sized savegame [FS#556] (r8167)
[*]- Fix: Several desync fixes (incorrect roadstop update of old games, autoreplace bugs) [FS#551] (r8137, r8147, r8157)
[*]- Fix: Some disaster-events fixed: combat chopper shoots from right position, submarine once again moves around (r8140, r8158)
[*]- Fix: "out of sprite memory" warning messages due to incorrect assumption of requested memory for sprites (r8133)
[*]- Fix: Bouys are now built and numbered 1..9 not 9..1 [FS#538] (r8123)
[*]- Fix: Clicking for more news properly cycles through the news history backwards, and doesn't show the first item doubly if it's already open (r8049)
[*]- Fix: Crash when removing a town in the scenario editor while the query window is open for one of the town's tiles (r8030)
[*]- Fix: Overflow of system-ticks was not handled properly, resulting in a possibly unresponsive server/client (r8028)
[*]- Fix: Automatic pause interfering with 'pause_on_join setting' in MP when <shift> is pressed [FS#486] (r8027)
[*]- Fix: Picking up en-route cargo will also have virtual profit deducted for trains aswell (r8026)
[*]- Fix: Out-of-bounds read access on _clients array (harmless) (r7984)[/list]

List of fixes for bugs that were introduced after 0.4.8/RC3:
Changes since RC3:
[list][*]- Codechange: MSVC solution files will make openttd THE startup project (r8112)
[*]- Codechange: Add the ability to load savegames without matching grf's. ONLY allow games with matching GRFID's (and non-matching MD5SUM) to be loaded; missing is still denied as it can crash OpenTTD (r8106)
[*]- Codechange: The station list does now remember the sort settings (r8065)
[*]- Fix: Apply railtype offset to station graphics if no custom station is in use, shows maglev graphic for maglev station [FS#557] (r8186)
[*]- Fix: ParseConnectionstring didn't use the port parameter if a player was also specified (r8168)
[*]- Fix: Do not assert when removing duplicates would remove non-static grf (r8135)
[*]- Fix: The game could crash when the chat key (<ENTER>) is pressed too quickly during join in MP (r8132)
[*]- Fix: Uninitializing windows calls WE_DESTROY to free dynamic memory used, cut down on memleaks (r8101, r8119)
[*]- Fix: Show the activated status of the GRF after pressing apply in window (r8094)
[*]- Fix: [win32] *nprintf functions are broken, 'len = count' wasn't handled, now string is always null-terminated (r8089, r8090)
[*]- Fix: Float division by 0 in YAPF code on Win9x (r8079, r8080)
[*]- Fix: Heightmap crashes when rescaling, or using 24bpp bitmaps [FS#537] (r8070, r8074)
[*]- Fix: Inauguration date of companies from TTDP games was wrong [FS#536] (r8071)
[*]- Fix: One more news-window crash fix (r8049)
[*]- Fix: Segfault in the newgrf loading code when using certain newgrf files (r7979)[/list]

Posted: **18 Jan 2007 14:58**

Wow! cool, let's review the changelog a bit shall we?

(*looks at Darkvaters 'stub'.

)

Looks promising.

/me will try it out.

EDIT: Drat!

Posted: **18 Jan 2007 15:45**

We've found the first bug(s)

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The russian file has been broken slightly in a recent commit, causing OpenTTD to start the first time in Russian instead of English when not using the current locale.
For RC5 (or the final, depending what else is found) the -h help output will go to stdout instead of stderr on consoles.

Posted: **18 Jan 2007 16:24**

I have found bugs in polish characters. Where are the characters: ę ą ó ż ź. Open TTD RC4 doesn`t show this signs.

Posted: **18 Jan 2007 16:56**

read the readme; this has come up a zillion times before.

Posted: **18 Jan 2007 17:33**

Darkvater wrote:For RC5 (or the final, depending what else is found) the -h help output will go to stdout instead of stderr on consoles.

This issue affects autopilot, which crashes. Admins using autopilot can either wait for my work-around (which will be safe on all versions of OpenTTD, including RC4 and nightly builds which use stderr like this) or they can change line 39 in autopilot-lib.tcl to this:

Code: Select all

return {unavailable}

The word unavailable can be replaced with any string you like; it will be used as the version string in all cases.

EDIT: New version is out. This will work with all versions of OpenTTD.

Posted: **18 Jan 2007 17:43**

Oops... couple of bad bugs crept in.

I started in Brianetta's RC4 game with 134Mill. One company weirdly had a credit of 12billion for sold vehicles, and a worth of 13bill or so. I went to buy 25% shares, and the game paid me 1.1billion to do so!!!!

Second bug is in the autoreplace feature. In the ship depot, I can buy the full range of available ships. But the list of available ships in the autoreplace is missing lots of ships - eg. I cant replace the GCV with the Livestock Carrier, the Astander cant be replaced by the Daewoo car carrier. Weirdness...

Here is a link to the game saved prior to me joining. (Orange, company 1). The sequence to try is:

Change to Red company.
Sell 50% of Railfreight shares... for a big cost.
Change to Orange company (RichK)
Buy 50% of Railfreight shares... and be paid billions for it.

Clearly, since this was a MP game, we did not actually do the company changing, but the effect can be replicated in SP with this sequence.

Come back RC3 all is forgiven.

Posted: **18 Jan 2007 18:48**

That's nice RichK. And thanks for bringing in so much money for my company.

Posted: **18 Jan 2007 19:52**

Don't know if this is the right topic, but RC4 for Debian is not available for download. I can download the source code and the windows installer, but the .deb file doesn't seem to be there.

I get the following message on firefox when trying to download RC4:
File Not found
File: openttd-0.5.0-RC4-i386.deb not found.
To go back to the project page for openttd click here
Click here for documentation about the download process on sf.net.

Posted: **18 Jan 2007 19:54**

White Rabbit wrote:That's nice RichK. And thanks for bringing in so much money for my company.

Yeah, it was fun taking over a company on the edge... it was a powerhouse in 5 years

Sometimes ships are just AWESOME

Posted: **18 Jan 2007 19:55**

BBB wrote:Don't know if this is the right topic, but RC4 for Debian is not available for download. I can download the source code and the windows installer, but the .deb file doesn't seem to be there.

I get the following message on firefox when trying to download RC4:
File Not found
File: openttd-0.5.0-RC4-i386.deb not found.
To go back to the project page for openttd click here
Click here for documentation about the download process on sf.net.

I think somebody's working on it:

On IRC wrote:18:58 <blathijs> let's build some debs :-)

Posted: **18 Jan 2007 20:00**

Brianetta wrote:
On IRC wrote:18:58 <blathijs> let's build some debs

Yup. And they're done.

Posted: **18 Jan 2007 21:54**

Another overflow, or something. Tonight's game on my Standard Server. Many saved games can be made available if necessary. Look at this player's property maintenance - anything strike you as odd?

Posted: **18 Jan 2007 23:01**

richk67 wrote:Oops... couple of bad bugs crept in.

I started in Brianetta's RC4 game with 134Mill. One company weirdly had a credit of 12billion for sold vehicles, and a worth of 13bill or so. I went to buy 25% shares, and the game paid me 1.1billion to do so!!!!

Second bug is in the autoreplace feature. In the ship depot, I can buy the full range of available ships. But the list of available ships in the autoreplace is missing lots of ships - eg. I cant replace the GCV with the Livestock Carrier, the Astander cant be replaced by the Daewoo car carrier. Weirdness...

The first is a bug caused by the int32 return value of a command, which simply cannot handle the immense amount that Railfreight is worth (you should pay -3205676953 pounds (so get this many), but when cast to a signed 32-bit integer you actually need to pay 1089290343. You guys should not have this much money ;p

The second one is not a bug. The autoreplace window only shows vehicles that you can replace the actual vehicle with. Clearly none of your freight ships can carry passangers, so no hovercraft, etc. is shown.

Posted: **18 Jan 2007 23:05**

Darkvater wrote:The second one is not a bug. The autoreplace window only shows vehicles that you can replace the actual vehicle with. Clearly none of your freight ships can carry passangers, so no hovercraft, etc. is shown.

There is a bug, though, with autoreplace and refits. The list of compatible ships apparently doesn't take refits into account; there's a saved game demonstrating this here (click sig for newgrfs). The depot upon which the screen is (almost) centred is having autoreplace trouble.

Posted: **19 Jan 2007 02:23**

Darkvater wrote:The second one is not a bug. The autoreplace window only shows vehicles that you can replace the actual vehicle with. Clearly none of your freight ships can carry passangers, so no hovercraft, etc. is shown.

Yeah, it is a bug. I cant replace a converted-to-livestock goods ship with a dedicated livestock carrier. I aint dat toopid

Here are some clearer screenies with better explanations. Hope it helps!

[edit] I think 1997 was the date of the conversion from RC3 to RC4, so either our last RC3 save was corrupt, or the load into RC4 wasnt as clean as it should be.

Posted: **19 Jan 2007 02:42**

I'm the Japanese translator for OpenTTD and am a little bit peeved at the moment as the shiny new Unicode, etc. support doesn't appear to work on OS X. I've tried compiling with libfreetype, etc. but to no avail. Bit disappointing really, as it means I am having to run OTTD under Windows on Virtual PC to test out my modifications.

So, yeah, a fix for that would be absolutely brilliant. As it is now, on my system (where the system language is set to Japanese), if you load OTTD up without an openttd.cfg, it defaults to Japanese and thus just a load of question marks, because the font support appears not to be there.

Posted: **19 Jan 2007 02:47**

Take a look in the readme

Posted: **19 Jan 2007 12:42**

glx wrote:Take a look in the readme

If you're referring to the bit about small_font, medium_font and large_font, I have tried that (of course), specifying both font paths and simple font names, all to no avail.

Posted: **19 Jan 2007 14:26**

ickoonite wrote:
glx wrote:Take a look in the readme
If you're referring to the bit about small_font, medium_font and large_font, I have tried that (of course), specifying both font paths and simple font names, all to no avail.

for japanese font support have you tried these fonts (if i remember, these are available with eastern langiage support installed on win):
msgothic.ttc
msmincho.ttc

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