Lobby/Enter Game Bugs

posted on January 21st, 2010, 10:34 pm

Two to report, as although we've all grown used to them, they are darn irritating:

The "map browser" bug. If you are hosting a game and choosing a map, nobody can enter the game, change color, team - nobody can do anything at all except type.

The "minimize crashing bug". If you enter a game while minimized, or are minimized while entering a game, you crash the entire game for everybody usually, or at the very least crash yourself (becomes a black screen where you cannot see anything and have to end the Fleet Ops program.

Although these seem to be really annoying relic bugs, I have confidence that some way can be found to fix them... hopefully

posted on January 21st, 2010, 11:20 pm

ok now, how do you enter a game while minimized? ^^

posted on January 21st, 2010, 11:23 pm

Sorry, didn't explain that precisely .
Basically you click on the "enter game" button, and then someone messages your, or perhaps you alt tab since it is taking awhile, or another program wants your attention - all of those minimize FO... and before you can alt-tab back into FO... you find the window is black, and everybody is yelling at you that everyone is frozen

posted on January 21st, 2010, 11:34 pm

yep there is an easy solution: dont switch out of FO while joining a game can't be to hard to look at the screen for half a minute

posted on January 21st, 2010, 11:41 pm

It isn't a solution sadly, because most programs bump FO back down to the desktop, which freezes FO  . For instance, windows live messenger, or wippien IM, or a program update, or... 

Trust me, I and most others wait patiently for it to load, only to get hit with a "are you coming yet" message... which craps out the entire system 

OH, and that also happens with the map browser issue, if you are stuck on log in and it takes a minute or two for someone to change the map

posted on January 23rd, 2010, 7:26 am

o.O i just posed this in the 3.1.1 bugs but i spose its relevant here aswell, when i leave a game ive hosted, thus unhosting it, my Fleet ops crashes, and visual studio comes up with a debug
ive done this every time i left a game i hosted and went back to the lobby.

i dont know if it happens when i go straight back to the main menu.

posted on January 30th, 2010, 11:20 am

yes, these bugs annoy us too from time to time, but sadly originates from the bad lobby implementation in armada. recently i was browsing through the functions related to the window messages (minimizing etc) and saw that there is a section that seems to let armada seize many functions when the window gets minimized. i'll see if that behavior can be fixed but i guess that won't be too easy.

posted on January 30th, 2010, 12:21 pm

i hate when programs are like that and take control of stuff they shudnt. they're so arrogant thinking they cant crash, then they do and u cant kill em off.