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Beat me to it

Actually this was due to something else. And the whole server went down not just the lobby. During the Covid we reached 500 simultaneous player in the lobby.

I think you should be able to replace it with https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/src/branch/main/binaries/data/mods/public/art/materials/basic_glow_norm_spec.xml. So replace <material>basic_glow_nu.xml</material> by: <material>basic_glow_norm_spec.xml</material> You might also replace <texture file="props/hero_selectorA.dds" name="normTex" /> <texture file="props/hero_selectorA.dds" name="specTex" /> with <texture file="default_norm.png" name="normTex"/> <texture file="null_white.dds" name="specTex"/> (Lighter cheaper texture) Indeed it was not updated after @vladislavbelov committed Vulkan. Basically those materials define combinations, like "USE_SELF_LIGHT". In GLSL that's no problem, because the shader files (.vs and .fs) support any number of combinations, at the expense of performance. In vulkan however, you need one file per combination. So if you have USE_SELF_LIGHT and USE_TRANSPARENCY you've got four SPIR-V files. Add one more and you got 8 and another one 16. To save space, and make the compilation faster, we only generate a certain number of combination we know. So when you run the release with a combination we do not support boom. To compile the shaders you need to run these commands: Mod mod python source/tools/spirv/compile.py -d binaries/data/mods/mod binaries/data/mods/mod source/tools/spirv/rules.json binaries/data/mods/mod Public mod python source/tools/spirv/compile.py -d binaries/data/mods/mod binaries/data/mods/public source/tools/spirv/rules.json binaries/data/mods/public Your mod python source/tools/spirv/compile.py -d binaries/data/mods/mod binaries/data/mods/public binaries/data/mods/your_mod source/tools/spirv/rules.json binaries/data/mods/your_mod

What do you need that new material for ? If you want it to work you'll have to recompile vulkan shaders

Usually vulkan should have more stable fps than GL. I guess the users which will see the biggest difference are mac users (up to x5 fps)

Do you use GL or Vulkan?

Yeah that's correct. Although if your repos still have it you might install it from there

Did you run: $ sudo apt update Before installing 0ad ? Else it might not have picked it up. Also it might depend on which version of Ubuntu you have.

You can replace this by following what was done here https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/commit/281bb0b2ecfc21b1cdac5e53b1f76e4f944a0fa8 Which would probably be: Engine.ConfigDB_SaveChanges("user");

Play smaller maps. Or wait for a 64 bits build for 0 A.D. Or play on Linux.

You can look at profiler2 see https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/wiki/Profiler2 But most importantly we need to compare with A26 or at least maybe the first RC before the release was cancelled last year.

You might check if there are “zombie” 0 A.D. processes still running by opening the task manager and lookinf for pyrogenesis.exe You might try to run the game with -conf=rendererbackend:vulkan Did you play on a big map with many units when the crash occured?

Can you record it ?

Hey could you do this: It looks like you ran out of memory. Is it possible you ran out of disk space as well ?

Relevant discussion https://irclogs.wildfiregames.com/%230ad-dev/2025/02/2025-02-03-QuakeNet-%230ad-dev.log

@technocrat @psypherium tested and the box selection but seems to be fixed in SDL3.2.2

As in for Release 28 yeah if we don't find the culprit. It would nice to diagnose the source though. Are people using Vulkan or OpenGl, what kind of GPU they have etc.

Splat the thread as it is a different issue. Could you go into the event viewer from windows ? There might be errors indicating what goes wrong when you start the installer You can launch a run command and type evtvwr IIRC.

That's caused by arch linux forcing you to use an experimental package called sdl2 compat

The thing GPU skinning is supposed to improve performance since you do more things on the GPU that's less load on the CPU. cc @vladislavbelov

What version of windows 10 do you have ? Are you out if disk space. We changed nothing between rc1 and 3

Do you get an error running the installer?

You could install wayland but the actual problem is that arch is forcing you to use SDL3 while you should use SDL2 for 0 A.D.

After further investigation by @Itms it might be more complicated than this. No ETA yet. Do note however that the next release won't support Windows 7

What do you want exactly ? You can download it off youtube if you want. By the way we now have a xiaohongshu account. I could use some help.