Mini update

[Deckard]

Nothing to do with you guys from the new Atari collection -

“ “VCTR-SCTR – This mashup celebration of the vector era of gaming combines the gameplay from Asteroids, Tempest, and other vector-based arcade classics into a single, continuous challenge.”

[gilesgoat]

I'm going to sneak in two requests:

- allow player to selectively ignore inputs from controllers that are connected

- fix framerate when in full screen

What do you mean with "fix framerate when in full screen" ??? .. that should be already fixed ??

Do you mean it goes faster/slower if you change screen refresh rate ? That should not be ...

[TheHighlander]

What do you mean with "fix framerate when in full screen" ??? .. that should be already fixed ??

Do you mean it goes faster/slower if you change screen refresh rate ? That should not be ...

I'm not entirely sure when it was solved, but when I play Polybius and I set it to 60Hz in the startup menu and then go full screen, the game is unplayably fast. the frame rate and the inputs are off the charts. Unless I limit the frame rate in the GPU settings in Windows. Or play in windowed mode.

Again, my apologies if that is an old issue but it's one I run into with every LLamasoft game I have on Steam.

[mb3018]

Tempest 2000 is in the Atari 50th Anniversary Collection

[gilesgoat]

What do you mean with "fix framerate when in full screen" ??? .. that should be already fixed ??

Do you mean it goes faster/slower if you change screen refresh rate ? That should not be ...

I'm not entirely sure when it was solved, but when I play Polybius and I set it to 60Hz in the startup menu and then go full screen, the game is unplayably fast. the frame rate and the inputs are off the charts. Unless I limit the frame rate in the GPU settings in Windows. Or play in windowed mode.

Again, my apologies if that is an old issue but it's one I run into with every LLamasoft game I have on Steam.

It's NOT that you DISABLED Vsynch ? Because if you do "nothing works" ! I check for the frame rate and compensate for it but vsynch MUST BE ALWAYS ENABLED !

[TheHighlander]

It's NOT that you DISABLED Vsynch ? Because if you do "nothing works" ! I check for the frame rate and compensate for it but vsynch MUST BE ALWAYS ENABLED !

I probably did. Good call. Thanks Ivan!

[TheHighlander]

It's NOT that you DISABLED Vsynch ? Because if you do "nothing works" ! I check for the frame rate and compensate for it but vsynch MUST BE ALWAYS ENABLED !

This worked!

I went into the NVidia control panel -> Manage 3D Settings and set VSYNC to "use 3d application settings" and that worked a treat.

Thanks again

[Deckard]

Tempest 2000 is in the Atari 50th Anniversary Collection

I imagine that will sell the pack to most gamers of a certain age

Be nice to see Defender 2000 on there too as never had a chance to play.....

[gilesgoat]

.. MINI update ... here now SWEARING about "a weird bug" that seems to happen only in a certain architecture ...

.. all normal ..

[edit] - minimini update : bug fixed.

[gilesgoat]

I spent SOME HOURS throwing CURSES at M$ !!!!!!!!!!!

I am SO WARN OUT I can't even write here what ...

It's a MASSIVE PAIN IN THE ARSE !!

[edit] - ah yes AND Steam as well ...

Isn't amazing/fabulous when "stuff that was perfectly working fine until yesterday" all in a sudden for exoteric reasons stops working ??

[Misfit]

Is it going to get Steam deck verified?

Need someone to try it on a deck?

[gilesgoat]

Is it going to get Steam deck verified?

Need someone to try it on a deck?

No for now no, we don't have any Steam Deck to develop on.

I was going to check some stuff when "out of the blue" the username/pwd - which I am 99.99999% sure is the one I wrote down - is not accepted, I tried a PWD reset and they told me "you cannot do this you HAVE to contact support" so I did and I am still waiting for answers.

About the Xbox (S) it's been "far too long time" I wasn't using the devkit .. so first of all, of course, wanted an "update" .. ok no problem .. except that at some point something went wrong and it does NOT allow me to login in any more with "mysterious errors".

At this point "I am locked out" the system and I am still not sure what to do.

Then, trying to login via browser in the "Developer portal" tells me some weird thing about now "Set up your organization in Microsoft Partner Center" because "the authentication way of before is no longer good" and I need to someway "link/have a developer account into this Partner Center" ..

Which I still have no idea exactly what it wants/what I have to do ..

If this makes any sense to you : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming ... ganization

Starting February 3rd 2022, all user permissions will be managed in Partner Center, any users that do not exist in the Partner Center user store will lose access to forums, secure documentation, and downloads. To maintain access all users should be migrated to Partner Center.

I still haven't understand a thing, I am "locked out" a system we paid nearly $2000 ( at its time ) to get it and so far it's a brick ...

[edit] - I get this

Sign In Error
An unexpected sign in error has occoured. Error Code : 80004005. You can attempt signing in with the retail guide as a work around.

And I still have NO IDEA what this "retail guide" is ...

[TheHighlander]

oh god...locked out of everything and all you get are references to things that don't mean anything. Corporation authentication hell.

Hope you get it worked out. It's a nightmare.

[pyroxian]

Sign In Error
An unexpected sign in error has occoured. Error Code : 80004005. You can attempt signing in with the retail guide as a work around.

And I still have NO IDEA what this "retail guide" is ...

The Retail guide is just the Home screen on the devkit - Remote control into it through the manager and then select Launch Home - you can then try to sign in there.

[gilesgoat]

Sign In Error
An unexpected sign in error has occoured. Error Code : 80004005. You can attempt signing in with the retail guide as a work around.

And I still have NO IDEA what this "retail guide" is ...

The Retail guide is just the Home screen on the devkit - Remote control into it through the manager and then select Launch Home - you can then try to sign in there.

It did work , I THINK, with some of the "Test accounts" ( they all have the same identical PWD ) but when I try with the one that I was using "for main develop" I get

"Use an account with access to this sandbox:
Either the acccount or title cannot use this sandbox. Change the sandbox in Settings->System->Console Info->Developer settings or use a different account."

Problem is in those settings the ONLY thing I can do is to change the Sanbox name, the hell if I rememeber or know how you say "account X has access to Sandbox Y".

The other problem is that all this was installed/etc. on a PC that no longer exists, so I miss the "Game Developer Kit", which apparently I cannot download because "I need to have A Partner Center account that has been onboarded for Xbox development." .. which at the moment I don't really know what it is nor how to get it.

I wrote again to support, hopefully they'll reply me something.

I am totally confused about how you are supposed to make all those things work now .. it's all different than some years ago ..

[edit] I mean "this crap" : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming ... ganization