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Hi all,

this was resolved by ungrading the graphics card. Must've been the 
elderly graphics card causing the problem, because as soon as I tried it 
with a ndvida gforce 4000, the problem disappeared.

Thanks for the help - and a great game!

Bruce Scharlau wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I downloaded torcs-1.2.3 over the weekend for Windows and have it 
> running fine on an P4 xp laptop, but am having a hard time getting it 
> going on a 800Mhz W2k box.
> 
> I can get it all the way to the 'run race' (quick race), and the console 
>  seems to get to 'ready', and then a error message pops up, and 
> disappears real quick. The message box seems to say something about an 
> error log being written somewhere,  but I can't find it. When I start 
> torcs from a command console, there doesn't seem to be anything amiss 
> that shows up there.
> 
> Any help appreciated.


-- 
cheers,

Bruce

hi all. attempting to build from sources on a windows machine. my
problem is with this specific line from the readme:

select the TORCS project and the w32-Release version

I'm in the TORCS project, using VC++ 6.0 but what does the w32-Release
version refer to? I'm pretty familiar with VC++ 6.0, but I have no
idea what to select here. Any help? Also, when I have TORCS installed
on my system from the sources, can I begin to build robots? Thanks.

Hmm...No problem here on FreeBSD 5.3 (plib and FreeGLUT from ports;
torcs compiled from source code with strndup fix; fluxbox 0.9.10).
Only Fluxbox gives me true full screen though. XFCE and KDE exhibit
the problem that you have described.

I haven't been able to get sound working though. I hope OpenAL solves that.

On 5/12/05, Gain Paolo Mureddu <the...@sl...> wrote:
> Khairul Azhar wrote:
>=20
> >Try Fluxbox [http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/].
> >
> >
> >
> Yeah, but Flux has the very same problem... The problem in Torcs is just
> GLUT for windowing tasks. I'm no GL programming expert, but if I recall
> correctly, X and GLUT mutually exlussive when it comes to fullscreen.
> GLUT applications cannot render to the root window (full screen), and as
> such the way to get there should be with GL/glx. Only thing is that I
> don't kow how difficult would it to be to code glx for fullscreen and
> [Free]GLUT for windowed mode... I'll try to see if am successfull
> porting the existing [Free]GLUT code over to GLX to have it be able to
> properly handle fullscreen (I'm just a rookie, but I like challenges,
> and this would be one hell of a challenge).
>=20
>

Khairul Azhar wrote:

>Try Fluxbox [http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/].
>
>  
>
Yeah, but Flux has the very same problem... The problem in Torcs is just
GLUT for windowing tasks. I'm no GL programming expert, but if I recall
correctly, X and GLUT mutually exlussive when it comes to fullscreen.
GLUT applications cannot render to the root window (full screen), and as
such the way to get there should be with GL/glx. Only thing is that I
don't kow how difficult would it to be to code glx for fullscreen and
[Free]GLUT for windowed mode... I'll try to see if am successfull
porting the existing [Free]GLUT code over to GLX to have it be able to
properly handle fullscreen (I'm just a rookie, but I like challenges,
and this would be one hell of a challenge).

Try Fluxbox [http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/].

On 5/10/05, Gain Paolo Mureddu <the...@sl...> wrote:
>     I'm not able to switch to true full screen in GNOME nor XFCE. The
> problem is that when maximized the window doesn't go above the panels, I
> have yet to try to KDE (just to rule out a GTK+ problem), though I bet
> it also does it, since it happened to me in fail proof session too... I
> think it is a problem with either GLUT code in the app or FreeGLUT.
>=20
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Hi Timo

> Is there any source to get information about the algorithms used in the 
> robots?
> I mean something like this from the RARS project: 
> http://rars.sourceforge.net/selection/
> If not, it would be nice if some people on the list will describe there 
> own robots. :-) E.g. how works the K1999 robot?

Look at http://remi.coulom.free.fr/Thesis, in the appendix of the thesis.

> The berniw robot was already described here very short 
> (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9585888), but 
> beside this message I can't find anything.

There is:
- the README in the learning lib with a link to an interesting book
- Christos started to write a paper (http://www.idiap.ch/~dimitrak/simu/)
- the robot tutorial (www.berniw.org)

Bye, Bernhard.


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Visit my homepage http://www.berniw.org
Official TORCS racing: The TORCS Racing Board, http://www.berniw.org/trb

Hi all!

Is there any source to get information about the algorithms used in the 
robots?
I mean something like this from the RARS project: 
http://rars.sourceforge.net/selection/
If not, it would be nice if some people on the list will describe there 
own robots. :-) 
E.g. how works the K1999 robot?
The berniw robot was already described here very short 
(http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9585888), but 
beside this message I can't find anything.
- Thanks for your answers!

Bye,

Timo

Hi Gain Paolo

> not find any, is there a way to manipulate sound volume in TORCS?

Currently not (in the release), but it would be very easy to do. Btw. 
this not plib's fault.

>    And I want to also say to Eric and the rest of you, this is a GREAT
> application. You've put a lot of effort into this! Just to add a bit to

Thank you:-)

> what the FAQ says about SDL. There is another benefit from SDL that
> neither GLUT nor Plib seems to be offering to the application, and that
> is exacty sound control. Not only it can seemlessly use either ALSA or
> OSS or whatever is available in the computer (like OpenAL), but it also
> offeres advanced mixer and other capabilities... Or so they say in their
> website. In any case, you may consider this. Then again I ignore how

I do, but mostly because of the fullscreen issues, for the plans look at 
this (toward the end of the file):
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/torcs/torcs/torcs/README?rev=1.7&view=auto

Bye, Bernhard.


-- 

Visit my homepage http://www.berniw.org
Official TORCS racing: The TORCS Racing Board, http://www.berniw.org/trb

    I'm not able to switch to true full screen in GNOME nor XFCE. The 
problem is that when maximized the window doesn't go above the panels, I 
have yet to try to KDE (just to rule out a GTK+ problem), though I bet 
it also does it, since it happened to me in fail proof session too... I 
think it is a problem with either GLUT code in the app or FreeGLUT.

    Ok, so I've read all the messages pertaining sound in the list
archives and I know that sound is handled by Plib and that it also
supplies some other functions like geometry libraries and stuff. In any
case, the problem I've got is the following: I wanted to play the game
with a custom music playlist playing in the bacground either in XMMS or
rhythmbox while I was playing, however I've found that the game volume
is quite higher than what I had expected it to be, I tried to look for
any sort of volume control in the .xml configuration files, and I could
not find any, is there a way to manipulate sound volume in TORCS?

    And I want to also say to Eric and the rest of you, this is a GREAT
application. You've put a lot of effort into this! Just to add a bit to
what the FAQ says about SDL. There is another benefit from SDL that
neither GLUT nor Plib seems to be offering to the application, and that
is exacty sound control. Not only it can seemlessly use either ALSA or
OSS or whatever is available in the computer (like OpenAL), but it also
offeres advanced mixer and other capabilities... Or so they say in their
website. In any case, you may consider this. Then again I ignore how
does Plib handle sound events and how feasable is it to control things
like volume and stuff. Thanks again for this amazing game.

Gian.