I changed the sheep directory via the settings.lua to another drive on my system that I wanted to dedicate to sheep. While the screen saver created the directory structure on the new drive for me and began downloading sheep, the screen saver itself continued to stay at "Downloading the first sheep."

Now, if I put one of the sheep into the default c:\\programdata... directory it plays it, even though in settings it's pointed to H:\\Sheep\

So, the sheep download to the H: drive normally, but will only play on the C drive. What am I doing wrong?

I feel like that guy on the Maxell cassette tape commercial.

That being said, on with the squashing!

Dell Inspiron 9400 w/ nVidia Geforce go 7900 gs
2GB RAM
fast drive lots of space
Bios revision A09
XP 32bit

Playback is smooth usually -- some stutter at times but I attribute that to running heavy.

I can confirm the others' postings: Settings do not save nickname, I do see my votes count (even multiple ones?)
I didn't want to change too many other settings but the display page settings seem to stick.

I pressed s for stats and there is no hotkey assigned -- I am interested in knowing where the hotkey assignments are (one of the script/lua files?)
Also I did like the left arrow press to rewind, miss that.

But the resolution and flame improvements more than make up for it. This is great work shepards.
-m

Beta 9 is working great on Vista x32 here. Is there an option to run on two monitors now? I miss that feature very much.

Things seem to flow better (More smooth transitions, less sudden changes between sheep) and I have only had the new client installed for about 2 days. Great work!

At first it occasionally would freeze-up, but I tweaked a couple of settings which seemed to help. Sorry I forget which, I'm new and just poking at it righy now. It kept running overnight (a previus beta release crashed my computer)and has been looking great ever since. The visual improvement oover 2.6 are very noticeable.

My setup:
Intel 2 Core CPU E6850 @ 3Ghz each and 3.5G of RAM.
Running XP Media Center V2005

The dual screen functionality was a real struggle, and I couldn't get it to really work. I was able to load it into a SheepWacherB window and drag it to the 2nd monitor. Not that big a deal for me; I always had to do this anyway because v2.6 would treat the dual monitors as one big one no matter how I configured things.

I use a DVI-to-HDMI cable into a HDMI port giving me (so it says) a fullscreen 1080p signal at a resolution of 1920x1080 nvidio GForce 6800GTS w/ 512K RAM card (silent version) which is good enough for me. Actually it looks fantastic. Eventually I hope to have the time to exlore its capapilities and maybe even contribute to the gene pool, but I have a lot to learn first about the app. Glad to see that others appreciate this art-tool.

Lee

Runs fine for a couple of minutes, but then starts to slow way down until it's pretty choppy.

Vista Ultimate SP1
Intel Core Duo E6550 @2.33GHz
4 Gigs of RAM
Nvidia Geforce 9600 sli
1680 x 1050 Resolution

Is there a solution to this, or is it a bug?

The new beta is great! I really like the new sheep quality, it's really good.

I'm not sure voting is working, because I hit the arrows and no sheep show up... If there's logs I can post that would help, please let me know where to find them.

I haven't tried 2.7b yet (still on 2.6) but just wondered, does the "so new it's incompatible" comment above mean that the new version will not play any of the older version's sheep?

I had read that the new sheep are now 800 x 600 resolution as opposed to 640 x 480 on 2.6. So does that mean that all of my manually downloaded sheep megapacks will no longer work if I update to 2.7? Not that that's necessarily a bad thing; I'm looking forward to higher res sheep with less speckle noise. But I just want to know what to expect.

Thanks

When I first installed the 2.7b9, it worked fine, but after a week or so, I started getting a box that popped up, saying "Badness". When I look at the log file, the most recent entries are as follows:

2008/08/06.10:46:55 - LuaState.cpp[reportLua(269)]: 'attempt to call a nil value'
2008/08/06.10:46:55 - LuaState.cpp[reportLua(269)]: '[string "return g_Settings.settings.player.PieceWise..."]:1: attempt to index global 'g_Settings' (a nil value)'
2008/08/06.10:46:55 - LuaState.cpp[Call(479)]: 'Wrong result type, expected integer'
2008/08/06.10:46:55 - LuaState.cpp[Call(479)]: 'Wrong result type, expected integer'
2008/08/06.10:46:55 - LuaState.cpp[reportLua(269)]: 'attempt to call a nil value'
2008/08/06.10:46:55 - LuaState.cpp[Call(487)]: 'Wrong result type, expected string'

The first line shown here was actually listed a total of 356 times for this date and time alone.

My PC is home-built.

AMD Athlon XP 1.7 GHz
2 GB RAM
GeForce 7300 GT w/512 MB
Windows XP Home Edition, SP3

There is one major issue for me with the new screensaver. When I try to resume computer use, the electric sheep screensaver gets stuck on one frame and won't exit. The only way around this is restarting my computer. I don't know if it's because of the hard drive being shut off from power settings or what, but it needs to be addressed.

My system information:
OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model HP Compaq dc7600 Convertible Minitower
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz, 3000 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard 786D1 v01.59, 3/1/2007
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume4
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 2.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.18 GB
Total Virtual Memory 4.25 GB
Available Virtual Memory 3.32 GB
Page File Space 2.29 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Hello! One little thing: In the settings dialog, it won't save the user name I enter for the render credit. Love the piecewise linear display though! Here's my specs (in case that helps)

Windows Vista 32-bit (BLAH D:)
EMachines W5233
Intel Pentium D Duo Core 3.00 Ghz CPU
1 GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE
128 MB VRAM
1440*900 32-bit 60Hz
Drivers:
nvd3dum.dll, nvwgf2um.dll

edit:
I found the configuration lua script, and now my username is in, it just wasn't necessarily the most user friendly operation. Still no blue screen of death this time, it just sometimes freezes on exit and you have to give it the good old Ctrl+Alt+Del. Keep up the good work!

b8 config crashed, b9 fully accessible, had a brief problem with installer but hit ignore and hasn't yet proved to be a problem

Still not working for me on windows, I was getting an opengl error with 2.7b8 (posted in other thread)

Now theres the "badness" error box, which i can only assume is the same issue as before.
Where are the logfiles stored for this release, i had a quick look under program files/ES but they werent there.

Toshiba Satelitte A200 Winxp
Mobile Intel 965 Express Video chipset with current drivers from intel
2gb RAM
Intel Core2Duo (cant remerber how fast it is)

The new configuration dialog box is great.

Dual screen still not working, only one screen is displaying the screensaver.

Best regards

The setting dialog works much faster now.
However, it still wont save my user name when i fill it (missing an OK button or some like that?)
For the rest, i will see tonight if it will crash or not :)

Gr, ReFa