can you provide some test content so that I can test solutions to the "out of sfx_t" issue? 

isn't this a case of just not clearing out precached sound names between map loads?

also, i don't know what you need exactly. do you need actual sounds? my gut tells me you could just precache the same sound with different filenames and it'd work fine.
i hesitate because it would take an hour to assemble all the sound files needed to test it with the actual maps.

what i'm doing is i load up a map that precaches 465 sounds.
then i load up a map that precaches 164 sounds.
this causes the error.

while some sounds used are the same (player sounds or whatever) other sounds are not (ambience, mostly, but also monsters).

so while maybe 60~ sounds are shared, and don't need to take up a spot on the list, the others are new and need to be added.

the error comes from S_FindName:
if (num_sfx == MAX_SFX)
Sys_Error ("S_FindName: out of sfx_t");

i believe all that is needed is to do something like this to reproduce it:

precache MAX_SFX - 1 sounds directly from qc and then have your map precache one sound.
then load a map that precaches another sound that hasn't been precached yet and it should cause the error. 

btw: just using soundlist to count how many sounds are being loaded (i have to quit the engine each time and load up the different maps to avoid the crash). 

you reported the error, so I assumed that you have a testcase (some mapset+progs or whatever) already, which would make my life easier. apparently I assumed too much. 

yeah, i don't usually bug test stuff myself and only find problems when i run into them during normal use.

i'll see what i can do but it'll be big (it's more than 512 unique sounds, after all).
maybe i can find a batch program to convert everything to 11khz 8bit or something. 

Should be possible to lower the define of MAX_SFX for testing purposes. Bring it down to within range of 2 id1 maps for example, and see if you can trigger the error that way. 

Static and local sounds (including those caused by menu navigation) will also go into your sfx_t array, so mind that you don't do anything to break those... 

ideas crossing my mind are adopting quake2 style sound registration and adding flags like SFX_PERSIST to preserve those static and local sounds. The solution also has to make sure that all sounds are cleared upon gamedir changes while the engine is alive, which it doesn't as it is now. Hmmm... 

I like that idea. The Q2 code also solves some messy problems like restarting the sound system in mid-game. Ideally sounds should be treated the same way as textures for a very large part - a lot of the same concepts apply. 

Is gamma fixed in the new release? 

OTTOMH
No. I think thats an SDL/XOrg issue (see webpage).
I've added that to our readme. 

Xorg even seems to stomp a custom gamma setting..
...
...
bluntz@bluntz-desktop:~/quake$ ./quakespasm & xgamma -d :0.0 -gamma 5
[1] 3103
-> Red 1.000, Green 1.000, Blue 1.000
Command line: ./quakespasm
Found SDL version 1.2.14
Quake 1.09 (c) id Software
GLQuake 1.00 (c) id Software
FitzQuake 0.85 (c) John Fitzgibbons
FitzQuake SDL port (c) SleepwalkR, Baker
QuakeSpasm 0.85.7 (c) Ozkan Sezer, Stevenaaus
Host_Init
Playing registered version.
Console initialized.
UDP Initialized
Exe: 16:40:36 Mar 13 2012
64.0 megabyte heap
<- Red 5.000, Green 5.000, Blue 5.000
bluntz@bluntz-desktop:~/quake$ Video mode 1280x960x32 initialized
FOUND: ARB_multitexture
FOUND: ARB_texture_env_combine
FOUND: ARB_texture_env_add
Warning: vertical sync not supported (swap interval is -1.) Make sure you don't have vertical sync disabled in your driver settings.
FOUND: EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic

Sound Initialization
SDL audio spec : 11025 Hz, 128 samples, 2 channels
SDL audio driver: pulse, 8192 bytes buffer
Audio: 16 bit, stereo, 11025 Hz
SDL detected 1 CD-ROM drive
CDAudio initialized (SDL, using /dev/cdrom)
CDAudio_Init: No CD in drive

========= Quake Initialized =========

If anyone else is able to correct the brightness on linux would you please give an example command line that works for you? Nothing posted has worked for me and I really do not want to try changing out the SDL lib systemwide. 

I just installed QuakeSpasm today, on my Mac mini 2010 (OS X 10.6.8), and tested it for a few hours. It's working very well, but I have a few comments about it and suggestions to improve the engine :

1. Currently, there is no FSAA (antialiasing) option. The GLQuake app (from Fruitz Of Dojo) has it and it's a great feature. Why not QuakeSpasm too ?

2. We can't put QuakeSpasm to the background, using command-H, like what we can do with GLQuake (FoD version) or Quake 3. This is highly desirable. Currently, we have to quit the app just to read our emails or to come here.

3. I noticed a frequent video glitch in QuakeSpasm, like a screen redraw jerkiness. I suspect this is because of the absence of any vertical synchro option. This is highly desirable too, since it's a bit painfull on the eyes.

And by the way : thanks a LOT to support that venerable good'old game. I believe that even by today's standards, Quake1 and Quake3 are still the best games around, even after all these years ! 

2. We can't put QuakeSpasm to the background, using command-H, like what we can do with GLQuake (FoD version) or Quake 3. This is highly desirable. Currently, we have to quit the app just to read our emails or to come here.

even on windows tabbing out of the engine produces generally bad behaviour from not having mouse control to the engine just crashing.

it's something that i think would be nice to have, if you get the chance. 

even on windows tabbing out of the engine produces generally bad behaviour from not having mouse control to the engine just crashing

Hmmm. That was not a known issue to me.

Barnak's suggetsions sound reasonable, and Ericw has sent a quick AA Patch but it has bugs. Oz is pretty cluey with AA, so maybe it'll appear soon. 

ok, so i go to check out what i was doing to create the problems... and nothing happens. :P
i think maybe that was in an earlier version and i got paranoid about tabbing out of the engine that i never noticed it got fixed.
thanks for that, then. :) 

I tested a new built of QuakeSpasm from Ericw with 4x FSAA, and your ne_ruins MOD is causing huge screen redraw problems. It's related to FSAA and I suspect it's also related to the large hi-res background picture used in your MOD (cloudy sky).

The same QuakeSpasm built with 4x FSAA is working great on all the other maps I tested yet. I didn't noticed any drop in frame rate yet.

I'll test the app on the Honey stuff later today... 

I re-tested the app with "sky" set to 0 (default Q1 style sky box) and the video problem is still the same (actually, it's a bit more persistant).

Again, it's clearly related to FSAA, but I didn't experienced the bug on any other map yet. 

take it up with the quakespasm team, i have no clue what's wrong!
stevenaaus mentioned that the aa thing has bugs. 

I am working on the (currently buggy) aa patch and sent Barnak the custom build. we're trying to debug it by email but i'm not totally sure what is wrong. 

Damm, that Darkplaces has a nice chase cam. HoT's works flawlessly, but view is obscured by a huge player model when your back is to wall. With darkplaces, the model just slides away, or maybe the camera is moved slightly forward of player ?. Proquake (1.30?) has a nice view, but go into start map , to the corner immediate left of normal skill teleport, and view is totally obscured. FitzPlus v2 gets obscured too, and a little hard to see differences, though i suppose they exist. 

I'm having problems with custom textures for the HUD (menus, console, etc). They aren't working yet, while textures replacements for the walls, floor, ceilings, items, etc, are all working.

For example, suppose you have a texture called "NUM_2.tga" to change some of the HUD elements, where do you put it in the id1 folder ? What is the directory structure for the HUD and console textures ?

Of course, I'm using QuakeSpasm... 

try /id1/gfx? 

Replacement textures for the maps. Nothing else. Not mdl models, charset, HUD, etc.

I don't believe this has changed in Quakespasm. 

quakespasm does do mdl replacement.
the textures go in /progs/ with the format: modelname.mdl_#framenum#.tga