FAQ:trouble

Troubleshooting

Network: My buddy can not connect to a game i oppened. what can we do?

The engine uses port 8452 UDP by default, which can be changed in the lobby. If you are behind a router, and are having problems hosting, try forwarding the correct port and also make sure the firewall is not blocking it. If you do not know what a port or a firewall is, use a relay host instead: when hosting a game, tick the check-box labelled "Use relayhost".

Graphics: I am having really bad framerates (fps) on my dual core! What am I doing wrong?

This error is sometimes reported by people having multicore-CPUs. To solve this, you could try to restrict it to run on one core. Download the file from http://www.robpol86.com/pages/imagecfg.php follow the instructions, and force the spring exe file (spring.exe) to run on one core.

Installing the latest processor drivers and Windows hotfixes for your system may also help.

Graphics: I am having really bad framerates (fps) on my brand new nVidia graphics card! What am I doing wrong?

Turn off 'threaded optimizations' for Spring in the nVidia control panel.

Graphics: I use an ATI or Intel graphic card on Linux with Open-Source drivers, and the map is all white! Is there a solution?

This means there is no texture compression support in the driver. There would be hope with a software texture compression library from here. Unfortunately this method is patent encumbered, otherwise you could download and extract the latest version. You would also need two packages and their dependencies (Ubuntu/Debian instructions):

$ sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev driconf
$ cd <folder you extracted to>
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ driconf


During the last step, you would have to enforce texture compression.

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Sound: I am having sound problems under Linux! What can i do?

In more then 90% of the cases, this is caused by pulseaudio. To uninstall pulseaudio, open your favourite package manager *eg Synaptic under Ubuntu), and search for packages with the "pulse" in their name. From these, remove all but the libraries (package names starting with "lib").

Misc: I have a problem that is not descriped here! What can i do?

There is a number of things you can do, among these are:

• Search in the Help & Bugs Forum, and ask if you can not find a suiting topic.
• Look at the Linux only FAQ.
• Ask for help in the lobby in a suiting channel, eg: #springlobby, #de, #fr, #ai, #main
• Ask the FAQ-Bot in the lobby in channel #springlobby. To get a list of topics, write !faqlist and then use !faq <topic-name> to get the help text. For example, try !faq rename.