If program startup fails, player data are lost.

[Edward Sheldrake]

I upgraded to Fedora 9's mesa/Xserver, under which etracer will fail to start if the "stencil_buffer" option is true. I'm using the r300_dri driver.

Unfortunately, this caused all my high scores to be lost.

I had a quick look at the code, and the problem is that the highscores are saved in handle_system_error/winsys_exit, but they haven't been loaded yet if the failure is from winsys_init/setup_sdl_video_mode during program startup.

[Paweł Drewniak (woody)]

Confirming, it seems that the protection against this in highscore.cpp does not work. I'll fix it ASAP

[Paweł Drewniak (woody)]

Fixed as of SVN rev 103 - please test.

[Edward Sheldrake (ejs1920)]

Sorry, I reported the bug wrong. The original protection in highscore.cpp works, highscores are not lost.

It's the best time, herring count and best score for each practice course that is lost, and also the status of each cup.

player.cpp needs protection similar to what is in highscore.cpp

[Paweł Drewniak (woody)]

Well, so that's strange, because I could confirm this highscore bug.... Nevermind, I'll implement the protection soon.

[Paweł Drewniak (woody)]

Fixed as of rev 105.

[Edward Sheldrake (ejs1920)]

Yes, confirmed. With rev 105, player data is not lost. Thanks!

Also, the stencil buffer bug which stopped etracer starting has been fixed in the Fedora 9 X server too.