There are many programs (mainly 3D games), which were working fine under MorphOS 1.x, but are very unstable under 2.x. E.g. Freespace, Neverputt/Neverball, Quake 2, etc.


I have also some problems with system itself... but i mentioned it in other posts.


[ Edited by Solo_Kazuki on 2008/9/20 13:50 ]

Quake 2 works like a charm on my system (I have an Efika and MorphOS 2.1). What port are you referring to?

Strange... I remember I played with Q2 and all worked fine. Same for Neverball/Neverputt. I even tested that like-quake engine (sorry, I don't remember the name... ) and worked better than on 1.4.5. I didn't tested Shogo and Heretic II that worked fine on 1.4.5.. Wipeout worked.
I cannot suggest anything because I cannot test it again... Sorry

Heretic2 has some gfx problems in the swamp level.
Shogo doesnt work at all and the PPC demos are without the polygons, just backgrounds.

btw, are you using the amiga version of freespace or the morphos native port from kiero? freespace 2 works just fine here.

Hi Solo,

If your using Hyperion's Quake 2, it doesn't run well in MOS 2. Some users didn't have problems with Hyperions version, but it was a problem here.

I dumped it and went to the Morphos version and it simply rocks, much faster than Hyperion's. For info see link Here.

Sorry to hear you problems with 2.1. It runs very well for me, and USB2 is now much more reliable and responsive. I hope you soon enjoy this experience.

Kind regards,

Matt

I had some stability problems at first too, but now the system seems to be very stable when I got some problems solved.

Firstly you should check if there isn't any programs hitting on ramdebuglog (use "ramdebug ed invzeropage" options for boot.img for example). I had hits from mfkey commodity and changed it to MMKeyboard instead. Then some 68k programs with too little stack seem to cause more visible problems than on 1.4.5, which also can be a good thing, because then you notice the problems clearly :) smbfs is one good example and adding stack solved the problems completely. I have the feeling that misbehaving software in startup caused also problems to other programs like games...

If there's problem with Hyperion's Freespace, try native MorphOS version instead. I had problem with Neverputt/Neverball, but don't know if they're same problem than on you at all... somehow screenmode settings for them were gone way over my setup's limits. I edited it's config file manually and then they started to work again :)

Also if AmIRC hangs on connect phase, it's a bug with 2.1 boot.img. It's already solved for the next update. Using 2.0 boot.img can be a temporary solution.

Anyway... at first with 2.0 I was a bit afraid because system felt more unstable than 1.4.5, but now I'd say opposite and 2.x hasn't crashed here for long time.

@Solo,

You should come on irc (#morphos on freenode) so that we can investigate, because you seem to have quite many unexpected issues.