Technical Issue Text issues at ultra-wide resolutions

[TeKilla]

Hello,
i am having a little issue when i play mb2 at ultra wide resolution (21:9).

No matter what font i use, in the map loading screen, the text is always kinda messed up and overlaps a litte bit with the next line.

16:10 (no issues)

21:9

And some characters from the score font look too condensed and narrow.

16:10 (no issues)

21:9

Ps. I am not able to change the font in the loading map screen and in the score, they are always the same no matter what font i try to use.

 

[ent]

Hello.
I doubt you can do anything with it since it uses a hack into engine to fix the stretched text. It uses a bit tricky way to fix the text being stretch - it actually scales it down a bit then applies reversed ratio fix for the height.
There is an issue in JAMP where counting text width and height is wrong when using text scale less than 1.0. And with wider screen we apply even lower ratio value to the scale and it goes even worse.

The best you can try to do is to play with jaMME engine - yes, just play with it.
It uses extra API to have properly looking text in widescreen withouth jumping text.

You can also try to disable the ratio fix completely with mov_ratioFix 0.

 

[TeKilla]

Hello.
I doubt you can do anything with it since it uses a hack into engine to fix the stretched text. It uses a bit tricky way to fix the text being stretch - it actually scales it down a bit then applies reversed ratio fix for the height.
There is an issue in JAMP where counting text width and height is wrong when using text scale less than 1.0. And with wider screen we apply even lower ratio value to the scale and it goes even worse.

The best you can try to do is to play with jaMME engine - yes, just play with it.
It uses extra API to have properly looking text in widescreen withouth jumping text.

You can also try to disable the ratio fix completely with mov_ratioFix 0.

I'll try that! Thank you

 

[TeKilla]

@ent

Jamme did the trick beautifully, but is there a proper way to run the game with it?

The mb2launcher is running all the time, i even started the game with it (demo editor), but I'm still being kicked out every time...

 

[ent]

You have to start jaMME as a playable engine, not as a demo editor.
make a batch file with

start jamme.exe +set fs_game "MBII"

 

[TeKilla]

@ent

I did something like that but it didn't work.

I don't know if i'm doing something wrong... When i use a batch file, i go to setup/mod/MBII to load mb2 assets otherwise i got lots of weird animations, missing characters etc in the server.
But either way, i always get kicked out after some time.

I think mb2launcher doesn't recognize jamme as a valid client to play the mod

 

[ent]

I don't know if i'm doing something wrong... When i use a batch file, i go to setup/mod/MBII to load mb2

Then you made the batch file wrong.
Make one with exactly the same line I have written above.
I also has fixed it a bit.

 

[TeKilla]

@ent

I did a clean and new installation, steam version this time (i was using a gog version). Running jamme with exactly those lines to launch the game and i'm still getting kicked out of every protected servers.

MBIILauncher was always running all the time.

 

[ent]

@ent

I did a clean and new installation, steam version this time (i was using a gog version). Running jamme with exactly those lines to launch the game and i'm still getting kicked out of every protected servers.

MBIILauncher was always running all the time.

Seems like I was wrong the anti-cheat is engine independant, sorry.
Alright, I will ask people on the MBII team and let you know what's up.

 

[TeKilla]

Seems like I was wrong the anti-cheat is engine independant, sorry.
Alright, I will ask people on the MBII team and let you know what's up.

Thanks!

I renamed jamme.exe as mbii.x86.exe and changed engine to mb2client and it's working!

but for some reason my history commands are not showing in console.

 

[ent]

Thanks!

I renamed jamme.exe as mbii.x86.exe and changed engine to mb2client and it's working!

What if you change the engine to jamp or mb2client in the launcher, but do not rename jamme?
I mean, start jamme via the bat with the original name, but the selected engine should stay jamp or mb2client.
It should work as well I think.

but for some reason my history commands are not showing in console.

Do you mean when hitting the arrow up key?

 

[TeKilla]

It was working fine a few hours ago, i didn't change anything since the last time i played, but now it is crashing everytime when the map is loading... maybe its amd drivers fault.. i give up...

===================================
JKA Movie Battles II Crash Log
===================================
Process File Name: D:\Star Wars Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy\GameData\jamp.exe
Module File Name: rd-jamme_x86.dll (cgame)
Exception Code: 0xC0000005 (Access Violation)
Exception Address: 0x71046C94 (rd-jamme_x86.dll+0x56C94)

-----------------------------------
Register Dump
-----------------------------------
General Purpose & Control Registers:
EAX: 0x014A42D8, EBX: 0x3053F100, ECX: 0x7146DCC0
EDX: 0x3053F106, EBP: 0x0179F1C0, EDI: 0x71471B40
EIP: 0x71046C94, ESI: 0x00000398, ESP: 0x0179F164

Segment Registers:
CS: 0x00000023, DS: 0x0000002B, ES: 0x0000002B
FS: 0x00000053, GS: 0x0000002B, SS: 0x0000002B

-----------------------------------
Call Stack Trace
-----------------------------------
rd-jamme_x86.dll(GetRefAPI+0x1E104) [0x71046C94]
rd-jamme_x86.dll(GetRefAPI+0x1BB32) [0x710446C2]
rd-jamme_x86.dll [0x7100BFBB]
rd-jamme_x86.dll [0x7100B720]
rd-jamme_x86.dll [0x7100BA1D]
rd-jamme_x86.dll [0x710127AD]
jamp.exe [0x967F73]
jamp.exe [0x8E29E1]
jamp.exe [0x9886C1]
jamp.exe [0x9884F4]
jamp.exe [0x992097]
KERNEL32.DLL(BaseThreadInitThunk+0x24) [0x771B8654]
ntdll.dll(RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath+0x137) [0x77B14A77]
ntdll.dll(RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath+0x107) [0x77B14A47]

 

[ent]

It was working fine a few hours ago, i didn't change anything since the last time i played, but now it is crashing everytime when the map is loading... maybe its amd drivers fault.. i give up...

Which jamme version are you using? Or simply send me that rd-jamme_x86.dll.

 

[TeKilla]

Which jamme version are you using? Or simply send me that rd-jamme_x86.dll.

The latest one, jaMME-1.10_Windows

edit,

for some reason i can't explain, it is not crashing anymore.