Bug at start! If the windows menu popup with its buttons you've to click for start playing -> my mouse getting crazy and move at it own fast over the screen to the up-left ... so it's difficult to click the buttons (don't have the time for trying) ... I've to close the prog per ctr-alt-del -> then the mouse bug stops.

Wow, what a rough start! Okay...
That's troubling -- I thought inclusion of "D3DCompiler_42.dll" was meant to prevent that. Updating DirectX fixed it for others, but it's a shame it needs that. If anyone has some advice that'd be much appreciated.
Bugger. I can't reproduce it here. The lobby seems to work fine on my end. Does the crash come with any error messages? I remember having inexplicable crashes a long time ago while testing the lobby, and they didn't happen if I logged into the website first (don't ask me why). But that hasn't happened in a long time, for me.I'm not sure I fully understand you, but you're saying that when you start the game the mouse goes crazy? Do you have any gamepads/joysticks plugged in? If so, one of them can control the mouse, and it might be what's giving you trouble.
Yes, that makes sense. Same question to you, though: any error messages with the lobby-screen crash?
Yeah, I have a system in place for preventing the same user from being online on multiple computers, but have it disabled for now. In regards to the taskbar icon -- I don't really know what to do about that I have been having that issue as well for a couple of versions now.

EDIT: Yeah, you're right, "login succeeded" should go away on its own. I'll probably change my alert function to have an optional timer, so that unimportant alerts go away on their own, while important ones (like login failed) stay up until closed.

I've got a server up now, and it should be up for most of the day, so please try and join and let me know how that goes. I really want to get this working!

Thanks everyone

Jibb

EDIT2: Apparently someone tried to connect to my server and failed? I've set up port-forwarding. I think. I don't really know how to test it.

The lobby does not seem to crash when there's at least one server available.
I click on "HostbyJibb", wait 5+ seconds but then the game crashes again. It's a regular Windows (XP) error message telling me that some "read" instruction on a memory address could not be performed.

Thanks for trying -- my server was informed of trouble connecting (I'm still using 0.2 to make sure everything's compatible, but the online database indicated as such), and so even though the program failed on your end it still managed to send off a message that it couldn't connect. The thing is, I've tested what happens in that situation (I thought), and don't get any such errors. I wish it would work the same on other peoples' PCs as it does on mine

When I start it, the lobby doesn't crash even if there are no servers available, so I really have no idea what's going on.

Any ideas as to how I can confirm whether or not I've set up port-forwarding correctly?

Jibb

It will be a good thing if you added all keyboard characters in the password... ingame.
at this moment when people register at the website, they can use characters like
{}[] etc, but ingame they don't work, so they can't make the password they created.
I hope you get the message out of my gibberish!

Ah! Thank you. I'll make sure that works in the next update.

Jibb

It was a stupid report from me, because it was obvious that it depends on my system and drivers or what ever (the bug appeared in the menu) ... I've really no idea, why this happened with your program - but when I tried it again now, it worked

Nice game

Seems to depend on the OS. The crash I reported was a normal windows crash (send message to windows bla). This error ocurred while using windows XP. If using my own Windows Vista machine everything seems to be fine. I can open up the lobby and host a server. But there was no other server for testing the join function.

Hope you get it work!

@Julz: As a reminder, I'm using XP, too.

Thanks guys. There's a lot of stuff to fix. As for the crash, I think it has something to with me using sys_free incorrectly somewhere, given the situations that crash. I've got ideas to change the lobby-creation function to be faster and safer (although, I really do try and use memory allocation functions safely!).

Here's the current TODO list for 0.2.1:

• Lobby crash -- simplifying the system should hopefully stop the crashes XP users are experiencing.
• Chat bug -- incoming messages interfere with host's chat bar.
• F5 for bigger window -- I like keeping KarBOOM windowed for now, but I'll at least let you toggle between 800x600 and 1024x768.
• Smoother play -- lag is ridiculously bad for the cars you own. Just awful. I have some tricks in mind to fix that.
• Input fixes -- German keyboard support (must be a nightmare for those of you trying to put in passwords [which are hidden] on a German keyboard!); username and password input support the full range of characters that are accepted by the registration process.
• More helpful interface -- See the max players, current players, who's online, your latency...
• Camera tweaks -- Camera zooms in too fast for comfort, at the moment.
• EDIT: Safer lobby navigation to prevent race conditions.
• EDIT2: Servers are informed when players are having trouble connecting.

Thanks to those of you who helped me test it out and offered suggestions and bug reports! So far I've been able to play with Superku, Roel, and SchokoKeks -- special thanks to Superku, who spent quite a bit of time online helping me test stuff. But also thanks to those I haven't been able to play with yet, but have continued to give me feedback here

I'm really glad for everyone's help, and so relieved that I didn't try and announce 0.2 everywhere -- it would've been a really bad start for KarBOOM Online!

0.2.1 will hopefully be out by the weekend's end.

Jibb