Developer Preview Release Soon

Started by jflat06

jflat06 Staff Lv 1

Hey everyone,

We're going to be posting an update to the developer preview here soon with some fixes and changes. Among these is a transition to a 64-bit Mac client. As mentioned in a previous new post, Mac is limiting their future support for 32-bit applications, and we need to make sure we're compatible.

If you are a Mac user and would like to test the new 64-bit release, you can download the 64 bit installer here: http://fold.it/dist/external/Foldit-macos_x64.dmg
Main/devprev are both the same for this installer right now, but make sure you take the update immediately after running, as the one bundled with the installer is out-of-date.

Here's a list of the rest of the fixes/changes:

Features:

  • Added some additional instrumenting to report crashes and errors to the server.
  • The initial code for always-positive conditions (now bonuses) is being rolled out. For now, scoring will remain the same.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed several crashes in geometry rendering code.
  • Symmetry puzzles which once crashed when asymmetries were detected now instead cancel the running tool and report an error.

jflat06 Staff Lv 1

There is currently a bug with certain filters not properly penalizing players. We have disabled scoring credit for this devprev release pending a fix. Users should receive a message indicating they will not get credit. You may still take your solutions and load them into the main client to get credit.

jflat06 Staff Lv 1

This Has been temporarily reverted on Windows/Linux. Not that Mac is not reverted, as there was nothing to 'revert' to. For the time being, continue using the 32-bit version, as your 64-bit version will not function.