Lich v4

[Morrff]

You guys rock and you know who U R!

[geoffire]

The new launcher doesn't work if your on a new account thats in the trial period still. This is the response I got in a little pop up when trying to log in:

Unrecognized response from server. (F TRIAL
)

I was able to select gemstone, its at that point it pops up, then I cannot press the play button. My past-trial account logs in fine.

the workaround is installing lich v4 psinet compatable mode and using the simu launcher. Just a bug report...

[SolitareConfinement]

First thought that comes to mind: open up the task manager (in WinXP hit control-alt-delete, no clue about Vista or Windows 7) and check to see if your CPU usage is spiking. If it is, Lich is probably causing the lag by trying to process too much at one time. If it isn't, shouldn't be at all related to Lich.

it is with out a doubt lich. the lag is best described as a screen scroll lag. for example when a creature dies and the spells fall off it. roughly takes about 2 seconds to scroll all through instead of instant like usual. this happened 24/7. everything was screen scroll lagged. almost like it was trying to parse through all the text and couldn't keep up. i switched back to v 3.99 and everything went away and im much less stressed now everything works perfect in 3.99

[Alorn15]

I had the exact same issue, this should solve the problem:
http://forum.gsplayers.com/showthread.php?t=47696

For anyone that's interested:
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/182691

[Widgets]

it is with out a doubt lich. the lag is best described as a screen scroll lag. for example when a creature dies and the spells fall off it. roughly takes about 2 seconds to scroll all through instead of instant like usual. this happened 24/7. everything was screen scroll lagged. almost like it was trying to parse through all the text and couldn't keep up. i switched back to v 3.99 and everything went away and im much less stressed now everything works perfect in 3.99

Did you try the lag fix as posted by Alornen for v4?

Reason being is because I'm not at home right now and was still running 3.89 because of it originally.

I wanted to see now if anyone did what Alornen had said and if the screen lag was fixed or not in doing so. Regardless, I'll likely give it a go again but I thought I'd ask you first.

[SolitareConfinement]

nope not yet. chances are until i MUST I'm probably going to stick with staying at 3.99. if its not broke don't fix it right?

[Shaelun]

I had the exact same issue, this should solve the problem:
http://forum.gsplayers.com/showthread.php?t=47696

For anyone that's interested:
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/182691

Wow. Well ain't that a bitch. It may fix it to evaluate this code (in a ";exec" script if that's still the same in Tillmen's versions or a script you run as usual -- either should work.)

$_SERVER_.binmode

If that doesn't do it, run this code too:

$_CLIENT_.binmode

Be forewarned: this may cause Lich to start spewing errors faster than you can read them. It depends on whether or not the Lich source script (the "lich.rb" file) is being read as encoded with 8-bit ASCII or Unicode.

You could try adding a line to your "lich.rb" at the very top:

# encoding: US-ASCII

or

# encoding: ASCII-8BIT

Frankly I'm not sure which. Doing any one of those, or perhaps all three, should fix the problem if my understanding of the changes made in Ruby v1.9.1 are correct. Which they may not be -- apparently universal-newline or string encoding is causing the slowdown, if the 4-minute-long research I just did on Google is accurate.

Or you could, of course, stick with a pre-4.0 version and not bother with any of this

As an aside, I don't see much reason to use Ruby 1.9.1 as opposed to Ruby 1.8.7 (unless future scripts require it to run properly, or they stop back-porting bug fixes to the 1.8 releases.) While there were some really cool speedups, if text processing has been slowed down due to Unicode support and other random junk, 1.8.7 will offer much, much better performance (hey, it's a text-based game, and everything Lich does is based on scanning text.)

[GSFourester]

Not sure why, but can not get lich to run now using SGE or logging in from website. This is happening in both 4.09 and 4.011. Vista OS, clicked the install tab as listed in the instructions on http://lichproject.com/wiki/Download

This is what comes up in the debug file

info: Tue Nov 24 04:14:04 -0800 2009
info: $lich_dir: C:/Users/****/lich/
info: $script_dir: C:/Users/****/lich/scripts/
info: $data_dir: C:/Users/****/lich/data/
info: $temp_dir: C:/Users/****/lich/temp/
info: HAVE_REGISTRY: true
info: HAVE_GTK: true
info: no launch file given
info: no force-mode info given


I would assume that it has to do with the last two lines, but no real clue on what to do to make it work. I had renamed the lich.rbw to lich.rb because nothing would happen when named lich.rbw.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Danjirus]

I'm having this same problem and im getting the same messaging. I havent played in a few days and nothing has changed. When I tried to log in last night the game kept closing after staying logged in for a min or so.

[Tillmen]

Not sure why, but can not get lich to run now using SGE or logging in from website. This is happening in both 4.09 and 4.011. Vista OS, clicked the install tab as listed in the instructions on http://lichproject.com/wiki/Download

This is what comes up in the debug file

info: Tue Nov 24 04:14:04 -0800 2009
info: $lich_dir: C:/Users/****/lich/
info: $script_dir: C:/Users/****/lich/scripts/
info: $data_dir: C:/Users/****/lich/data/
info: $temp_dir: C:/Users/****/lich/temp/
info: HAVE_REGISTRY: true
info: HAVE_GTK: true
info: no launch file given
info: no force-mode info given


I would assume that it has to do with the last two lines, but no real clue on what to do to make it work. I had renamed the lich.rbw to lich.rb because nothing would happen when named lich.rbw.

Any help would be appreciated.

I suspect that you're looking at the wrong debug file. The "info: no launch file given" indicates that Lich was started without a .sal or Gse.~xt file in the command line. Since there was no force-mode info either, Lich should have showed its game entry window. So, this file is probably from when you were in the install tab, and not from Lich being started by SGE.

I'm guessing that means there is no debug file from trying the SGE. When you try to log in with the SGE, are you able to get into the game without Lich, or unable to get in at all? Bring up the install tab and make sure it shows Lich in the launch order. It may just be that Vista didn't let Lich change the registry, and you need to run it as admin.

If you are unable to get in the game at all, reinstalling the Simu launcher usually does the trick.