Mod_ClearAll -- doesn't always cut it

[Baker]

[szo]

[szo]

[Spike]

nah, you've gotta do it properly...
shell(va("\"%s\" -game %s %s", cmd_argv[0], newgamedir, cmd_args));
exit(1);

resolves a few other edge cases too! just make sure you don't do weird stuff with dupe -games.


reordering models randomly sounds like a buggy idea, especially if there are any stale pointers to various models lying around, like static entities (which annoyingly get redrawn on loading screens) and stuff like that...

[r00k]

[szo]

@Spike:
Well, of course there is execve() and its frontends like execv(), but I really don't see the point.
Can you document what the other edge cases are?

@root:
Of course the old one would not exit if you spawn the new one with system()

[r00k]

[Spike]

@szo:
default cvar values, etc. carrying config settings (cvars+binds) from one mod to another might be undesirable too. plus there's cached 2d artwork and sounds to worry about as well.

@rook:
spawning a new process to do this is completely evil (if only because you need to create a new connection to the server if the gamedir changes on map change, which some QW mods do). The point is that there's a lot more state than just models and filesystem - and not all of it needs to be purged.
It really is just a quick hacky way to purge everything - probably more than is desired.

you should use GetModuleFileName(NULL, path, sizeof(path)) to obtain the name of the exe. you should also ensure that things are quoted properly just in case there's a space in one of the arguments/paths.

[r00k]

Ya it does seem to have issues online

[Baker]

This bug used to drive me crazy.

I'd occasionally see it, I'd restart and try to get the bug again and never could reproduce it reliably.

@szo: Maybe setting mod_known to 0 works just as well, but the "mcache" command shows lots of empty stuff and I'll probably re-use the code for a better "mcache" display at some point.

[szo]

Applied my patch to quakespasm repo at r942:
http://sourceforge.net/p/quakespasm/code/942/

Fixes the issue in quakespasm. Eric's build bot at
http://quakespasm.ericwa.com/job/quakespasm/ should
generate a new build soon.