It is kind of wierd the way that it hangs up after the music or after the
first turn ends in my case. I can then ctrl-alt-backspace and start the
game again without sound (apparently the sound device is busy) and it won't
hang up at all. Well, at least for 20 minutes or so. At any rate, I tried
playing with a couple of different settings. Try the following and see what
results you guys get ....
at a terminal try
esd (this should make a r2d2 like sound)
ctrl - c
then start the game .... I no longer have the hang up but I'm missing some
of the sound ... or so it seems
you might also want to try
export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=esd
Oddly enough, most games that I've tried have tended to work better on a
standard Mandrake install then Caldera. This one is the exception as it
seems to work fairly well on my Caldera box.
Larry
Vic wrote:
> Same here, I sure as heck hope that the
> full version does not act like that too,
> I think the programmers when they told me it
> was the sound drivers were just making dumb
> excuses to sit around picking their noses and
> not do anything about it, or goodness knows
> maybe they were hopefully getting something
> done, I sure hope so.
>
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > Vic wrote:
> > >
> > > Speaking of Gaming, has anyone had a problem with
> > > Heroes 3 for Linux freezing after the music stops?
> > >
> > > I downloaded the demo and after the music quit, the game
> > > froze and I had to get out the good ol' trusty virtual terminal
> > > and kill it.
> >
> > Hi Vic. I d/l'ed the Might and Magic 3 demo just the other day, and
> > unfortunately, I have the same problem. Whenever I exit the game, end
> > turn, etc, etc, the game music stops and the game is locked at that
> > point, totally unresponsive.
> >
> > Hmm. I didn't kill it via terminal though. I just <control> <alt>
> > <F-10>, shutting down the Xserver, then relogging back in. Guess either
> > way works though, eh? ;-)
> >
> > If anybody knows a fix for this, please pass it along. Also, does
> > anybody know if this problem is limited to the demo? I'd really like to
> > know as this is one of the games that I'd really like to purchase the
> > full version of.
> >
> > Thanks! ;-)
> >
> > --
> > /\
> > Dark><Lord
> > \/
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Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4
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