Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT -- Heroes 3
Mike Tracy Holt wrote: To be honest with you - I haven't had ANY luck running Q3. Dacia on this list has had better luck using the voodoo cards, but I'm using a Matrox G400 max (which was supposed to work with this game - out of the box) which has not worked at all. I've tried xf3.3.x, xf4; I've tried using SuSE 7.0 (which I was able to grab off of a German mirror which has since been closed??) as well as every version of Mandrake that I've upgraded to - it's been very disappointing. On the other hand, I also have Q2 which uses software rendering and works great! I love to frag! I'm anxiously awaiting the day that I can actually use my copy of Q3 - I've even considered buying a new voodoo just so I can, but I just built this system to add to my home network and that was a couple thousand - my wife has confiscated my piggy bank for awhile... Mike Hi there. I've got Q3demo running just fine on my Voodoo 3000. My little bother, er brother also has it running on his setup with an NVIDIA TNT board... IF I was going to get a new video card today, I would pick something from NVIDIA over my Voodoo...they seem to support Linux a lot better... ;-)
Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT -- Heroes 3
Anyone know where I can pick up a copy of Quake? -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496 On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: Is this a Linux game or a DOS/Windows game in Linux? Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT -- Heroes 3 Still freezes On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, you wrote: 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! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 11:40am up 28 days, 19:48, 5 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.00
RE: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT -- Heroes 3
Which version are you looking for? I got my copy of Quake 2 at the half-price bookstore for $14 but I got my copy of Q3 at the local computer store for something like $40. You can also purchase from lokisoft. What part of the world are you located in? Mike Anyone know where I can pick up a copy of Quake? -- Mark
Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT -- Heroes 3
Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Ah - you should be able to hit a mall close to you - electronics boutique? That's where I picked up Q3. You can usually find it anywhere they sell video games. Take care, Mike Does it run well in Linux? I've run it in Windows before, although that was a long time ago since I hardly ever use Windows any more. -- Mark
RE: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT -- Heroes 3
To be honest with you - I haven't had ANY luck running Q3. Dacia on this list has had better luck using the voodoo cards, but I'm using a Matrox G400 max (which was supposed to work with this game - out of the box) which has not worked at all. I've tried xf3.3.x, xf4; I've tried using SuSE 7.0 (which I was able to grab off of a German mirror which has since been closed??) as well as every version of Mandrake that I've upgraded to - it's been very disappointing. On the other hand, I also have Q2 which uses software rendering and works great! I love to frag! I'm anxiously awaiting the day that I can actually use my copy of Q3 - I've even considered buying a new voodoo just so I can, but I just built this system to add to my home network and that was a couple thousand - my wife has confiscated my piggy bank for awhile... Mike Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Ah - you should be able to hit a mall close to you - electronics boutique? That's where I picked up Q3. You can usually find it anywhere they sell video games. Take care, Mike Does it run well in Linux? I've run it in Windows before, although that was a long time ago since I hardly ever use Windows any more. -- Mark
RE: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT -- Heroes 3
have you trolled the loki quake3 mailing lists for ideas? I've gottn a lot of help from the info there. Abe = Original Message From "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To be honest with you - I haven't had ANY luck running Q3. Dacia on this list has had better luck using the voodoo cards, but I'm using a Matrox G400 max (which was supposed to work with this game - out of the box) which has not worked at all. I've tried xf3.3.x, xf4; I've tried using SuSE 7.0 (which I was able to grab off of a German mirror which has since been closed??) as well as every version of Mandrake that I've upgraded to - it's been very disappointing. On the other hand, I also have Q2 which uses software rendering and works great! I love to frag! I'm anxiously awaiting the day that I can actually use my copy of Q3 - I've even considered buying a new voodoo just so I can, but I just built this system to add to my home network and that was a couple thousand - my wife has confiscated my piggy bank for awhile... Mike Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Ah - you should be able to hit a mall close to you - electronics boutique? That's where I picked up Q3. You can usually find it anywhere they sell video games. Take care, Mike Does it run well in Linux? I've run it in Windows before, although that was a long time ago since I hardly ever use Windows any more. -- Mark Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT -- Heroes 3
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! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 11:40am up 28 days, 19:48, 5 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.00
Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT -- Heroes 3
Still freezes On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, you wrote: 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! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 11:40am up 28 days, 19:48, 5 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.00
Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT -- Heroes 3
Is this a Linux game or a DOS/Windows game in Linux? Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT -- Heroes 3 Still freezes On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, you wrote: 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! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 11:40am up 28 days, 19:48, 5 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.00
