Correction:
Enemy Territory is not a good game to go along with Trisquel, since it's a
game that recommends the non-free software (and spyware) PunkBuster.
Enemy Territory: Legacy (http://www.etlegacy.com/) - which is an fork from
(/evolution of) the original code of ET, and which claims
Updated documentation to include S3TC.
Blank screen problem fixed after installing the libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 package.
Thanks.
Black screen + audio on my laptop. (Intel graphics).
Black screen and no audio on the desktop. (Nvidia GT9500).
Is it that proprietary drivers are required?
I've got the opposite experience, when tried RBDoom3BFG, and Dante on
Trisquel. The compilation process of the BFG port went pretty smoothly, and
the game worked just fine (except that the audio was a little choppy in
menu), but this wasn't the case with Dante, which was a complete mess.
I
S3TC is a patented texture compression technology, and for this reason, it
cannot be included within Mesa by default (common problem with Intel graphic
drivers).
Nevertheless, this can be easily fixed by installing libtxc-dxtn0 (not
required if you are using the Intel Linux Graphics
Try installing/enabling S3TC, as suggested below.
Is it a proprietary solution?
It's completely free (patent encumbered does not mean proprietary). You
should read these Phoronix articles here, and here, to better understand the
situation. There are also Wikipedia articles about S3TC, and S2TC, which is
likely to be long-term solution to this problem.
That's sorted it, thanks.
typo: rejoy rejoice
Thanks for the links.
(Although I try to concentrate myself on serious political activism, on my
free time...) I also like some good gaming, once in a while. And, the
shoot-them-up style of games, are the ones that I stil find enjoyable to
play. Although, the team play ones, are the ones
I am aware about Enemy Territory (I was nearly unable to find information
about Return to Castle Wolfenstein because of it), and although it will not
fit the list, it is highly possible I will add it later to this newly created
sub-page. There are other FPS, which will possibly be added
Actually this is so cool and comes in handy, despite being oriented more on a
Thief-related fanboys/gals instead of hardcore D00m3rs. It was merely two
weeks ago when I tried (out of curiosity) a native-built GNU/Linux GPLv3
licensed (with several e.g. library exceptions mentioned in
I wanted to try this game (standalone), but whenever I run the game, all I
get is a black screen with the audio running fine. I saw this thread in the
forums:
http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/15151-black-menu-caused-by-missing-fonts-and-gui-textures/
and it looks like the problem has
Beside the news that the Intel/Mesa stack now reached OpenGL 3.2 compliance,
and the next Mesa version will bear a round 10.0 number, another exciting
news was revealed.
All Trisquel games rejoy! The Dark Mod, a total conversion mod for Doom 3,
finally reached a milestone, and became
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