> Hey guys, Creamy here. First of all, despite the difficulties I was having at this year's QuakeCon, I had a really fun time at the event, and it was great meeting you all. Now, I've been having problems with getting Quake 2 to run properly in Ubuntu for well over a year, because the mouse wouldn't work in the game for some reason. However, because of the help I got from the TastySpleen crew at the QuakeCon, I was finally on my way to solving this annoying problem. Square came by my table and gave me the source code for a version of Quake 2 called APRQ2, but when he tried to compile the code, he ran into some dependency issues. He didn't have time to solve those issues on the spot, and because of the QuakeCon's shitty Internet connection, I wasn't able to do anything about it either.> I did find some time today to work on compiling APRQ2, and I was able to solve all the dependency issues and successfully get through the "make" phase without getting any errors. However, instead of going through "make install", I wanted to see if installing any of the libraries I needed to resolve the dependencies would get my original version of Quake 2 to run. So I checked through the different video modes of that version, and to my surprise, I was now able to run the game in OpenGL glX Mode! In this mode, the screen wasn't distorted, and the mouse worked perfectly. As it turns out, all I had to do to run Quake 2 in OpenGL glX Mode was to install the SDL library (libsdl1.2-dev), and if Square hadn't given me the source code for APRQ2, I would never have figured this out. So this post is a big thank you to the TastySpleen community for helping me to finally get my favorite FPS to run properly on the Creamy Entertainment System, and I hope to see you all again in 2012.
there is a simple solution, get winXP. I know i am gonna get shouted down for this but all linux distro's suck in general, but they really suck at trying to get games to run. Linux is free and imo you get what you pay for. Linux won't become mainstream and there will always be lack of support because it is not user friendly. for an OS that is free you have to wonder why people are not flocking to use it in the masses. I suggest you go back to windows, but not any windows....try XP it is the best windows ever made. Vista sucks, new win7 sucks, any linux distro sucks, XP all the way!
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Hey man. It was awesome meeting you there. Glad that you got things sorted. 3 cheers for Amp coming through at the last minute for you so that you could join in on the 2v2 beat-down that our 2 teams endured. You may observe that vital and vae are devolving your thread into a smacktalk fest. This is normal, just ignore it.
Quote from: peewee_RotA on August 21, 2010, 04:21:36 AMHey man. It was awesome meeting you there. Glad that you got things sorted. 3 cheers for Amp coming through at the last minute for you so that you could join in on the 2v2 beat-down that our 2 teams endured. You may observe that vital and vae are devolving your thread into a smacktalk fest. This is normal, just ignore it. I don't waste my time with vae anymore weepee.
We were very happy that you took part Creamy_Goodness, and look forward to fragging with you again. Don't be shy, connect and play on the TS servers. Just type "connect tastyspleen.net:27916" at console.
Quote from: V!RaL on August 21, 2010, 04:11:01 PMQuote from: peewee_RotA on August 21, 2010, 04:21:36 AMHey man. It was awesome meeting you there. Glad that you got things sorted. 3 cheers for Amp coming through at the last minute for you so that you could join in on the 2v2 beat-down that our 2 teams endured. You may observe that vital and vae are devolving your thread into a smacktalk fest. This is normal, just ignore it. I don't waste my time with vae anymore weepee.I wouldn't mind if you spent all of your time on me.