Comments on: Wolf:ET 2.56

By: integr8er

integr8er — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:11:19 +0000

I got Return to Castle Wolfenstein – Game of the Year, for my 47th birthday from my daughter and I do not want to put it on Windows. What is the basic process for doing it on my RH9.0 Linux desktop? Sorry for the stupid question, but I am a Linux convert and the Linux gaming is on my weak side. – pointers please :-) Much appreciated…

By:

Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:53:53 +0000

Is there a way to change the Fast Writes and SBA settigs in the NVidia agp driver? If so do they help anything?

my /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status says:
Status: Enabled
Driver: NVIDIA
AGP Rate: 4x
Fast Writes: Disabled
SBA: Disabled

but the /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card files says:
Fast Writes: Supported
SBA: Supported
AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x
Registers: 0x1f000217:0x1f000104

Thanks
-S

By:

Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:10:48 +0000

would be cool.

By:

Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:43:35 +0000

I have installed it from 3dgamers. No errors.

http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/wolfensteinet/et-linux-2.56-update.x86.run.html

In the game though, it seems that the medic and covert ops are damn near bulletproof. The FedOps dies after 3 hits from a mp40. And various other things that are a bit confusing at first. Actually, I’m still confused. I’m attempting not to get shot in the first place, but it’s a bit hard.

It has made my skill level take a kick to the shin, but I think it adds to the challenge. Very nice game. Running quite stable at all resolutions on an Nvidia Ti4200. All this, and it’s free. I honestly can’t ask for more. Thanks I.D. You rock.

PS- I pre-ordered Doom3 as a thank you.

By: TTimo

TTimo — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 04:08:25 +0000

I am not sure what the internal MD5 sums are (those are generated by makeself during packaging), but md5sum on the actual files should say:

b75971eaf9c8b740f213bf1e20249f23 et-linux-2.56-update.x86.run
98f9c53e6b1b7d2261cb608788162f83 et-linux-2.56.x86.run

If you don’t have this then you don’t have the right files.

By: tyreth

tyreth — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:25:16 +0000

I’m quite annoyed, because I bought a new gfx card (a cheap leadtek GF FX5200, not ultra) to get some extra fps. It made almost no difference in linux (maybe 1 or 2 fps), while in windows it made a difference of 10+fps…and not just that, it ran significantly faster with both my old and new cards in windows.

Very annoying, but no-one’s been able to tell me why it’s running so much slower in Linux.

By: TTimo

TTimo — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:59:14 +0000

wow. bug in makeself then?
that was packaged with a recent CVS version of makeseilf though. oh well

By: wolf31o2

wolf31o2 — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:37:58 +0000

The problem is your version of head is “too new” and no longer supports the older – format.

By: samppa

samppa — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:00:52 +0000

I downloaded the update twice using the torrent link, and once using the Blues mirror, but each of these ends up with the following error when trying to run the update:

# sh et-linux-2.56-update.x86.run
Verifying archive integrity…head: `-329′ option is obsolete; use `-n 329′
Try `head –help’ for more information.
Error in MD5 checksums: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e is different from 3b7430fddd36750a573a15bf945cb56e