Hi,
I just downloaded opensuse 11.2 in hope of getting more games to work like ufo:alien invasion, or urban terror or anything the only game I have gotton to work so far is Wesnoth…otherwise most of the games I click on in the start menu and they put their little symbol on my mouse and than nothing happens…
AMD 3600 duel
2 gig Pqi ram
128 C51 Quadro NVS 210S/GeForce 6150LE
Try starting the game from a terminal. You may need to lookup the command to start them, but they are usually the name of the application. Eg; to start firefox - that’s what you type. Try it.
Thing is, when you start it that way it will possibly show errors - which you can then copy here.
Ok I tried to launch games from the terminal two test games are Ufo:Alien Invasion and AstroMenace both gave
If ‘alienarena’ is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
cnf alienarena
If ‘astromenace’ is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
cnf astromenace
Right click the menu and select menu editor
In the box navigate to where your game is and look for the command. Here is a picture of what I mean:
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The command for this app is: kdesu kwrite
Find yours, you can usually ignore any other symboly like % or endings like -caption “%c”
Actually, I’ve got the same problem.
Astromenace refers to the shell command “AstroMenace.sh”;
when invoked from the console, the result is:
manfred@linux-3j4t:~> AstroMenace.sh
AstroMenace 1.2 70914
Antialiasing test START
Use ‘–noAA’ launch option in order to avoid Antialiasing test.
Antialiasing test END
VFS file was opened /home/manfred/.astromenace/gamedata.vfs
VFS file was opened /home/manfred/.astromenace/gamelang.vfs
AL lib: pulseaudio.c:386: Context did not get ready: Connection refused
Thus, I assume that there is some issue with sound.
So far, I haven’t been abel to track this; in other applications,
sound works fine.
wow, this will be the first place I start posting when I want to get my games to work, because I’m sure I’ll be having the same issues since I know NOTHING about linux command usage
for your specs alone, I know for sure urban terror will work, I play that on my other computer with windows and I only have 512 mb ram
as for this computer, I use linux and was thinking about trying to play the left 4 dead demo or something since I have an nvidia graphics card but the problem is so far I haven't been able to even use youtube video even though i apparently installed adobe flash player and enabled javascript it still says I can't play the video
when I figure it out I'll try and help you with your problem, because the explanations everyone has given you with the command line make no sense to me whatsoever - lol - good luck :POk so I just tried tux racer here is the output for that
Extreme TuxRacer SVN Development – Extreme Tux Racer > Welcome
(c) 2007 The ETRacer team
(c) 2004-2005 The PPRacer team
(c) 1999-2001 Jasmin F. Patry<jfpatry@sunspirestudios.com>
ETRacer comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
See The GNU General Public License - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) for details.
Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 190.42,
but this NVIDIA driver component has version 96.43.11. Please make
sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components
have the same version.
NVIDIA: Direct rendering failed; attempting indirect rendering.
%%% etracer warning: Attempt to bind to Texture unloaded texture: `b-herring_run_ico
also I did install compiz and ran the commands
nvidia-xconfig --composite
nvidia-xconfig --render-accel
nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals -d 24
Also I just ran glxinfo here is the out put for that
name of display: :0.0
Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 190.42,
but this NVIDIA driver component has version 96.43.11. Please make
sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components
have the same version.
NVIDIA: Direct rendering failed; attempting indirect rendering.
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_ARB_create_context,
GLX_ARB_create_context_profile, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_NV_float_buffer,
GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
GLX_NV_swap_group, GLX_NV_video_out, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_NV_float_buffer, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float,
GLX_EXT_fbconfig_packed_float, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_NV_float_buffer,
GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: Quadro NVS 210S / GeForce 6150LE/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 190.42
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_fragment_program,
GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow, GL_ARB_half_float_pixel, GL_ARB_imaging,
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_point_parameters,
GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
GL_ARB_texture_compression, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map,
GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_float,
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two,
GL_ARB_texture_rectangle, GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_window_pos,
GL_ATI_texture_float, GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, GL_S3_s3tc,
GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil, GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_rescale_normal,
GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_separate_specular_color,
GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_texture3D,
GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map,
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic,
GL_EXT_texture_lod, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp,
GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB, GL_EXT_timer_query,
GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip,
GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square,
GL_NV_copy_depth_to_color, GL_NV_depth_clamp, GL_NV_fog_distance,
GL_NV_fragment_program_option, GL_NV_fragment_program2,
GL_NV_light_max_exponent, GL_NV_multisample_filter_hint,
GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil, GL_NV_texgen_reflection,
GL_NV_texture_compression_vtc, GL_NV_texture_env_combine4,
GL_NV_texture_expand_normal, GL_NV_texture_rectangle,
GL_NV_texture_shader, GL_NV_texture_shader2, GL_NV_texture_shader3,
GL_NV_vertex_program2_option, GL_NV_vertex_program3,
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SGIX_depth_texture,
GL_SGIX_shadow, GL_SUN_slice_accum
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess
*** WARNING: Direct Rendering is NOT enabled
Well, this appears like you have an older nVidia driver installed somehow. You may want to look at “http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606” for the current drivers.
On my system, driver and kernel version match fine, and I simply have the nVidia repository as an install source in YAST. Where did you load the graphics driver from?
I suggest to check the nVidia drivers (search for any packages named with “nVidia*” in YAST); maybe you can simply install an update here.
Hi, I managed to get UFO:AI to work. I opened the ufoai.sh script on kwrite, and noticed there was an error on the script.
/usr/bin/ufoai.sh: line 13: /usr/lib64/ufoai/ufoai: No such file or directory
So open ufoai.sh with kwrite:
kdesu kwrite /usr/bin/ufoai.sh
And change line “/usr/lib64/ufoai/ufoai” to “/usr/lib64/ufoai/ufo”
Save, open the game from the GUI, and it should work now.