Mies

Thanks for the hard work!

I for one am sad. Would have bought it regardless of advances in modern day games. Good luck!

Nice, good to see a "fresh" AAR for CMBB. It's been a while indeed. Mies

Thank you much sir!

Thanks for the heads up. It's on the wish list now. Mies

Thanks for that. I like a lot of pictures! Mies

The amount of times I find myself re-reading that one. About every time someone links to it. Excellent! Mies

Good read, or view actually!

I'd read it!

Me neither. It works ok here. Mies

Bought a couple of his books, so thanks for the link. Mies

I sort of did. Saw a Dutch mail address in your bug report. On top of that I think mr. Bijlsma is also Dutch as am I. So 3 out of 6 or 7 people in this topic who are trying to run CM:SF on a Linux distro are Dutchies. Thought that to be kinda funny . [excuse mode on] My appologies for doing a Sherlock Holmes. [/excuse mode off] Mies

I've put a vote in for this one. I am dual booting at this point which basically means I don't play because I never feel like rebooting . Btw, is it me or is it sort of a semi-Dutch thing to want to run CMSF on a Linux machine ? Mies

I gave it a shot with a stripped down version of my xorg.conf. I set the defaultDepth to 32, only left a Display section in with 32 Depth and starting at a resolution of 1024x768. No joy. In fact I couldn't start my machine as it complained about you guessed it the 32bit setting. I bet that the NVidia drivers for Linux do not support the 32 bit setting of the screen or something. Seeing that CMSF does run when starting in Windows it could be something like that. Or not. If I get a new brainwave I'll post back. Mies

I'll create a custom version of my customized xorg.conf this evening with your suggestions to see what that brings me. Thanks for the advise. Mies

Sorry for the late reply. The messageboard wasn't too responsive yesterday evening, my time. My main display supports 32 bit, but judging from the message I get it actually could be the reason for this not working. I found an issue with the NVidia drivers are by default setup to run 2 monitors. If you turn that of in the xorg.conf at least the refresh rates goes up. I added this to accomplish that : </font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">Option "DynamicTwinView" "False"</pre>

Mmm, ok now that there is actually something to play I off course installed the game with the latest stable free wine version (0.9.41) on my Ubuntu 7.04 machine. Game installed fine, I could register it ok, but when starting it, it complained about my screen not being the default 1024x768 32bit. That is correct as I have a widescreen at 1440x900. I changed the "display size.txt" file to cover that, but the game complained again. I guess my question is, anyone try this and if so got it to work?

download is too slow my pc is too old, but want to play the game

350 days to the day. Why not wait two more weeks and make this a "To the memory of to the Volga" thread, to be dug up after a year , each year. Mies

Sweet!

No King Tigers in CMAK? No wonder my uber Germans kept loosing. I thought it had something to do with me . Mies

Got mine in the mail today.

Anyone in Holland seen a BF parcel on the mat already?

Do you mean "run" as in we run the MacOSX version on Linux or as in BFC ports it? BTW, the problem with CMx1 is not that it uses DirectX. The problem is that it uses DirectX 5, which practically no other today interesting applications do and hence is under the radar of the Wine people. CMx1 does run in Cedega, though. </font>

Same here. Haven't seen it yet.