From icculus at icculus.org Sun Nov 2 01:45:51 2008 From: icculus at icculus.org (Ryan C. Gordon) Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:45:51 -0500 Subject: [prey] Demo feedback In-Reply-To: References: <490AED97.2030903@dusted.dk> Message-ID: <490D4C9F.3040508@icculus.org> Dmitri Seletski wrote: > yeah, i have 1650x1080(not sure about second value) screen resolution, > game didn't catch it automatically(used lower resolution instead). This is fixed in the final builds...we decide default quality settings by how much memory is on the video card. In the demo build, we just default to 64 megabytes (the lowest settings), but you can override this on the command line...it doesn't change anything but the video defaults. --ryan. From icculus at icculus.org Sun Nov 2 01:51:45 2008 From: icculus at icculus.org (Ryan C. Gordon) Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:51:45 -0500 Subject: [prey] Demo feedback In-Reply-To: <8e041a030810310507x25dea3cgd063be1afa847f09@mail.gmail.com> References: <490AED97.2030903@dusted.dk> <8e041a030810310507x25dea3cgd063be1afa847f09@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <490D4E01.8050205@icculus.org> > One with multimonitor. Looks like it detects 2560x1024 as maximun > resolution and tries to set it on one monitor. Of course, the monitor > goes black. This probably won't get fixed, unfortunately. Some day we'll be shipping SDL 1.3-based titles, where we can handle this better, but not today. > And the default alsa sound plays with noise and robot-like sometimes. I > had to set it to oss. Can't win here...if we make the default ALSA, it'll break some systems, and if we make it OSS, it'll break others. For what it's worth, the demo defaults to OSS (I'm not sure how you got ALSA by default if you have a working /dev/dsp), but the next build will default to ALSA, as almost everyone that is using /dev/dsp is actually not using OSS, but rather a compatibility layer for something else. It can be forced to PulseAudio or OSS, etc, though, with the SDL_AUDIODRIVER environment variable. Or you can put your own libSDL-1.2.so.0 in there, or try your luck with the OpenAL codepath, too. There are options, but it's still frustrating that this seems to come down to luck on any given system, and--failing that--user intervention. --ryan. From icculus at icculus.org Sun Nov 2 01:56:17 2008 From: icculus at icculus.org (Ryan C. Gordon) Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:56:17 -0500 Subject: [prey] Demo feedback In-Reply-To: <200810311520.27639.marix@marix.org> References: <490AED97.2030903@dusted.dk> <8e041a030810310507x25dea3cgd063be1afa847f09@mail.gmail.com> <200810311520.27639.marix@marix.org> Message-ID: <490D4F11.6020507@icculus.org> > I have this issue with doom 3, prey worked fine with the default setup, so. > (openSUSE 10.3, onboard sound). Doom 3 renders audio directly to ALSA (and maybe OpenAL?), Prey talks to SDL for audio (or, optionally, OpenAL). The Prey audio code was a backport of Quake 4's SDL support, replacing the Doom 3 code that it started with. Most people that are seeing bad audio output in Prey are using /dev/dsp output, but it's a wrapper for something else (ALSA or PulseAudio or whatever) that is behaving badly. Most of these people find it works if they force the game to use ALSA directly: cd /where/i/installed/prey SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa ./prey-demo Also: the demo is currently clamped to stereo output. If you have a working 5.1 setup, the next builds will be able to use all six speakers. Presumably this is only going to work through the ALSA path. --ryan. From icculus at icculus.org Sun Nov 2 01:59:28 2008 From: icculus at icculus.org (Ryan C. Gordon) Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:59:28 -0500 Subject: [prey] Demo feedback In-Reply-To: <8e041a030810311037h4e9569f8u8370cc812ef0ed6f@mail.gmail.com> References: <490AED97.2030903@dusted.dk> <8e041a030810310507x25dea3cgd063be1afa847f09@mail.gmail.com> <8e041a030810311037h4e9569f8u8370cc812ef0ed6f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <490D4FD0.8090408@icculus.org> > If people plays multi-prey (I did't found any server with the demo) I'll > buy the full linux release. As I bought quake4 and quake wars. I > shouldn't do it, It will hurt my sleep hours an my overall productivity. There are very few Prey servers in general. Multiprey will work against Windows and Mac players (and you can host the server on any platform, too), but you're more likely to be playing against your friends in a scheduled match than hopping on a random internet server for a quick game. --ryan. From senectus at gmail.com Sun Nov 2 05:44:44 2008 From: senectus at gmail.com (Senectus .) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:44:44 +0900 Subject: [prey] Demo feedback In-Reply-To: <490D4FD0.8090408@icculus.org> References: <490AED97.2030903@dusted.dk> <8e041a030810310507x25dea3cgd063be1afa847f09@mail.gmail.com> <8e041a030810311037h4e9569f8u8370cc812ef0ed6f@mail.gmail.com> <490D4FD0.8090408@icculus.org> Message-ID: 2008/11/2 Ryan C. Gordon > > If people plays multi-prey (I did't found any server with the demo) I'll >> buy the full linux release. As I bought quake4 and quake wars. I shouldn't >> do it, It will hurt my sleep hours an my overall productivity. >> > > There are very few Prey servers in general. Multiprey will work against > Windows and Mac players (and you can host the server on any platform, too), > but you're more likely to be playing against your friends in a scheduled > match than hopping on a random internet server for a quick game. > > --ryan. I tried to buy a copy yesterday off the shelves at EB Games in Australia. The chick behind the counter said there are only two left in Australia (EB stores in the eastern states and I'm in WA) the game is discontinued and they can't restock, and she actually told me I should just download the game! I intend on buying it to help show the appreciation for Linux native ported games, anyone know of a decent online dealer? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ard at kwaak.net Sun Nov 2 07:00:08 2008 From: ard at kwaak.net (ard) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 13:00:08 +0100 Subject: [prey] Demo feedback In-Reply-To: References: <490AED97.2030903@dusted.dk> <8e041a030810310507x25dea3cgd063be1afa847f09@mail.gmail.com> <8e041a030810311037h4e9569f8u8370cc812ef0ed6f@mail.gmail.com> <490D4FD0.8090408@icculus.org> Message-ID: <20081102120008.GW20493@kwaak.net> On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:44:44PM +0900, Senectus . wrote: > I intend on buying it to help show the appreciation for Linux native ported > games, anyone know of a decent online dealer? I've bought mine here: http://www.bol.com/nl/p/games/prey/1004004000037788/index.html I'm not sure if they ship to foreign countries. It's a DVD version, so not the 3 CD version and not the Collector's Edition. A year ago they still sold kingpin :-). (Which you can now buy from www.gog.com ). Regards, Ard van Breemen -- .signature not found From icculus at icculus.org Sun Nov 2 15:01:09 2008 From: icculus at icculus.org (Ryan C. Gordon) Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:01:09 -0500 Subject: [prey] Demo feedback In-Reply-To: References: <490AED97.2030903@dusted.dk> <8e041a030810310507x25dea3cgd063be1afa847f09@mail.gmail.com> <8e041a030810311037h4e9569f8u8370cc812ef0ed6f@mail.gmail.com> <490D4FD0.8090408@icculus.org> Message-ID: <490E0705.30409@icculus.org> > I intend on buying it to help show the appreciation for Linux native > ported games, anyone know of a decent online dealer? The version that you can buy through Steam will work, but I don't know if there are region controls for non-American customers that prevent it. (and, of course, you would need either Windows or some flavor of Wine to run Steam for the purchase/download...but once you have the game downloaded, that's done...it's just a means to get the data files, then the Linux installer will take care of the rest.) --ryan. From johnnyspacecowboy at googlemail.com Sun Nov 2 15:22:12 2008 From: johnnyspacecowboy at googlemail.com (William J. Coleman) Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:22:12 +0100 Subject: [prey] Demo feedback In-Reply-To: <490E0705.30409@icculus.org> References: <490AED97.2030903@dusted.dk> <8e041a030810310507x25dea3cgd063be1afa847f09@mail.gmail.com> <8e041a030810311037h4e9569f8u8370cc812ef0ed6f@mail.gmail.com> <490D4FD0.8090408@icculus.org> <490E0705.30409@icculus.org> Message-ID: <1225657332.7350.0.camel@william-desktop> And there's always Tuxgames, Amazon, or ebay. On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 15:01 -0500, Ryan C. Gordon wrote: > > I intend on buying it to help show the appreciation for Linux native > > ported games, anyone know of a decent online dealer? > > The version that you can buy through Steam will work, but I don't know > if there are region controls for non-American customers that prevent it. > > (and, of course, you would need either Windows or some flavor of Wine to > run Steam for the purchase/download...but once you have the game > downloaded, that's done...it's just a means to get the data files, then > the Linux installer will take care of the rest.) > > --ryan. > > > > --- > To unsubscribe, send a blank email to prey-unsubscribe at icculus.org > Mailing list archives: http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?68 > From senectus at gmail.com Sun Nov 2 16:53:16 2008 From: senectus at gmail.com (Senectus .) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 06:53:16 +0900 Subject: [prey] Demo feedback In-Reply-To: <490E0705.30409@icculus.org> References: <490AED97.2030903@dusted.dk> <8e041a030810310507x25dea3cgd063be1afa847f09@mail.gmail.com> <8e041a030810311037h4e9569f8u8370cc812ef0ed6f@mail.gmail.com> <490D4FD0.8090408@icculus.org> <490E0705.30409@icculus.org> Message-ID: 2008/11/3 Ryan C. Gordon > > I intend on buying it to help show the appreciation for Linux native >> ported games, anyone know of a decent online dealer? >> > > The version that you can buy through Steam will work, but I don't know if > there are region controls for non-American customers that prevent it. > > (and, of course, you would need either Windows or some flavor of Wine to > run Steam for the purchase/download...but once you have the game downloaded, > that's done...it's just a means to get the data files, then the Linux > installer will take care of the rest.) > > I hadn't thought of that..does that mean that Doom3, UTx, QuakeWars etc will work if I download them through steam? -- Ubuntu Hardy 8.10 The ancients who wished to demonstrate illustrious virtue throughout the empire first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order their own states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things - Confucius -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From icculus at icculus.org Mon Nov 3 01:46:00 2008 From: icculus at icculus.org (Ryan C. Gordon) Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:46:00 -0500 Subject: [prey] Demo feedback In-Reply-To: References: <490AED97.2030903@dusted.dk> <8e041a030810310507x25dea3cgd063be1afa847f09@mail.gmail.com> <8e041a030810311037h4e9569f8u8370cc812ef0ed6f@mail.gmail.com> <490D4FD0.8090408@icculus.org> <490E0705.30409@icculus.org> Message-ID: <490E9E28.7090005@icculus.org> > I hadn't thought of that..does that mean that Doom3, UTx, QuakeWars etc > will work if I download them through steam? I can't speak for Quake Wars, but I played through all of Doom 3 and its expansion pack on Linux, with data I bought on Steam. I copied it to a Linux box, dropped in the Linux binaries, and it ran fine. It looks like the UT2004 and UT3 installs are also uncompressed. They'll be sitting in "$WINDOWS_MOUNT/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/$GAME_NAME" once they fully download. Source Engine games (and probably others) may be sitting in a disk-image thingey that you may or may not be able to unpack, but third party games like Prey and Unreal are usually not. Likely the UT3 Linux installer will support Steam the same as the Prey installer does. Also: I meant to have the retail Prey build out last week, but there were several things competing for my time; I'll have it to you all shortly, but probably not before America chooses a new president. --ryan, From senectus at gmail.com Mon Nov 3 01:59:16 2008 From: senectus at gmail.com (Senectus .) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:59:16 +0900 Subject: [prey] Demo feedback In-Reply-To: <490E9E28.7090005@icculus.org> References: <490AED97.2030903@dusted.dk> <8e041a030810310507x25dea3cgd063be1afa847f09@mail.gmail.com> <8e041a030810311037h4e9569f8u8370cc812ef0ed6f@mail.gmail.com> <490D4FD0.8090408@icculus.org> <490E0705.30409@icculus.org> <490E9E28.7090005@icculus.org> Message-ID: 2008/11/3 Ryan C. Gordon > > I hadn't thought of that..does that mean that Doom3, UTx, QuakeWars etc >> will work if I download them through steam? >> > > I can't speak for Quake Wars, but I played through all of Doom 3 and its > expansion pack on Linux, with data I bought on Steam. I copied it to a Linux > box, dropped in the Linux binaries, and it ran fine. It looks like the > UT2004 and UT3 installs are also uncompressed. > > They'll be sitting in "$WINDOWS_MOUNT/Program > Files/Steam/steamapps/common/$GAME_NAME" once they fully download. > > Source Engine games (and probably others) may be sitting in a disk-image > thingey that you may or may not be able to unpack, but third party games > like Prey and Unreal are usually not. > > Likely the UT3 Linux installer will support Steam the same as the Prey > installer does. > Sweet, thanks for that... I now look at steam with a whole lot more interest :-) > > Also: I meant to have the retail Prey build out last week, but there were > several things competing for my time; I'll have it to you all shortly, but > probably not before America chooses a new president. > > NP, thanks mate, (good luck with the new Pres btw... we're all counting on you guys to do the right thing... even over here in Australia ;-) ) -- Ubuntu Hardy 8.10 The ancients who wished to demonstrate illustrious virtue throughout the empire first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order their own states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. 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HW is intel core 2 duo, 2GB RAM, Intel GMA X3100, native resolution is 1280x800; Powered by Mandriva Linux 2009.0, kernel 2.6.27 With regards, ZeXx86 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kieltux at gmail.com Mon Nov 3 07:08:14 2008 From: kieltux at gmail.com (Carsten Ziepke) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 13:08:14 +0100 Subject: Prey Linux Demo Message-ID: <20081103130814.329a61d8@bart.springfield> Hello all, yesterday I finished the Linux demo of Prey (prey-demo-installer-10232008). The demo worked like a charm on my system even with high settings at 1280x1024. I got some choppy sounds during the level loading screens. I am also missing the shadows, but this is already in bugzilla. My system specs: Athlon64 3200+ (Newcastle core), 1024 MB DDR Ram Nvidia 6800GT 256MB connected to a FSC H19-1 DVI TFT Panel VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller SUSE 9.2 32bit with 2.6.8-24.25 kernel Nvidia 1.0-9755 ALSA 1.0.6 Thank you very much for this release - now I wait for the full release. I have bought the german DVD release of Prey. Greetings, Carsten -- kieltux at gmail.com From marcosestevesbarbosa at gmail.com Mon Nov 3 07:16:29 2008 From: marcosestevesbarbosa at gmail.com (Marcos Barbosa) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 10:16:29 -0200 Subject: [prey] Intel bug In-Reply-To: <70c6c65a0811030108y48fd38e3l597deb3794111a2f@mail.gmail.com> References: <70c6c65a0811030108y48fd38e3l597deb3794111a2f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <42bbb5c30811030416w31f7cc75j3b94fc07d6422c12@mail.gmail.com> Upgrede Mesa version from 7.0.2 to 7.2. 2008/11/3 zexx86 zexx86 : > Hello > I try run Prey demo under my notebook, game start, all in menu works > correctly, but when I launch game, rendering seem to be highly corrupted - > screen looks like in 320x200 but it is in real set to 1024x768 .. I can > recognize objects, but I see only two colors, black and gray, where black is > on background and all objects are created with gray dots. Sound work well > and FPS is cca 15-25 on low settings. HW is intel core 2 duo, 2GB RAM, Intel > GMA X3100, native resolution is 1280x800; Powered by Mandriva Linux 2009.0, > kernel 2.6.27 > > With regards, ZeXx86 > -- Marcos Henrique Esteves Barbosa marcosestevesbarbosa at gmail.com From marcosestevesbarbosa at gmail.com Mon Nov 3 07:21:12 2008 From: marcosestevesbarbosa at gmail.com (Marcos Barbosa) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 10:21:12 -0200 Subject: [prey] Demo feedback In-Reply-To: References: <490AED97.2030903@dusted.dk> <8e041a030810310507x25dea3cgd063be1afa847f09@mail.gmail.com> <8e041a030810311037h4e9569f8u8370cc812ef0ed6f@mail.gmail.com> <490D4FD0.8090408@icculus.org> <490E0705.30409@icculus.org> <490E9E28.7090005@icculus.org> Message-ID: <42bbb5c30811030421x5403983ci179813955665a9c5@mail.gmail.com> I not tested Quake Wars from Steam, but probably works fine, Because the files *.pk4 is universal and works fine in all cases. The possible problem is the installer. The installer install *.pk4 files from DVD. 2008/11/3 Senectus . : > 2008/11/3 Ryan C. Gordon >> >>> I hadn't thought of that..does that mean that Doom3, UTx, QuakeWars etc >>> will work if I download them through steam? >> >> I can't speak for Quake Wars, but I played through all of Doom 3 and its >> expansion pack on Linux, with data I bought on Steam. I copied it to a Linux >> box, dropped in the Linux binaries, and it ran fine. It looks like the >> UT2004 and UT3 installs are also uncompressed. >> >> They'll be sitting in "$WINDOWS_MOUNT/Program >> Files/Steam/steamapps/common/$GAME_NAME" once they fully download. >> >> Source Engine games (and probably others) may be sitting in a disk-image >> thingey that you may or may not be able to unpack, but third party games >> like Prey and Unreal are usually not. >> >> Likely the UT3 Linux installer will support Steam the same as the Prey >> installer does. > > Sweet, thanks for that... I now look at steam with a whole lot more interest > :-) > >> >> >> Also: I meant to have the retail Prey build out last week, but there were >> several things competing for my time; I'll have it to you all shortly, but >> probably not before America chooses a new president. > > NP, thanks mate, (good luck with the new Pres btw... we're all counting on > you guys to do the right thing... even over here in Australia ;-) ) > > > -- > Ubuntu Hardy 8.10 > The ancients who wished to demonstrate illustrious virtue throughout the > empire first ordered well their own states. > Wishing to order their own states, they first regulated their families. > Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. > Wishing to cultivate their persons they first rectified their hearts. > Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their > thoughts. > Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost > their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of > things - Confucius > -- Marcos Henrique Esteves Barbosa marcosestevesbarbosa at gmail.com From gagapeter at gmx.de Tue Nov 4 13:06:08 2008 From: gagapeter at gmx.de (Sebastian Joseph) Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:06:08 +0100 Subject: Sounddevice not closed when clicking the Prey Website Button Message-ID: <49108F10.9090603@gmx.de> I clicked on the website button on the "Buy fullgame soon" screen and it mostly do, what it should do, calling the website in my favorite browser, but it seems that it don't close the /dev/dsp device after that. MPD complains about a busy device and even vlc and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars doesn't output any sound. MPD Log: "ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave Nov 04 14:28 : Error opening alsa device "default": Device or resource busy" From drjoms at gmail.com Tue Nov 4 13:40:54 2008 From: drjoms at gmail.com (Dmitri Seletski) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 18:40:54 +0000 Subject: [prey] Sounddevice not closed when clicking the Prey Website Button In-Reply-To: <49108F10.9090603@gmx.de> References: <49108F10.9090603@gmx.de> Message-ID: Check out if your browser is not running in background by "pstree -p |grep #browser name#". Or simply "pstree -p" and check if process is stil running. If it does - kill it. 'kill -9 "process id"', process id is taken from pstree... Where #browser name# is name of process that is corresponding to browser. The fact that you have closed it - may not necessary mean that executable is no longer running. Again /dev/dsp device is OSS sound frontend device, i'd suggest to use ALSA with game, unless you know what you are doing. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Sebastian Joseph wrote: > I clicked on the website button on the "Buy fullgame soon" screen and it > mostly do, what it should do, calling the website in my favorite browser, > but it seems that it don't close the /dev/dsp device after that. MPD > complains about a busy device and even vlc and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars > doesn't output any sound. > > MPD Log: "ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave > Nov 04 14:28 : Error opening alsa device "default": Device or resource > busy" > > --- > To unsubscribe, send a blank email to prey-unsubscribe at icculus.org > Mailing list archives: http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?68 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From icculus at icculus.org Tue Nov 11 02:25:32 2008 From: icculus at icculus.org (Ryan C. Gordon) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:25:32 -0500 Subject: [prey] Demo worked great, looking forward to the full release In-Reply-To: <1224921341.22229.15.camel@SillyPutty> References: <1224921341.22229.15.camel@SillyPutty> Message-ID: <4919336C.40801@icculus.org> > galeon: ./libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required > by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6) > galeon: ./libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required > by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) > > Not a big deal though of course and might be something wrong with > galeon. Actually, it's that Galeon is picking up our C runtime instead of using the system version as it should (my bug!)...this is fixed for the final builds. --ryan. From gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx Sun Nov 16 03:46:41 2008 From: gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx (Gian Paolo Mureddu) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:46:41 -0600 Subject: Blocker bugs? Message-ID: <491FDDF1.4080203@prodigy.net.mx> I was wondering since I'm very interested in this title what bugs are there remaining from the Demo that would need to be sorted out, and what could regular users do to help sort these out? From icculus at icculus.org Mon Nov 17 04:44:50 2008 From: icculus at icculus.org (Ryan C. Gordon) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:44:50 -0500 Subject: [prey] Blocker bugs? In-Reply-To: <491FDDF1.4080203@prodigy.net.mx> References: <491FDDF1.4080203@prodigy.net.mx> Message-ID: <49213D12.7010308@icculus.org> > I was wondering since I'm very interested in this title what bugs are > there remaining from the Demo that would need to be sorted out, and what > could regular users do to help sort these out? I have to fix the missing shadows, merge the new translations, and rebuild the installers. First one is a major issue, the others are minor. --ryan. From thelupine.mailinglists at gmail.com Tue Nov 18 14:45:11 2008 From: thelupine.mailinglists at gmail.com (Lupine) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:45:11 +0000 Subject: Prey demo works great! Message-ID: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> Just got done going through the entire Prey demo. Everything worked great, and looks even better. Keep up the great work, and looking forward to the final release. Ubuntu 8.10 64bit AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Nvidia GeForce 8800GT Thanks, -Lup From gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx Tue Nov 18 15:14:55 2008 From: gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx (Gian Paolo Mureddu) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:14:55 -0600 Subject: [prey] Prey demo works great! In-Reply-To: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> References: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> Message-ID: <4923223F.6060905@prodigy.net.mx> Lupine escribi?: > Just got done going through the entire Prey demo. Everything worked > great, and looks even better. Keep up the great work, and looking > forward to the final release. > > Ubuntu 8.10 64bit > AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ > Nvidia GeForce 8800GT > > Thanks, > -Lup > Indeed, it works very well on 64-bit Multilib distributions. I use it on x86_64 Fedora 8. From icculus at kingwell.org.uk Tue Nov 18 16:03:47 2008 From: icculus at kingwell.org.uk (Andrew Kingwell) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:03:47 +0000 Subject: [prey] Prey demo works great! In-Reply-To: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> References: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> Message-ID: <200811182103.47726.icculus@kingwell.org.uk> Works OK for me :- Suse 11.0 (plus patches to date) on a Q6600 at 3.3GHz with GeForce 7600GS using the 177.80 driver. The demo did not pick up the the correct videoRAM (defaulted it to 64Mb) but adding a "+set sys_videoRam 512" parameter to the prey_demo call fixed that. I get ca 30fps with all high quality settings. Prey seems to run on a single core only. Regards Andrew On Tuesday 18 November 2008, Lupine wrote: > Just got done going through the entire Prey demo. Everything worked > great, and looks even better. Keep up the great work, and looking > forward to the final release. > > Ubuntu 8.10 64bit > AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ > Nvidia GeForce 8800GT > > Thanks, > -Lup > From hofmann50 at googlemail.com Tue Nov 18 16:08:04 2008 From: hofmann50 at googlemail.com (Julian Hofmann) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:08:04 +0100 Subject: [prey] Prey demo works great! In-Reply-To: <200811182103.47726.icculus@kingwell.org.uk> References: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> <200811182103.47726.icculus@kingwell.org.uk> Message-ID: Fedora 9 64 bit nvidia 177.80 GeForce 8600 GTS Athlon X2 6000+ No problems seen. Just an idea: can you give amazon links to all versions of the game that should work with the linux installer? (Or maybe to the versions which don't work) Regards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx Wed Nov 19 00:55:13 2008 From: gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx (Gian Paolo Mureddu) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:55:13 -0600 Subject: [prey] Prey demo works great! In-Reply-To: References: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> <200811182103.47726.icculus@kingwell.org.uk> Message-ID: <4923AA41.3000308@prodigy.net.mx> Julian Hofmann escribi?: > Fedora 9 64 bit > nvidia 177.80 > GeForce 8600 GTS > Athlon X2 6000+ > > No problems seen. > > Just an idea: can you give amazon links to all versions of the game > that should work with the linux installer? (Or maybe to the versions > which don't work) > > Regards Well, TuxGames has it on pre-order (where I already bought my copy) for $15 USD +World Wide Shipping, I'm sure they'll sale the version expected to work with the Linux binaries ;) From gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx Wed Nov 19 01:03:13 2008 From: gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx (Gian Paolo Mureddu) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:03:13 -0600 Subject: [prey] Prey demo works great! In-Reply-To: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> References: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> Message-ID: <4923AC21.4070506@prodigy.net.mx> Lupine escribi?: > Ubuntu 8.10 64bit > AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ > Nvidia GeForce 8800GT > Forgot to add my configuration: Hardware: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ nVidia GeForce 9800 GT 512Mb (i.e, an 8800 GT 512Mb rebranded) 180.08 nVidia driver (with 32-bit libGL(Core)) Audigy 2 ZS (snd-emu10k1 ALSA driver) Software: Kernel 2.6.26.5-28.fc8 (x86_64) GlibC 2.8.90 (x86_64 & i386) LibStdC++ 4.1.2 (x86_64 & i386) Compat-LibStdC++ -- compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3, libstdc++-296-2.96 (x86_64 & i386) From vic at ricker.us Wed Nov 19 01:10:12 2008 From: vic at ricker.us (Vic Ricker) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:10:12 -0500 Subject: [prey] Prey demo works great! In-Reply-To: <4923AA41.3000308@prodigy.net.mx> References: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> <200811182103.47726.icculus@kingwell.org.uk> <4923AA41.3000308@prodigy.net.mx> Message-ID: <4923ADC4.6040901@ricker.us> I got it new on Amazon for $6.99. I have a similar setup but am running 32bit. I played through the demo. It worked fine. I disabled gnome-screensaver. It seems to screw up most games. I can't wait to play the full game. :-) Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: > Julian Hofmann escribi?: >> Fedora 9 64 bit >> nvidia 177.80 >> GeForce 8600 GTS >> Athlon X2 6000+ >> >> No problems seen. >> >> Just an idea: can you give amazon links to all versions of the game >> that should work with the linux installer? (Or maybe to the versions >> which don't work) >> >> Regards > Well, TuxGames has it on pre-order (where I already bought my copy) > for $15 USD +World Wide Shipping, I'm sure they'll sale the version > expected to work with the Linux binaries ;) > > --- > To unsubscribe, send a blank email to prey-unsubscribe at icculus.org > Mailing list archives: http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?68 From senectus at gmail.com Wed Nov 19 01:19:51 2008 From: senectus at gmail.com (Senectus .) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:19:51 +0900 Subject: [prey] Prey demo works great! In-Reply-To: <4923ADC4.6040901@ricker.us> References: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> <200811182103.47726.icculus@kingwell.org.uk> <4923AA41.3000308@prodigy.net.mx> <4923ADC4.6040901@ricker.us> Message-ID: > > > Well, TuxGames has it on pre-order (where I already bought my copy) > > for $15 USD +World Wide Shipping, I'm sure they'll sale the version > > expected to work with the Linux binaries ;) > Yeah got mine for $5 in a discount bin :-P But two days ago my hard working home desktop burnt out the 6600 GT fan and buggered the card. Plus its an AGP main board so now I gotta save up for essentially a whole new machine rebuild! Of all the bad timing :-( -- Ubuntu Hardy 8.10 The ancients who wished to demonstrate illustrious virtue throughout the empire first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order their own states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things - Confucius -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From keithzg at gmail.com Wed Nov 19 01:26:26 2008 From: keithzg at gmail.com (Keith Zubot-Gephart) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:26:26 -0700 Subject: [prey] Prey demo works great! In-Reply-To: References: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> <4923ADC4.6040901@ricker.us> Message-ID: <200811182326.26748.keithzg@gmail.com> I managed to pick my copy up a long time ago, just because I was tempted into it by seeing the game for $8.99 . . . while the normal game was still on shelves for something like $29.99. This was, you see, the Limited Edition, with the artbook and little figurines in the tin box. Not really worth paying more for, but definitely worth paying less ;) On Tuesday 18 November 2008 23:19:51 Senectus . wrote: > > > Well, TuxGames has it on pre-order (where I already bought my copy) > > > for $15 USD +World Wide Shipping, I'm sure they'll sale the version > > > expected to work with the Linux binaries ;) > > Yeah got mine for $5 in a discount bin :-P > > But two days ago my hard working home desktop burnt out the 6600 GT fan and > buggered the card. > Plus its an AGP main board so now I gotta save up for essentially a whole > new machine rebuild! > > Of all the bad timing :-( From gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx Wed Nov 19 01:46:16 2008 From: gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx (Gian Paolo Mureddu) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:46:16 -0600 Subject: [prey] Prey demo works great! In-Reply-To: <200811182326.26748.keithzg@gmail.com> References: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> <4923ADC4.6040901@ricker.us> <200811182326.26748.keithzg@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4923B638.3040506@prodigy.net.mx> Keith Zubot-Gephart escribi?: > I managed to pick my copy up a long time ago, just because I was tempted into > it by seeing the game for $8.99 . . . while the normal game was still on > shelves for something like $29.99. This was, you see, the Limited Edition, > with the artbook and little figurines in the tin box. Not really worth > paying more for, but definitely worth paying less ;) > > Interesting... I got it off TuxGames not because of the price, but because I wanted to make it count as a *Linux* sale, not a Windows sale (I could have got it much, much cheaper locally, but seriously what's the point if I don't make these bucks count as a Linux generated sale?, and what best way than to buy off the main Linux game seller site around the Net!) From keithzg at gmail.com Wed Nov 19 03:46:15 2008 From: keithzg at gmail.com (Keith Zubot-Gephart) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:46:15 -0700 Subject: [prey] Prey demo works great! In-Reply-To: <4923B638.3040506@prodigy.net.mx> References: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> <200811182326.26748.keithzg@gmail.com> <4923B638.3040506@prodigy.net.mx> Message-ID: <200811190146.15249.keithzg@gmail.com> Oh, well, these days I would have tried to do something like that, or at least had I know a Linux client would some day arrive I would have held off on the purchase until it actually arrived so that my purchase would be part of the sales spike (as I'm planning/hoping to do for UT3). This was literally over a year ago, though. I do plan on playing online a bit, deathmatch can be fun at times and hopefully their master server will be informed of "oh, hey, another Linux client". In some ways I did buy the game as a vote for an engine which itself is quite portable, but it was mostly just an impulse purchase (right after I had built my brand-new computer) which I haven't touched too much since playing through the game once. I'm not even certain if the partition that I have Windows on will boot anymore, heh (even Wine's weird inability to play Deus Ex on my main computer, despite working fine on other older PCs of mine, hasn't tempted me). My main hope here is that this port will be shown to be successful enough that for an eventual Prey 2 the devs consider Linux for launch; certainly I would have played the game more, and picked it up long before it had gone bargain-bin, if there had been a Linux client at the time. On Tuesday 18 November 2008 23:46:16 Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: > Keith Zubot-Gephart escribi?: > > I managed to pick my copy up a long time ago, just because I was tempted > > into it by seeing the game for $8.99 . . . while the normal game was > > still on shelves for something like $29.99. This was, you see, the > > Limited Edition, with the artbook and little figurines in the tin box. > > Not really worth paying more for, but definitely worth paying less ;) > > Interesting... I got it off TuxGames not because of the price, but > because I wanted to make it count as a *Linux* sale, not a Windows sale > (I could have got it much, much cheaper locally, but seriously what's > the point if I don't make these bucks count as a Linux generated sale?, > and what best way than to buy off the main Linux game seller site around > the Net!) > > --- > To unsubscribe, send a blank email to prey-unsubscribe at icculus.org > Mailing list archives: http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?68 From ubuntu at dpb.org.uk Wed Nov 19 05:13:01 2008 From: ubuntu at dpb.org.uk (Paul Bell) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:13:01 +0000 Subject: [prey] Prey demo works great! In-Reply-To: <4923B638.3040506@prodigy.net.mx> References: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> <4923ADC4.6040901@ricker.us> <200811182326.26748.keithzg@gmail.com> <4923B638.3040506@prodigy.net.mx> Message-ID: <4923E6AD.108@dpb.org.uk> All this talk of bargain buys of the game can't be helping Ryan's motivation level ;o) Seriously though, I bought the game after playing the demo which worked flawlessly here and was a lot of fun. Looking forward to the full release. I do like FPS games and still have a dual boot with XP (for Cubase) but never consider buying Windows only games. I *will* buy stuff released for Linux natively however. AMD X2 5600+, Asus M2N-E SLI, 2GB PC6400, MSI 8600GT OC, Ubuntu 8.10 x86_64 From ard at kwaak.net Wed Nov 19 11:27:28 2008 From: ard at kwaak.net (ard) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:27:28 +0100 Subject: [prey] Prey demo works great! In-Reply-To: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> References: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> Message-ID: <20081119162728.GJ20493@kwaak.net> Hi, On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:45:11PM +0000, Lupine wrote: > Just got done going through the entire Prey demo. Everything worked > great, and looks even better. Keep up the great work, and looking > forward to the final release. I thought this thread already passed. Except for that LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing for the browser I haven't found a single bug. Changing from full-screen to windowed takes a very long time though (when clicking buy...). And changing texture settings takes a long time, but i guess that happens with every game. > Ubuntu 8.10 64bit > AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ > Nvidia GeForce 8800GT Dist : Debian/sid 32 bit System: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2600+ (1.9GHz)/1.5GB DDR ram./Via KT400 mobo Video : ATI R420 JI [Radeon X800PRO] AGP v3 (8x) with 256MB and fglrx 8.10 Audio : SB Live! EMU10k1 Show stopping configs (all passed ;-) ): Multiple alsa audio devices. SCSI DVD player -- .signature not found From icculus at icculus.org Wed Nov 19 16:56:58 2008 From: icculus at icculus.org (Ryan C. Gordon) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:56:58 -0500 Subject: [prey] Prey demo works great! In-Reply-To: <4923E6AD.108@dpb.org.uk> References: <1227037511.3024.45.camel@dbuntu> <4923ADC4.6040901@ricker.us> <200811182326.26748.keithzg@gmail.com> <4923B638.3040506@prodigy.net.mx> <4923E6AD.108@dpb.org.uk> Message-ID: <49248BAA.1040901@icculus.org> > All this talk of bargain buys of the game can't be helping Ryan's motivation > level ;o) I don't make money off Prey. If you can find it cheaply, then you should definitely take advantage of it. It means more people playing it on Linux. --ryan. From amalsechsplusb at yahoo.com Tue Nov 25 03:32:50 2008 From: amalsechsplusb at yahoo.com (Leder Strumpf) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:32:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: [prey] Prey demo works great! In-Reply-To: <49248BAA.1040901@icculus.org> Message-ID: <580975.93460.qm@web39604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> [Prey] > If you can find it cheaply, then you should definitely take > advantage of it. It means more people playing it on Linux. Already bought Prey after finishing the nicely working demo over here, well done! :) Just looking forward to be able to take advantage of it! ;) Thanks for keeping up the good work, mjh From ard at kwaak.net Wed Nov 26 16:19:24 2008 From: ard at kwaak.net (ard) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:19:24 +0100 Subject: demo files from 26-11-2008 Message-ID: <20081126211924.GL20493@kwaak.net> Hello Ryan, - Fixed video memory detection on Nvidia, ATI, DRI drivers. from game: Detected 1.91 GHz CPU 1520 MB of System memory 256 MB of Video memory High end video card Considered low end system correct. ------ SDL Sound Initialization ------ SDL is using audio backend 'alsa'. perfect. - Fixed problems launching web browser. ok. I have a very minor issue and that is that when I click on buy, it switches to windowed (and this time a *lot* faster than the previous version), and I get 2 cursors in that window: the X cursor and an in game cursor. (Switching video modes is also a lot faster btw) Anyway: that's the only issue I could find. -- .signature not found From jeremy at infinitycomputer.com.au Sun Nov 30 03:12:17 2008 From: jeremy at infinitycomputer.com.au (jeremy) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:12:17 +1100 Subject: Monitor out of range Message-ID: <200811301912.17673.jeremy@infinitycomputer.com.au> Hello, I am able to play Prey windowed but if I set it to full screen my monitor can't display as its out of range. Anyone know what I can do about this ? From ard at kwaak.net Sun Nov 30 15:29:27 2008 From: ard at kwaak.net (ard) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:29:27 +0100 Subject: [prey] Monitor out of range In-Reply-To: <200811301912.17673.jeremy@infinitycomputer.com.au> References: <200811301912.17673.jeremy@infinitycomputer.com.au> Message-ID: <20081130202927.GD20493@kwaak.net> Hi, On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 07:12:17PM +1100, jeremy wrote: > Hello, I am able to play Prey windowed but if I set it to full screen my > monitor can't display as its out of range. Anyone know what I can do about > this ? If it's not a driver problem, the driver might be badly configured. What output do you get if you run xrandr, and are the available resolutions and refresh frequencies also supported by your monitor? -- .signature not found