[prey] Demo feedback

[Matías Costa]

I answer myself to answer all.

I have any problem with alsa in general except in id tech 4 games. Other
games and id tech 4 games in wine sounds OK. Is alsa oss emulation. In doom3
it was horrible all the time, in prey-demo happens when people are being
abducted in the first level, and some other particular places.

Multimonitor configuration is not usual, and sometimes causes trouble. I
knew these things before getting the second monitor, I am used to. Just to
tell these exceptions for a exceptional game, may be is useful for someone.

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.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Matías Costa <m.costacano at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just two glitches.
>
> 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.
>
> $ xrandr
> Screen 0: minimum 800 x 600, current 2560 x 1024, maximum 2560 x 1024
> default connected 2560x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
>    2560x1024      50.0*
>    1280x1024      51.0
>    2048x768       52.0
>    1024x768       53.0
>    1600x600       54.0
>    800x600        55.0
>
> I had to edit .prey-demo/base/default.cfg
>
> seta r_customHeight "1024"
> seta r_customWidth "768"
> seta r_mode "-1"
>
> And the default alsa sound plays with noise and robot-like sometimes. I had
> to set it to oss.
>
> Anyway this is due to id tech 4 engine. The same happens with doom3, quake4
> and quake wars. The solutions are widespread on the net.
>
> In any other way, perfect. Installation is straightforward nad runs smooth
> with high settings on 1280x1024 @ nvidia 7600GT/amd64 3000
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Dmitri Seletski <drjoms at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> yeah, i have 1650x1080(not sure about second value) screen resolution,
>> game didn't catch it automatically(used lower resolution instead).
>> However it was very well playable and enjoyable on lover resolution.
>> I don't really care about multilayer, but I really would like to play
>> single player version. with all that wicked gravity and soul riding :)
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:35 AM, DusteD <lists at dusted.dk> wrote:
>>
>>> Demo works great.
>>> Autodetection for settings failed though, setting quality to low in
>>> 1024x768 res.
>>> Runs perfectly in 1600x1200 with highest settings.
>>>
>>> This game will be bought when the full-version installer comes :)
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>> Jimmy.
>>>
>>> System info:
>>> Kernel: Linux monolithic 2.6.24.2-core2-32bit #1 SMP
>>> Dist: Debian Lenny
>>> Gfx driver: Nvidia 177.80
>>> Gfx card: GF8800Ultra
>>> Cpu: Intel Core2 Duo 3ghz
>>> Mem: 2 Gb dual-channel 1666 mhz ddr3
>>>
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