Americas Army

[madmorpheus]

Anyone playing Americas Army. Please help me get my screen resolution from 800 x 600 to my NEC natural resolution of 1024 x 1280. I cannot select that resolution in the AA video configuration screen. Do I need to configure something special in X or is it an AA config setting. I have an nVidia G-force 4600 card with 256mb.

[bob]

(moved to Gamers Lounge)

[urmom9388]

are you running aa 2.5 under linux or 2.6 under wine?

[madmorpheus]

Hi I an running 2.5 underlinux.

[urmom9388]

you should be able to change the resolution in the settings panel, what happens when you try to change it?

[madmorpheus]

I found this error in the AA log. I know it is my video... Any Sugesstions
Aug 12 15:16:19 2006 Log: URL option: Name=Recruit
Sat Aug 12 15:16:19 2006 Log: URL option: Class=AGP_Characters.AGP_Character
Sat Aug 12 15:16:19 2006 Log: URL option: ;Character=Recruit
Sat Aug 12 15:16:19 2006 Log: URL option: team=255
Sat Aug 12 15:16:19 2006 Log: Created and initialized a new SDL viewport.
Sat Aug 12 15:16:22 2006 ScriptLog: Initial Filter string: "(numplayers != maxplayers) AND (official = 1) AND (sv_punkbuster = 1) AND (minhonor >= 1) AND (maxhonor <= 100)"
Sat Aug 12 15:16:22 2006 IRC: 1 Servers 5 Channels
Sat Aug 12 15:16:22 2006 ScriptLog: A tab with the caption Missions already exists.
Sat Aug 12 15:16:22 2006 ScriptLog: A tab with the caption Internet already exists.
Sat Aug 12 15:16:22 2006 ScriptLog: A tab with the caption LAN already exists.
Sat Aug 12 15:16:22 2006 ScriptLog: A tab with the caption Chat already exists.
Sat Aug 12 15:16:22 2006 ScriptLog: A tab with the caption Services already exists.
Sat Aug 12 15:16:23 2006 Warning: AATab_IForceSettings Package.AATab_IForceSettings (Function AGP_Interface.AATab_IForceSettings.InitComponent:0 02C) Accessed None 'ch_WeaponEffects'
Sat Aug 12 15:16:23 2006 Warning: AATab_IForceSettings Package.AATab_IForceSettings (Function AGP_Interface.AATab_IForceSettings.InitComponent:0 03B) Accessed None 'ch_PickupEffects'
Sat Aug 12 15:16:23 2006 Warning: AATab_IForceSettings Package.AATab_IForceSettings (Function AGP_Interface.AATab_IForceSettings.InitComponent:0 04A) Accessed None 'ch_DamageEffects'
Sat Aug 12 15:16:23 2006 Warning: AATab_IForceSettings Package.AATab_IForceSettings (Function AGP_Interface.AATab_IForceSettings.InitComponent:0 059) Accessed None 'ch_GUIEffects'
Sat Aug 12 15:16:23 2006 Log: Engine.UnGame::Init Demo mode flag: 0
Sat Aug 12 15:16:23 2006 Log: ALAudio: Using ALC_EXT_capture to record audio.
Sat Aug 12 15:16:24 2006 ScriptLog: Attempting to close a non-existing menu page
Sat Aug 12 15:16:24 2006 ScriptLog: -----------WARNING-----------
Sat Aug 12 15:16:24 2006 ScriptLog: Client Restart Failed.
Sat Aug 12 15:16:24 2006 ScriptLog: -----------WARNING-----------
Sat Aug 12 15:16:24 2006 ScriptLog: Attempting to close a non-existing menu page
Sat Aug 12 15:16:24 2006 ScriptLog: AGP_HUD::PostBeginPlay() - Creating HUD framework
Sat Aug 12 15:16:24 2006 ScriptLog: UIScreen::AddHUDBaseDisplay - CreateUIControl for Package.HUDMenuCrosshair
Sat Aug 12 15:16:24 2006 ScriptLog: UIScreen::AddHUDBaseDisplay - CreateUIControl for Package.HUDColorDisplay
Sat Aug 12 15:16:24 2006 ScriptLog: Failed loading ../System/credits.ini
Sat Aug 12 15:16:24 2006 ScriptLog: Failed loading ../System/creditsarmy.ini
Sat Aug 12 15:16:24 2006 ScriptLog: UIScreen::AddHUDBaseDisplay - CreateUIControl for Package.HUDTaskDisplay
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 ScriptLog: UIScreen::AddHUDBaseDisplay - CreateUIControl for Package.HUDCrosshair
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 ScriptLog: UIScreen::AddHUDBaseDisplay - CreateUIControl for Package.UIHUDPercentageBar
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 ScriptLog: UIScreen::AddHUDBaseDisplay - CreateUIControl for Package.UIHUDPercentageBar
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 ScriptLog: UIScreen::AddHUDBaseDisplay - CreateUIControl for Package.UIHUDPercentageBar
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 ScriptLog: UIScreen::AddHUDBaseDisplay - CreateUIControl for Package.UIHUDPercentageBar
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 ScriptLog: UIScreen::AddHUDBaseDisplay - CreateUIControl for Package.HUDPlayerID
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 ScriptLog: UIScreen::AddHUDBaseDisplay - CreateUIControl for Package.HUDWeaponTarget
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 ScriptLog: UIScreen::AddHUDBaseDisplay - CreateUIControl for Package.HUDBodyInfo
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 ScriptLog: UIScreen::AddHUDBaseDisplay - CreateUIControl for Package.HUDCommoInfo
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 ScriptLog: UIScreen::AddHUDBaseDisplay - CreateUIControl for Package.HUDCombatEff
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 ScriptLog: UIScreen::AddHUDBaseDisplay - CreateUIControl for Package.HUDRecovery
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 Log: Couldn't open cdkey file.
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 ScriptLog: New Player id=22e43ba8cf596238f8f2726b4cbe5a4d
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 Log: TTS: No output filename specified.
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 Log: Enter SetRes: 800x600 Fullscreen 1
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 Log: OpenGL
Sat Aug 12 15:16:25 2006 Critical: Couldn't set video mode: Couldn't find matching GLX visual

[urmom9388]

naa sorry i don't know what to do there

[sentry]

Are you using the latest kernel? Do you have the nvidia kernel module installed?

[psyklops]

As Sentry said... check your vid drivers and nvidia/ati kernel mode drivers

On other note, you'll prob find that there's not too many 2.5 servers out there now as 2.6 is up and running...

[madmorpheus]

Thanks to all for their input it was the nvidia driver. I have the Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 400 card. The driver was loading in my xorg.conf as nv in the device section:

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "nVidia"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
Driver "nv"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

I had to load the GeForce generic instead of the GeFiorce 4 generic so that my driver said "nvidia".

BTW:
I amd downloading AA2.6 as I write

[psyklops]

Are you downloading native Americas Army 2.6 for Linux? If so, from where? I heard that it wasn't being developed.
Apparently, the Windows AAO 2.6 code has some issues under Wine and is highly recommended not to play on punk buster enabled servers.. or you may be inadavertently punk-busted... which is not good. :(

[madmorpheus]

Darn,
I was going to try it under WINE to see if there was any difference. If I am going to risk being "punked" under WINE, I think I will stick with my Linux native version.

I really want to get into more linux gaming, are you playing anything else beside AA that is 1P.S?

[pete_1967]

They stopped to develop for Linux somewhere around 2.0 but the guy who was doing ports did it for free. He was provided with the source but they pulled that off and that's why Linux isn't supported anymore, same goes for Mac.

It's a shame really, was a great game.

[psyklops]

UT2004 at the moment.. works great.

Such a shame about AA. Really liked that game...

[Jongi]

Wondered why for all my searching of the site I couldn't find a download for AA. Sad. It is a pretty good game.

[Thetargos]

There can be two things happening:
Either your drivers currently are not doing any 3D (which does not seem to be the case as you are able to run on 800x600)

Or you have a misconfiguration. What are the modes under Section "Display" in your xorg.conf? Also nvidia-settings which modes does it report as usable by GLX?