Get your Linux game on!

[Firewing1]

Hello,
After this, no one can say Linux doesn't have any good games! I've been on the quest for games lately, and found some really superb ones. Here's a list I've compiled of games worth mentioning:

- LBreakout2 (pad at the bottom, bouncy ball and a bunch of bricks you have to remove)
- BZFlag + BZFed (Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) tank-shooting game)
- Lincity-ng (Upgraded version of SimCity)
- fish fillets-ng (Puzzle game)
- Gnome-Sudoku (Self explanitory ;))
- ppracer (Upgraded tuxracer, the Linux penguin that races on snowy racetracks)
- SuperTux (Super Mario Bros, but with Tux!)
- Gweled (Similar to Bejeweld on popcap games)
- Virus Killer (Kill those viruses with your laser beam powered by the kernel!)
- Neverball (Marble Blast Gold ripped this game. Control the ball to collect coins for points and the reach the endpoint)
- Nexuiz (best game IMHO, 1st person shooter)
- Frozen-Bubble (3 like-colored adjacent balls disappear. Try to clear the level before the balls reach the bottom of your screen)
- CUBE (Online & Single player 1st person shooter)
--> Edit: Sauerbraten, aka 'CUBE 2', is now available.
- Chromium (Fly that spaceship of yours and destroy oncoming ships!)
- gl-117 (Flight simulator, proceed to the missions to start the battling)
- Freeciv (FreeCiv = Free Civilization(tm). Free version of the commercial game Civilisation)
- Torcs (Car racing game)
- Penguin Commander
- Lucidlife (Game of Life)
- Diablo I, Diablo II, Starcraft (with or without Brood War expansion), Warcraft III (again, with or without Frozen Throne) via Wine - see below for installation instructions.

First, make sure you have the RPM Fusion repository enabled. If you have not enabled it on your system yet, see RPM Fusion's configuration (http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration) page.

Now you're ready to install some games via yum:su -
yum install game_name_without_capitals
For example:su -
yum install bzflag lincity-ng nexuiz
will install the games bzflag, lincity-ng and nexuiz.

The basic game packages are fun but aren't that amusing in my opinion. They consist of gnome-games and kdegames. To install them, type:

For a full install, type:
su -
yum install bzflag freeciv gnome-games kdegames gnome-sudoku gweled neverball nexuiz ppracer nexuiz-server nexuiz-data viruskiller supertux gl-117 frozen-bubble torcs torcs-data torcs-data-cars-extra torcs-robots torcs-data-tracks-road lincity-ng lincity-ng-data fillets-ng lbreakout2 lucidlifeAnd see the additional instructions below.

Yum can install most of the games listed above for you. The rest must be installed manually. For these games, see the specific instructions below:

FOR BZFed (Bzflag map editor)
NOTE: This doesn't seem to work with FC5.

su -
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bzfed/bzfed-0.1.tar.gz
rpm -Uhv http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/files/rpm/checkinstall-1.6.1-1.i386.rpm
gzip -d bzfed-0.1.tar.gz
tar -xf bzfed-0.1.tar
cd bzfed-0.1
./autogen.sh &>/dev/null
./configure
make
checkinstall -R
<keep hitting Enter until RPM build finishes>
rpm -i /path/to/RPM/built

FOR Cube II / Sauerbraten

su -
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sauerbraten/sauerbraten_2008_06_20_ctf_edition_linux.tar.bz2
mv sauerbraten /usr/local/share/
echo '[Desktop Entry]
Name=Sauerbraten
GenericName=Sauerbraten
Comment=Sauerbraten FPS
Exec=/usr/local/share/sauerbraten/sauerbraten_unix
Icon=/usr/local/share/sauerbraten/data/crosshair.png
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Categories=Application;Game;' > /usr/share/applications/sauerbraten.desktop
chmod 644 /usr/share/applications/sauerbraten.desktop
cd /usr/local/share/sauerbraten
gedit sauerbraten_unix
Now, see this line:
CUBE_DIR=.
change it to:
CUBE_DIR=/usr/local/share/sauerbraten/

FOR Penguin Commander
su -
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/penguin-command/penguin-command-1.6.11.tar.gz
yum install SDL-devel SDL_image-devel SDL_mixer-devel
rpm -Uhv http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/files/rpm/checkinstall-1.6.1-1.i386.rpm
tar xzf penguin-command-1.6.10.tar.gz
cd penguin-command-1.6.10
./configure
make
checkinstall -R
<enter>
<enter>
rpm -Uhv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/penguin-command-1.6.11-1.i386.rpm
And now, to add a shortcut in the games menu, paste this into /usr/share/applications/penguin-command.desktop:[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Categories=Application;Game
Name=Penguin Commander
Comment=Missle-shooting game
Icon=redhat-games.png
Exec=penguin-command
Terminal=0
Type=Application


FOR Blizzard Entertainment games (Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft):
1) Type winecfginto a terminal, and set your Windows version to Windwos 2000 or Windows XP.
2) Install the games under Wine:wine /media/CD_LABEL/setup.exe
replace CD_LABEL with the label shown on your Desltop for the CD, for example BROODWAR.
3) Some games have had issues "self-patching" the game in the past. If the patch fails after clicking "Battle.net", go to the Blizzard site and download the full patch files. Those should install fine and when you restart the game, it will be updated to the most recent version.
NOTE: In Diablo II, if you want to do TCP/IP games, it may complain about an invalid IP address. The solution is to add a non-localhost line to /etc/hosts (unfortunately , this usually requires a static IP address). For example, with a static IP of 192.168.1.2, you could add:
192.168.1.2 MyHostName MyHostName.localdomain
and set my hostname to "MyHostName.localdomain" in /etc/sysconfig/network.

As well, you'll notice the installer hangs at a few points when installing Diablo II. This is actually because it's prompting you to switch disks, but the dialog is behind the progress window. Just switch play/install disks and hit <enter> until the install continues.

Per request, I added Enemy Territory to the list. Although, to download it, you must sign up. For those who wish to see http://games.activision.com/games/wolfenstein/

Enjoy. My favorites are BZFlag, Lincity-NG and Nexuiz.

[perry753]

Hey! You are forgetting Enemy-Territory and America's Army. Those are the best! :p

[Ray Kovecses]

Yes you are certainly forgetting Enemy-Territory Americas Army and True Combat Elite. These games put nexuiz to shame. But BZFlag is also very cool.

[bob]

How about Torcs (from Extras) - nice auto racing game.
And for the puzzle freaks: PyTraffic (Dries & RPMforge) - addictive and very hard at the upper levels.

[axelseap]

gnomes-sudoku is spelled wrong is should be gnome-sudoku

great list of games, but as others mentioned how dare you forget enemy territory that's the greatest game ever

[hiberphoptik]

youare all forgetting:

rollemup (rare hard to find yet awsome pinball game) (free)
space tripper ($)
mutatnt storm ($)
darwinia ($)
Never Winter Nights ($)
Wolfenstein ($)
foobillard (free)
Frozen Bubble (free)
snes9x (play all SNES games)
ePSXe (play playstation games!)

some of these cost $ but they are linux native and they are top quality!

and if you want to really get serious you can add all the cedega stuff too.. but lets not go there

[Scytale]

I didn't know NWN worked under linux, I used to play it in windows a year or two ago, one of the best DND based games I've played. Does it need a seperate set of discs or is the linux version on the windows CDs, if the later is the case I may have to hunt my cd's down (I know they are around here somewhere)...

[liquidBass]

You need the data files from the windows NWN disks. Then you need the linux binaries and related files. You can get those from the bioware site, for free. The download is big though - 1.29 GB if I remember correctly.

Full instructions are at Bioware's NWN site http://nwn.bioware.com

[RedFedora]

Just to clear this up a bit, you don't need the Windows disks to install NWN on
Linux. You can download everything you need from the Bioware website, assuming
you have a valid product key.
The download is large, but it is well worth it. I found NWN actually worked smoother
on my old Linux machine than my Windows box.

[axelseap]

yes you don't need the disks for the normal version but you do for the expansion packs.
for nwn, the binaries weren't the best because the movies don't play and there is no nwntoolset but you can fix both of these. search around in the nwn linux forums and you'll see nwntoolset runs under wine and there's a nice little fix to the movies

[Firewing1]

youare all forgetting:

rollemup (rare hard to find yet awsome pinball game) (free)
space tripper ($)
mutatnt storm ($)
darwinia ($)
Never Winter Nights ($)
Wolfenstein ($)
foobillard (free)
Frozen Bubble (free)
snes9x (play all SNES games)
ePSXe (play playstation games!)

some of these cost $ but they are linux native and they are top quality!

and if you want to really get serious you can add all the cedega stuff too.. but lets not go there
True, but the goal was for free games :)
I've added Enemy Territory -- the only thing is you have to register and then wait in line -- No direct download, So I can't provide a link. For those that want to install it, you're on your own.

Firewing1

[Finalzone]

What about Armagetron Advance, the excellent crossplatform version of Tron?
New version now provide non -squared lang and new freatures as well. Plus, it support more than 10 players online.
Someday, we should create a FedoraForum league there. =)

http://armagetronad.net

[perry753]

America's Army is free... :cool:

[codergeek42]

Don't forget about FreeDroid RPG (freedroidrpg from Extras). Who can withstand the awesome cuteness of Tux waddling around smashing bad guys and taking over the enemy's computer systems? Not I! :cool:

[Mat]

Battle of Wesnoth (http://www.wesnoth.org/) is available via yum (extras repo) too.

# yum install wesnoth

Mat

[Rock4Life]

Does anyone know is there a full list of linux games?
I have played America's Army so far cause it's free, easy to install.
I have been trying to find other free 3d action and FPS, but so far nothing.

-There is no better distro than Fedora Core :)

[PeTzZz]

Rock4Life, try for example Enemy Territory, Cube, Nexuiz. Here (http://linux.softpedia.com/get/GAMES-ENTERTAINMENT/FPS/) is a nice list FPS linux games for example.

[Rock4Life]

Rock4Life, try for example Enemy Territory, Cube, Nexuiz. Here (http://linux.softpedia.com/get/GAMES-ENTERTAINMENT/FPS/) is a nice list FPS linux games for example.

Thank You! :) Big time.
Softpedia.com is like gamers heaven. I found everything what i could hope for.
I have played Cube in windows about year ago and the linux version looks perfect.

Thanks again :) :D

[Firewing1]

Hello all,
I found another great site. It's not technically Linux, but hey... Popular Windows games can still run in Linux, without paying for cedega!
1) Install Wine
yum install wine wine-tools wine-arts
2) Download these 2 files:
WineTools (http://ds80-237-203-29.dedicated.hosteurope.de/wt/winetools-0.9-3jo.i386.rpm)
XDialog (ftp://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/dries/fedora/fc4/i386/RPMS.dries/xdialog-2.1.2-1.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm)
and install them:
rpm -Uhv xdialog-2.1.2-1.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm winetools-0.9-3jo.i386.rpm
3b) Run winetools and install all the Windows software:winetools
4) Install your app:
cd /media/cdrom
wine setup.exe

-- REFERENCES --
WineTools (http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/)
Frank's Corner (http://frankscorner.org/)
Firewing1

[thugpoet22]

how do you get frozen bubble? can you yum for it ?

this is what i got when i tried to download frozen bubble

Error: Missing Dependency: perl(SDL::SFont) is needed by package frozen-bubble
[root@localhost thugpoet22]#

How do i go about fixing this?

[giulix]

True, but the goal was for free games :)
I've added Enemy Territory -- the only thing is you have to register and then wait in line -- No direct download, So I can't provide a link. For those that want to install it, you're on your own.


Firewing's on a gaming spree... :D Anyway you're not... I'm here to help. Download and install patch 2.60 too and don't forget etpro (http://bani.anime.net/etpro/), the competition mod, if you're really going to be serious about it :eek:

[bob]

Thugpoet22, frozen-bubble is available from freshrpms with yum.

[Crux]

I like's to kill stuff. heehee.... Americas Army is second ONLY to the Metal of Honour series IMHO. However, it's hard to forget 'bout Doom3.. drool.. I watched 'Doom the Movie' lastnight, not as corny as you'd think, but no blockbuster. Just kewl...

And since I found a 'homebrew port' of SuperTux for my PSP, I am game ready where ever I go. Also, for the record, FC4 sees my PSP via USB flawlessly. Being a 'nix' device I was not surprised, just some seem; on other forums, to think it will not work.

[Firewing1]

I like's to kill stuff. heehee....
ever played WoW? I haven't played, but I've watched and heard GREAT reviews... It's supported in cedega, not bad for 15$...
Firewing1

[Crux]

Sounds/looks aok. went to the 'site'. however I am more of a 'point and kill' kinda guy, the DND thang never grabbed my interest.

That does not mean I am not 'open' for new experiances, just have not found one the let's me be 'me'.

[Firewing1]

In that case -- try StarCraft (old, but good) and Warcraft III (Custom games are amazing, but regular ones *suck*.)
Diablo II LOD is nice, too. Lots of killing there. new patch owns.
Firewing1

[Flounder]

Here's the direct link to Enemy Territory for linux. http://returntocastlewolfenstein.filefront.com/file/Enemy_Territory;14408

And the most recent patch.
http://returntocastlewolfenstein.filefront.com/file/ET_Patch_Linux;18631

Also you forgot to mention Quake 4 on your list.

[Firewing1]

Yeah; It's a good one but it requires you purchasing the CD; So i didn't put it on... my aim was to provide free games anyone can simple in a one-click (or, on command) sort-of way to install games... Although, now that you say it, Quake 4 :)
Firewing1

[Flounder]

Well just about all software is free of charge these days depending on where you go to get it :D.

[Jman]

Interested Extras packages may note that there is a games interest group being formed, to package up more fun games.

[HippieCat]

I think I found a rather good game though the dries repo that is not on the list.

Scorched3d. Check it out, looks kinda good.

Here is the homepage link. http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/

[edit] oops, my bad, it is in the fedora extras repo, not dries. Thanks for the correction Firewing1.

[Firewing1]

I have only looked at the screenshots, but damn that looks cool! It's in extras, so installable by:
yum install scorched3d
Firewing1

[bob]

Well, just when I got over my inability to play CUBE in X86_64 and was turned onto Nexuiz by Firewing1, they've upgraded that to version 1.5 which isn't available for X86_64 either! The 1.2.1 version still works, but there's almost no servers left that host it.

Edit: Got it! Just downloaded the latest version from the homepage to my /home directory, extracted and ran perfectly under Wine.

Oh, and watch that Scorched3d, it loads wxGTK2 and wxGTK-common that are not compatible with Audacity and dvdstyler : http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=93688

[Firewing1]

Well, just when I got over my inability to play CUBE in X86_64 and was turned onto Nexuiz by Firestorm1, they've upgraded that to version 1.5 which isn't available for X86_64 either! The 1.2.1 version still works, but there's almost no servers left that host it.

Oh, and watch that Scorched3d, it loads wxGTK2 and wxGTK-common that are not compatible with Audacity and dvdstyler : http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=93688
That's annoying, I guess they'll come out w/ the x86_64 package soon enough...
btw, it's Firewing1 :) lol
Firewing1

(Edit: OOPS! My Bad! - Guess you'll have to change your name... oh never mind, I corrected it. - Justol'bob)

[thugpoet22]

that game is soooooooooo much fun, it remind me of final fantacy tactics for play station any other rpg like this one or any that might be better ?

[Flyboy917]

Per request, I added Enemy Territory to the list. Although, to download it, you must sign up. For those who wish to see http://games.activision.com/games/wolfenstein/

Firewing1

Or via torrent without registering @ http://zerowing.idsoftware.com:6969/

Flyboy

[thugpoet22]

wesnoth is really a great game

[Firewing1]

Hmm.... nice. I'll add it to the howto shortly...
I've been playing more and more bzflag, gl-117 & freeciv; all are really addictive, esp gl-117 on hard. Whats even cooler is I since its open source it's been ported to pretty much every system out there so I get to brag to my friends about cool (free!) Linux games when they ask what I'm playing as I frag someone on bzflag :p
Firewing1

[Firewing1]

I revamped it for FC5 and made it easier to follow the instructions. Enjoy :)
Any new games you've found? I'd like to add to the list...
Firewing1

[claus8402]

How were you able to get starcraft to work...I can get it to work but i can't get blizzard.net to work and for some reason my keyboard doesn wokr, but the game does actually start....any ideas?

[Firewing1]

You have to start it
1) Either with a purchased Cedega
2) Or a cracked starter, then move the cracked starter to another name and move the original starcraft.exe back while the game is already started. Then b.net will work...
Firewing1

[Pitel]

Can someone help me with Warcraft 3? I've installed it (RoC+TFT), also installed patch and Eurobattle.net package to be able to play multiplayer & without CD... Wherever I start with or without -opengl parameter, the game run terribly slow (5 FPS i guess) and also have some gfx errors.

[code_astronomer]

here is a great resource for games on linux: http://games.linux.sk/
There are some excellent ones there...namely barrage and penguin command (the latter is incredibly addictive)

[Firewing1]

[downloading the latter now :p] If it's really nice I'll build a RPM and attach it...
Firewing1

[code_astronomer]

either you are still playing it or you didn't like it ;) hehe.
The music starts to make you feel cool as you protect your bases from the missiles :) classic game and a great remake :) ( cool in a geeky way )

[Firewing1]

How'd you get it to compile? On my system it says it can't find a SDL 1.1.5 script or something, considering SDL is now at 1.2.9, that's outdated...
Firewing1

[code_astronomer]

I simply did:
./configure
make
(I didn't make install...just got it compiled).

which version did you get? I have 1.6.10

I thought about making an RPM, but wouldn't know where to start.
If you want to give me some instructions, I can make an RPM for you so you can at least play it and work out why it won't compile later?
EDIT: or would that not work...if you need something to do with SDL :confused: lol...it's getting late. (1:15am)

[Meowy]

I must say myself supertux is very cool. Been playing it for a few mos now.

BZFlag also a must.

[Firewing1]

I simply did:
./configure
make
(I didn't make install...just got it compiled).

which version did you get? I have 1.6.10

I thought about making an RPM, but wouldn't know where to start.
If you want to give me some instructions, I can make an RPM for you so you can at least play it and work out why it won't compile later?
EDIT: or would that not work...if you need something to do with SDL :confused: lol...it's getting late. (1:15am)
You're right -- That new version fixed it. I also has to install a few SDL-devel rpms:

SDL-devel
SDL_image-devel
SDL_mixer-devel
EDIT: Annoying - the max file size is 1MB and the tar'd RPM is 1.1MB :( Oh well, I'll add building it to the howto, it's a nice game!
Firewing1

[code_astronomer]

It's a classic :) I love it. Arcade mode is instense! ;)
Some other good ones I have played are:
Tower Toppler http://toppler.sourceforge.net Another classic.

and...omg...I've just spotted XRick!!! If I can get this working, I will be in heaven! I lov this game! http://www.bigorno.net/xrick/

[Pitel]

Fish Fillets - Next Generation

Fish Fillets NG is strictly a puzzle game. The goal in every of the seventy levels is always the same: find a safe way out. The fish utter witty remarks about their surroundings, the various inhabitants of their underwater realm quarrel among themselves or comment on the efforts of your fish. The whole game is accompanied by quiet, comforting music.

http://fillets.sourceforge.net/

And it's also available via yum!

[ItsTheSource]

just to clear up nwn...i believe you only need the disks with the loki installer. bioware may require the 1GB d/l but i think the data is stripped from the disks with loki

http://www.liflg.org

[perry753]

Any of you tried out a game called Wesnoth before?

I got it a couple days ago and it's highly addictive (well, it gets boring fast). It was also featured on Digg yesterday.

http://www.wesnoth.org/

[Pitel]

Yes, it's great game! It should be time-eating, because it's turn-based. But the truth is, it's very time-eating and addictive :D. And also multiplayer is great.

[linux_paul]

I'd like to try scourge (http://scourge.sourceforge.net/) but I get an error while compiling:configure: error: Cannot find GLU library

[Firewing1]

I'd try to install the mesa and GLU -devel packages via yum...
Firewing1

[code_astronomer]

I'd like to try scourge (http://scourge.sourceforge.net/) but I get an error while compiling:configure: error: Cannot find GLU library

I just had a go too...I get...

g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I. -DHAVE_SDL=1 -DHAVE_SDL_MIXER=1 -DHAVE_SDL_NET=1 -I/usr/includ e/freetype2 -O2 -Wall -Wno-deprecated -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -fal ign-loops=2 -falign-jumps=2 -falign-functions=2 -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT -c combattest.cpp
../render/../preferences.h:116: error: extra qualification ‘Preferences::’ on member ‘Preferences’
../render/../preferences.h:119: error: extra qualification ‘Preferences::’ on member ‘Preferences’
../events/../minimap.h:62: error: extra qualification ‘MiniMap::’ on member ‘MiniMap’
../events/../minimap.h:63: error: extra qualification ‘MiniMap::’ on member ‘MiniMap’
../events/../userconfiguration.h:103: error: extra qualification ‘UserConfiguration::’ on member ‘UserConfiguration’
../events/../userconfiguration.h:104: error: extra qualification ‘UserConfiguration::’ on member ‘UserC onfiguration’

[sairuk]

http://racer.nl/

racer, free car sim. linux betas are behind windows but windows betas will run fine with wine/cedega assuming you start them from racers base dir.

http://forum.rscnet.org/forumdisplay.php?f=111 for extra cars/tracks

[rikeen9]

Well i wanted to try nexiuz, bc i love fps, and i miss those games from my old windows.
i cant get it to run on my fc4, when i go to it from games>nexiuz
it stays at a black screen, with the mouse visible.

[Firewing1]

Are you 64bit? How long do you leave it? Because it does take a while to load.... (~ a minute on my 1.9GHz P4 Dell)
Firewing1

[rikeen9]

hmm ill try it for longer. i leave it for around 1.5 minutes. i have an hp pavillion a700n.

[rikeen9]

not the problem. i gave it a clean 10 minutes. when i ctr alt dlt out of it,
the screen resolution is really big.
please, the game looks kool, help me fix it, or help me install another fps.
thanks

[linux_paul]

I'd try to install the mesa and GLU -devel packages via yum...
Firewing1
Thanks, that and freetype-devel where missing. But I got this strange output from what looked like a sucessful compile.

checking for glXGetProcAddressARB... yes
checking for GLU library... yes
checking for freetype-config library... checking for freetype-config... /usr/bin/freetype-config
checking for GL/gl.h... yes
checking GL/glx.h usability... yes
checking GL/glx.h presence... yes
checking for GL/glx.h... yes
checking GL/glext.h usability... no
checking GL/glext.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: GL/glext.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: GL/glext.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: GL/glext.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: GL/glext.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: GL/glext.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: GL/glext.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to the AC_PACKAGE_NAME lists. ##
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------------------ ##
checking for GL/glext.h... yes
checking whether glext.h is recent enough... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating src/gui/Makefile
config.status: creating src/test/Makefile
config.status: creating src/rpg/Makefile
config.status: creating src/events/Makefile
config.status: creating src/freetype/Makefile
config.status: creating src/net/Makefile
config.status: creating src/render/Makefile
config.status: creating src/io/Makefile
config.status: creating src/squirrel/Makefile
config.status: creating src/sqstdlib/Makefile
config.status: creating src/sqbinding/Makefile
config.status: creating autopackage/default.apspec
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing default-1 commandsNow I'm stuck where code_astronomer is :(

[linux_paul]

http://racer.nl/

racer, free car sim. linux betas are behind windows but windows betas will run fine with wine/cedega assuming you start them from racers base dir.

http://forum.rscnet.org/forumdisplay.php?f=111 for extra cars/tracks
I installed using the loki installers (http://www.liflg.org/?catid=6). But I get this error:

./bin/racer: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[sairuk]

I installed using the loki installers (http://www.liflg.org/?catid=6). But I get this error:

./bin/racer: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I'm using the latest windows beta through cedega so cant help you i'm afraid. google the missing filename then find an rpm and install it perhaps.

[code_astronomer]

not the problem. i gave it a clean 10 minutes. when i ctr alt dlt out of it,
the screen resolution is really big.
please, the game looks kool, help me fix it, or help me install another fps.
thanks

I didn't think much of nexuiz...I'd give tremulous a try! ( http://www.tremulous.net/ )
very cool game...choose either aliens or humans...the aliens have a cool fishlens effect when you play too!
playing as a human is pretty scary when you see the aliens! oh and the aliens can crawl up walls!!! very scary! ;)

[sairuk]

I didn't think much of nexuiz...I'd give tremulous a try! ( http://www.tremulous.net/ )
very cool game...choose either aliens or humans...the aliens have a cool fishlens effect when you play too!
playing as a human is pretty scary when you see the aliens! oh and the aliens can crawl up walls!!! very scary! ;)

ahhh i wanted to try that, forgot to grab it...


http://www.warsow.net/ was just having a go of this, pretty slick fps

also dont believe i saw stepmania mentioned either http://www.stepmania.com/

[rikeen9]

kool, im sure installation cant be too hard, so ill do it myself. then again, i just switched around 3 weeks ago. so... thanks guys looks kool!
Edit: well guess again... i ran the "auto-installer" for cube, and it "sucessfully" installed. yet when i ran it, it blinked black, then came to my desktop. ill go try some others.

[rikeen9]

yea, its not working. please, can someone help me install these? im in fc4.

[code_astronomer]

I'm sure with cube, you can just download and run the binary because it's already compiled...therefore no need to install it. Just extract all the files somewhere and run the file.

do you have nvidia drivers installed? do you get an error message in the terminal you ran it from?

[rikeen9]

i didnt do terminal, i dled it from some loki installer. but i dunno, where can i find the drivers? i have an s3 unichrome nvidia card.

[code_astronomer]

you could most probably install via yum...

yum install kmod-nvidia.i686

or something like that...I'm sure there is probably a guide on this forum somewhere.

[Firewing1]

also dont believe i saw stepmania mentioned either http://www.stepmania.com/
Yeah, that one I've had for a while and it gets pretty addictive & hard... If you go into LimeWire and search for "ddr" or "stepmania" you can get over 200 songs!
Firewing1

[CBribiescas]

How would i uninstall one of these games if i don't like them. (or for any reason)

[elz]

How would i uninstall one of these games if i don't like them. (or for any reason)

If you installed them with yum, just type "yum remove [insert name here]"

[code_astronomer]

How would i uninstall one of these games if i don't like them. (or for any reason)

as above or make uninstall from the folder containing the source (if you installed using make)
or package [name of software] remove if you installed via a .package

[linux_paul]

the loki installers come with an uninstall script.

[CBribiescas]

Cool, thanks guys.

[JN4OldSchool]

Lots of cool games here, I am giving several a try one at a time. I was really into NASCAR Thunder on Windose and was pleasently surprised to find my Logitech USB wheel and pedals works great in FC5 playing Torcs. What a game! The audio tracks are great too. Now, if I could only figure out Flightgear I will really be rockin...

[Fibonacci]

You're forgetting Pingus (http://pingus.seul.org/) - a free/libre Lemmings clone. I've played it, and it's great!

[Instdude]

Try Runescape! There's a free version and a subscription version.

[codergeek42]

I've recently added LucidLife (http://icculus.org/~jcspray/LucidLife/) to Extras. It's not really a game per se, but it's quite entertaining if you're into that math thing and seeing what the patterns do and what can be made/done, etc. :)# yum install lucidlife

[Firewing1]

That's true, I remember playing that.... Nice job! It's a fun game... I added it :)
Firewing1

[rikeen9]

Runescape is okay..though if u dont know what you're doing...installing the Java Runtime Envir. for it (JRE) is hell...
Its okay, but not great ive played it inside out (lvl 81) and ive played members
I would recommend Diablo 2, *firewing, i got it, thx neways*
Also ive heard some people got World of Warcraft working..if you're going to pay monthly neways WoW is DEFINTELY best.

[jdinkel]

It might be nice to include instructions on how to install the demo of Unreal 2004, and also a link to graphic driver installs (such as linking to fedorafaq.org)

[Firewing1]

Good news all gamers! Thanks to rikeen9 for pointing it out to me, Wine now seemingly supports CD protection, and the Blizzard games will install AND play without a no-cd crack! I've updated the howto with instructions. A little warning though, you're going to have to give up dynamic mountpoints because Wine needs a static CDROM mount path.
Firewing1

[solidcube]

Wow, I had no idea lingaming had come so far.

Nexiuz is amazing for a FOSS game. They really did a great job.

[Firewing1]

I'm amazed too - In FC4, not so long ago (well only weeks ago, in fact!) Blizzard games wern't working. FC5 IMHO is a major improvement, keep it up Fedora (and wine) devs!
Anyways, I just got my Druid to level 23... Just a simple copy > paste of the .d2s files off my Windows NTFS let me continue my recently-started Druid :D
Firewing1

[skarlon]

:( I can't play cause I can't figure out how to install the NVIDIA driver for X:(

[Firewing1]

If you look at my full list of howto's, I have one for nvidia :)
Firewing1

[erroneus]

RE: America's Army v2.5.0 Linux

Welll, I can say that under FC5 on one machine, it just ran, but the display is dog slow in spite of the fact that I am running the proprietary nvidia driver. Runs though. On my laptop also under FC5 and with ATI 9600 and wide screen display, it doesn't run.

The laptop starts to change screen resolution and then fails. Nothing significant appears in the logs. Any ideas?

[jdinkel]

Welll, I can say that under FC5 on one machine, it just ran, but the display is dog slow in spite of the fact that I am running the proprietary nvidia driver. Runs though. On my laptop also under FC5 and with ATI 9600 and wide screen display, it doesn't run.

The laptop starts to change screen resolution and then fails. Nothing significant appears in the logs. Any ideas?
What just ran?

[erroneus]

America's Army now works on my laptop too. I needed to add "setarch i386" before the command to call the game. In this case I set the launcher to execute "setarch i386 armyops"

Works now!

[rikeen9]

What FPS games can i install via yum install? I like it that way, bc its much easier *sigh*
(Oh yeah, has someone got Galaxy Mage to work? it looks really kool. if so, pls tell me how :P)
thanks.

[Firewing1]

yum install nexuiz bzflag
Those are the only two I know :(
Firewing1

[teethlikelions]

here's a page with wine / native installers for various games.
it's insanely useful

http://www.liflg.org/

[rikeen9]

Wesnoth...rules...if someone plays tell me..my IM is rikeen9 :D

[madjac]

I'm new to linux. One thing I expected to get with my linux certified (fc4) laptop was the chess program but its not there. How and where can I get it?

[Firewing1]

I think there's one called "gnuchess" - yum search chessshould show you some results.
Firewing1

[b00st]

Nexuiz that is in extras is old( by 10 days so far), the most recent version is 2.0 (released on the 14th). You can get it from the official website (http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/index.php?module=downloads), and extract it anywhere. Then run /path/to/nexuiz-linux.sh. Nexuiz now features a single player mode (which I havent really tried yet).

Some more info on recommended videocards here (http://www.alientrap.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=349)

If the game is running slow for you, copy/paste the posters n_low.cfg (name the file userconfig.cfg or something) here (http://www.alientrap.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=90#90) and place the file in Nexuiz/data then when you are about to launch, add +exec filename.cfg after a space or edit your launcher. This config helped the game run pretty good on my Nvidia gf4 ti4200.

[JohnVV]

I have only looked at the screenshots, but damn that looks cool! It's in extras, so installable by:
yum install scorched3d
Firewing1
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scorched3d is cool but it a SLOW game and takes a wile to play ,but fun nevertheless

[JohnVV]

penguin command is nice but i can only run it as root
if i try to run it as usr then my box LOCKS UP compleatly ( i have to do a power off reboot --flip the switch on the power strip) to close it

[Firewing1]

Nexuiz that is in extras is old( by 10 days so far), the most recent version is 2.0 (released on the 14th). You can get it from the official website (http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/index.php?module=downloads), and extract it anywhere. Then run /path/to/nexuiz-linux.sh. Nexuiz now features a single player mode (which I havent really tried yet).

Some more info on recommended videocards here (http://www.alientrap.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=349)

If the game is running slow for you, copy/paste the posters n_low.cfg (name the file userconfig.cfg or something) here (http://www.alientrap.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=90#90) and place the file in Nexuiz/data then when you are about to launch, add +exec filename.cfg after a space or edit your launcher. This config helped the game run pretty good on my Nvidia gf4 ti4200.
The new one (v 2.0-2) is in the extras-development repo:
su -
yum [ update | install ] --enablerepo=extras-development nexuiz nexuiz-server nexuiz-data
the [ .. | .. ] = choose update or install
BTW, has anyone tried making a server in Nexuiz? I can't LAN because the Nexuiz server I create doesn't show in the other computer's server lists :(
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scorched3d is cool but it a SLOW game and takes a wile to play ,but fun nevertheless
Do you have integrated graphics? I have a 64MB GeForce card and it runs very speedily over here.
Firewing1

[JohnVV]

hi as to scorched3d it's not my box (nivida Gforce mx400) the game is not fast past .
It's good to play at 3:00 am , like solitare

and my problem with penguin command has been solved libmikmod.so.2.0.4 neads wright permision after 777 ing it i can play it as usr as well as root

[Firewing1]

Don't 777 it - that means any user (your system or any internet user logged onto your system) can change it, and that could potentially mean they could execute any command on your system if they knew how to modify it in the right way... Just to be safe, I would make the permissions 755 which give read access (what they need) but they can't modify it.
Firewing1

[asun]

I don't think Ur-quan Masters has been mentioned yet. Thus, I nominate it. It's in Fedora Extras, just install uqm (and uqm-* that are optionals) using yum. The graphic is a bit outdated but somehow, I'm hooked :D

[Vector]

Hey guys, i just started using Linux about a week ago now, and i have seen that a couple of the games support usb joysticks (BZ-Flag, GL-117), but i noticed that most of the one's that come with linux don't allow them.

Do you guys know of any games that DO NOT come with Fedora (as i already have them) that i can download that will allow joystick use?

I wish that Nexius game allowed joysticks, it looks pretty damned good, but there's no way i can play it with a keyboard.

Thanks guys.

Oh, btw, in case you guys aren't sure which joysticks that Fedora will automatically recognize, i know that the Logitech Dual Action USB joystick worked for me, and it was only 15.00$, and it's a copy off the PS2 controllers, so it's not something complicated or new.

[Firewing1]

It's because you need the 'joystick' or 'joystick2' (I forget the name... It's one of the two) to be installed.
Firewing1.

[Vector]

Hey guys, got another question...

I tried to install those games you guys were mentioning and the ps2 and nes emulators, but yum kept saying that the package names could not be found?:
No Match for argument: snes9x
No Match for argument: ePSXe
etc

Also, in the first guy's post where he's talking about installing CUBE, i followed it and it did create a shortcut and it had the proper icon with it, and the files are in the apropriate directoy, but nothing happens when the icon is clicked?

Again, i'm new to this stuff, so if i've overlooked something, let me know.

Thanks.

[Vector]

It's because you need the 'joystick' or 'joystick2' (I forget the name... It's one of the two) to be installed.
Firewing1.

Well, when i installed Fedora i installed an option in the games directory that said it configured joysticks. Is that what you were talking about?

If not, do i just yum the one that you are talking about?

Thanks.

[Firewing1]

Hey,
lol 'the first guy' is me :D
Did you edit the config file in CUBE and change the directory from '.' to where you moved it?
BTW - I haven't updated this howto in a while and the next-gen CUBE is out - Check it's website.
FIrewing1

[Vector]

Did you edit the config file in CUBE and change the directory from '.' to where you moved it?
BTW - I haven't updated this howto in a while and the next-gen CUBE is out - Check it's website.

Yeah, i did that.
I will check the website now and see if there's any notes on installation.

Thanks.

[Firewing1]

Basically just extract it and then there's a file - I forget which, I think it's client_linux or something, you have to chagne the directory from '.' to where ever it's in - From there just double-click the executable and you're set.
Firewing1

[Vector]

SourceForge.net:
pCube (pro Cube) is a mod for the FPS Cube. Cube has some bugs and is not anymore supported by it's developers. So pCube aims to fix those bugs and provide a few additional features like CTF, server-side maprotation, etc.

I guess that might have somthing to do with it.

Go Here for the latest version (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcube)

Now, can i just delete the original directory, or is there a specific way i have to uninstall it?

One more thing, in the version that you have, can i use a joystick?

Thanks again.

[Vector]

Basically just extract it and then there's a file - I forget which, I think it's client_linux or something, you have to chagne the directory from '.' to where ever it's in - From there just double-click the executable and you're set.
Firewing1
The file is called 'cube_linux', and i did all that but it didn't work.
It's ok, i'm going to try my luck with installing the new one.

Thanks for your help.

[Vector]

Here's another one that you guys might 'dig':

http://www.sauerbraten.org/

-Edit-
By the way, i never got the updated version to work either, BUT, this new one i just gave the link to works fine; just extract and run (you don't really have to alter the '=.' either).

According to the makers of cube, they're no longer upgrading it, only fixing bugs in it, they said that this new one is going to be their ongoing project based on the cube game.

[Firewing1]

Yup, that's it (I can say the name but have no idea how to spell it, why I couldn't tell you the name) - That's the named 'CUBE 2' :p it's awsesome.
Firewing1

[Vector]

Well guys, another member pretty much fixed all my problems with the joystick issue (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=576560#post576560). Hope you guys enjoy.

[GaryJ73167]

Dont mean to sound old and boring here, but, has anyone come accross a Golf game ?

I am not into the shoot-em-up kinda action advanture. i like a nice game of golf. I recently installed FC 5 and, I miss playing any type of golf.

Not mini golf, but, a regular golf game.

Please let me know.

Gary

[Legomax]

i get this when i atttempt to install these games through yum (note this is only the last few lines)

Unable to read version lock configuration: [Errno 5] OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list'

what did i do wrong?

[Firewing1]

Dont mean to sound old and boring here, but, has anyone come accross a Golf game ?
I am not into the shoot-em-up kinda action advanture. i like a nice game of golf. I recently installed FC 5 and, I miss playing any type of golf.
Not mini golf, but, a regular golf game.
Please let me know.
Gary
Try 'neverball' ($ yum install neverball), it also installed 'neverputt'.
i get this when i atttempt to install these games through yum (note this is only the last few lines)

Unable to read version lock configuration: [Errno 5] OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list'

what did i do wrong?
That's a problem with yum -- Try this:
su -
touch /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list
Firewing1

[rikeen9]

Okay, I'm back, and I am going to explode if I don't get a proper FPS working, and fast.
Please help me, any suggestions are welcomed.
Any FPS, as long as its okay, and multiplayer prefered.

[Firewing1]

Well, first things first, do you have a decent graohics card? You'll need that for decent play in a FPS. From there, install drivers:
su -
rpm -Uhv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release5.rpm
If you have a nVidia card:yum install kmod-nvidia
If you have a ATI card:yum install kmod-fglrx
And now install nexuiz, a nice FPS:yum install nexuiz
Firewing1

[rikeen9]

It runs, but its VERY slow!
:'(
I would like to think my graphix card isnt THAT bad.
It can handle
Gunz
and other taxing games.
BFME, Diablo, Starcraft, Command and Conquer, and numerous other full screen games.
Either way, what are my options?

[Firewing1]

SC, and DII aren't exactly graphic-intensive and can be run on integrated graphics. Do you actually have a dedicated card or one of the Intel ones? If you don't know, just post the output of lspci
The thing is, you probably have an integrated card like Via or Intel and that why it can handle the lesser games but not any (graphically) decent ones.
Firewing1

[rikeen9]

Command not found, im in FC4, terminal

[cypher543]

/sbin/lspci
;)

[rikeen9]

[rikeen@user-0ccsn3d ~]$ su
Password:
[root@user-0ccsn3d rikeen]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:0a.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems (former Lucent Microelectronics) V.92 56K WinModem (rev 03)
00:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01)

[Firewing1]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01)
There's your problem... No dedicated card. I'd buy a cheap nVidia or ATi card and your performance will practially double, at least.
Firewing1

[rikeen9]

Will it be certain that I can play it?
I think I am remembering about graphix cards now.
I think I could afford one.
BUT
I wouldn't use it so much.
UNLESS,
I am an aspiring programmer, and I use Flash a lot, would it imporve my virtual memory?
Becuase flash gets laggy when I work on huge projects, I often have to chop them up into segments.
I don't play games as much as I used to, I guess I'm growing up, but FPS's will always have a place on my PC,
Im not sure whether to buy the card or not.
If you have recommendations, they would be welcomed.

[Firewing1]

Well, it would improve the performance of Flash, I'm not sure about memory usage though.
As for graphics card - Are you on PCI, PCI-E, or AGP?
Firewing1

[rikeen9]

?O-O?
I dont understand

[Firewing1]

There are three bus types for graphic cards. The oldest is PCI (1x), it's very slow. The new-ish ones, use AGP 4/8x, and it's moderately fast but not the best. The newest latest-and-greatest cards are using PCI-E, which can achieve speeds of up to 16x. You're going to have to find out which one you use, as you have to buy the corresponding card.
Firewing1

[rappermas]

If you run lspci -v, you'll see that your card is capable of AGP version 3.5.

So stick with that would be my bet. The newer breed of PCI Express cards are beasts. They are FAST, FAST, FAST, but need some pretty massive hardware to take advantage of all of their power. Take the Nvidia GeForce 7950, with 1 GB of ram and dual GPUs built right into the same package. An amazing chip. Or the ATI X1900 XT. Also an amazing chip. But they cost more than 500 dollars, which is something that you probably don't want to spend.

Get a mid-range card. One for 150 dollars max will do everything you want it to do. Unless you want to play Half-Life 2 with all the settings maxxed out on a massive monitor array. If you're going to do that, you'll need a new computer altogether :D

[Flounder]

The Nvidia Geforce 7600GS is a card you may be interested in. My brothers got one in his machine, the only thing that really hiccups is Battlefield 2. If you have enough cash go for a GT.

[rikeen9]

How much will it run me?
I could try and win one from the battle for middle earth tournament, but I'd have to put in hours of re-learning/practicing...

[Firewing1]

"Run you" - What do you mean? It will probably cost about $75 - $150 (Canadian dollars) with tax, depending if you want the slightly better performing card.
Firewing1

[Legomax]

.... how about the new 7900 GS? if you look around enough... er no its pci express...

[Trek1701]

Hi, I'm having problems playing Nexuiz.
After loading the game it hangs for a second and then closes.
Below is the output.

$ nexuiz-sdl
Console initialized.
Nexuiz Linux 19:15:24 Oct 4 2006
Trying to load library... "libz.so.1" - loaded.
Compressed files support enabled
Added packfile /usr/share/nexuiz/data/common-spog.pk3 (26 files)
Added packfile /usr/share/nexuiz/data/data20060905.pk3 (2867 files)
Trying to load library... "libcurl.so.3" - loaded.
cURL support enabled
Initializing client
Failed to init SDL joystick subsystem:
Trying to load library... "libvorbis.so.0" - loaded.
Trying to load library... "libvorbisfile.so.3" - loaded.
Ogg Vorbis support enabled
couldn't exec config.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
Starting video system
Video: fullscreen 800x600x32x60hz
Linked against SDL version 1.2.10
Using SDL library version 1.2.10
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
checking for OpenGL 1.1.0... enabled
GL_VENDOR: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
GL_RENDERER: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE TCL
GL_VERSION: 1.3 Mesa 6.5.1
GL_EXTENSIONS: GL_ARB_fragment_program GL_ARB_imaging GL_ARB_multisample GL_ARB_multitexture 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_crossbar GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_MESAX_texture_float GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_texture_rectangle GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_window_pos GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_convolution GL_EXT_copy_texture GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters GL_EXT_histogram GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_polygon_offset GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_subtexture GL_EXT_texture GL_EXT_texture3D GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_texture_rectangle GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_APPLE_packed_pixels GL_ATI_blend_equation_separate GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_INGR_blend_func_separate GL_MESA_pack_invert GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture GL_MESA_window_pos GL_NV_blend_square GL_NV_light_max_exponent GL_NV_texture_rectangle GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_NV_vertex_program GL_OES_read_format GL_SGI_color_matrix GL_SGI_color_table GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_lod
SDL_EXTENSIONS:
Checking OpenGL extensions...
checking for glDrawRangeElements... enabled
checking for GL_ARB_multitexture... enabled
checking for GL_ARB_texture_env_combine... enabled
checking for GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3... enabled
checking for GL_EXT_texture3D... enabled
checking for GL_ARB_texture_cube_map... enabled
checking for GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array... enabled
checking for GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp... enabled
checking for GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic... enabled
checking for GL_EXT_stencil_two_side... not detected
checking for GL_ARB_shader_objects... not detected
0 SDL joystick(s) found:
OpenGL Backend starting...
glDrawRangeElements detected (max vertices 3000, max indices 3000)
multitexture detected: texture units = 8
OpenGL backend started.
Trying to load library... "libjpeg.so.62" - loaded.
JPEG support enabled
Trying to load library... "libpng12.so.0" - loaded.
PNG support enabled
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair7
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair8
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair9
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair10
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair11
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair12
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair13
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair14
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair15
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair16
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair17
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair18
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair19
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair20
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair21
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair22
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair23
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair24
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair25
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair26
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair27
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair28
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair29
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair30
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair31
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair32
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/complete
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/inter
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/finale
SndSys_Init: using the SDL module
Sound format: 48000Hz, 2 channels, 16 bits per sample
Found 1 cdrom drives.
No CD in drive 0.
CDAudio_Init: No CD in player.
Can't get initial CD volume
CD Audio Initialized
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/m_white
Fake CD track 1 playing...
Client using port 0
Client opened a socket on address local:2
Client opened a socket on address 0.0.0.0:32940
maps/farewell.bsp: could not load texture for missing shader "noshader"
maps/farewell.bsp: could not load texture for missing shader "textures/NULL"
Server using port 26000
Server listening on address local:1
Server listening on address 0.0.0.0:26000

Trying to connect...
"challenge Ox-cmS4Pp|," received, sending connect request back to local:1
Got challenge response
"challenge Ox-cmS4Pp|," received, sending connect request back to local:1
Got challenge response
Accepted

Connection accepted to local:1
<-- server to client keepalive

Server: Nexuiz build 19:15:24 Oct 4 2006 (progs 3095 crc)

<===================================>

Farewell - by Tymo
CDAudio: Bad track number 0.
<-- server to client keepalive
<-- server to client keepalive
Fake CD track 5 playing...
autoswitch turned on
Segmentation failed
$

I'm using radeon drivers. Would this be the problem?
Thanks

[cypher543]

You are missing some textures. Try re-downloading Nexuiz.

[Firewing1]

It could be, but I doubt it. I'm thinking this is the error:
Segmentation failed
Seems to be segfaulting of some sort. Have you tried nexuiz-glx?
Firewing1

[Trek1701]

Using nexuiz-glx:

$ nexuiz-glx
Console initialized.
Nexuiz Linux 19:15:21 Oct 4 2006
Trying to load library... "libz.so.1" - loaded.
Compressed files support enabled
Added packfile /usr/share/nexuiz/data/common-spog.pk3 (26 files)
Added packfile /usr/share/nexuiz/data/data20060905.pk3 (2867 files)
Trying to load library... "libcurl.so.3" - loaded.
cURL support enabled
Initializing client
Trying to load library... "libvorbis.so.0" - loaded.
Trying to load library... "libvorbisfile.so.3" - loaded.
Ogg Vorbis support enabled
couldn't exec config.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
Starting video system
Video: fullscreen 800x600x32x60hz
Loading OpenGL driver libGL.so.1
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
checking for GLX_ARB_get_proc_address... enabled
checking for GLX_SGI_swap_control... not detected
checking for OpenGL 1.1.0... enabled
GL_VENDOR: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
GL_RENDERER: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE TCL
GL_VERSION: 1.3 Mesa 6.5.1
GL_EXTENSIONS: GL_ARB_fragment_program GL_ARB_imaging GL_ARB_multisample GL_ARB_multitexture 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_crossbar GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_MESAX_texture_float GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_texture_rectangle GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_window_pos GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_convolution GL_EXT_copy_texture GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters GL_EXT_histogram GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_polygon_offset GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_subtexture GL_EXT_texture GL_EXT_texture3D GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_texture_rectangle GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_APPLE_packed_pixels GL_ATI_blend_equation_separate GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_INGR_blend_func_separate GL_MESA_pack_invert GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture GL_MESA_window_pos GL_NV_blend_square GL_NV_light_max_exponent GL_NV_texture_rectangle GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_NV_vertex_program GL_OES_read_format GL_SGI_color_matrix GL_SGI_color_table GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_lod
GLX_EXTENSIONS: GLX_ARB_get_proc_address GLX_ARB_multisample GLX_EXT_import_context GLX_EXT_visual_info GLX_EXT_visual_rating GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer GLX_MESA_swap_control GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage GLX_OML_swap_method GLX_SGI_video_sync GLX_SGIS_multisample GLX_SGIX_fbconfig
Checking OpenGL extensions...
checking for glDrawRangeElements... enabled
checking for GL_ARB_multitexture... enabled
checking for GL_ARB_texture_env_combine... enabled
checking for GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3... enabled
checking for GL_EXT_texture3D... enabled
checking for GL_ARB_texture_cube_map... enabled
checking for GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array... enabled
checking for GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp... enabled
checking for GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic... enabled
checking for GL_EXT_stencil_two_side... not detected
checking for GL_ARB_shader_objects... not detected
OpenGL Backend starting...
glDrawRangeElements detected (max vertices 3000, max indices 3000)
multitexture detected: texture units = 8
OpenGL backend started.
Trying to load library... "libjpeg.so.62" - loaded.
JPEG support enabled
Trying to load library... "libpng12.so.0" - loaded.
PNG support enabled
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair7
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair8
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair9
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair10
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair11
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair12
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair13
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair14
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair15
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair16
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair17
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair18
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair19
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair20
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair21
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair22
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair23
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair24
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair25
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair26
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair27
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair28
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair29
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair30
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair31
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair32
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/complete
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/inter
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/finale
SndSys_Init: using the ALSA module
Sound format: 48000Hz, 2 channels, 16 bits per sample
ioctl CDROMREADTOCHDR failed
CDAudio_Init: No CD in player.
Initial CD volume: 1
CD Audio Initialized
Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/m_white
Fake CD track 1 playing...
Client using port 0
Client opened a socket on address local:2
Client opened a socket on address 0.0.0.0:33047
maps/slimepit.bsp: could not load texture for missing shader "noshader"
Server using port 26000
Server listening on address local:1
Server listening on address 0.0.0.0:26000
Loaded maps/slimepit.ent

Trying to connect...
"challenge Iup[Qks.1yt" received, sending connect request back to local:1
Got challenge response
"challenge Iup[Qks.1yt" received, sending connect request back to local:1
Got challenge response
Accepted

Connection accepted to local:1
<-- server to client keepalive

Server: Nexuiz build 19:15:21 Oct 4 2006 (progs 3095 crc)

<===================================>

Slime Pit
CDAudio: Bad track number 0.
<-- server to client keepalive
Fake CD track 4 playing...
autoswitch turned on
Received signal 11, exiting...
Client "Player" dropped
Client "[BOT]Dominion" dropped
Client "[BOT]Scorcher" dropped
Client "[BOT]Eureka" dropped
OpenGL Backend shutting down
Same result.
There are too many "failed to load" to my taste.

[Firewing1]

Mesa DRI R300 20060815 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE TCL
Along with the messages of missing sharers, it could be your card isn't powerful enough... What card are you on? I'm using a nVidia AGP 2x and even that barely cuts it on my machine.
Firewing1

[Trek1701]

ATI Radeon 9550 256MB 128bits

[Firewing1]

That should be more then enough... Have you tried w/ fglrx?
Firewing1

[Trek1701]

I installed the fglrx drivers and now it's working perfectly.

Oh... and this game is hard. ;)

[rikeen9]

1)Hey guys, just wondering, is it possible to get Halo: CE running on FC4?
I've got wine and cedega. (the latter was a gift from programming mentor/tutor).

2)Also, this may not be as much of a linux question, but i would LOVE you if you could answer it,
i have cable internet, and it is set up through a cable modem into my desktop pc (FC4),
I also have a laptop, that is windows XP media center. I want to play games from my laptop online, but the internet connection will not detect when i plug it into my laptop. I have figured out enough to know it is an IP problem, or something like that.
When the cable company came and installed it, they did something to my desktop (then, a windows xp home) and i remember it involved command line interface.
PLEASE does anyone have a suggestion/solution?
*eyes firewing*

Thanks,
Rik ^^

[cypher543]

Hey guys, just wondering, is it possible to get Halo: CE running on FC4?
I tried it through WINE on FC5 once and it didn't work, so I'm assuming it won't work on FC4. I haven't tried it on Cedega.

[Firewing1]

A lot if improvements to Wine have been made since FC5, though - 0.9.27 was just released.
I'd check out the AppDB at winehq.org - it may have some good info.
Firewing1

[d347hm4n]

Just to report to all my fellow falloutiers, with the lates version of wine wine-0.9.29
Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics all work under FC6, btw they are much more stable than under winxp

[Firewing1]

Yeah, wine 0.9.29 is working very well with many apps for me too - Diablo, Starcraft (not BNET though) and Warcraft all run flawlessly, and QuickTime even though it's not a game it worth as it's the first time it works in a while for me...

I just can't wait 'till the BNET text overlap problem in Starcraft is fixed!
Firewing1

[HalJordan]

You mentioned Tremulous, I found it, but I'm a COMPLETE LINUX N008, how do you install something from a .run?

[codergeek42]

You mentioned Tremulous, I found it, but I'm a COMPLETE LINUX N008, how do you install something from a .run?It's far simpler than that if you're using Fedora's default repositories. Just install the 'tremulous' package (either through one of the many graphical package manager tools or via the command "yum install tremulous" as root), then simply run "tremulous" (or you can also select it from the Applications/Games menu by default). :)

[Fi$her]

Wormux - cool game like a Worms in Windows ....

yum install wormux

[SpkTheD]

ever played WoW? I haven't played, but I've watched and heard GREAT reviews... It's supported in cedega, not bad for 15$...
Firewing1

It works great with the latest version of Wine, everything works, including updates. Just have to run it with -opengl.

[madjac]

I downloaded tar.gz for xboard and gnuchess but I'm just learning and don't know where to put them. While I wait for help I tried yum install gnuchess and got this
[joe@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install gnuchess
Password:
Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repos
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
dag 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
freshrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 621 kB 02:13
MD Read : ################################################## 1652/1652
core : ################################################## 1652/1652
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.2 MB 03:53
MD Read : ################################################## 5455/5455
dag : ################################################## 5455/5455
primary.xml.gz 7.8 kB 00:03
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 797 kB 03:42
MD Read : ################################################## 2623/2623
base : ################################################## 2622/2622
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 293 kB 00:49
MD Read : ################################################## 661/661
updates : ################################################## 661/661
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.


Exiting on user cancel
[joe@localhost
What's up???

[Firewing1]

Since Fedora Legacy shutdown, FC3 is completely unmaintained :( if you want to use yum you'll need to update to FC5, FC6 is recommended since FC5 is about to hit the same fate.
Firewing1

[shess01]

Found a new space MMORPG, www.vendeta-online.com. graphics look decent and includes a detailed tutorial to get you started. Clients for windows, Mac, Linux and Linux-x64 are available. As far as I have got into it the gameplay seems similar to Vegastrike but the graphics and layout look much more advanced.

[SirTwist]

I don't know about the Halo stuff. However, I do have a couple of questions for you, Rik.
1) Is your cable company Comcast or Time Warner?
2) Are you only using the cable modem, or do you have a router of some sort?

1)Hey guys, just wondering, is it possible to get Halo: CE running on FC4?
I've got wine and cedega. (the latter was a gift from programming mentor/tutor).

2)Also, this may not be as much of a linux question, but i would LOVE you if you could answer it,
i have cable internet, and it is set up through a cable modem into my desktop pc (FC4),
I also have a laptop, that is windows XP media center. I want to play games from my laptop online, but the internet connection will not detect when i plug it into my laptop. I have figured out enough to know it is an IP problem, or something like that.
When the cable company came and installed it, they did something to my desktop (then, a windows xp home) and i remember it involved command line interface.
PLEASE does anyone have a suggestion/solution?
*eyes firewing*

Thanks,
Rik ^^

[SirTwist]

I have a question of my own. I'm running FC 6 on an HP OmniBook 6000, which has an Intel CPU rated at just under 00 mHz. I dug out some of my older games, and tried to them under Wine. The games in question are the first two X-Com games, X-Com UFO Defense and Terror From The Deep. I bought them a while ago as part of the Collector's Edition of the game. I can get into the game, start a new, and get to where I can type in the name of a base, but the game freezes on me there. I am wondering if it's the game, the computer, my sound card, or a combination of all of that?

[SirTwist]

Oh, to add to that, I've been trying to get Diablo II and LOD to work, but I can't for some odd reason. Thanks for any help and advice.

[Firewing1]

I think you made a typo on the 00Mhz... For Diablo II 400MHz should be fine... For the others I'm not sure, but if the game glitches it's probably wine and not your hardware.
Firewing1

[SirTwist]

I think it could be wine, then. I'm running at nearly 700 mHz, sorry, I think I hit the wrong key for a moment. I think it could be something else. I'm wanting to play the X-Com games because I mi be a ss a good strategy game, and they should be able to run under Wine with no problem, on my machine. I'm going to tweak wine to see what works. I might have to do a lot of it to get things to run.

[Larry34c]

I had a problem with starcraft, the window is very small (640 x 480), how can i do the window full screem??

So, another problem with starcraft, i dont have sound after a cinematic, so, i dont know how to configure the wine, somebody can help me??

Thanks !

[Firewing1]

I had a problem with starcraft, the window is very small (640 x 480), how can i do the window full screem??

So, another problem with starcraft, i dont have sound after a cinematic, so, i dont know how to configure the wine, somebody can help me??

Thanks !
For the first issue run the wine configuration tool (or 'winecfg' in a terminal) and in the Desktop options don't run it in a virtual desktop. I'm not sure about your second issue, try using wine 0.9.42 in updates-testing and if that doesn't work submit a bug to winehq.
Firewing1

[TeamZissou]

Does anybody know what happened to the snes9x and snes9xexpress rpms in the fedora repository? I'm almost positive that I've seen those in there.

[Firewing1]

AFAIK emulators aren't allowed in Fedora or Livna either... Dag/Dries/FreshRPMs (collectively RPMForge) has some RPMs though, maybe that's where you saw them?
Edit: I could be very wrong here... It looks like it's under the GPL so that makes in technically OK - It may have had to pass through legal though...
Firewing1

[TeamZissou]

Hmm, perhaps you're right firewing, or it may have been in livna. I'm not really sure. I suppose I'll have to manually install from freshrpms.

[Finalzone]

Google Dribble repository which is based in UK. It provides emulators including ZSNES (I am running NiGHTS game on Yabase, a Sega Saturn emulator, as I own the CD)and is compatible with Fedora and Livna repository.

[twn250]

Great thread!
But no one is mentioning the game Urban Terror: http://www.urbanterror.net/
It´s free and it ROCKS ;)

[TeamZissou]

Thanks finalzone, zsnes from dribble works great!

[eXDee]

No UT or UT2004? Both are awesome games.
Run natively on linux with their own installers. Dedicated servers for it are also linux native and are free.

Unreal Tournament (1999)
Download the appropriate installer (GOTY below):
Original version:
Installer (http://www.beyondunreal.com/dl.php/official/ut/ut-install-436.run) See note below!
Bonus packs:
Bonus Pack 1 (http://www.beyondunreal.com/dl.php/official/ut/utbonuspack.zip)
Bonus Pack 2 (http://www.beyondunreal.com/dl.php/official/ut/utbonuspack2.zip)
Bonus Pack 3 (http://official.beyondunreal.com/dl.php/official/ut/utinoxxpacknoumod.zip)
Bonus Pack 4 (http://official.beyondunreal.com/dl.php/official/ut/utbonuspack4.zip)

Game of the Year edition (GOTY):
Installer (http://official.beyondunreal.com/dl.php/official/ut/ut-install-436-goty.run) See note below!
(Pretty sure GOTY includes bonus packs.)

Note: The above installers did NOT work for me. I had to use the multilanguage installer on all fedora releases except 4.
Try the above installers first. For some reason this installer is rather rare so i've chosen to mirror it.
Multilanguage Original Multilanguage Installer (http://mirrage.dynamized.com/downloads/unreal.tournament_436-multilanguage.run)
Multilanguage GOTY Multilanguage Installer (http://mirrage.dynamized.com/downloads/unreal.tournament_436-multilanguage.goty.run)

Dedicated Server Package
Standalone package - no CD required (http://official.beyondunreal.com/dl.php/official/ut/utserver436final.zip)

Problems:
If you get an error about a missing entry, or SIGIOT, check here:
http://icculus.org/lgfaq/#entry

UT2004

The installer is on the the multi-CD and DVD version and is called "linux-installer.sh"
The Mega pack contains all the bonus content, latest patch and other things, which saves some time.
Mega pack .run (http://www.liflg.org/?what=dl&catid=6&gameid=17&filename=ut2004.megapack-english-3.run)

Dedicated Server Package
Download (http://download.beyondunreal.com/fileworks.php/official/ut2004/dedicatedserver3339-bonuspack.zip)
A special dedicated server CD Key is required. Get it Here (http://unreal.epicgames.com/ut2004server/cdkey.php)
Open the .reg file and take the CD key.
(this is perfectly legal and official btw)

UT2004 Demo
Installer (http://data.unrealtournament.com/UT2004-LNX-Demo3334.run.gz)
Its just a .run file, so im assuming you just execute it.

(Firewing and others: Feel free to do what you wish with this post)

[d347hm4n]

This is of great help thanks very much :D

[Gohan]

Sorry but i did not read the whole post so if this is in there somewhere let it be a second way to do it.

For the MMO junkies out there LOTRO(Lord of the Rings Online) Is now on linux.

http://forum.heliocity.net/index.php?topic=2996.30 for the howto

[$Linux]

Hello,
After this, no one can say Linux doesn't have any good games! I've been on the quest for games lately, and found some really superb ones. Here's a list I've compiled of games worth mentioning:

- LBreakout2 (pad at the bottom, bouncy ball and a bunch of bricks you have to remove)
- BZFlag + BZFed (Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) tank-shooting game)
- Lincity-ng (Upgraded version of SimCity)
- fish fillets-ng (Puzzle game)
- Gnome-Sudoku (Self explanitory.)
- ppracer (Upgraded tuxracer, the Linux penguin that races on snowy racetracks)
- SuperTux (Super Mario Bros, but with Tux!)
- Gweled (Similar to Bejeweld on popcap games)
- Virus Killer (Kill those viruses with your laser beam powered by the kernel!)
- Neverball (Marble Blast Gold ripped this game. Control the ball to collect coins for points and the reach the endpoint)
- Nexuiz (best game IMHO, 1st person shooter)
- Frozen-Bubble (I forget what this one is, but I remember it's amusing...)
- CUBE (Online & Single player 1st person shooter)
- EDIT: sauerbraten, the 'CUBE 2' is now available.
- Chromium (Fly that spaceship of yours and destroy oncoming ships!)
- gl-117 (Flight simulator, proceed to the missions to start the battling)
- Freeciv (FreeCiv = Free Civilization [tm]. Free version of the commercial game Civilisation. )
- Torcs (Car racing game)
- Penguin Commander
- Lucidlife (Game of Life)
- Diablo I, Diablo II, Starcraft (with or without Brood War expansion), Warcraft III (again, with or without Frozen Throne). See below for installation instructions

They can be installed by first installing Livna & FreshRPMS repos

--> For Fedora Core 5:
su -
rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release5.rpm
rpm -Uhv http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

--> If you're still in ' Core 4, type instead:
su -
rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release4.rpm
rpm -Uhv http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/4/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm
and then by yum:su -
yum install game_name_without_capitals
For example:su -
yum install bzflag lincity-ng nexuiz
will install the games bzflag, lincity-ng and nexuiz.

The basic game packages are fun but aren't that ammusing. They consist of gnome-games and kdegames. To install them, type:

For a full install, type:
su -
yum install bzflag freeciv gnome-games kdegames gnome-sudoku gweled neverball nexuiz ppracer nexuiz-server nexuiz-data viruskiller supertux gl-117 frozen-bubble torcs torcs-data torcs-data-cars-extra torcs-robots torcs-data-tracks-road lincity-ng lincity-ng-data fillets-ng lbreakout2 lucidlifeAnd see the additional instructions below.

Yum can get you most of the games. The rest must be installed manually. For these games, see the specific instructions below:

FOR BZFed (Bzflag map editor)
NOTE: This doesn't seem to work with FC5.

su -
wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bzfed/bzfed-0.1.tar.gz
rpm -Uhv http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/files/rpm/checkinstall-1.6.0-1.i386.rpm
gzip -d bzfed-0.1.tar.gz
tar -xf bzfed-0.1.tar
cd bzfed-0.1
./configure
make
checkinstall -R
<keep hitting Enter until RPM build finishes>
rpm -i /path/to/RPM/built

FOR Cube
EDIT: I can't update this at the time, but the new CUBE 2 is here:
http://www.sauerbraten.org/
It's fairly the same for installing, so just change the CUBE names for this new sauerbraten and you should be fine.

su -
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/cube/cube_2005_08_29_unix.tar.gz
tar xzf cube_2005_08_29_unix.tar.gz
mv cube /usr/local/share/
echo '[Desktop Entry]
Name=Cube
GenericName=Cube
Comment=Cube 1st Person Shooter
Exec=/usr/local/share/cube/cube_unix
Icon=/usr/local/share/cube/data/Health.png
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Categories=Application;Game;
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.2' > /usr/share/applications/cube.desktop
chmod 644 /usr/share/applications/cube.desktop
cd /usr/local/share/cube
gedit cube_unix
Now, see this line:
CUBE_DIR=.
change it to:
CUBE_DIR=/usr/local/share/cube/

FOR Penguin Commander
su -
wget http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/penguin-command/penguin-command-1.6.10.tar.gz
yum install SDL-devel SDL_image-devel SDL_mixer-devel
rpm -Uhv http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/files/rpm/checkinstall-1.6.0-1.i386.rpm
tar xzf penguin-command-1.6.10.tar.gz
cd penguin-command-1.6.10
./configure
make
checkinstall -R
<enter>
<enter>
rpm -Uhv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/penguin-command-1.6.10-1.i386.rpm
And now, to add a shortcut in the games menu, paste this into /usr/share/applications/penguin-command.desktop:[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Categories=Application;Game
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.2
Name=Penguin Commander
Comment=Missle-shooting game
Icon=redhat-games.png
Exec=penguin-command
Terminal=0
Type=Application


FOR Blizzard Entertainment (Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft):
I've noticed recent wine updates fixed the cd issues with the games listed above, and they now work fully in Linux. Here's how:
0) [presquite]: I'm pretty sure you're going to need static CDROM mount locations to make it work, so here (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=103810&highlight=static+mount)'s the howto.
1) Type winecfginto a terminal, and set your Windows version to Windwos 2000 or Windows XP.
2) Under "Graphics", set your Virtual Wine Desktop size as if you don't screen zoom issues occur... It's a long story.
3) Install the games under Wine:wine /media/cdrom_name/setup.exe
4) Some games, like Warcraft or Starcraft the patches don't work on their own, so go to the blizzard site and manually download the patches. It will install fine, and when you restart the game it will be the newest version.
NOTE: In Diablo II, if you want to do TCP/IP games, you'll find it says invalid IP address. The solution is to add a non-localhost line to /etc/hosts. This usually requires static IPs. For example, since my static IP is 192.168.1.2, I added:
192.168.1.2 DellLin DellLin.localdomain
and set my hostname to "DellLin.localdomain" in /etc/sysconfig/network, rebooted, and now I can play TCP/IP games. In fact, I played a 4-way multiplayer yesterday and it didn't even lag!
NOTE: For Warcraft III to work properly, run it with the '-opengl' arg. Otherwise, it'll be slow, crash every so often and you can't change your resolution without it freezing. At least, that's what happened with me.

Per request, I added Enemy Territory to the list. Although, to download it, you must sign up. For those who wish to see http://games.activision.com/games/wolfenstein/

Enjoy. My favs are BZFlag, Lincity-NG and Nexuiz.

Firewing1
ok i am really inspired with your post well is there a version for fedora 7 because you have fedora 5 the highest

but i am using fedora 7

[leadgolem]

If you are referring to the livna rpm install line, just replace the number 5 with 7. This is a fairly old thread after all.

[Firewing1]

/me updates the howto :)
Check back in 10 and it should have more recent instructions online.

[$Linux]

If you are referring to the livna rpm install line, just replace the number 5 with 7. This is a fairly old thread after all.
i did what you told me to do an this is what i got

[gundumfx@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -Uhv http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/7/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/7/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.ZZzpji: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:freshrpms-release ########################################### [100%]
[root@localhost ~]#

is it right

[leadgolem]

I believe so. Firewing1 updated the repo install lines clear up to Fedora 8. Though that is the freshrpms install line, as opposed to the livna install line.:)