Linux issues
phoenixbbs
Join Date: 2003-02-10 Member: 13379Members, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Subnautica Playtester
Join Date: 2003-02-10 Member: 13379Members, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Subnautica Playtester
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<div class="IPBDescription">crashes within seconds</div>I'm currently running ubuntu linux as a wubi install - I gave up with 8.04 as there were some terrible graphics issues ("blinking" to the main menu several times a second), and have now dropped back to 7.04 which appears to work very well - i'm not sure what changed to cause the gfx corruption - perhaps the eye-candy desktop isn't as stable as you'd hope ?!?
Anyway... i've installed Steam using wine and wine-doors, and can play the original HL happily for hours without a crash, but within seconds of loading NS and joining a server, it locks the system.
It locks completely, and I have to REISUB out or force a reboot by holding the power button.
My last attempt had me running around a combat map on a local server as alien for a minute or so - the longest i've been able to keep it working - but as soon as I swapped to marine, it locked out again within seconds (3-4 secs max). This seems to be relatively consistent, and did it with Cedega and Crossover Games while testing under 8.04
Some people suggested picking a specific sound system within wine to get it working right (OSS IIRC) but I get the same with that too (as I do with any of the audio systems offered). It also happens under software rendering as well as opengl, which would appear to rule out the graphics card / drivers etc.
Any thoughts on what might be causing this would be greatly appreciated :-} (sadly i'm not particularly au-fait with linux, although i'd gladly move to it as soon as I can sort this little problem out !)
Anyway... i've installed Steam using wine and wine-doors, and can play the original HL happily for hours without a crash, but within seconds of loading NS and joining a server, it locks the system.
It locks completely, and I have to REISUB out or force a reboot by holding the power button.
My last attempt had me running around a combat map on a local server as alien for a minute or so - the longest i've been able to keep it working - but as soon as I swapped to marine, it locked out again within seconds (3-4 secs max). This seems to be relatively consistent, and did it with Cedega and Crossover Games while testing under 8.04
Some people suggested picking a specific sound system within wine to get it working right (OSS IIRC) but I get the same with that too (as I do with any of the audio systems offered). It also happens under software rendering as well as opengl, which would appear to rule out the graphics card / drivers etc.
Any thoughts on what might be causing this would be greatly appreciated :-} (sadly i'm not particularly au-fait with linux, although i'd gladly move to it as soon as I can sort this little problem out !)
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Still seeing the same problem unfortunately, seems solid in HL itself though :-(