Alien Arena 2009 is OUT!!

[Irritant]

Thank you for the tips JMiserez. Unfortunately that only half worked for me. I was able to start the game but it opened in a window and part of it was obviously not visible, so... yeah. Btw I'm running a 32bit ubuntu if that is of any consequence. I've been using ubuntu for less than a week and I still try to figure out why the damn thing limits my access to half the stuff )). Anyway I guess I'm just not doing something right, so I would be really thankful if you issue some "installing aliena arena 2009 on ubuntu for idiots" or something

Sounds like you're running the game at an resolution not supported by your xorg.conf? Try setting the res at your desktop res, then make sure in the vid settings that fullscreen is checked back on.

[Melcar]

Having problems running it on my laptop with the ATI open source drivers. Attempting to run ./crx simply produces a segfault. I think it's because the game uses glsl by default and the open drivers don't have support for that. Is there a way to launch the game without glsl support?

[MaxIBoy]

Just to let everyone know, if you want to run it on 64-bit Linux, you need to recompile it. The pre-built binary is for 32-bit Linux. If anyone would be willing to build a 64-bit binary and upload it, that would be very handy.

Having problems running it on my laptop with the ATI open source drivers. Attempting to run ./crx simply produces a segfault. I think it's because the game uses glsl by default and the open drivers don't have support for that. Is there a way to launch the game without glsl support?

The main menu should at least work without glsl.

Still you can disable it manually by editing the config file. In your home directory, the first time the game is run it should create a folder called .codered. Go into that, there will be a directory called "arena." In that, there will be a file called config.cfg. Edit that with your favorite plaintext editor. Find the line where it says

set gl_glsl_shaders "1"

Change "1" to "0" and glsl will be disabled.

If .codered wasn't created, that means the game crashed very early on in the process.

Generally speaking, the open-source drivers will probably not be able to run the game as well as the proprietary ones, if at all. It's really sad, I wish I could use the open-source drivers, but unfortunately I usually wind up having to install fglrx.

[Melcar]

It wasn't glsl in the end. Installed some missing dependencies and got the game to run.









Low settings @ 640x480 (2GHz Sempron, 200M IGP, 2GB RAM). 15-30fps most of the time; except when more than two players are on screen, then the performance just craps out. Water is also a no-no (game turns into a slide show).
To bad I'm not using my old x800gto on my desktop, otherwise I would test it there. Can't wait for r7xx chips to get 3D accel. with the open drivers and see how they fair on games.

[MaxIBoy]

Try setting r_legacy to "1" in your config file? That may work slightly faster.

[mao_dze_dun]

Sounds like you're running the game at an resolution not supported by your xorg.conf? Try setting the res at your desktop res, then make sure in the vid settings that fullscreen is checked back on.

ahahaha. I feel incredibly stupid. The game was set to windowed mode. I am so used to it being full screen by default in Windows, that I forgot to check the most obvious thing. Thanks a lot mate.

[joeelmex]

I cant get it to work, when I do the make command it gives me 2 Errors.

I followed the instructions on page 1 of this thread and I am running Ubuntu 64. I wonder if I have ti recompile it. As stated 2 post up. I am new to this anyone mind giving me some more instructions.


This is what I get when I use the Make

client/snd_file.c:30:31: error: vorbis/vorbisfile.h: No such file or directory
client/snd_file.c:223: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘ogg_int64_t’
client/snd_file.c: In function ‘ovbfr_seek’:
client/snd_file.c:232: error: ‘offset’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:232: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
client/snd_file.c:232: error: for each function it appears in.)
client/snd_file.c: At top level:
client/snd_file.c:265: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘ovbfr_callbacks’
client/snd_file.c: In function ‘ReadVorbisFile’:
client/snd_file.c:276: error: ‘ogg_int64_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:276: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘samples’
client/snd_file.c:277: error: ‘vorbis_info’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:277: error: ‘vi’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:278: error: ‘OggVorbis_File’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:278: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘vf’
client/snd_file.c:298: error: ‘vf’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:298: error: ‘ovbfr_callbacks’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:306: error: ‘samples’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:343: error: ‘OV_HOLE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:346: error: ‘OV_EBADLINK’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make[1]: *** [release/client/snd_file.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/joeelmex/Games/AlienArena/source'
make: *** [build-release] Error 2

[QCompson]

I cant get it to work, when I do the make command it gives me 2 Errors.

I followed the instructions on page 1 of this thread and I am running Ubuntu 64. I wonder if I have ti recompile it. As stated 2 post up. I am new to this anyone mind giving me some more instructions.


This is what I get when I use the Make

client/snd_file.c:30:31: error: vorbis/vorbisfile.h: No such file or directory
client/snd_file.c:223: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘ogg_int64_t’
client/snd_file.c: In function ‘ovbfr_seek’:
client/snd_file.c:232: error: ‘offset’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:232: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
client/snd_file.c:232: error: for each function it appears in.)
client/snd_file.c: At top level:
client/snd_file.c:265: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘ovbfr_callbacks’
client/snd_file.c: In function ‘ReadVorbisFile’:
client/snd_file.c:276: error: ‘ogg_int64_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:276: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘samples’
client/snd_file.c:277: error: ‘vorbis_info’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:277: error: ‘vi’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:278: error: ‘OggVorbis_File’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:278: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘vf’
client/snd_file.c:298: error: ‘vf’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:298: error: ‘ovbfr_callbacks’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:306: error: ‘samples’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:343: error: ‘OV_HOLE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
client/snd_file.c:346: error: ‘OV_EBADLINK’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make[1]: *** [release/client/snd_file.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/joeelmex/Games/AlienArena/source'
make: *** [build-release] Error 2

I get the same error output. Not sure which vorbis files we need.

[edit]
It's libvorbis-dev.

sudo apt-get install libvorbis-dev

then it compiles fine.

[joeelmex]

I am sure in time someone will post the answer..

[QCompson]

I just did, look at my post above again.