On Sunday 06 May 2001 17:14, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I was running a 7.2 system not too long ago and with this system, I was > able to play Myth II, Heretic II, and Terminus under linux. Since > upgrading to 8.0, I find it impossible to play any of my linux games. > Under 8.0: > > I was able to play a short while with heretic2 IF I didn't login to a > window environment. KDE 2.1.1 refuses to allow the game to have a > fullscreen, insisting on making it a fullsize window instead (kpanel > remains at the bottom and there is a window border around the game screen). > The game is unplayable in this state as any mouse movement within the game > immediately crashes it. > > On the other hand, if I do not patch heretic2 I am able to play it for a > short while if I start it from "failsafe" - an xterm. This is ONLY the > unpatched game. The game actually plays fullscreen and with hardware > acceleration for a while but then consistently crashes at a certain point > early in the game (hence, the two patches that are available). > > If I patch the heretic2 game, it becomes absolutely unplayable on Mandrake > 8.0 but this was not the case in 7.2. In 7.2, the unpatched heretic2 > played and crashed as above. If I patched it, it played just fine - in > both cases even if started from within KDE 2.0 and 2.1, which DID allow the > game to go to fullscreen mode. I was also able to play Myth2 and Terminus. > Since upgrading to 8.0, both games refuse to start, crash X and/or freeze > up the system requiring a hard reboot. This did not happen with Mandrake > 7.2. If you play with less than a full screen you will lose some of these problems--they are related to XFree 4.0.3 implementations Civileme
