Tribes 2 for Linux

J.M.I.T. · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:45 am Post subject:

One reseller that still sells Tribes 2 Linux copies:

http://www.ixsoft.de
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Soviet Bread Line · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2003 Posts: 65

Damn. If only I knew German..
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second_exodous · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:39 am Post subject:

So are they in stock? Also, if a english speaking person bought the german version is english included?

Thanx,
Stan

J.M.I.T. · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:38 pm Post subject:

Tribes2 for Linux IS an english version... I've bought my copy in this shop... but that was some time ago... but they're still listing it... so i guess it's still in stock..
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Sengoku · n00b Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 24

If you're really desperate to get your Tribes2 fix in linux I would have to suggest Wine as a method for running it, it may look a little coarser than it should be but the OpenGL acceleration seems to work a treat.

Of course this means you must already have installed it in windows but for those who have the windows version this seems to be the only legal way to run Tribes2 in Linux without forking out more money for the true Linux version.

Billybob · Apprentice Joined: 23 Oct 2003 Posts: 189

Not sure if it's been said, but Tribes 2 works under Wine. I just played it 2 minutes ago

Sound doesn't work for me yet, but I think that just may be because I'm not using Alsa, *shrugs*. All I did was emerge wine, pop in my tribes cd, mount it, run setup, wait, start SierraUp.exe, update it a couple of times(SierraUp needs like 2+ updates) and always try the Sierra mirror first, finally Tribes should eventually come up and play like normal. You will need a working 3d accelerater, BTW. At one point I did get an error from SierraUp, but that worked it self out in time... :lol:

.

And yes, Tribes 2 is a good game.

ratbert90 · Apprentice Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 177

Hey, when I try to update tribes2 (client) to the newest version I get some strange md5sum error.

-ravage- · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 225

ratbert90 · Apprentice Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 177

Malakai · Apprentice Joined: 24 Dec 2002 Posts: 299

The patch file runs, but with this error:

-ravage- · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 225

http://icculus.org/lgfaq/#lokipatch

Malakai · Apprentice Joined: 24 Dec 2002 Posts: 299

Ok, I applied the patch, and now I have no sound. All of the sound related stuff is just gone from the options.

Damn, I was so close

edit: nevermind, you just need to delete your old ~/.loki directory and let the patched version create a new one.

Whee~~

Sp4rky · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 15

simoncion · n00b Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 20

I've just updated Tribes2 Linux to 25034. Now sound does not function in the game, and I cannot select a sound provider in the in-game menu. I have removed my ~/.loki directory, to no effect. Manually patching had a few un-expected side-effects, described at the end of this post. Here are a few relevant specs:

OS: Gentoo Linux
Sound: Alsa-Driver-1.0.4 (Sound Blaster Audigy 1)
Kernel: 2.6.3-ck1

Steps Taken to Install:
I unpacked the full patch:

Zannox · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 42

Just look for a file called ClientPrefs.cs, which is located in /home/username/.loki/tribes2/base/prefs folder. Delete the lines containing Audio. Then restart Tribes 2

simoncion · n00b Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 20

Deleting the lines containing Audio doesn't help.

Would you post your Audio sections?

Zannox · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 42

Here ya go.

$pref::Audio::activeDriver = "OpenAL";
$pref::Audio::captureGainScale = "1";
$pref::Audio::channels = 2;
$pref::Audio::decodingMask = 8;
$pref::Audio::drivers = "OpenAL";
$pref::Audio::effectsVolume = "1";
$pref::Audio::enableVoiceCapture = "1";
$pref::Audio::encodingLevel = 3;
$pref::Audio::environmentEnabled = "0";
$pref::Audio::forceMaxDistanceUpdate = 0;
$pref::Audio::frequency = 22050;
$pref::Audio::guiVolume = "0.8";
$pref::Audio::masterVolume = "0.8";
$pref::Audio::musicEnabled = "0";
$pref::Audio::musicVolume = "0.8";
$pref::Audio::provider = "Miles Fast 2D Positional Audio";
$pref::Audio::radioVolume = "0.8";
$pref::Audio::sampleBits = 16;
$pref::Audio::speakerType = "Stereo, 2-Speaker";
$pref::Audio::voiceChannels = 1;
$pref::Audio::voiceVolume = "1";

simoncion · n00b Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 20

I've removed the lines containing "Audio" from the ClientPrefs.cs, to no effect. The in-game "3D Provider" and "Speakers" boxes are still empty. The following is what Tribes2 re-writes into the configuration:

Zannox · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 42

Do you have a file called libopenal.so.0 in your /tribes2 directory?

wcbaker · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 36

not sure if anyone knows this, but you can now download the windows copies of tribes 2 from fileshack and fileplanet. if you do it through fileplanet they give you a cd key (not too sure about fileshack). then you can get the cd from bit-torrent or emule.

simoncion · n00b Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 20

Zannox: I do not have libopenal.so.0 in my /tribes2 directory. If you do, is it a file, or a symlink?
wcbaker: Thanks for the information. :->

EDIT: Zannox: I symlinked libopenal.so.0.0.7 to libopenal.so.0 in my /tribes2 directory. I have sound now. Thank you for the tip, and the patience along the way.

Zannox · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 42

No problem, and the symlink was the next step

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

hm.. is it me or are there no servers online?

it seems to ping a lot, but does not end up with any..

Zannox · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 42

Don't use any filters, go to filters and select ALL Servers. I've noticed it doing that with one of my filters here lately.