Soldat on Linux & OS X Systems

[Skiessi]

Works perfectly.

I recommend GLSL + Video compability enabled

EDIT:
Btw, in 1.4.2 I can't play at all thanks to Michal's new 'hacking' prevention system.. I prefer playing with some random hackers around.

[Stealth]

Yup, looks like it was beryl that caused the crash.

Checking video compatibility in the Soldat Config fixes the strange text blending, now it looks clean.

[wumpus]

hey guys,

I have 1.4 running perfect here (ubuntu feisty) but I would appreciate more fps than ~45 in a 16 player game. On XP it works smoothly. I've dropped all settings from config.exe/.ini to minimum already (I dont mind the poor graphics). Resolution is the smallest too. You know any other tricks?

thanks for all who made windows totally obsolete today.

[Stealth]

I haven't tried it yet, but maybe if you enable GLSL mode it could speed things up.

Run regedit
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D
Create a new string key called "UseGLSL"
Edit its value to "enabled"

[n2j3]

Ok, tested it with Wine 0.9.36 and Beryl, works fine , jumpy fps (65 to 130 - on windows i get 63-64fps). Thanks for the Winedebug info Stealth

[sqweek]

Video Compat for the win. Thanks.

[blind]

I've enabled Video Compatibility (or, what I was assuming was video compat. "Compatibility" under "Graphics") but I still get the "OnShow,OnHide" message as well as the access violation ones and cannot play the game.

[Stealth]

blind, make sure you choose ALSA (and only ALSA) as your main option in the Sound tab under winecfg (run in terminal).

[jswm4xf0r7]

I run Soldat in Wine in Ubuntu, but fps is very low (impossible to aim the enemy). What to do next to the tricks mentioned on this thread. Tremulous works in ~ 90 FPS for me.

[Stealth]

Well, I would tell you to check the AppDB entry on the WINE site, but looks like some dude DELETED Soldat completely off the thing. Not only that, but the other game I maintained, battlefield 2, was deleted as well!! All that hard work...

[akiross]

Hi there
I just installed Soldat 1.3.1 (i don't like 1.4 graphics at all ) on wine 0.9.37 on Gentoo, but i got some troubles for configuring controls (and since i don't have windows at all, i can't copy a valid configuration).

I tried to modify the configuration by hand (.ini file)... Seems that codes are given in a strange fashon:
tab = 15
q = 16
w = 17
...
a = 31
s = 32
d = 33
...
seems like a keyboard ordering here I don't know how the game works, so maybe it's the DX way to encode keys.

Mouse buttons seems to be mapped as mb0 (left click), mb1 (right), mb2 (center).

Now, I can do my configuration in this way, but there is something that i can't try: what about mouse wheel up and down?

Well, more generally the question is: if someone has the ability to change his keyboard configuration (maybe with a windows installation), could he post here the codes, please?
It's just a matter of creating a new profile and change the buttons, looking for the profile's .ini file and see under [CONTROL].

It would be really userful, until the bug is fixed with wine...

Thanks!

[6th_account]

mouse wheel is "mw", if that's what you were asking :Q

[Stealth]

akiross: I found the section in the HOWTO (on the WINE AppDB) about that, here's what it said:

The interface for setting controls is glitchy - you click on the button
and sometimes where it would normally ask you to press a key it just
says 'Key OK'. However, you can edit the [CONTROLS] section of
soldat.ini - you need to enter scancodes. But not actual scancodes...

They must go through a level of translation through linux/wine or this
section wouldn't be so complicated. There's a nice image of scancodes
at barcodeman.com BUT you need to subtract 1 from those numbers, or 2 for the bottom row. Eg, I have 'e'
as right, 'o' as crouch and ',' as jump, so I put 'Right=18',
'Crouch=24' and 'Jump=51' into my soldat.ini (I use a dvorak layout so
that's not as retarded as it sounds).

[FliesLikeABrick]

Well, I would tell you to check the AppDB entry on the WINE site, but looks like some dude DELETED Soldat completely off the thing. Not only that, but the other game I maintained, battlefield 2, was deleted as well!! All that hard work...

not sure what you're talking about, I see it there

[akiross]

Ok, thanks 6th_account, really helpful

Stealth, yep, but a keyboard scancode may be easy to find... But mouse ones? They aren't "just numbers".

Thanks anyway!

[Stealth]

They were able to restore it FLAB, fortunately...

Bu apparently, the screenshots are gone. If it's possible, can everyone here who voted for Soldat in the WINE poll, please swap your votes from the 1.3.x version to the 1.4.x? I can't submit screenshots of 1.3 anymore since I have 1.4 installed ;P And I can't just swap the votes myself...

[Clawbug]

Hmm, Is there any way to prevent Ubuntu for using mouse acceleration when using wine? The problem is, that it is rather hard to aim whenever I have to move the mouse quickly, so easy to accidentally overaim. If I set it to zero in Ubuntu, the whole mouse moves SLOWLY all the time, and there is no way to make it move faster. (I haven't really checked the files in /etc/ but I assume that if there was a simple way, it would be in the mouse settings.)

Sounds are a bit glitchy, I don't know why, but they are not played properly, even I am using only ALSA in winecfg.

FPS seems to be quite fine, around 100, and video compatibility fixed the font issue.

[Stealth]

Looking at this guide, it looks like there's a program that will set it for you (xset), so you'd probably have to make a script for a Soldat shortcut:

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#!/bin/bash
# Disable mouse acceleration
xset m 0 0
# Start Soldat
wine "C:\Soldat\Soldat.exe"

If sounds are glitchy, you could try OSS, or mess with the settings such as setting the sound to "Standard" or "Emulation" instead of Full, etc. Also lowering sound settings in Soldat's Config program could help.

[Clawbug]

Heh, after playing with the sound configuration and enabled Anistropic filtering, this is what I saw (and where the Soldat hung up..):

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6536/soldat14jm5.png

So, ALSA was enabled, so was OSS, bitrate was 22050, 8-bit. Sound quality was minimum in config.exe, anti-aliasing was on. I think I enabled 3 back buffers, which could probably cause this.

Wine is telling me this:

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fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateAdditionalSwapChain The app requests more than one back buffer, this can't be supported properly. Please configure the application to use double buffering(=1 back buffer) if possible


Not an issue, I believe, but I found it funny.

Edit: I believe it was caued by that I enabled OSS. Playing around with config.exe's sound settings, won't fix the sound issue.

Sounds are also a bit delayed, whenever I shoot, I can hear the sound with a little lag.
Also, it seems that whever I shoot, I lose my weapon, randomly. What I have figured out, is that when I empty my clips of Deagles, the Soldat throws the weapon off. Also, when using jets. and they run out, I it the ground and *boff* I have 100% jets.

[Stealth]

My sound lags on my laptop as well, I'll try and find a good setting for it...

BTW, you're suppose to have either OSS or ALSA checked, not both. ;P