doom, quake, hexen...

[Polytropon]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:24:32 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Colleagues,
> 
> Please advise if there are any 3D shooters in the ports collection
> which work out of the box on 9.0-STABLE (amd64)? None of those I have
> tried work for a number of irritating reasons, like e.g.
> 
> games/uhexen: http://pastebin.com/ZaJ74eaa

MIDI load failed:/etc/timidity.cfg: No such file or directory

Install timidity++ from ports to get MIDI background music support.



> games/doom: http://pastebin.com/XdrCwzvn

doom-1.10_5 is only for i386, while you are running amd64.

A precise message.



> games/quake2lnx even pretends to do something: it opens a tiny X11
> window with some flickering rubbish and plays some farting sounds to
> the audio system.
> 
> Is there any working 3D shooter in the ports collection my 8 year old
> son could enjoy?

How about OpenArena? I'm currently playing it with pals via
Internet. Okay, not at this moment, as I'm writing this
message, obviously... :-)



> Thank you very much in advance.

First make sure all your 3D stuff runs fine. Install "xlockmore"
and test it with:

	% xlock -nolock -mode lament
	% xlock -nolock -mode fire

Works fine? Next consideration:

Games in ports collection that run out of the box (even though I
still have 8.2-STABLE/x86 here) include DooM 3 and Quake 4. I've
also tried RTCW, but except a grey fullscreen I get nothing.
Music plays, I can move the mouse and listen to the main menu
choices "clicking", but I don't see anything. For older DooM
ports, I've successfully been playing DooM, DooM II and Heretic
using lsdldoom port on a 300 MHz P2. Note lsdldoom also supports
OpenGL graphics. I could also play Quake, Quake 2 from ports,
and Jedi Knight II via wine. I don't see a massive problem to
run those on the amd64 platform, from which I switched back
to i386 on my home system due to trouble with wine.




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