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That's why I did it. Suncho should be pleased, as should the Descent community at large.

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I'm in New Orleans.... after what the last couple of storms did here, I'm not thrilled about this one. There's still trees and gas station canopies down from two months ago. I don't think we'd survive a direct hit. Please pray for us. New Orleans is 90% below sea level. Tha last big hurricane that h...

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I tested this, and the resulting files can be tarred into less than 10MB. That means, with a Windows install CD, and a 10MB .tar file, you can run D3 in Linux. What you keep: all .mn3, .mve, and .hog files. What you need: the executables, .d3n and d3c files, and one linux-specific .hog file. This co...

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will_kill wrote:now it's a BP with shields aglow

That's actually an extra life from D1. I've seen a few of those here and there...

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It's my joystick, with a retail box of Linux D3 behind it.

Teh K!llstix roxxorz.

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I'm somewhat paranoid about backing stuff up. I've lost gigs of data from bad drives, and I refuse to get caught again. I'm currently backing up to two separate drives (mirrored) AND a tape drive. And once a month I dump everything onto a file server for good measure. God I hate dead hard drives. At...

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We've got a few commonalities there... I'll have to set up a pilot with your config and see how it works.

Good job photoshopping it, too!

I should have left all the sippy cups on the table in the background... LOL

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I absolutely LOVE my playstation dual analog stick(s). It allows me to do 10 or more things at once, without moving my hand position. With this, the only thing I can't do is reverse and rearview at the same time (which is okay, rearview is toggle-able), and fire secondarires/flares at the same time....

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I don't personally see a problem with putting up the Linux-secific files online. You can download the full Linux executables for *most* games and use them with your legal Windows copies (which I have done). If the game were new, I'd say no, but come on. This is going on 10 years in the hole. Somebod...

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Pug: as you saw in the other thread, this doesn't necessarily apply when you're talking the Linux version... couldn't find it mirrored anywhere, and hardly anybody sells it cause it's *out of print.* Windows version, I'd say buy a copy. Linux version, good luck finding one. That's what we have to de...

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I think the data files are the same, it's the executable that's different. I haven't taken the time to look, but you could probably copy a Windows installation over and use the Linux main program. Don't ask, I'm not going to try it. I had to buy a Linux copy of D3. Nobody could give me the executabl...

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I think I'll give it a shot, not that I'm all that or anything. Sounds like fun.

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Check out This Thread.

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I don't normally speak up on "sensitive" issues, but I don't mind speaking briefly on this topic. The key is "common courtesy" and nothing more. If you're playing online, you're most likely playing with people you don't actually know. How many of you would run through a resturaun...

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It's good writing, but I think it's still too long. You might want to trim down some of the extra-long quotes. And you took my quote out, too! (Sniff, just kidding.) With that being said, I wholeheartedly liked the improvements. I think it's a HUGE step in the right direction. You also might want to...

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Like LSD said, Linux works best with a straight-up hardware or software RAID. (Highpoint 404/454 cards are bad about this, too). Since Linux detects the drives separately, that means they're not in a "real" hardware RAID mode. You'll probably notice that your CPU usage is higher when you d...

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I've liked dual joystick setups since Mechwarrior 2 first came out. However, not many games support it. I happened upon a Playstation dual flightstick and haven't looked back. It doesn't have the greatest sensitivity, and the deadzone is a bit bigger than I'd like. This is probably a mechanical limi...

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Stopped playing this game well over a year and a half ago due to job, family and what appeared to be a failing population in the Descent community. On a whim, I just happened to Google "Descent 4" out of sheer boredom (besides, imagine my surprise from my Google of Hitchhikers Guide only ...

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Congrats. THe only thing I use my HAT switch for now is banking, which works fine as an axis. After fighting with the primary weapon "toggle" function I got fed up and went to a direct-button maping of the weapons, haven't looked back. I looked at the joydev.c file not too long ago, and a ...

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Linux... Linux Linux....

Sorry, just had to add that.

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Homesar!!!! Da CHeat!

This thread should be...........

BALEETED!!

*EDIT*
Mech4 Mercs rawked... until they ganked the CD protection. Microsoft can suck it.
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I used to think my dual 21"s were posh... well, hell, they still are. And I've been trying to talk Wife into letting me put neons under the desk for months, and now that I have my own office, I think I will do exactly that...

That's killer, Stress. Keep it up. Geek excess to the end.

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As usual, quiet is a trade-off. If the Stealths are quiet enough and move enough air, then you're set, but I doubt just 2x80mm fans intake will do the trick. Try it and monitor temps, see what you get. Let us know how it works.

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A few quick questions: What distro are you running? After modifying "joydev.c" did you recompile kernel modules? Did it give you any errors? Could you "modprobe joydev" afterwards?

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Okay, I finally figured out how to enable Antialiasing in Linux.
(You have to open a terminal and type "export __GL_FSAA_MODE=x" where x is the mode of AA you want. When the terminal closes, you lose the environment)

I'll run some more tests tonight, and see how it stacks up.

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Upgrading the video drivers in Windows didn't make a lick of difference, which is what I suspected. However, I noticed that with -nosound enabled in both OSs, FPS were close to each other all around. Kinda makes you wonder... trying it with -framecap 999 and -framecap 0 didn't make any difference on...

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I used -framecap 0 but I will have to test this again... once I reboot (again). Now I'm curious. *EDIT* I ran them all again in Windows, with the same params but with "-nosound". With sound, I get 170 max, without sound, I get: 198.47 Descent3 v1.4 131 Min 283 Max So it's not framecapped a...

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Not that I'm aware of. Vsync is off, but I may test it again later tonight and see what I can uncover. I have no idea what else could cap the framerate (other than vsync and "-framecap x")

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Ask and ye shall recieve. Well, I did run the same tests back-to-back, and I found out some pretty interesting results! Reference system is an MSI KN-266 board running a Duron 1.3Ghz, 512MB of SDRAM, an MSI GeForce4 MX440 32MB vid card running in dualview at 1280x1024 on each screen. Windows is XP P...

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Gotcha. I finally found it, after a little looking. It creates fps.txt in the ~/.loki/descent3 directory, which would make sense if I had thought about it some more. Just for giggles, I made: 88.78 Descent3 v1.4 41 Min 117 Max running at 1280x960, in windowed mode, AA and AF on. Not bad for old hard...

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Just out of curiosity, has anybody tried to run a timetest in Linux? I ran the test, and it worked fine, but I have no idea where the framerate info is output to... didn't find anything on it either here at DBB or in the READMEs. I wouldn't have anything to write home about, I'm running a Duron 1.3G...

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I remember they used to have a version of Descent2 that worked with nVidia's VR goggles, but they simulated 3D by the glasses shuttering back and forth between eyes in sync with the video card. And you had to have the special version of Descent2 that came with the goggles, I think, too. I've never h...

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That is definitely the freakiest shockwave "game" I've ever seen. And I've seen some weird ones.

Try grabbing her by the hips... just bizzarre.

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We're going on 180+ hits, with more than 150 unique visitors within 2 days. Not bad for a quick hack. Hopefully, this will show that it's easy to figure out why Descent is still so popular.. it's not rocket science (no pun intended).

Good games are good games.

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Feel free. I'd be thrilled.

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Again, I'm thrilled that you guys like it. At least the next time you clobber me in D3, you can stop and think, "you know, that guy has good writing skills!" I've been sick this week, and the wife has frowned upon playing Descent all night until I feel better, so better screenshots will ha...

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I think you should buy another $10 joystick, and use them both. Since I've been playing with my Playstation dual joystick, I've been tossing around the idea of getting two sticks (like two Cyborgs) and using both at the same time. My current config gives me 4 buttons on each stick and a HAT on one, ...

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I ran into similar problems trying to use bootable Linux distros, because I have an add-in SATA PCI card. However, I've installed several distros (currently running SuSE 9.1) and have never had a problem with HD installs. I'm running Windows on one drive, and Linux on the other. If I could do it all...

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Here's something interesting... running Win98 on a 16MB flash card? WindowsXP installed using only 350MB?

www.litepc.com

Freaky.

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I'm 31 now, was 21 the first time I saw D1. I didn't play much, cause I didn't have a computer that would run it, but when D2 came out I jumped all over it. D3 came out, I played it, got bored cause I didn't play online. The D3 single player was extremely hard without good controls. Then last year I...

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Timetest shootout: Linux vs. Windows!