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starelfsc2 Nov 30, 2024

Old game runs fine but gets stuck on "connecting" once past launcher

https://sh.itjust.works/post/28814539

Old game runs fine but gets stuck on "connecting" once past launcher - sh.itjust.works

I can’t seem to get freestyle gunz to connect. To note, the launcher downloads everything fine, and the game launches fine (I have to launch using the launcher.exe rather than gunz.exe or the game won’t start), but it just gets stuck on “Connecting” and then the game says there was an error connecting to the server. I have followed this tutorial: https://freestylersworld.com/showthread.php?126443-Tutorial-How-to-run-Freestyle-Gunz-on-Ubuntu-with-Lutris [https://freestylersworld.com/showthread.php?126443-Tutorial-How-to-run-Freestyle-Gunz-on-Ubuntu-with-Lutris] and setting lutrus to use any proton version or wine version besides 9.21 I had the same issue of getting to the login page, entering my information, and it says “connecting… 2nd attempt… 3rd attempt…” and then says failed to connect to server. Only very old proton versions (<5) fail to launch the game at all. If I run wine cmd then ping google.com [http://google.com] I get a regular response. Stable, Staging, and development 9.21 versions of Wine would not launch the game after clicking start on the launcher, and with the lutris configuration running wine 9.21 gives this error: 02bc:err:seh:NtRaiseException Unhandled exception code c0000409 flags 1 addr 0x744b63, but running wine 9.21 with a new configuration and installing those libraries using winetricks hangs after these lines: 02c0:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_FIRMWARE_TABLE_INFORMATION action 0 02c0:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_FIRMWARE_TABLE_INFORMATION action 0 02c0:fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity 00000000, -1, 00000000, 00000000, 0, 3, 00000000, 0, 00000000 stub 02c0:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION 02c0:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can’t find symbol in module 02cc:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can’t find symbol in module 02c0:fixme:kernelbase:AppPolicyGetProcessTerminationMethod FFFFFFFA, 03D6FEB8 I have tried running the game through steam’s compatibility settings, going from top to bottom until the game no longer launched, and all had the same issue of not being able to connect, but everything else working fine. I also tried running the installer with proton, and had the same issue of not being able to connect. I tried using winetricks without lutris to install msxml3,4, 6, and xmlite, and had the same issue of the game not launching using 9.21 wine and the game launching but not connecting on earlier versions. I found another reddit thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/gunz/comments/1dwkgjq/how_to_run_gunz_the_duel_on_linux/ [https://www.reddit.com/r/gunz/comments/1dwkgjq/how_to_run_gunz_the_duel_on_linux/] with someone who seems to have a similar issue of not being able to connect, but no solution. Something maybe of note: winetricks complains I’m using a 64bit wine prefix and installing 32 bit libraries when I install msxml, but the launcher is 64 bit and the game itself is 32 bit and uses these 32 bit libraries. I’m just running ethernet, only things that show up on ifconfig are enp5s0 (my ethernet) and lo Here is my OS: NAME=“Pop!_OS” VERSION=“22.04 LTS” ID=pop ID_LIKE=“ubuntu debian” PRETTY_NAME=“Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS” VERSION_ID=“22.04” HOME_URL=“https://pop.system76.com [https://pop.system76.com]” SUPPORT_URL=“https://support.system76.com [https://support.system76.com]” BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues [https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues]” PRIVACY_POLICY_URL=“https://system76.com/privacy [https://system76.com/privacy]” VERSION_CODENAME=jammy UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy LOGO=distributor-logo-pop-os

starelfsc2 Aug 16, 2024

"Paying customers" wishes vs creating a more accepting environment

https://sh.itjust.works/post/23759894

"Paying customers" wishes vs creating a more accepting environment - sh.itjust.works

I recently watched a video about an unpolled change in old-school runescape that added the ability to change your character’s pronouns, as well as have beards as female characters, and the community’s reaction to it. Sadly, most of the runescape playerbase is pretty right leaning, with the expected reactions of “this is dumb why would they add this,” “why add this unpolled,” and “this is a medieval fantasy game not a dating simulator” I wonder what people’s thoughts on this are, as if you are a paying customer for a game, and the game has been promised to only add poll-approved changes, is this unreasonable and why? The game is “old-school runescape,” the players are notoriously resistant to change, and are paying to keep the game as they like it. Can you pay to keep your uninclusive game uninclusive? I don’t have a great argument against it past “this literally doesn’t matter” which won’t convince people who believe it does.

starelfsc2 Jul 30, 2023

Weird graphical glitches/crashes in older games with AMD card

https://sh.itjust.works/post/1939700

Weird graphical glitches/crashes in older games with AMD card - sh.itjust.works

Hi all, I’ve been recently playing some somewhat old games and have had trouble with either crashing, or weird graphical glitches. The list of games I’ve tried: Warcraft III (a custom map, normal game seems to work fine) Quake 2 Spring engine 103 (rts engine) Warcraft 3 has a glitched white bar following the cursor, and the map crashes with “access violation” as the only error, as did the rts engine. I managed to fix the crash by running a 64 bit version of spring engine, but it then had this weird graphical glitch: https://imgur.com/a/ij6FaWa [https://imgur.com/a/ij6FaWa] I looked in the settings and kept changing anything I could think of, one was to set UseVBO=0 which fixed that graphical problem, but sometimes the game will still crash with “access violation” Quake 2 replaces all projectile sprites/trails with a circle: https://imgur.com/a/qtLR2To [https://imgur.com/a/qtLR2To] I’m thinking this is a weird problem with my AMD card, because I have a computer with the same 64 bit OS and all of these games work fine on it, and I played quake 2 before on this computer with the only difference being I swapped the graphics card and motherboard (exact same model mobo) I’ve tried running warcraft 3 with djvoodoo and that didn’t seem to help, I’ve read online amd cards can have issues with older games running openGL and directx. Those posts are pretty old, but they make me think I might be SOL with an amd card specs: OS: windows 10 home 64 bit mobo: gigabyte z690 UD ddr4 processor: intel i7 12700kf gfx: amd radeon RX 6800 XT Appreciate any ideas!