Quake 4 Linux 392
Crusader writes "id Software has released the Linux client and server for Quake 4. There's a FAQ page with installation instructions, notes, and download links."
Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
Wait (Score:5, Funny)
Quake 3 install troll (Score:5, Funny)
Now if only.. (Score:2, Funny)
YESSSS!! (Score:2, Funny)
4 ALREADY!? :( (Score:4, Funny)
id software... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wait (Score:1, Funny)
They even changed the ship on their homepage as a tribute
Re:Wait (Score:5, Funny)
Ahhhhh, one day I'll be able to make a statement like that with a straight face....
great job, id!!!!!
Re:Wait (Score:2, Funny)
Doh.
Sinister Voiceover (Score:5, Funny)
Requires Windows Version! HUMILIATION!
In Other News... (Score:5, Funny)
"Any group of people who advocate giving a Penguin a helmet and a rocket launcher are a bunch of sick fucks..."
News at 10!
Re:YESSSS!! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sinister Voiceover (Score:1, Funny)
Oooh, that's bad.
But it comes with a free Frogurt!
That's good!
The Frogurt is also cursed.
That's bad.
But you get your choice of topping.
That's good.
The toppings contain potassium benzoate.
Can I go now?
mnb Re:Sinister Voiceover (Score:1, Funny)
Gauntlet.
Turn in your badge.
No such file or directory (Score:1, Funny)
NcFTP 3.1.9 (Mar 24, 2005) by Mike Gleason (http://www.ncftp.com/contact/ [ncftp.com]).
Connecting to 192.246.40.185...
ftp.idsoftware.com
Welcome to ftp.idsoftware.com
Connection from 24.195.181.250 logged
You are user 102 of 100 available connections.
Average throughput for this server is 1347.912 KBps.
37581 people have visited this site in the last 24 hours.
Please e-mail xian@idsoftware.com if you encounter any problems.
Logging in...
User logged in, proceed.
Logged in to ftp.idsoftware.com.
ncftp / > cd idstuff/quake4/mac
Could not chdir to idstuff/quake4/mac: server said:
ncftp
doh
Re:Quake 3 install troll (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Too bad the installation is failing for people. (Score:1, Funny)
fscking copy prevention shit.
Re:Sinister Voiceover (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Full review and screen shots (Score:4, Funny)
Re: Quake 3 install troll (Score:1, Funny)
Installation was pretty smooth. I had to download nvidia binary drivers to get fully accelerated OpenGL, just like Linux. Windows is a supported platform for the drivers. I had to reboot the whole OS after installing them, because Windows won't let you easily drop back to a command line mode and just restart the GUI. No worries - I didn't have a server running on the machine, and it only takes a bit longer to reboot than to just restart a GUI.
Caution - Windows only comes with a special limited feature browser that doesn't support tabs, or anything. It is apparently only provided so you can download the latest version of a real browser after you install Windows. Windows doesn't come with a lot of useful stuff that you expect from a Linux distro...
So, I start reading docs to find out how you install apps on this new OS. I was having a pretty good time. Then, I learned that there is no equivalent of apt-get. If there is free software you want to download and install, you have to do it manually. So, I used the funny miniature "IE" browser to get the Quake 4 source online.
Ooops, bad idea. Windows doesn't come with a compiler. You can download a free version, but the full featured "Visual Studio," costs a lot of money. I didn't feel like investing the effort to understand the differences. I decided to just get binaries. Again, there is no tool to automatically download and install an app, so I had to manually google for windows binaries. Thankfully, Quake 4 is a very popular game, so it was very fast and easy to find, but still, it is an extra layer of inconvenience.
After a flurry of clicking "next" and eventually "finish," I finally had the game installed. Hooray. I tried to run it and I got a "BSOD." (Crash error screen) Of course, I already pointed out that Windows comes with no development tools, so it wasn't like I could try again with the debugger to see what happened. I had no way to see exactly what the issue was. What's worse, I couldn't get back to the system. This *game* had caused the equivalent of a kernel panic. It wasn't just the app that had crashed, but the whole system! this, from a system that is supposedly really great for games! It lets a game kill it!
Okay, so I rebooted into Linux. I already knew of a website with binaries for Quake 4, so I went there in Konq (Which came installed by default! I didn't have to go and download it!), downloaded a package, and that was all there was to it. This "Windows is great for games" garbage is just horrible propaganda.