SEV for Linux?

Gandalf_greypilgrim · #1 April 25th, 2004, 06:26 PM

CVS reduced Version, the only real difference between them is copywright support(which se4 does not use), and support for ms installer, which se4 also does not use. Unfortunately, I have spoke too soon though, I am unable to save my game, I get an error. This may be because of the file system I am using,(reiser3), but I don't know, let me know if file saves work for you.

parabolize · #2 April 25th, 2004, 06:39 PM

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Originally posted by Gandalf_greypilgrim:
CVS reduced Version, the only real difference between them is copywright support(which se4 does not use), and support for ms installer, which se4 also does not use. Unfortunately, I have spoke too soon though, I am unable to save my game, I get an error. This may be because of the file system I am using,(reiser3), but I don't know, let me know if file saves work for you.

Ok how do you down load the CVS reduced Version? I was trying to get it with kget but it was the wrong url.

Gandalf_greypilgrim · #3 April 25th, 2004, 08:40 PM

There is an excellent howto located at www.frankscorner.org, I can't remember where exactly, but I am pretty sure, look at the left for the howto's link, and it is in there.

parabolize · #4 April 28th, 2004, 12:47 PM

Ok CVS was to hard for me so I spent my 15$ on the commercial winex. After a few installs Point2Play-small-suse-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm was the one that worked. I told p2p to load seiv and the matrix launcher in virtual desktops. It moves a little slow but MUCH better for me than duel boot. No error Messages yet. The game creation screen is the only gui loading bad and its just the bottom right boarder missing.
I wouldnt call it perfect but its good

Gandalf_greypilgrim · #5 April 30th, 2004, 01:56 AM

Cool, are you able to save your games? I ran into problems there.

parabolize · #6 April 30th, 2004, 03:50 AM

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Originally posted by Gandalf_greypilgrim:
Cool, are you able to save your games? I ran into problems there.

I have saved 2 games. No errors of any kind.

LonghornXtreme · #7 August 6th, 2004, 05:35 AM

Cross platform compatibility is growing daily for gamers... ya'll should check out SDL as a substitute for directX... yes its missing alot of the new fangled bells and whistles... but then again this is a 4x game... not Doom3 :-)

It all depends on how the game is coded... I don't blame MM for putting out a windows only Version this time around... but I think by the time SEVI is going to hit shelves, it should at least be *nix and M$ compatible. Its not hard at all to accomplish as the libraries to do so are all open source and use the same calls throughout the program to access the lower level functions of both OS's... but switching in the middle of the process would be absolutely painfull....