YEAH America's Army GameCD is out !!

Opteron · Posted: Sun May 18, 2003 8:11 am Post subject:

Somebody should really place this in the portage tree!
I am downloading the cd right now but I find it pretty unecessary to download a whole cd only because of the game.

grover · Posted: Sun May 18, 2003 8:57 am Post subject:

I have the game installed and running fine, the performance however doesn't seem to be too good at the moment. Frame rates are 100+ while walking around but they drop down to 15fps all the time whenever you get some action on screen. Dropping resolution and turning all the settings off hasn't really improved it much so I'm not sure whats going on. The mouse seems to be really jerky while strafing as well.

Also the player skins are too bright and adjusting the brightness and gamma in game doesn't seem to change them at all.

Im still happy with the game though, hopefully it will improve a bit with some patching.

cylgalad · Veteran Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 1327 Location: France

This game is a fascist game to turn people into braindead cannon-fodder, you should be ashamed of it, ashamed to pay taxes only for army and cops rather than paying taxes for education, health and culture. You american are so insane, you should get rid of your government before it gets rid of you !

lurid · Guru Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 595 Location: Florida

Oh yes. What a novel idea. I'll promptly go take a walk up to the White House and remove my government. I was kinda bored today, but now I have something to do!

Thank you cylgalad, you have made my day complete. :roll:

bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

jimlynch11 · Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 1:12 am Post subject:

great concept, really excited about AA and gentoo games.

kind of annoyed that bootsplash/fb works so well on the CD, but i havent gotten it working yet elsewhere.

the game tells me to get a modern ATI card, which i have. it wont work. booo

Obz · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 274

on the subject of an ebuild, i'm a dialup user and i could see the benefit in having a smaller download (ala an America's Army ebuild that only downloads the game), but possibly the game is subject to some sort of distribution restrictions? (the game itself isnt GPL as far as i know, it's "free as in beer") and i really wouldnt like to see Gentoo get itself into hot water over something like this.

i think what we really need is just some set guidelines for installing the america's army game from the GameCD. however, does this break any restrictions (if any) placed on the game distribution?

perhaps someone who's allready downloaded it (i'm still waiting for my download to complete... yes it's been going solid for a few nights at 4K/s :) ) can have a look around for a license for us to clear up these issues.

thanks,
mike.

Lucass · Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 5:25 am Post subject:

I can't extract this, because:

Ant · Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 11:21 am Post subject:

Okay, nearly 2 weeks later, I've finished my iso download. Good ol modem. :cry:

I miss cable.

Anyway, finally got the damn thing. Now i'm trying to copy it to disk so I can run it.

Following the last post on page 1 of this thread, here's what I did.

downloaded cloop_0.68-3.tar.gz (instead of the cloop_0.68-2.tar.gz version since it is not there anymore.

compiled as above without any problems.
mounted the iso without any problems.
then tried to extract with (but using my correct paths)

tj · Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 12:45 pm Post subject:

Ant · Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 1:49 pm Post subject:

Well, seeing as our file sizes matched, I gained new hope and had another bash at it from a different angle. Alas, it was not to be.

This time I mounted the cloop file using the kernel module.

tj · Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 2:10 pm Post subject:

Ant - are you in your regular gentoo when you mount the iso (image or cd?)?

One suggestion is to go in under root in kde, mount the image/cd with cloop and then use konq to browse to the opt/armyops170 directory and copy it

it's close to 390MB if I remember correctly and took a while to copy from the CD

if you're successful you can just right click to set permissions
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Ant · Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 2:29 pm Post subject:

TJ,

Yeah, I'm running as root. I'm mounting the iso image. (haven't burnt it to disk since if it is corrupt it's a waste of a CD, besides, I just plan to copy it to disk anyway)

I am not sure you can mount the iso image with cloop, however, when I reboot I will give it a try.

I'll also try having a look through the armyops subdirectory before copying it next time to see what is there. The lockup is definitely a lockup and not just a slow response due to a large copy size.

Using kde and konq won't change the lock up problems. (Plus I use gnome and don't have kde installed)

Thanks for the suggestions.

BTW: Are you sure your mounting the iso image (or cdrom) with cloop and not actually mounting the livecd.cloop file (which is on the cdrom) with cloop. I would expect you are using cloop to mount the livecd.cloop file rather than the iso image itself??

tj · Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 2:57 pm Post subject:

gregcoit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 101

All this would be moot if Icculus.org would release America's Army and we could make an ebuild for it. I heard that icculus.org was giving GentooGames a weeks head start, but it's been a week and a half with no word from them.

Anybody know what the hold up is? Or if there is an ETA from icculus.org?
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vod · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 90

gah.
cloop wont compile with my 2.5 kernel
:evil:

edit;
Ok, you can point it to 2.4 sources and it still works.

digilink · n00b Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 24 Location: TN

Is it possible to run a server with this? That would be my main interest, I am going to download his tonight and give it a try.

eyce · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 1:01 am Post subject: Slow...

Yea.. my only complain about this game is that its a bit slow. ... 10 frames a second slow... lol... One would think that with all the stuff turned off it would work just fine on an Athlon 800 w/ 256 megs of RAM and a Geforce 2 GTS.

Oh well... guess my computer is gettin' outdated

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dsample · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 1:40 am Post subject: I simple solution

If you just want a simple solution to getting America's Army onto your HDD so that you can play it from a normal boot, do the following:

Boot the CD and get to a shell
mount your HDD
Code:

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo [i]change hda1 to your hdd device[/i]
copy the America's Army files
Code:

cp -R /opt/armyops170 /mnt/gentoo/opt/

Now reboot into your normal system, and run the following to play:

azote · Guru Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 415

Shining Arcanine · Veteran Joined: 24 Sep 2009 Posts: 1110

It has been 7 years. When will an ebuild be available in portage?

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

For a game using the UT3 engine? Not likely.

Shining Arcanine · Veteran Joined: 24 Sep 2009 Posts: 1110

matze_na · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 54 Location: Germany

Don't know the exact details, but long story short: There was a linux version, now there isn't one and most certainly never will be one again.
I guess you could still install and run the "most current" linux version, which would be a few years old, if you get the files somewhere.
But you won't be able to play on any current version server online, so you might as well forget about it.

Jazz-KP · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2008 Posts: 38

I've played AA version 2 online few months ago, plenty of servers were still up