Can't see weapons or players/bots

[zuriastrad]

ronan-
And do you use 3 different forum accounts ?

i wonder what the odds are for three guys joining the forum on the same day with the exact same problem?

[esteel]

I have exactly the same problem on Linux with Nvidia 7600 2Go video card. The problem is only when started as not-root. I have tried deleting the .nexiuz directory in my non-root account, but this is not helping.

Are you sure you have the 'real' nvidia drivers installed? Does the shell command glxinfo | grep -i "string\|direct" output? For me its like this:

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8800M GTX/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 177.68

The direct rendering: Yes is the one very important line.. the others might help to find the problem..

[morbius]

I have exactly the same problem on Linux with Nvidia 7600 2Go video card. The problem is only when started as not-root. I have tried deleting the .nexiuz directory in my non-root account, but this is not helping.

I have exactly the same problem with exactly the same GPU, as I said hare:
http://forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?p=48108#48108

Runing the game in sudo helps, but I just hate starting it from terminal every time. Everything worked in earlier Ubuntu, but since switching to Interpid...

[Alien]

Install newer drivers and see if that helps (should).

[morbius]

There are no newer drivers in the repos and nvidia doesn't bother packaging its drivers in deb archives. Don't want to compile them either, it makes a mess out of the system.

Edit: I've just checked, there are no newer drivers than these on nvidia's web site.

[divVerent]

Ubuntu 8.10? Try turning off desktop effects, and expect generally bad performance. See the Ubuntu 8.10 thread for more workarounds.

[morbius]

Turning Compiz off doesn't help. Game runs properly only in root mode.

[Massacre]

i did the stuff this thread said and this is what happening to me.

I cant see my weapon. spawn weapons, and all other players look like floating tiny brown boxes.

[RoKenn]

Runing the game in sudo helps

IIRC, this might happen if you don't have permissions of the "video" group.

Go to user administration dialog and add this group to the list of your group permissions. And then check if it helps.

[morbius]

Runing the game in sudo helps

IIRC, this might happen if you don't have permissions of the "video" group.

Go to user administration dialog and add this group to the list of your group permissions. And then check if it helps.

Yeah, this seems to solve the problem, although for some reason I had a load of problems with usermod -a -G command, it just wouldn't add me to video group. Running chmod 666 /dev/nvidia* also helps, but you would need to do it every time, so it's good to try once and see if it helps with the problem.

Thing is that now if I try to run nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh script I get problems with cursor not responding and screen flickering, so I have to run nexuiz-linux-glx.sh, which means I don't have sound.