"Client AntiCitizen One dropped"

[nerfherder23]

Ok, I downloaded this and ran it on one of the Mac OS X's at my school today. It performed beautifully, and all of my friends nearby immediately wanted it. I congratulate you guys.

But, when I tried to place the same package on my computer at home, which is running Linux Ubuntu 7.10, I tried to play the campaign. Right off, during the console display, it started the server for maybe a split-second, and then gave me the message "client AntiCitizen One dropped". I tried both campaign sets, as well as Instant Action, and recieved the same error each time.

Any suggestions? I tried using both "nexuiz-linux-686-glx" and "nexuiz-linux-686-sdl", Both could open the menu, neither could play a game.

Any help is much appreciated, I love this game and can't wait to try out the newest weapons.


I do have Windows as well, if it's easier to just play Nexuiz in that (though I want to attempt to rectify Linux first).

[esteel]

Maybe you simply do not have 'real' 3d drivers installed. Most distributions use free drivers which lack 3d support but offen binary drivers from ati and nvidia and such..
Try this in a terminal:

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glxinfo | grep -i 'string\|direct'

It should say something about direct rendering: Yes and your graphic card manufacturer.. If not find out how to install the matching binary driver for your card

[nerfherder23]

I have an nVidia Geforce 7900 GT, so I won't be using any free drivers.

Thank you for the advice though. Any other ideas, please?

[esteel]

You won't be using free drivers? THERE ARE free drivers for nvidida cards.. thats why i asked you to run that command to make sure. Unless ofc you mean you KNOW that you installed the 'real' nvidia drivers..

Do you get some error message on the console when you run Nexuiz and it exits like that?

[nerfherder23]

By "I won't" I meant "I am not currently". lol.

It doesn't really exit, per say, it just gives the "client dropped" error and stays in the console. When I press "Esc" it goes back to the main menu.

Nexuiz 2.4.2 worked on this PC, if that's any indication of how things are.

[divVerent]

Are there any more error messages on the console when it "dropped" you? Can you maybe make a screenshot of the screen you get dropped to?

Do games started from the "Create" menu work?

[nerfherder23]

I seem to be unable to take a Linux-Shot, and the in-game screenshot seems to only work...well, in-game.

All it says aside from the "client dropped" is a lot of packet transfers. A short list of seemingly random symbols follows.

[divVerent]

I'd need all the info on the screen.

Press F12 when you were dropped to the console, or type "screenshot" at the prompt and hit Enter.

Look in ~/.nexuiz/data/screenshots for the screenshot.

Upload it.

[nerfherder23]

Would having the folder on my desktop have anything to do with it?

I can't seem to find the screenshot.

Such a nerd and I can't find a simple screenshot.

[nerfherder23]

FOUND IT!

Forget the details, but I have it now.

And, new developments! I see the "Host_Error: CL_VM_Error: client: Program error in function CSQC_Ent_Update" now.