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by **slamdunkerc2** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:29 pm

I just want to ask the guys from Alientrap (respect!), if I could make (if I can

) a portable version Nexuiz (that starts from USB). I just need you to allow me to do it and post it somewhere. So please let me do it!

by **KadaverJack** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:49 pm

Feel free to do it, everything in Nexuiz is GPLed, so you are free to do anything with it (as long as you release the sources if you changed anything). Even without asking

But making Nexuiz a portable app is a quick job: just extract it on your USB stick and you're done

Nexuiz doesn't change any files outside the Nexuiz/data directory (on Linux systems it writes the config to ~/.nexuiz, but i guess your plan was for windows...).

by **C.Brutail** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:44 pm

I think the guys was thinking about a bootable usb druve, dedicated only to run Nexuiz. There's a project similar to this for QW.

by **divVerent** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:51 pm

[LDB]C.Brutail wrote:I think the guys was thinking about a bootable usb druve, dedicated only to run Nexuiz. There's a project similar to this for QW.

That is impossible - a bootable media with Nexuiz on it, that is.

See on this: http://kororaa.org/index.php?entry=entry060512-160752

If you make that, it won't run on current nvidia or ATI chipsets, but just on some old and slow chips at poor performance that are supported by free drivers.

"Portable Apps" are Windows software that runs directly from a CD, that is, that works without write access. That is true for Nexuiz with one exception - without write access, it can't write its cfg. Using the -path option of DarkPlaces, one should be able to set up a search path that starts somewhere on the hard drive and then loads the data from the CD if they are not on the HDD.

by **divVerent** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:57 pm

divVerent wrote:That is impossible - a bootable media with Nexuiz on it, that is.

See on this: http://kororaa.org/index.php?entry=entry060512-160752

I take that back. Using Linux, it is impossible. However, there is another free operating system that is supported by nvidia drivers and that is not GPLed, thus this one isn't an issue. It is FreeBSD. So a FreeBSD live CD with nvidia drivers and Nexuiz on it would be perfectly fine (although the FreeBSD kernel would have to be configured without ext2fs support since that is GPLed and would "taint" the kernel with the GPL).

However, that would be nvidia only then, ATI drivers are not available for FreeBSD.

by Ed » Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:44 am

Some distros do include non-GPL drivers in them. I know Kororaa had that legal complaint but take a look at Sabayon Linux, they include nVIDIA drivers.

by **KadaverJack** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:19 pm

Ed wrote:Some distros do include non-GPL drivers in them. I know Kororaa had that legal complaint but take a look at Sabayon Linux, they include nVIDIA drivers.

"But they did it first" is always a good reason for breaking the rules

by **slamdunkerc2** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:54 pm

But I meant Nexuiz on a USB-Drive. I have copied it and... it runs a bit slow. Do you have any idea how could I "boost" it

by **esteel** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:31 pm

slamdunkerc2 wrote:But I meant Nexuiz on a USB-Drive. I have copied it and... it runs a bit slow. Do you have any idea how could I "boost" it

I see no reason why Nexuiz should be slower from a usb stick then from harddisc.. granted it needs longer to load as a stick is much slower then a hdd but it should perform the same fps wise.

by **Zico** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:28 pm

Probably it could help to try out tiny-nexuiz?
This could at least increase the load times.

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