The 2.4 version worked, and then i messed up the patch process...
I then downloaded the 300mb 2.4.2... and my problems started
I've tried both the normal EXE and SDL version...
I have the video settings set to low, and the textures to lowest
The nexuiz folder is on the desktop
My specs:
Windows XP SP2
CPU: Pentium 4, 1.6ghz,
Motherboard: Acer S81M

...anything else i need to put up?

I have the exact same problem. Anyone know why?

I also have the same problem. I also tried putting all the video settings to the lowest they could be, so if we could please get an answer soon!!!!

What video card do you use ? have you updated the drivers ?

And do you use 3 different forum accounts ?

Ronan wrote:And do you use 3 different forum accounts ?

hahaha. Truth.

Ronan wrote:What video card do you use ? have you updated the drivers ?

And do you use 3 different forum accounts ?

Hey, I don't quad-post!

Well, I don't know much about my computer. It came to me refurbished and I'm not sure what the video card is... oh, here it is:
SiS 315_315E
32 mb internal RAM

Heck, I've never heard of that type of card before...

For the record, I got my first version of nexuiz from an Australian PC User DVD. That was version 2.4, and it worked absolutely 100% fine. Well, except for the fact that an annoying little yellow box floated around the screen telling me to update, lol

Well sorry it's a horrible card for nexuiz. Unfortunately the engine change included with the 2.4.2 version cause the problem with your card.
A work around is to use the full 2.4.2 version, but you replace nexuiz.exe by the one coming from nexuiz 2.4

So just to get this right, I swap the nexuiz.exe file from 2.4 with the one from 2.4.2
And I have all of the 2.4.2 stuff but the 2.4 nexuiz.exe in place of the 2.4.2 version

the other way around. no, wait, yes.

edit: override 2.4.2 exe with 2.4 exe

(and that works??)

Nexuiz 2.4.2 is the hotfix version of 2.4, there wasn't many gamecode change (related to the game). Most change was in the engine (rendering, prediction code, etc.). So the engine from 2.4 can still run, I think, the 2.4.2 gamecode (not much different than 2.4). The only problem I see is when Nexuiz 2.5 will be released, playing on the new servers can be not fully compatible.

Ok so can someone please tell me how to do this in basic terms, like non-high tech computer terms.

Alright -
Download Nexuiz 2.4
Download Nexuiz 2.4.2
Unzip them both to SEPERATE folders
Get the nexuiz.exe from the 2.4 folder
Put it into the 2.4.2 folder
Overwrite the 2.4.2 nexuiz.exe with the 2.4 nexuiz.exe

It worked for me!

Ok thanks. Can't wait until I can start playing.

Edit: I tried and it worked thanks again!!

For fix it, only change the option "Extension Limit" in NVIDIA Control Panel to off, it's working for me. (i always check it, becouse many games have problems with this)

Entuser wrote:For fix it, only change the option "Extension Limit" in NVIDIA Control Panel to off, it's working for me. (i always check it, becouse many games have problems with this)

I seriously doubt changing a setting in NVIDIA's control panel will do anything for a system with a Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) 315E graphics card

Anyhow, in theory the 315 is slightly slower than a GeForce2MX, but i don't think it will come even close in practice due to inferior OpenGL drivers. I'd expect some bugs as well

on my 2-year old IBM laptop on which quake3 runs perfectly.
as it is now, nexuiz is badly tested (you only take the big fat pc's for testing?)
and therefore a waste of time. i will not try any strange workarounds -
as it does not run out of the box, i'll simply delete it.

Thanks for your help and comment, it's always very appreciated.

LOL such comments make it rather easy to NOT help you.. or maybe others that have the same problem? Do you really expect that a game made by hobbyists has the same quality as a game with million of doloar behind it? Sorry to say but either you think too simplistic or just like to act like an asshole.. Even commercial games DO have bugs on some hardware, would you tell them the same crap?
Actually this responce is already to long for you attitude..

My troll senses are tingling

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.

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?

demercel wrote: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..

demercel wrote: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...

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

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.

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

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

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.

morbius wrote: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.

RoKenn wrote:

morbius wrote: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.