Why won't WolfensteinET work with Windows Vista?

[WingsofNight323]

I have ran Windows Vista on my computer and when I try to play Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, it says “Cannot run OpenGL subsystem”.
Why do I have problems like this?

[phray]

you need to update your video drivers. i was just running et in vista not 45 seconds ago.

[MrLego]

Maybe your video card does not support opengl, many of the onboard video cards don’t.

[WingsofNight323]

Where do I find the video Drivers at?

[Nail]

You need video drivers from the manufacturer’s site, the Windows drivers do NOT support OpenGL

[General.Jung]

Hello Forum,

let Windows die use non rpm based OpenSource.

[Dangles91]

I will do that when you stop saying “Hello Forum”

[ParanoiD]

Check what videocard you have. Go to your desktop en right-click. Then ‘perzonalize’ and then choose to adjust your settings (or how it is called, at least the last one). Then you will see NVIDIA or ATI.

Then download teh driver for your card at either www.nvidia.com or ati.amd.com.

Anyways, ET runs in both Vista x86 en x64

[Wils]

Hello Forum,

let Windows die use non rpm based OpenSource.

Please don’t troll our forums.

[jaybird]

Hello Forum,

let Windows die use non rpm based OpenSource.

When you’re willing to personally visit the location of peoples’ computers and set up software (download, compile, satisfy dependencies, solve coredumps, etc), let us know. Until then, do not assume that the majority of people want to deal with the intricacies of Unix software distribution.

[B0rsuk]

[quote=General.Jung]Hello Forum,

let Windows die use non rpm based OpenSource.

When you’re willing to personally visit the location of peoples’ computers and set up software (download, compile, satisfy dependencies, solve coredumps, etc), let us know. Until then, do not assume that the majority of people want to deal with the intricacies of Unix software distribution.[/quote]

People who wish to try Linux typically download and burn Ubuntu cd. It’s an install cd, but it includes live cd. This means the system launches first and then gives you an option to install it on hdd. Many people complain Ubuntu is actually too easy to set up. Especially with Automatix.

Not willing to even try ? Matrix has you !

[ParanoiD]

I have Ubuntu 7.04 now, I managed to get ET running, I managed to update to 2.60B, I manged to fix teh sound and i managed it to get ETpro. Now gimme the command to update PB as it gives me errors :?

Must say Ubuntu runs great here. Still i see many things to improve but in 10 years, I think linux can get a share from windows.

[nUllSkillZ]

A linux script/program:
http://websec.evenbalance.com/downloads/linux/pbsetup.run

[B0rsuk]

I have Ubuntu 7.04 now, I managed to get ET running, I managed to update to 2.60B, I manged to fix teh sound and i managed it to get ETpro. Now gimme the command to update PB as it gives me errors :?

Find and run pbweb.x86 . You may need to change its permission to allow execution. I also heard you need to copy the file into your .etwolf/pb directory and run again.

I did it this way:

locate pbweb.x86
sudo chmod +x /home/b0rsuk/Gry/etwolf/pb/pbweb.x86
./home/Gry/b0rsuk/etwolf/pb/pbweb.x86
cd .etwolf/pb
cp /home/b0rsuk/Gry/etwolf/pb/pbweb.x86 .
./pbweb.x86

Note that you most likely won’t have a dir named b0rsuk on your disk, so you’ll have to use whatever locate gave you.

[ParanoiD]

[quote=ParanoiD]I have Ubuntu 7.04 now, I managed to get ET running, I managed to update to 2.60B, I manged to fix teh sound and i managed it to get ETpro. Now gimme the command to update PB as it gives me errors :?

Find and run pbweb.x86 . You may need to change its permission to allow execution. I also heard you need to copy the file into your .etwolf/pb directory and run again.

I did it this way:

locate pbweb.x86
sudo chmod +x /home/b0rsuk/Gry/etwolf/pb/pbweb.x86
./home/Gry/b0rsuk/etwolf/pb/pbweb.x86
cd .etwolf/pb
cp /home/b0rsuk/Gry/etwolf/pb/pbweb.x86 .
./pbweb.x86

Note that you most likely won’t have a dir named b0rsuk on your disk, so you’ll have to use whatever locate gave you.[/quote]

I am not that stupid, just a linux beginner :P. I have used DOS in the past so iknow how to handle a console :P. I updated by downloading the html files from the site but that didnt seem to help. Still need to learn all commands, but first make it run :D. ‘sudo chmod …’ didn’t work for me at least. I dont know what +x does. Anyways some1 at the ubuntu forums was talking bout an root terminal. FOund out myself that i should use ‘sudo su’ for that. Thnaks anyways and will try tomorrow.

[Kic]

To update driver for video card do this :
sorry I cant be detaily or right say it ( Iam not native English Speaker )
right click on desktop, choose properties , go where you can set pixels, then click on right button , window pop up , then click on adapter, properties
then window pop up, click on middle up and actualize your driver on internet

[ParanoiD]

MS update sucks. You probably eill mess the nvidia control center etc or the ATI equivalent. Just manually download. Then the TS is on vista, there is no ‘properties’ in there

[B0rsuk]

I am not that stupid, just a linux beginner :P.

Sorry. This is the Internet and you never know who you are dealing with. And Ubuntu users in particular are notorious for refusing to learn (I’m using Ubuntu myself, heh)
If you read my message again, you’ll notice that all essential information is contained within the first 2 sentences, even before the quote block. You can do it any way you wish, including graphical tools like Konqueror (I prefer KDE).

‘sudo chmod …’ didn’t work for me at least.

How do you know it didn’t work ? Was it some kind of error message, or simply no feedback ? If everything went ok, you should get no feedback.

I dont know what +x does.

chmod is the tool for setting up file permissions. If you use letter notation, you get x for execute, r for read, w for write. Plus sign means you’re adding some permissions, while minus would take it away.
Alternatively you could write it in octal. It’s not exactly the same, but it can be much faster. 1 is for execute, 2 for write if I’m not mistaken, and 4 for read. For example, I often set up my executables with sudo chmod 700 filename , which is execute+write+read (1+2+4 = 7 for file owner ; 0 for group, 0 for everyone else ). Wikipedia has great articles about many Linux/unix tools:

chmod

Anyways some1 at the ubuntu forums was talking bout an root terminal. FOund out myself that i should use ‘sudo su’ for that.

Root terminal and sudo are different ways of doing the same thing. Sudo runs a single command, while root allows you to input more at a time. Both have their pros and cons. Pros of sudo are that it forces you to think before you type - which is nice because one bad command can send you to hell.
Anyway, I would recommend sticking to sudo, not because it’s supposedly better (arguable) but becuase Ubuntu was optimized for that. In some (very rare actually) cases you may break some stuff if you run certain programs using root instead of sudo.

[kamikazee]

Anyways some1 at the ubuntu forums was talking bout an root terminal. FOund out myself that i should use ‘sudo su’ for that.

Root terminal and sudo are different ways of doing the same thing. Sudo runs a single command, while root allows you to input more at a time. Both have their pros and cons. Pros of sudo are that it forces you to think before you type - which is nice because one bad command can send you to hell.
Anyway, I would recommend sticking to sudo, not because it’s supposedly better (arguable) but becuase Ubuntu was optimized for that. In some (very rare actually) cases you may break some stuff if you run certain programs using root instead of sudo.

Also note that sudo can be restricted to certain commands so you don’t open up the power of a regular `root shell’.

Eg. if you would like to let some other user turn off the computer, you could configure it so that he can only call `sudo shutdown -h now’.

[Nail]

Have you guys noticed Op problem is VISTA not linux ?