Introversion

Hello

I own a dedicated linux server I use for hosting games and I just bought a Defcon copy in order to be able to run DEDCON in full mode.

I would like to know where I can find my Defcon key so I can paste it into DEDCON's config file.

My server is a Debian Squeeze 32bits.

Thanks in advance for your answers.

In game press escape -> options -> authentication.

No idea where the actual file is stored in Linux but this should work fine.

Well... as the game is intended to run on a dedicated server, I can only grab informations in shell mode :/

Nasher wrote:Well... as the game is intended to run on a dedicated server, I can only grab informations in shell mode :/

Yes that is indeed a tricky. Sorry I can't help further. Someone will see this and help you though so keep checking.

How did you buy it? The retail version and the desura one store the key in ~/.defcon/authkey. But you have to enter it yourself into the game for the retail version (get it from your purchase page/email confirmation then), it's only done automatically on Desura, and I don't know WHEN it is stored, it may be when you first start the game.

I bought it from the official DEFCON's home page and installed the debian package through dpkg.

I checked ~/.defcon/ but it's empty... and when I try to run the game, I get this error:

Couldn't initialise SDLterminate called without an active exception
Aborted

If you bought it off the homepage, you should have access to your key there, you should have received it by email, too (check your spam filter) They revamped the store since I last checked it out, and I can't figure out myself how to use it
The support page ( http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/support/index.html ) even links to it:
http://www.introversion.co.uk/store/
There used to be a login link somewhere there, but I can't find it any more.

So if the above doesn't help, I suggest you contact support.

And yeah, of course DEFCON itself won't run on a pure server, you need an X server active. You can try running it over a remote desktop connection, the easiest way is to use "ssh -Y <yourservername>" from a Unix machine. It may still not work because of missing OpenGL files on the server. Anyway, that is completely pointless because the client would just run in demo mode if you don't feed it the key.

bert_the_turtle wrote:If you bought it off the homepage, you should have access to your key there, you should have received it by email, too (check your spam filter) They revamped the store since I last checked it out, and I can't figure out myself how to use it
The support page ( http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/support/index.html ) even links to it:
http://www.introversion.co.uk/store/
There used to be a login link somewhere there, but I can't find it any more.

There's a PC code, a steam code and download links. Nothing more, nothing less.

bert_the_turtle wrote:And yeah, of course DEFCON itself won't run on a pure server, you need an X server active. You can try running it over a remote desktop connection, the easiest way is to use "ssh -Y <yourservername>" from a Unix machine. It may still not work because of missing OpenGL files on the server.

Sorry to contradict you but it does work, because I think DEDCON is intended to act this way.

bert_the_turtle wrote:Anyway, that is completely pointless because the client would just run in demo mode if you don't feed it the key.

On that point, you're totally right

Nasher wrote:There's a PC code

That would be your authkey, I presume.

Oh, I see. Ok then, thanks !