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Problems with the Linux version of Darwinia

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Nvidia with Twinview does more than necessary...

Postby Cargo Cult » Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:16 pm

Got Darwinia running under Linux. It works really well. Sound, graphics, input - all fine. Except for one minor issue.

It's spread across two monitors. It looks awesomely awesome, except it's slightly difficult to play 'cause there's a gap in the middle. :shock:

Anyway, this is SuSE 9.2 x86_64, with xorg-x11-6.8.2rc3-2.1 and latest Nvidia drivers, AMD 64 3200+, Nvidia Geforce 6600 etc. More version numbers available on request, and so on - I'd do an rpm -qa but people would complain.

Still, the intros are now the best thing evar...
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Postby Bruce42 » Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:35 am

I havent played with dual screen setups in a long time, but back in the day nvidia broke the standard setup by providing one large res screen, instead of 2. You had to manually specify where each screen was so that your window manager knew. This may have changed.

Apart from that you can always run in a window.
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Postby Dave2 » Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:46 pm

Add a new metamode, with NULL as the resolution for the second monitor; for me this was "1600x1200,NULL". Then set Darwinia to use this resolution. As long as you have xrandr support (I'd imagine you will), it'll turn off the second monitor.
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Postby Cargo Cult » Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:10 pm

Cheers, that's fixed it. I've got a list of slightly more sensible, non-dual-screen screen modes available for Darwinia now!

(Should I complain that the game runs far better on my PC under Linux than under Windows XP? No crashes, no farting audio, and I now don't have to disable dual-head, for whatever reason... ;) )
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Postby afrazkhan » Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:14 pm

Hi,

I'm having the same problem but the solution above didn't work for me since I'm unable to change my resolution within the game (the only available resolution is the one I'm already running at).

Currently I run another X session with twinview switched off to play Darwinia, but that's kind of a crappy way to go about things.

I'm using Xorg and not XFree86, if that makes any difference. Here are my metamodes in xorg.conf;

Option "MetaModes" "1600x1200,1600x1200,1600x1200,NULL,1280x1024,1280x1024"
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Postby shinygerbil » Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:09 pm

Cargo Cult wrote:(Should I complain that the game runs far better on my PC under Linux than under Windows XP? No crashes, no farting audio, and I now don't have to disable dual-head, for whatever reason... ;) )


I have the same conclusion. I can only assume Windows is a lot more fussy. Darwinia doesn't even run under Windows on my laptop...
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Postby Dave2 » Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:18 pm

afrazkhan wrote:Option "MetaModes" "1600x1200,1600x1200,1600x1200,NULL,1280x1024,1280x1024"

That looks to be your problem - metamodes should be separated with semicolons; e.g. my xorg.conf contains:

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        Option          "MetaModes"     "1600x1200,1024x768;1600x1200, NULL;1024x768, NULL"

Changing that should make it selectable.
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... doh ...

Postby afrazkhan » Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:39 pm

Yeah I figured that out after re-reading some documentation shortly after posting this. Feel like a dolt now :P

Thanks for the reply.

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