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I just installed this and doesn't even launch... I got through DX install, activation and no errors.

Try to launch and nothing happens... I'm running a MBP 2.4 late 2010 model with Snow Leopard and the latest version of CXG.

Anyone? Bueller, Bueller.

Hi,

I saw this float by last week, but sort of hung off in case someone else responded wrt the GOTY edition ; didn't happen - perhaps they're all having several days off? B)

...anyhow, I have the 'standard' edition of this on Steam, and although it starts on my 11,2 iMac, it's completely unplayable due to various rendering issues ...ie; you can't see what you're doing. I'm going to imagine that even if you did get the GOTY edition to run, you're still going to end up in roughly the same situation. Note also, a number of game titles based on the Unreal engine have become a tad testy wrt CXG-10 (see the bugs tab on this page), so I think we're really looking to the future here and hoping things will improve in some subsequent release of CXG ...

I guess this is not great news, but, there you have it - best give Borderlands a day off too 8)

Cheers!

I have a feeling that the Steam GOTY edition includes DRM, as the first and second DLC do on Steam. You could try grepping the executable for references to SecuROM.

I found that for me it fails to launch from the steam console, if you try to run it from the exe directly it works.

Strange, I'm having no issues launching this from Steam.

The Steam GOTY edition certainly works with the latest CxGames on Linux.

I have installed it in fresh steam bottle and played it. I did have to use the mouse trick suggested in the Tips & Tricks section. I also deactivated dynamic shadows and that gave a huge boost to my fps.

Sadly the game plays slower than on windows but it is very playable on Linux.

Compiz seems to interfere sometimes and I just disabled it while playing.

I have the Steam GOTY version working via Crossover (first 9.something, now 10.0) for Linux (Ubuntu 10.10), and have had so for a few months. If I remember correctly, I installed Steam in a new bottle, and then let Steam itself download the game into that bottle. I had to add the mouse trick from the tips & tricks section, but that is it.

I have completed the base game a few times without any kind of technical trouble. The DLC, however, is a different matter. Only The Armoury of General Knoxx seems to work for me. Probably due to SecuROM.

During (according to Steam) 124 hours of game play, it has only crashed 2-3 times. Runs very stable, I'd say.

The only graphics glitches I've seen is that during some cutscenes, the black cartoonish outline is offset so it hangs in the air above the object it belongs to. And when you arrive at a new location, it takes a second before the textures sharpen (anisotropic filtering glitch?). That is all. The last one I'm not even sure is due to crossover.

So. Why is this rated 'Bronze'?

Joachim Jungner wrote:

I have the Steam GOTY version working via Crossover (first
9.something, now 10.0) for Linux (Ubuntu 10.10), and have had so for
a few months. If I remember correctly, I installed Steam in a new
bottle, and then let Steam itself download the game into that
bottle. I had to add the mouse trick from the tips & tricks section,
but that is it.

I have completed the base game a few times without any kind of
technical trouble. The DLC, however, is a different matter. Only The
Armoury of General Knoxx seems to work for me. Probably due to
SecuROM.

During (according to Steam) 124 hours of game play, it has only
crashed 2-3 times. Runs very stable, I'd say.

The only graphics glitches I've seen is that during some cutscenes,
the black cartoonish outline is offset so it hangs in the air above
the object it belongs to. And when you arrive at a new location, it
takes a second before the textures sharpen (anisotropic filtering
glitch?). That is all. The last one I'm not even sure is due to
crossover.

So. Why is this rated 'Bronze'?

Hi,

The Bronze medal ranking you refer to, is the overall ranking for an app/game.
If you go to the details page here and click on the 'Show Medal Breakdown' link,
you will see the most recent/current rank submissions are 2 linux bronze and 1
Mac known not to work = bronze. That's how the overall ranking is derived ; if
you submit your own medal ranking for this game, that will help improve the
averages....this all said...

...I'm cautious, here, that the GOTY version is somehow different from the standard
release. The reason this game consistently ranks poorly, is because it hates
running on some many Macs, and it's fractious (at best) on linux, just depending
on what hardware/distro/videocard you happening to be using...ie; big YMMV factor...

What we don't want happening however, is the situation of the Standard and GOTY
editions being represented on the same C4 page (this one), and it turns out that
the GOTY edition is significantly different, to the point that runs that much better,
that it becomes 'misrepresented' here -- if that case could be proven, it'd make
more sense for the GOTY edition to have it's own C4 page ranked accordingly...

I have to test the Standard edition against 10.1 anyhow ; I'll submit my ranks
accordingly (but I think it's still being miserable on the Mac)...

Cheers!

Thanks. I submitted my ranking.

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