C&C :D

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hello,

2008/3/23, Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst at gmail.com>:
>  2008/3/23, Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k at gmx.net>:
>
> > > Hi all!
>  >  >
>  >  > After an announcement that the original Command and conquer is
>  >  > available free for download, I decided to test it. Command and Conquer
>  >  > works perfectly in wine, I haven't tested network gaming over ipx, but
>  >  > that will probably not work. For the rest it's flawless, apart from
>  >  > the losing focus behavior, but playing it in a wine desktop helps.
>  >  >
>  >  > Remember: KANE IS A TRAITOR! LONG LIVE THE GDI!
>  >  >
>  >  > Cheers,
>  >  > Maarten.
>  >  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Hi Maarten,
>  >
>  >  It will likely run better if you use DirectDrawRenderer=opengl + RenderTargetLockMode=readtex (at least on Nvidia hardware that is fast). Second IPX network should work (if this is the c&c version with updated ipx) but you need root as plain users don't have enough permissions to create a raw ipx socket.
>
> Tested that, none of the opengl modes work well:
>
>  disabled: In the menu I only get the menu, not the text that's written on it.
>  readtex: I get a white texture with only the text
>  textex: Nothing at all
>  readdraw: fails too
>
>  I'll play without opengl I think.
Hold on, even without opengl it will fail sometimes dramatically, it
will stop updating the screen entirely if you fiddle around with the
menu too much. After that it doesn't work any more at all.