PlaneShift

Gameplay => Newbie Help (Start Here) => Topic started by: CatLily on November 17, 2005, 01:39:48 am

Title: Hi,I have a question.
Post by: CatLily on November 17, 2005, 01:39:48 am

I\'m downloading this game as we speak.Does this game connect to ALL computers,such as Mac with Windows And Linux?

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Post by: steuben on November 17, 2005, 01:41:41 am

there are clients for each, if that\'s what you\'re asking. i\'m not sure about the states for either mac or linux, as to if they are current or not. but i\'m sure someone will say shortly.

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Post by: eggplantboy on November 17, 2005, 02:34:51 am

Hello there,

I use the Macintosh version of the client, which connects to the game just fine. There are however a few bugs that Mac users encounter (see the MacOS forums if you need to).

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Post by: DaveG on November 17, 2005, 03:07:19 am

Theoretically, the game can run on any system.  You just need to download the source and compile it on your own.  ;)  Pre-compiled binaries exist for Windows, MAC, and Linux.  (see the MAC and Linux forums for more info)

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Post by: CatLily on November 17, 2005, 03:55:22 am

What I meant was,Does the Mac verson connect to the other versions of the game?

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Post by: steuben on November 17, 2005, 04:00:12 am

they all talk to the server not each other, and the server os agnostic.

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Post by: Keyaz on November 17, 2005, 04:00:15 am

ayup, everyone sees everyone, wouldnt be much of a mmo if we split them all up ^^

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Post by: Karyuu on November 17, 2005, 04:00:41 am

Still don\'t quite get the question ;) All players connect to the same world/server, regardless of their platform. So you\'ll be playing with Mac users, Linux users, and Windows users, that will populate the same land. Was that it?

*edit*

Hot damn :P

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Post by: CatLily on November 17, 2005, 04:02:23 am

Thank you all for your help.

Title: Windows->Linux->Planeshift->Windows
Post by: rakshak on November 24, 2005, 01:19:22 pm

I was fiddling around with Linux, trying to shift from windows altogether. But then I had to keep windows for games. So I was searching for games in Linux when a google search page directed me to planeshift. I did a search on wikipedia.com and they say \"planeshift looks promising\". I downloaded it and installed on linux, but the performance was poor. So I then deletec linux and now have come back to windows.

All for the sake of a game!

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Post by: Ecolem on November 24, 2005, 02:59:30 pm

It\'s not just a GAME, it\'s THE game  X(

And I\'m glad you did all that for PS, your a true fan  :P

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Post by: apis on November 24, 2005, 03:42:46 pm

I have a stable linux client, although I have heard that some people have had some issues with crashes and whatnot, If there are problems tell us (the linux users) and we could be able to help :)

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Post by: rakshak on November 25, 2005, 10:45:49 am

I have a dual boot system, with Linux and Windows. PS starts well in both the OS\'s, but the performance is a lot more choppy in Linux. The frame rate is very low, the mouse cursor \"sticks\" at the screen 3-4 times every second, as if running \"frame by frame\". My machine has sufficient CPU power to run the game (because it runs fine in Windows) but linux has issues.

I\'m using Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop, 15.4 inch widescreen display, 1.73GHz P4M, 1GB DDR RAM and onboard intel graphic accelerator (not sure about the memory though). I\'m running Windows XP, and Ubuntu Linux (5.10 Breezy Badger) on ext3 filesystem with 1GB swap partition.

Thanks!

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Post by: apis on November 25, 2005, 04:58:13 pm

Have you got the latest X drivers?
It very much sounds like a graphics problem...

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Post by: Araye on November 26, 2005, 01:53:25 am

This really isn\'t the place for linux howto\'s but...

it\'s most likely the driver for his integrated graphics chips.  PS runs fine on my 1 GHz PIII, 1 GB DDR, GForce 2.  Why, because the drivers all work properly.

One of the first no no\'s (at least for me) when installing linux is anything \"integrated\".  I\'ve only seen trouble.  Sometimes you have to live with it, ie laptops and I\'ve worked around most issues.  Anyway, I digress...

\"So Araye thinks linux suxors and windows rocks.\"  No, I prefer linux, but I plan ahead before building a system knowing that MS has major influence with equipment vendors and have made my choices more difficult.

But there are vendors that support Linux (Thank you NVidia) and dedicated programmers that stay up all night writing drivers and games so that I can use the OS of my choice.  Thank you PlaneShift devs!

Araye

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Post by: rakshak on November 27, 2005, 08:49:35 am

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Originally posted by apis
Have you got the latest X drivers?
It very much sounds like a graphics problem...

First of all, sorry if I\'m posting too technical things here, but it\'s in response to Apis\'s wantage of Linuxers. I don\'t know about the X drivers - all I know is I\'m using Ubuntu 5.10 with automatic updates turned on and active. I hope my graphic drivers are up-to-date, but still - is there any program or utility by which I can know if I can run PS graphics under Linux?