I finally got it running yesterday (unlike MB
), but not without problems I\'m afraid. I followed Acraig\'s gentoo guide - with the notable exception of actually running archlinux instead - and spent a good deal of time banging my head against the wall. CS flat out refused to get the cal3d lib\'s no matter what I tried until I dropped the whole prefix, and put it in /usr/local/lib instead. The updater ran fine (well, the GUI version crashed my computer on a couple of occations, I used the CLI version instead (./updater -auto), which seemed to run a bit faster, probably mainly because less resources spent), and I spent some time tinkering with the options. Still, psclient had a bad habit of crashing too, ended up with disabling the sound, running in 24bit (read somewhere in the forum that 16bit was unstable - is it true?) and in 800x600. Still have rather frequent crashes and horrible swapping (256MB of RAM :/ ), but when it works properly, it\'s a beauty. I did not expect it to be so smooth at all, mostly because of the crappy GFX-card I found lying around here, a 8500LE running the DRI radeon drivers.
As for playing, there was a fair number of glitches, the worst of which was dying without an apparent reason after joining the server, which promptly put me in the DR as a walking corpse - literally.
As long as the stability problems is improved upon, and the swappiness is limited a bit, this can prove to be very nice, especially when I get my new parts, most notably 512MB of RAM and a 6600GT
edit: If I may, I will reconsider my statements on crashing - I ran the updater again today, it updated some files, and after that, the crashing has been much less of a hassle than yesterday night
Heck, I even helped (though, not so much
) kill a rouge!
