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Descent 3 copyright
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:31 pm
by Nergen-Ak1-Defender
Does Descent 3 have any rights or copyrights to it? I just wanted to know since i dont want to illegally download anything from limewire. I have d3 for windows and wine windows emulator does not work too well with it.
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:37 pm
by Behemoth
lol.
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:41 pm
by Nergen-Ak1-Defender
I have linux.
EDIT: I just figured i would download a linux version somewhere. could i? that was what i wanted to do. I need some way to play d3 on linux.
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 6:23 pm
by Duper
dude.
read the material on the disk. Look on Amazon.
Of course it has copyrights on it.
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:10 pm
by Wishmaster
Coincidentally I was just trying to run D3 on WINE today - with pathetic results, but that's just because that computer's got a 4 MB graphics card and a 700 MHz processor on top of WINE's lag. What are your system specs, and have you tried using the OpenGL driver instead of DirectX? It improved the speed a lot for me, but I did lose some reliability.
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:17 pm
by DCrazy
The people who made the Linux version (Loki) went belly-up. Last I heard Suncho was working on posting the necessary files on descent3.com, since he works for THQ and Loki re-assigned the copyrights to Outrage upon death.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:03 am
by Nergen-Ak1-Defender
DCrazy wrote:The people who made the Linux version (Loki) went belly-up. Last I heard Suncho was working on posting the necessary files on descent3.com, since he works for THQ and Loki re-assigned the copyrights to Outrage upon death.
I have ubuntu linux with about 8MB of video ram. Yes, i have tried the open gl. Its just when i run it, it is extremely choppy and slow where to the point i cannot run it. I think it is a driver issue. Im not sure.
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:04 am
by Nergen-Ak1-Defender
oops wrong quote. sorry.
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:40 am
by MD-2389
You know, you could actually use the search feature and read the dozens of repetitive threads that have been posted again, and again, and again on this very topic.
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:11 am
by Grendel
Did someone fix the search ? Haven't tried in a while..
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:41 pm
by Krom
It seems to actually be working at the moment. Though it doesn't return that many results. I wonder how long it will last.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:39 pm
by Nergen-Ak1-Defender
P3 866Mhz, 319MB RAM, UBUNTU 7.04, 8MB VRAM. 10GB HDD
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 2:36 pm
by MD-2389
Grendel wrote:Did someone fix the search ? Haven't tried in a while..
Its been working for over a year now.
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:44 pm
by Wishmaster
@Nergen:
Yeah, unfortunately that's just not enough processor or graphics card power to run it through WINE. If we ever do get the Linux version files, that would be a different story, though. You still won't get great performance, I'm guessing, but probably something tolerable.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:54 am
by Sirius
I look at the video RAM and shake my head, to be honest. Even back when D3 was new that would have given you lousy framerates... running it under emulation is probably going to be horrible.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:23 am
by BUBBALOU
Have you ever played someone in D3 running linux..... for servers it's buggy but tolerable, yet as an opponent it's downright hilarious. ROFLZ
They move like a slide show, packet bursting and warping all over. 7pps + 20fps = NixSkillz! YEAH!
FB - Those who play any form of games on Linux should be drawn and quartered - I am Root