Monster Truck Madness on Linux research topic

Kmaster · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:24 pm

Finally!
(Click on the thumbnailss for larger images)

Yes, I played online with Phin using Ubuntu Linux.

And guess what, it works like a charm. The gameplay is EXACTLY like if I were playing on windows.

Of course there are some minor glitches, but hopefully the Wine team would release new updates fixing those, like the smack-video redering and the sound.

I'll post a fully how-to manual soon.

Thanks Phin & Jam for the help.
-Kmaster

Slayer · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:11 pm

This seems like a lot of effort to just not use windows....

Try XP Mini if your desperate....

Though I gotta admit, I liked the new Mandriva 2009 way better than Ubuntu. The fit and finish is far superior. And the new KDE, though having some stupid glitches, is easy to use and feels very windows like.

Stupid glitches as in after you install, your "Menu" disappears, one you re-add the menu, it is a chore to get it back to the like-able position it was in during the LiveCD run. Also, during the install, when it asks if you want to remove unused packages, choose NO, otherwise it will, for example, delete flash drive support and the drake help files.

Kmaster · **Posted:** Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:27 pm

You're gettin it all wrong, I didn't do this only for ppl to leave windows, I'm trying to port my fav game to other platforms.

I'm not sure about mandriva, I've heard that its package manager really suck but its better detecting new (really new) hardware.

Slayer · **Posted:** Sun Jun 07, 2009 4:28 pm

The package manager is about the same.

Kmaster · **Posted:** Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:02 pm

rpmdrake to synaptic? you're talking about 2 complete different things

Slayer · **Posted:** Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:29 pm

Well if your doing it thru command line it might be different, but otherwise, the two interfaces are almost identical. They both do the exact same things.

Kmaster · **Posted:** Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:14 pm

Well, yesterday I played the 4 final rounds of a rumble tournament on ubuntu/linux with no problem (since I had a "floating point error" problem on Windows with Directx games...)

Kmaster · **Posted:** Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:16 pm

GermReturns · **Joined:** Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:59 pm **Posts:** 5

Slayer wrote:

yes, now your commited, u can never get rid of unbuntu, never ever, it will destroy XP's boot loader, you will have to reinstall XP.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion ... 92614.html

Shoot-me · **Joined:** Fri Dec 26, 2008 5:57 pm **Posts:** 7

GermReturns wrote:

Slayer wrote:

yes, now your commited, u can never get rid of unbuntu, never ever, it will destroy XP's boot loader, you will have to reinstall XP.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion ... 92614.html

yea but slayer you don't know what your talking about ubuntu dosn't kill xp. For 3 months i was dual booting on xp and ubuntu most of the time i was only on ubuntu and my xp didn't screw up at all... after like 2months of non stop using ubuntu i booted xp just fine and deleted my Ubuntu Core and it never did a thing to my pc,or my OS

Kmaster · **Posted:** Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:58 pm

Shoot-me wrote:

GermReturns wrote:

Slayer wrote:

yes, now your commited, u can never get rid of unbuntu, never ever, it will destroy XP's boot loader, you will have to reinstall XP.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion ... 92614.html

yea but slayer you don't know what your talking about ubuntu dosn't kill xp. For 3 months i was dual booting on xp and ubuntu most of the time i was only on ubuntu and my xp didn't screw up at all... after like 2months of non stop using ubuntu i booted xp just fine and deleted my Ubuntu Core and it never did a thing to my pc,or my OS

that's right, i've been using ubuntu/xp dualboot since mid 2008 and everything works fine

Slayer · **Posted:** Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:06 pm

Perhaps I am profoundly unlucky

OLD_YoMega · **Joined:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:00 pm **Posts:** 240

Slayer wrote:

Perhaps I am profoundly unlucky

You are.

NT Batedeira NC · **Joined:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:15 am **Posts:** 8

Kmaster, how did you paly online using Ubuntu?? I'm trying to do this but I can't... MTM2 runs perfectly in standart racing, but I can't connect to play online...
I'n using Ubuntu 9.04, Nvidia geforce 7100 GS, Pentium E2160 and DSL connection.

Take a look:
[img]http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/1031/69991602.png[/img]

Kmaster · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 11:55 am

No problem, I'll post everything when I get home. As far as I remeber it's all about the iptables.
Is your ADSL internet connection working? Do you have internet access in ubuntu?

NT Batedeira NC · **Joined:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:15 am **Posts:** 8

Yes, it works... I play online in 4x4 evolution...
I posted the error image on my first reply... ^^

Kmaster · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:25 pm

First of all you need DirectPlay, but if you installed DirectX 9.0c you shouldn't have any problem.

Now open the terminal and run this code (this will open some game ports)

Code:

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 47624 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 2300:2400 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 2300:2400 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 6073 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 6073 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 47624 -j ACCEPT

then try to join or host a multiplayer game.
remeber to re open those ports if you reboot

You can save that code as a batch file in .sh format if you wish.

NT Batedeira NC · **Joined:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:15 am **Posts:** 8

Didn't work... I've installed DX9 and I've opened the ports, but nothing happened... :(

Please see this screenshot:
[url]http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/1031/69991602.png[/url]

Thank you...

Kmaster · **Posted:** Thu Feb 04, 2010 4:08 pm

what version of wine are you using?

NT Batedeira NC · **Joined:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:15 am **Posts:** 8

I'm using Wine 1.0.1. I installed Wine-X.

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