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Howto install spring on Fedora 12?
Posted: 18 Nov 2009, 17:11
by jaked
Are there any installation howtos available?
Installing springlobby with the package manager pulls in spring. But the version is old (0.84) and so online play is not possible.
Do I have to compile from source or are there repositories with more current versions of spring for fedora 12?
Thx!
Re: Howto install spring on Fedora 12?
Posted: 05 Jan 2010, 06:12
by chcarver
I had to compile everything, both the Spring engine and SpringLobby to get anything to work under Fedora 12. I kept getting errors regardless of the mod I use, something about _shadow(some or other}. And a few times it would load and then just hang after initializing the game.
In the end I just got the latest stable release of the Spring engine and SpringLobby. SpringLobby was a bit of a pain to compile, but once I Googled for the needed *devel packages to full fill the dependencies cmake was baulking at, everything was smooth sailing. Unfortunately I did not record my steps. Just rest assured the latest releases will compile and you will be on your way.
Now I'm running into memory issues. Seems as though 1GB is not enough. The game starts out nice and smooth, but when the AI maxes out the units to 500, my PC crawls to the point of uselessness. I was able to streamline it by running the game under LXDE desktop manager. That helped a bunch, put after a bit it just bogs down.
Re: Howto install spring on Fedora 12?
Posted: 05 Jan 2010, 11:56
by hoijui
you could try to disable shadows (Shadows=-1 in ~/.springrc).
and for the too many units wiht AIs...
reduce max units to something below 500 maybe.
btw, when pressing B ingame, you can see what part of the game uses most CPU. in my experience, when playing with AI, what bogs the system most down is pathfinding, and that is especialy bad if the AI tries to squeze 200 units through narrow vallies...
you usually can spot that easily when you have some radar coverage.. best is getting a nuke and free the main unit clogs of units.
you could also pause, /cheat, /give corfus in those places, and then self destruct them. it is cheating, but its stil better then playing at 0.5FPS and the AI not attackign at all cause it can not get its units to you.