Tribal Trouble

[danieldk]

I have been playing the Tribal Trouble demo a bit, and I really love it:
http://tribaltrouble.com/

It is a fun tribal strategy game that works on Linux and other platforms. I am seriously toying with the idea to buy it, since it is only 23.36 EUR. And of course, it is good to support Linux games.

At any rate, there is a demo that can be downloaded from the site. Fun stuff :).

[AndreL]

The graphics (the little characters anyway) don't seem that great from the screenshot on the site... How do they look on the computer?

[danieldk]

They look great here, and better on my newish nVidia GPU than on my so her Intel GPU.

[danieldk]

I just bought the full version. Good stuff :). It's nice to be able to build towers and other units.

[AndreL]

You seem so enthusiastic that I've decided to give the demo a shot... I have nothing to loose anyway.

[AndreL]

:( Installed but doesn't launch...
Well, what the heck!

[danieldk]

What error did you get? Do you have DRI and/or GLX enabled?

My girlfriend loves the game.

[AndreL]

Nothing in the terminal. I get a popup that just says: "The game was unable to start"

I get this from the log file: org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Neither OpenGL 1.3 nor GL_ARB_texture_compression is supported, one of which is required for the game to run. Please upgrade your video drivers and/or video card. I think I'm f***ed!

[danieldk]

Ah no, I had the same error on my girlfriend's machine before. 3D accelleration through DRI and GLX is just not enabled. Make sure that there are


Load "dri"
Load "glx"


Lines in the "Module" section of your xorg.conf (or only the "glx" line if you use the nVidia drivers). And that there is a section that says


Section "DRI"
Mode "0666"
EndSection


if you don't use the nVidia drivers.

[AndreL]

Both lines where already there...
I have the ATI fglrx driver. (It's an old Radeon 9000) :(

[stafio]

Hey AndreL,

You're probably having the same problem as me. When I run fglrxinfo, I get:
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.4.1)

Even though I'm using the fglrx driver, it's still using Mesa for OpenGL. It should be using Radeon.

There are numerous posts about this problem online, but I was not able to find a solution for mine. I'll be trying again later today and will let you know if I fix it.

[AndreL]

Thanks stafio,

I've tried fglrxinfo and this is what I get: display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: FIRE GL 9000 PRO DDR Pentium III (SSE) (FireGL) (GNU_ICD)
OpenGL version string: 1.3.4893 (X4.3.0-8.10.19)
Are you still with Libranet 3.0?
I haven't had much time to look deeper into this.
Maybe there is a config file or something that one may be able to edit manually... (?)