1 Topic by asdir (edited by asdir 2008-09-04 16:25:58)

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Topic: Game is a Showstopper on Ubuntu Hardy

A couple of times now the game just went back to the desktop environment (Gnome, in my case) without warning. From there I could not click anything on the desktop, like if it was just a photo. The only thing that would work was Alt+Tab, but it refused to bring me back to the game.
As far as I remember, the only program always running aside from Teeworlds was Firefox.

Is that a known problem already? Do you think I should post it at launchpad? With what package?

Most importantly though: Does anyone know how to fix this?

(Ctrl + Alt + Backspace was the only thing that worked so far. Killing teeworlds (via a new console) still left me with a confusingly high processor loads from compiz, ff and some daemons running. The loads were above 80% at one time according to top.)

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Re: Game is a Showstopper on Ubuntu Hardy

wineserver? Are you running the windows teeworlds on linux through wine instead of using the linux binaries? o_O

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Re: Game is a Showstopper on Ubuntu Hardy

Sorry, my mistake. Nevermind that comment about wine. That was something entirely different and did not belong here. (I edited my post as well, so others won't be confused.)

I am using the linux x_86 binaries (just the normal download of 0.43), so the rest I reported in my post is still valid.

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Re: Game is a Showstopper on Ubuntu Hardy

There is some problems with the screensaver sometimes, try searching the forums about this.

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Re: Game is a Showstopper on Ubuntu Hardy

Ok, it seemed to have been the screensaver. I turned it off and it worked for 2 straight hours. I also found a launchpad bug that mentioned teeworlds in connection with the screensaver, so I guess something will be done there.

Thanks for the help.

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asdir wrote:

Ok, it seemed to have been the screensaver. I turned it off and it worked for 2 straight hours. I also found a launchpad bug that mentioned teeworlds in connection with the screensaver, so I guess something will be done there.

Thanks for the help.

I read in several forums that people have problems with games in conjuction with a screensaver on Ubuntu. I'm not really sure how to find and fix this problem
a) I cannot reproduce this on my system (non-ubuntu)
b) afaik its not only teeworlds-related
c) Maybe its an issue with Ubuntu itself

So the best workaround atm is to deactive the X11-screensaver (btw: I wonder why screensavers are still needed in a world of TFTs ;-) )

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Re: Game is a Showstopper on Ubuntu Hardy

The crucial thing for gamers is turning compiz off before playing. It leaves Teeworlds more memory to use, so crashes and low performance are less likely. Search for compiz-switch in Synaptic to turn off compiz with one simple click.

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8 Reply by Random Tee (edited by Random Tee 2008-09-17 21:20:56)

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Re: Game is a Showstopper on Ubuntu Hardy

It looks like MPlayer and maybe a few other packages have some of these problems too, MPlayer reports a screen saver problem on starting it up. I don't know about X or Gnome screen savers but is it possible to run a shell script with Tee Worlds to switch it off temporarily?

Does disabling Compiz really help much?
Edit: Yes it does! I recommend trying disabling Compiz.

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