It took me like 10 seconds more than the download time to finish installing, and 5 more to start it instead of compiz. And they say linux is difficult :<
I would use GNU/Linux as my main system if there only was a way of getting the sound working in multiple applications WITHOUT using a soundserver which makes the sound laggy. I'm still hoping for something similar to DirectSound for Linux, or at least a decent implementation of openAL for ET... To my knowledge there exists a memory hack for which replaces the oss with an openal call. But it's all pretty buggy and you still need a sound server to use TS² or Vent at the same time with the game :(
Aaargh, *EXACTLY* my problem. Being a laptop, it has the cheapest soundcard, and i couldn't at least a half-decent mixing done in software. Probably... hmmm... now that i think about it... running a sound server with increased priority and a very very small buffer. Well... I'll try it if I'll care about installing ET on my fresh Ubuntu... I mean, Windows does the same thing (since there is no hardware mixing), why should it work better there?
I tried the pulseaudio sound server with a 512 byte buffer... it lagged like hell and still had some latency. tried it with 1024 byte and the latency is like good old arTs.
I even DO have an expensive USB Audio Interface, but the drivers for Linux are a pain in the ass :(
and I don't get any better results with an USB headset.
Windows works better because the sound is mixed at a Low Level HAL by a kernel module which is managed by windows. In Linux there just is no standard for sound mixing, so every application just uses the soundcard directly and blocks it. Maybe there is a kernel patch which gives the software more control over the sound hardware at a lower system level.
ALSA >= 1.0.9rc2 does software mixing (with pretty much flawless OSS emulation) out-of-the-box (lol) and does it pretty well, after spending an afternoon poking at config files (aka. "using Linux"). YMMV.
why NOT linux? Its free, it has free (and good) haxxs (j/k), its lightweight (at least some), and you got much better support than you do for windows? :/
talex@talex-laptop:~/Desktop$ ls -l beryl.jpeg
-rw------- 1 talex talex 162544 2007-08-31 01:53 beryl.jpeg
edit: i like compiz more :p
lol
toggled the water splashes on and spun it round, with no FPS drops and it still looked very nice :D
this was back when it was called compiz and hadn't even got a stable release btw, must be even better now
(7900GTX now though)
kf maybe if you have 5 monitors but nah.. sorry
well 3 would do the job too
its a plugin in compiz/beryl, u can negative ur whole desktop or just one window
i can play et with sounds, while listining to music and beeing on ts
well too bad I can't build a new soundcard into my laptop :P
I even DO have an expensive USB Audio Interface, but the drivers for Linux are a pain in the ass :(
and I don't get any better results with an USB headset.
Windows works better because the sound is mixed at a Low Level HAL by a kernel module which is managed by windows. In Linux there just is no standard for sound mixing, so every application just uses the soundcard directly and blocks it. Maybe there is a kernel patch which gives the software more control over the sound hardware at a lower system level.
The main problem: ET/openAL uses oss
sry im linux nub, but well, i got it :P