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by Bryce
May 26th, 2010, 9:37 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book II Support [Linux]
Topic: Painfully slow on recent computer
Replies: 9
Views: 16609

Re: Painfully slow on recent computer

Yes, other 3D games using OpenGL work fine, and glxinfo indicates DRI is enabled.
by Bryce
May 26th, 2010, 8:46 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book II Support [Linux]
Topic: Doesn't run on Ubuntu Jaunty 64b bit
Replies: 77
Views: 94561

Re: Doesn't run on Ubuntu Jaunty 64b bit

In the meantime, you can download this file to a 64 bit Ubuntu 9 machine: http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/amd64/libc6-i386/download Manually unpack the deb (with ar) and stick the requested shared library file in /lib32. I strongly advise backing up lib32 first... this worked for me but it was a &q...
by Bryce
May 26th, 2010, 8:08 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book II Support [Linux]
Topic: Painfully slow on recent computer
Replies: 9
Views: 16609

Re: Painfully slow on recent computer

I seem to have at least reduced the problem by turning off Ubuntu's visual effects (thought I already had them disabled)... that may have been the issue; I'll report back.
by Bryce
May 26th, 2010, 7:43 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book II Support [Linux]
Topic: Painfully slow on recent computer
Replies: 9
Views: 16609

Painfully slow on recent computer

Running Ubuntu 9 on a Thinkpad X200, which should certainly be equal to any 2D RPG, the game is painfully slow. The opening cinematic skips frames and the framerate of the menu screen and game itself is so slow that the cursor is barely controllable and everything lags noticeably. Hardware OpenGL is...
by Bryce
January 17th, 2008, 12:49 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book I
Topic: My take on this game
Replies: 19
Views: 9402

Items on the ground would be great too. Don't know how big a hurdle this is programming-wise. The memory issues of dropped items (tracking countless items across the world) could be limited by having such items vanish from the ground when you leave the map they're on (some passing by NPC took the a...
by Bryce
January 13th, 2008, 3:15 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book I
Topic: My take on this game
Replies: 19
Views: 9402

The old coot bit, and the part about wearing some absurd object on your trousers, is a reference to Grandpa Simpson from The Simpsons. It was meant as a joke.
by Bryce
January 13th, 2008, 2:04 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book I
Topic: Music in the Eschalon by Bjorn Lynne?
Replies: 6
Views: 3511

Why would you even post something like this on the web board? You should email the authors of the game about it, or, better yet, email Bjorn Lynne about it and let him deal with it if it needs to be dealt with. Making strange veiled threats is not the way to go.
by Bryce
January 13th, 2008, 2:00 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book I
Topic: Ectoplasm Where?
Replies: 3
Views: 3174

The Tangletree Ossuary is full of ectoplasm. Trouble is that it will try to kill you :) But it doesn't hurt to give it a try, eh?
by Bryce
January 12th, 2008, 8:59 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book I
Topic: My take on this game
Replies: 19
Views: 9402

By the way, nice:

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by Bryce
January 12th, 2008, 5:01 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book I
Topic: My take on this game
Replies: 19
Views: 9402

What astonishes me most of all is that almost everybody seems to save scum chests and barrels to get good random drops. That reduces fun substantially, since the process of save scumming is mind numbingly boring, and it makes each new barrel / chest less of an exciting event. None of the early mons...
by Bryce
January 12th, 2008, 4:50 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book I
Topic: My take on this game
Replies: 19
Views: 9402

Sorry, but I dont agree with your opinion. The game is very easy. Yes, the first 30-50 minutes of gameplay is a bit chalangable, but then with the oportunity to learn skills from the trainers and buying books.... Yes, playing further I would agree that it gets easier after the first few quests. How...
by Bryce
January 12th, 2008, 12:36 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book I
Topic: [Spoiler] Recipes of Eschalon
Replies: 26
Views: 51007

I was hoping you could make Molotov cocktails :)
But no such luck. I don't know what else you could use wicks for.
by Bryce
January 11th, 2008, 12:54 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book I
Topic: My take on this game
Replies: 19
Views: 9402

My take on this game

First of all, kudos to Basilisk Games for making this for Linux. One reason I bought it is to support GNU/Linux game development. (But that's not the only reason.) I like the pre-rendered diametric perspective with animation you use to present the game-world in. I don't particularly care for free-ca...
by Bryce
January 11th, 2008, 11:54 am
Forum: Eschalon: Book I
Topic: Mercantile skill
Replies: 10
Views: 5079

There is a book, "Buying and Selling," that will teach you the skill, for what it's worth. If you already have it, it gives you two additional points in it, I think.