Guide Installing and Running Starsiege on Ubuntu

[PlagueDog]

Guide Installing and Running Starsiege on Ubuntu
Guide created by: PlagueDog



Requirements
Ubuntu - www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
Starsiege
Wine
Starsiege Vista Fix - www.cybridassaultnetwork.com/downloads/ssupdt/files/StarsiegeVistaFix_rev1.zip

1.Go to Applications → Add/Remove, search for Wine.


2.Put a check beside “Wine Microsoft Compatibility Layer” and hit “Apply Changes”.


3.Insert your Starsiege disc (Close the audio disc window if it pops up)
4.Double click on STARSIEGE1 to browse the disc.


5.Right click on Autorun.exe and click “Open with 'Wine Windows Program Loader'”


6.Proceed through the Starsiege installer. (Please note that some of the dialog boxes wont show up in the installer so hit enter when nothing shows up)
7.Afer the Starsiege Installation go to Applications → Wine → Configure Wine.


8.In the Applications tab go to “Add application...”


9.Navigate to your Starsiege directory and open Starsiege.exe.


10. Highlight Starsiege.exe then go to the “Graphics” tab.


11. In the Graphics tab put a check beside “Emulate a desktop.
(Desktop size varies. Usually you want to set it to your desktop resolution or your 2nd highest resolution. Certain desktop sizes will allow/disallow certain full screen resolution choices in the Starsiege options. When you adjust the desktop size make sure you update the Starsiege full screen resolution as well.)


12.Download the Starsiege Vista fix go to Applications → Wine → Browse C:\ Drive.


13.Navigate to the Starsiege directory. Double click “StarsiegeVistaFix_rev1.zip” to open the zip file. Drag and drop mem.dll into the Starsiege directory.

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14.While in the Starsiege directory, create a new empty file and name it extract_console.bat


15.Open the extract_console.bat in a text editor then type Extract.exe scripts.vol console.cs and save the file.


16.Right click extract_console.cs and open it with “Wine Windows Program Loader”


17.Open console.cs in a text editor, locate the following script: checkForFile("smackw32.dll", "shell.vol", "dinput.dll", "ddraw.dll", "dsound.dll", "dinput.dll"); and delete it. Save console.cs


18.Go to Applications → Wine → Programs → Dynamix → Starsiege → Starsiege or double click the Starsiege shortcut on the desktop to run Starsiege.


And thats it. You now have a working Starsiege installation running under Linux

Be aware that other linux distributions will work but the procedures may be a little different.
Please post any questions or problems you may have.

[PlagueDog]

Re-wrote the guide, trimmed it way down and included pictures.

[eye]

Very nice plaguedog

Thankyou this will help people thats feed up with Microsoft and there way of changeing windows all the time ..


For those that dont know what Ubuntu is it a free Linux system ..

If you want it here is the link ( www.ubuntu.com/ ) and you can learn linux ..

Installing and Running Starsiege on Ubuntu

[PlagueDog]

Oops! Forgot to include a few steps in the trimmed guide. Ive updated the guide to include those missing steps.

I'm not sure what you mean Angel. As far as Starsiege running on Linux, it doesn't run in true full screen. Meaning that it will be fullscreen in the emulated desktop but it wont be full screen on the linux desktop because when the main menu resolution switches to the full screen resolution it will crash the linux session. I believe if you run Starsiege in 640x480 you can run it in true full screen without the emulated desktop but alt tabbing out may crash the session.

[rom]

I'm not sure what you mean Angel. As far as Starsiege running on Linux, it doesn't run in true full screen. Meaning that it will be fullscreen in the emulated desktop but it wont be full screen on the linux desktop because when the main menu resolution switches to the full screen resolution it will crash the linux session. I believe if you run Starsiege in 640x480 you can run it in true full screen without the emulated desktop but alt tabbing out may crash the session.

Acutally, you can run SS on linux in true full screen at any supported resolution in OpenGL (provided you have accelerated OpenGL drivers on your system) and it runs better than in Windows. Alt-tabbing used to be foolproof. Now not so much

One of the issues, it seems, and this may get a little advanced, is that Starsiege seems to be very sensitive to monitor timings. Manually setting my monitor timings fixed almost all my problems. For example, I looked up the timings on my viewsonic VA721 and entered them in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, like so

Section "Monitor"

### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "VA721"
HorizSync 30.0 - 82.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

and commented out the section where it automatically asks the monitor what modes it can do

# Ask the monitor to tell me what modes it can do. disable aug25
#Option "UseEDID" "TRUE"

I don't think most people will have to deal with this, but I did, after SS stopped working on my linux box when it had been running flawlessly for years.

[rom]

Plaguedog, this is some really good stuff here (and I love the logo dude ;D ) . Would you please add the results to the wine database ( appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=8721&iTestingId=44485 ) ? I'm the applications maintainer for Starsiege there, although I haven't had the time to actively contribute as much as I used to.

[PlagueDog]

I managed to get my Starsiege to run in true fullscreen. I guess the full screen resolution has to be the same as the linux resolution. (Starsiege doesn't have a 1680x1050 resolution ) I can get it to run in true full screen sometimes. But with my current software/hardware I'm having issues when going to the main menu from the game. Most of the time I get a "hall of mirrors" effect or Starsiege will randomly crash when joining a game.

[Vern :e:]

Hey can you find/create a virtual windows 98 so starsiege can run on a flash drive with it?

[Red]

The link of ---> Starsiege Vista Fix - www.cybridassaultnetwork.com/down....staFix_rev1.zip
is dead!
i have found this link work correctly ---> oqqyug.blu.livefilestore.com/y1ppZYEjBGXscRDondhuHKWod6Fx1k21dTvCE__vkDo_9y0xYSJf_ysjovmaQNjS1xt5gmC5UItT7LJjt9zogKnRg/StarsiegeVistaFix_rev1.zip?download&psid=1

See u on SS bro
Red.

[Angel-A (Sunny D)]

Or this... sundragons.webege.com/memdll%20win7.zip