how to play americas army?

[sn0dig]

ive installed americas army, but now i cant get it to work.. ive tried running the executable file, then i get a black window that appears for about a half second and then dissapears again.. followed by a whole lot of nothing.. what is causing this?

[Zelmo]

Just so we have the basics covered:
1. What kind of video card are you using?
2. Do you have the accelerated drivers installed for that card?
3. What distro are you running?
4. How are you running the game (from a GUI icon or from an xterm)?

[googled first]

You might want to wait for the linux port of america's army 2.6.
2.5 servers are becoming rare and the 2.5 version of the game won't run on the 2.6 servers.
The 2.6 linux client should be out any day. Check the forums at America's army for the announcement.

[sn0dig]

this is the error i get:
WARNING: ALC_EXT_capture is subject to change!
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Signal: SIGSEGV [segmentation fault]
Aborting.


Crash information will be saved to your logfile.
X Error of failed request: BadColor (invalid Colormap parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 79 (X_FreeColormap)
Resource id in failed request: 0x380000c
Serial number of failed request: 104
Current serial number in output stream: 106

[googled first]

I don't see any answers to zelmo's questions in your reply.
Anyway, the problem is the video card drivers. They will have to be installed.

When Americas Army 2.6 for linux comes out, and it will be soon, the 2.5 client will have to be uninstalled. This game doesn't get patched, it gets replaced. Or at least that's the way it worked last upgrade.

[Richard_The_Lionhearted]

Hmm..........

It's coming from Xlib which means that something is wrong with the graphics. Try going into "system settings" and make sure you have the right driver for your video card and monitor. Also check the screen resolution to make sure you have it on the right size. Some games require a certain screen resolution in order to play.

[sn0dig]

i've updated the graphic card drivers.. i use nvidia geforce fx 5500..

[Zelmo]

3. What distro are you running?

While you're answering that, go ahead and mention how you installed the video drivers (nvidia's executable or distribution's package).

[sn0dig]

ubuntu 5.10.. and i updated using apt-get install nvidia-glx-legacy

[Richard_The_Lionhearted]

When starting up one of the Render, DisplayImg or TransformGen modules generates the message: "X Error of failed request: BadColor (invalid Colormap parameter)"

The DISPLAY environment variable is either not set, or is set to":0.0" causing the system to use "direct rendering". To avoid this, modify the DISPLAY variable to contain your hostname, e.g. on a system called "dennis":

C shell users

% setenv DISPLAY dennis:0.0

Bash/Korn shell users:

% DISPLAY=dennis:0.0 % export DISPLAY

N.B. This may cause a slight decrease in performance