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  4. [Linux] arrow keys not recognized

    in TDM Tech Support

    Posted · Edited by esme

    Hi, yet another Linux user with a mismapped keyboard here.

    I'm running Zorin (ubuntu variant) on a Dell Precision T1700 with a Dell KB212B keyboard.

    If I look in the system settings app, under region & language it says it's a "English ( UK, extended, with Win keys).

    Selecting that & clicking on the keyboard icon at bottom right shows me the keyboard map & as I press keys they highlight on the display, and they all seem correct.

    When running TDM (TDM2.07/64) as a native Linux application I've noticed the following when trying to map actions

    All arrow keys in the cluster next to the numeric keypad = 0x00
    Keypad enter key = down arrow
    Main keyboard right CTRL = pgdn

    There's probably a load more, if anyone can tell me a quick way of doing it I'll work through the entire keyboard if it's a help

    I tend to map a lot of keys onto the numeric keypad so it's a bit of a pain

  5. Linux monitor issue Solved - for info

    in TDM Tech Support

    Posted · Edited by esme

    Thanks for that.

    Yeah I figured it was coming from the monitor, as if it can't display the output from the PC then it wouldn't be able to display any message from it too, but for those who just get a black screen & music this might help.

    And apologies for putting this thread in the wrong forum, thanks for shifting it, whoever it was

  6. Linux monitor issue Solved - for info

    in TDM Tech Support

    Posted · Edited by esme

    Hi all,

    I just put the 64 bit version of TDM on my machine running Zorin 15.2, I figured it's based on Ubuntu so it should be OK

    When I ran thedarkmod.x64 I got the intro music playing & a black screen with a pop up saying -

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    The current input timing is not supported by the monitor display. Please change your input timing to 1920x1080, 60hz or any other monitor listed as per the monitor specifications

    I couldn't stop TDM & had to blip the power button to get the system to shut down.

    So I dug around a bit on my old windows system that ran TDM on the same monitor & found the following lines in Darkmod.cfg

    seta r_customHeight "1080"
    seta r_customWidth "1920"

    on the Linux system they were

    seta r_customHeight "600"
    seta r_customWidth "800"

    So I changed the figures to match the old windows system & tried again & it worked the training mission loads nicely

    I couldn't find any setting for 60hz, but as it seems to work I'm fine

    So I'm posting this in case anyone else has a similar issue

     

     

  7. I was wrong about Islam.

    in Off-Topic

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    21 hours ago, Carnage said:

    Of course something has changed and it will again, it's the normal cycle of the planet. There have been times that there was no ice on the North Pole and there have been times that large parts of the world where covered in it. A human life time is so insignificant in the whole cycle of the planet. Just because it's warmer in some parts of the world and there's less snow, doesn't mean it will be totally different again in a few hunderd years or less and history has shown this.

    I'm with you though that we need renewable energy, a cleaner planet and such, because that will really benefit all of us.

    Here's a time line of earth's average temperature since the last glaciation, this is how the climate has changed, it may be a normal cycle but if it continues I doubt we'll survive this cycle

    https://xkcd.com/1732/

    I would have posted the graphic but it's a bit big

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  11. I was wrong about Islam.

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    3 hours ago, peter_spy said:

    To play Devil's Advocate a bit, you can say similar thing in catholic countries in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in rural areas and near borders. Conservatism usually goes hand in hand with any religion it can use.

    Magdalene laundries anyone ?

    Women made into slaves, often for the rest of their lives, mainly because they'd had sex, or were thought to have had sex, or were accused of having sex, or refused to have sex

    And then a lot of them were sexually abused by the priests, while being physically abused by the nuns, all of which is denied by the priests & nuns of course

    The last one was closed in October 1996

  12. Lanternbot relations

    in The Dark Mod

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    On 12/30/2019 at 5:20 PM, demagogue said:

    The mechanic in Thief2 was the big bots were ko'd by a waterarrow to the boiler, for logic and gameplay. (I can't recall the small and child bots.) We can do something different but in that vein. We might make a kind of "command" widget for our bot and have it ko'd by blackjack only to that. It's a challenge but has a gameplay logic and it explains why one bj hit could work. So that's my candidate proposal. 

    It's possible to take out a big bot with a blackjack in T2, you need to get one to chase you into a confined area like a doorway, & stand so it can see you but it's projectiles are blocked & bounce away, then you lean in & whack it repeatedly with the BJ, eventually it sustains enough damage to fall apart

  13. "thieving event" ideas:

    in The Dark Mod

    Posted · Edited by esme
    another idea

    Pay a lady of negotiable virtue to go & chat up a guard

    If there are two guards, have the 2nd one either get jealous & butt in or be a mate/be embarrassed & give them some space

    While they are distracted rob 'em blind

    or

    Pay LoNV as before, then go find the NPC's wife/girlfriend have them go & have an argument with LoNV, guards gather to watch, rob blind as before

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  21. Windows 10: Why you should NOT upgrade...

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    17 hours ago, Shadow said:

    Zorin seems OK. The big problem I have had with Linux on laptops is there is always, ALWAYS, some incompatible hardware that requires some custom config of files somewhere, and it's hard to google answers to specifically your own exact issue. Linux is not nearly as plug and play as Windows is, since Microsoft is the juggernaut that can spend billions on development and driving the market where Linux cannot, this makes sense. With Linux you always have to do some config coding.

    So I use Linux as a hobbyist OS on some devices with the expectation that it'll just die or fail to work one day, but I like Windows and how it feels and looks and how well it customizes, and how stable it is. I know there are privacy issues, but that's just the day and digital age we live in. Cameras are everywhere, Facebook and Google track your every page view, your purchase histories get sold every time you buy something from any store, financial companies leak or get hacked exposing all your data, and governments store everything personal about you in databases everywhere. It's a bit harsh to singly blame Microsoft for collecting your data when other companies do way more damage to your privacy, and purposely.

     

    The only issue I've had with L*nux installs is with L*nux identifying the variant of the Wifi card in a laptop, once that was sorted I never had further issues, updates just worked, the last update I had on a W10 tablet borked the touch screen and accelerometer so it won't auto rotate & I had to figure out how to break in & then fix the power settings in order to get the touch screen working again as it's kind of necessary on a tablet device, if I hadn't managed that it would be a brick, I had no say about the update it just happened

    And yeah I know it's not 'just' Microsoft, I know there are cameras everywhere, I know others use my data & I take steps to minimise my digital footprint, I might not be very successful but it's my data & I'll do what I want with it, that's my choice

    16 hours ago, kano said:

    If TDM runs badly on the laptop, are you sure you are using the discrete GPU to play it (if applicable?). Getting Nvidia Optimus to work is a pain in the ass, but on my thrift store AMD+Intel laptop, I just run DRI_PRIME=1 ./thedarkmod.x64 and it runs on the AMD gpu rather than the Intel one, which indeed, struggles to play the game.

     

    Thief 1 and 2 run wonderfully under Wine. Thief 3 does run pretty well too, I think. But I don't spend much time with that game because of the severe bugs that were left in it, for example you get stuck floating and can't jump. That happens on Windows too.

    As I said it's a cheap laptop, with integrated video, it should be fine on my main machine, I'll check Wine out thanks

  22. Windows 10: Why you should NOT upgrade...

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    I'm currently looking at migrating my systems ( couple of laptops & desktops ) to l*nux

    I've looked at a few distro's & Zorin looks reasonable, the front end isn't too much of a shock to a life long windows user for a start

    I've set it up on a couple of laptops, one dedicated & one dual boot which went without a hitch

    I even put TDM on it, runs like a drugged slug on the laptop but I'm impressed it runs at all as it's a really low spec machine I just use for testing, basically I'm ironing out any issues before I tackle my main machine as I earn a living with that one

    If anyone knows any major issues with Zorin (based on Ubuntu) please shout out

    Also I'm looking at the possibility of running the existing W7 installation inside a virtual machine & isolating it from the network, I'd really like to do it without reinstalling windows & just let W7 sort out the sudden disappearance of half it's resources, anyone know if that's doable ?

    I may just ditch W7 as I can't think of any apps I use under W7 that haven't got equivalents under l*nux, I'd quite like my thief installs to work but I can ask on ttlg for that

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