lost_soul

I just started playing this mission tonight. I think this was the first time...

Yes, it was so great! The player was circle-strafing around the guard. The guard would raise his bow, fire an arrow into himself, recoil and make some funny noises, and then do it again.

@New Horizon: Didn't you have a part in the development of TDS? Or am I just remembering wrong? Also, yeah, it was weird because even Windows 98 got Directx 9.0c. However, Running Win98 with over a gig of memory presented problems and games were starting to require more memory, creeping up to a gig. I remember when I built a computer in high school with a gig of RAM, I installed Win98 and it kept BSODing at boot. I figured I did something wrong, but it was the crappy OS not supporting my thirst for memory. (it ran XP fine)

A wile back, I saw a video of a Thief 1/2 player who managed to make the archer hit himself with his own arrows. It was particularly funny because I couldn't understand a word the guard said (German) but the scene cracked me up... Anybody know where to find that video? I looked but I have not been able to find it again sadly.

I'm not really blaming the users right there, so much as NVIDIA. Naming two cards that have vastly different capabilities something so similar is a sleezy thing to do IMO, just like renaming older cards to sell them again. Yes, Springheel, people felt that the existance of third person was a cheat. For example, you can be in third-person mode and see around a corner, but the guards cannot see you.

Well, back then a lot of people were still on Win98. They also fell for the load of crap which was the Geforce 4 MX series of cards. I was fortunate to be on XP with a shader-capable card, so I ran the game fine. There was a Geforce 4 MX and a Geforce 4 TI. The MX did not have shader support but the TI did. Of course a lot of clueless users had the former.

I'll admit I had quite a bit of fun in parts of TDS. I don't stand in line for games anymore, meaning I never rush out and get anything new. There's no point in doing so. *maybe* I'll play T4 used on a console some day but I'm not even looking forward to it. For example I was at least looking forward to finally getting to play DNF. If you can't tell, I did look forward to both DXIW and TDS back in the day. I read all the previews, I followed all the discussions, etc. And yeah you're right about the complaints. People bashed the game because of small levels, poison water, lack of ropes, third-person (even being an option!), requiring shaders, not running on Windows 98, and on and on. Personally, I kind of felt like I was shafted because I shelled out full price for TDS and we got only one patch before support for the game ceased. There were many bugs that did not get fixed, and when you spend full price on a game and you are left in that situation, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and you are less willing to do it again. I must say one thing about you TDM developers, you really care about your product. Bugs get fixed, requested features get implemented, aspects get improved, etc. With mainstream games, its like "here's our hot new game, buy it, its done. We aren't going to invest the effort to fix aspects of the game because we have to move on to cranking out the next big game". Mainstream games weren't always that way though. Back in the 90s, developers spent loads of time fixing things and adding features to their games even after you purchased them. Look at all the patches that came out for Half-life, fixing netcode, things like GLQuake/Quakeworld, etc. TDS marked the moment when stuff like that came to an end.

Yep, I did that for a wile as well. The issue is when you want to read the comments. The first page will usually load fine along with an article, but if you try to step to the next page it won't unless you have JS enabled.

I would like to promote a Firefox add-on here called RequestPolicy. When you go to a site, it has a red flag at the bottom of your screen which you can click on. If you do, it shows you all of the third-party sites which the main site you are visiting tried to contact/load content from. I read tech news online a lot, and I have a slow connection because I live in the US where overpriced monopolies control everything. As such, when I go to a news site, it can take a long time for the plain text that I am interested in reading to load while the main site contacts half of the Internet, loading random shit like social buttons and tracking scripts that I didn't want in the first place. As a result, pages like this load much faster for me.

Alright Springheel, I found them. They are inside tdm_sound_ambient01.pk4 and the offending files are thunder_close3.wav and thunder_close4.wav. Since they are wav files, want me to fix them with Audacity? I can cut the chirping off and mail them to you. EDIT: I fixed the two wavs by cutting the chirp off and introducing a tiny fade-in so that it isn't jarring. I have them in game and it sounds fine. Let me know if you want them.

Yep, I came up with a solution for this a wile ago so I can play TDM on my laptop when I'm out with a gamepad. Install the xserver-xorg-input-joystick package. This is a driver that allows you to map buttons on your joystick to serve as the mouse and keyboard. http://forums.thedar...__fromsearch__1 EDIT: I'm using a Logitech Dual-action controller. I don't know if the buttons will match up on different controllers (such as XBOX gamepads or others).

An oddity that I've found in TDM standalone is with one of the thunder sounds. You can hear what sounds like (very loud) birds chirping right before one of the sounds play. This is quite strange when you're inside a mansion like A Night to Remember. I will do research in a bit and tell you the exact wav/ogg file in case you want to fix it for the next release. Perhaps that bit of the sound can be snipped off with Audacity or something.

http://modarchive.or...id&query=130340 Awesome song!

I had TDM running with sound fine on Debian X64 a wile ago, so it can be done. I always scrub Pulseaudio from my installs though. If you do not want to scrub PA, you can run the game with pasuspender. That will supposedly allow an app to use ALSA without Pulseaudio "modernizing" your sound experience.

@Jinix: Can you move the darkmod folder to a safe place like your documents? Make sure its the right folder though, containing the pk4 files and the like. @Lux: I'm not sure about the X86 compatibility thing, but I would imagine the same rule applies. They really do not want programs just writing wherever said program feels like it anymore... and for good reason! The backward compatibility thing won't be a problem for older software because as far as it knows, it wrote to (and is reading from) the program files folder. The problem comes into play when the user wants to find files that a program supposedly saved to program files\appname, for example screen dumps or saves in old games. I just wish they didn't put the stuff in an obscure place, 6-8 levels deep in terms of sub-directories.

Well on today's versions of Windows, users generally do not stick things in program files unless it is done by a traditional installer designed for Windows. This is because write permission to that location is now restricted. It didn't used to be restricted in win98/xp, but anyway... I'm thinking a few things. In windows 7, if a program tries to write to program files\app name, but can't, it writes to a directory in your user profile folder. This is so that old software which REQUIRES writing to program files\app name can still run, because the modifications that it makes to internal files are transparently sent to your personal profile folder instead. So, I'm guessing TDM is stuck in your user profile folder somewhere because it tried to write to program files\darkmod, but was not allowed to write to program files\darkmod. Do a file search on your machine for thedarkmod.exe and see if it comes up. Or if you're hardcore and you hate the GUI search tools, open a command prompt and type: cd \ dir /s thedarkmod.exe That will do a recursive search for thedarkmod.exe on the C partition.

Yeah that's pretty awesome. We were having a discussion about TDM for android, but I think (most) devices need to get a bit more powerful first. They're lacking particularly in the RAM department. When 4 GB Android hardware becomes common, it would be a lot more playable.

Also, running up behind a guard and trying to knock them out is a no no. Unless you are on an extremely quiet surface like carpet, never run up to a guard. They will hear you and turn around. In T1/2, you were able to do the above and run up to guards unless it was metal or tile.

Well now here we go... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/03/us_feds_want_cars_conversing_by_2017/ Sadly though, I wonder whether this will be used to keep people safe, or keep tabs on them? Think of it, even if your car isn't connected to the cloud, they can constantly track your position using this...

Not sure, but if you're really desperate, you can: A: Hunt down a copy of the required .so file from some other distro like Ubuntu 13.10. (It has the proper version) B: place it in your darkmod folder C: Use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to force it to use the local file instead of the default /usr/lib location. See also: http://www.linuxques...preload-235321/

The grass test map had some VERY nice looking water, and it wasn't slow at all. This was in a large outdoor environment, but granted that there were few lights.

I can't imagine using a 19 inch laptop. Even a 17 inch machine seems huge.