FAQ:Installing
Installing and Compiling Vegastrike.
See also HowTos#Installing
Contents
- 1 What are the minimum system requirements for Vegastrike?
- 2 Does the source code work with VC++ 6.0 or 7.0?
- 3 How do i turn fullscreen on or off in Vegastrike?
- 4 While compiling VS from CVS i got lots of error like seen in this thread in the forum. (e.g pasting "operator" and "+" does not give a valid preprocessing token) and they are all in somewhere like the ../src/boost129/ directory. What should i do?
- 5 When compiling VS I get a glXGetProcAddress or glXGetProcAddressARB error.
- 6 When compiling VS I get a ./depcomp: No such file or directory error.
- 7 Which video cards are known to work (or not to) with Vegastrike?
- 8 I'm getting similar errors as shown below when trying to compile today's cvs version, What about that?
What are the minimum system requirements for Vegastrike?
A:Your computer needs to have OpenGL support (which most do nowadays).
- Minimum Requirement
- Processor: Pentium I 200Mhz or Apple G3 400Mhz
- Video card: 3d card with 16Mb of memory (although it will work without a 3d card too)
- Screen color depth: 16bit
- RAM: 512 Mb
- Swap space: ???
- HD: ???
- Recommended Requirement
- Processor: ???
- Video card: ???
- Screen color depth: ???
- RAM: ???
- Swap space: ???
- HD: ???
If your graphics card is poor, put it on low/retro detail and low resolution/16bit color, fullscreen.
More info about video cards is here: Q7
Does the source code work with VC++ 6.0 or 7.0?
A: Most certainly.
VC++ 6.0/7.0 is unfortunately the only way I know how to compile it in windows.
Not completly true, it works with cygwin too. See HowTo:Cygwin Compiling.
Download vega-proj (vc++ 6) or vega-vc7 (vc++ 7), not the outdated vega-new-proj and have at it (from CVS).
See HowTo:VCPP Compiling for more information.
Note for people with an old project (such as vega-new-proj):
It's a bit of a trick to get all the .lib files into the project because a lot of the people who are in charge of maintaining the project somehow got rid if the library include directories from the project since I committed it. However, it's pretty easy to add those paths.
You have to add a few simple .cpp files to the project so give it a shot if you will.
The simplest way is to checkout vega-proj as it says in HowTo:Checkout CVS.
How do i turn fullscreen on or off in Vegastrike?
A: Edit vegastrike.config or /.vegastrike/vegastrike.config
and change fullscreen to false/true wherever it occurs.
A: Run Launcher.exe program, select OPTIONS, and adjust color.
While compiling VS from CVS i got lots of error like seen in this thread in the forum. (e.g pasting "operator" and "+" does not give a valid preprocessing token) and they are all in somewhere like the ../src/boost129/ directory. What should i do?
A: Try to run ./configure with the --enable-boost-128 parameter.
See also:
When compiling VS I get a glXGetProcAddress or glXGetProcAddressARB error.
A:
- Preferred way: Inserting the following lines into the file
gl_init.cpp(Forum Link)
#define GLX_GLXEXT_PROTOTYPES #include <GL/glx.h>
- A second way is to replace
glXGetProcAddresswithglXGetProcAddressARBor the other way around. - If none of the other ways worked, include the line
#define glXGetProcAddress glXGetProcAddressARB
or
#define glXGetProcAddressARB glXGetProcAddress
at the top of the file gl_init.cpp (the very first line)
- See also the forum entries below:
When compiling VS I get a ./depcomp: No such file or directory error.
A: You need to start automake with the parameter --add-missing like this:
automake --add-missing
Which video cards are known to work (or not to) with Vegastrike?
A: This question is also discussed in the following thread in the forum: http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1399
Working
| Vendor | Card Info | Operation System | Additional Info | |
| ATI | Rage 128 Pro | - | ||
| ATI | Radeon 7000 Mobility | G3 | - | - |
| ATI | Radeon 7200 | Linux | - | |
| ATI | Radeon 7500 | Linux | - | |
| ATI | Radeon 7500 | WinXP | Forum-Link | |
| ATI | Radeon 7500 | Linux | Forum-Link | |
| ATI | Radeon 8500 | Linux | - | |
| ATI | Radeon 9000 Pro | Win98SE | Forum-Link | |
| ATI | Radeon 9200 | Linux DRI XF4.3 | Use the 16bit depth, not 24!! | |
| ATI | Radeon 9500 Pro | Linux | - | |
| ATI | Radeon 9600 Pro | Win2k | - | |
| ATI | Radeon 9700 Pro | Linux/Win2k | - | |
| ATI | Radeon 9800 Pro | G4 867Mhz OSX 10.2.8 | ||
| ATI | Radeon IGP 345 M | WinXP | - | |
| NVidia | GeForce 2 GTS 32M | Windows/Linux | Forum-Link | |
| NVidia | GeForce 2 MX | Linux/Windows | - | |
| NVidia | GeForce 2 MX | power mac G4 800 Mhz | - | |
| NVidia | GeForce 3 (standard) | Linux/Windows | - | |
| NVidia | GeForce 3 Ti200 128 MB | WinXP | - | |
| NVidia | GeForce 3 Ti500 64 MB | - | - | |
| NVidia | GeForce 4 MX440 64 MB | WinME | - | |
| NVidia | GeForce 4 MX (integrated) | WinXP | Forum-Link | |
| NVidia | GeForce 4 Ti series | - | - | |
| NVidia | GeForce 4 Ti 4600 128mb | Linux | Forum-Link | |
| NVidia | GeForce FX 5600 | - | - | |
| NVidia | GeForce FX 5900 | - | - | |
| - | TNT2 M64 32mb | - | - | |
| - | Permedia 2 (FireGL 1000 pro) | - | - | |
| Elsa | Erazor III Pro | Win2k/Linux(Debian) | - | |
| 3DFX | Voodoo3 16Mb | Linux/Win2k | - | |
| 3DFX | Voodoo5000 64Mb | Linux | - | |
| S3 | Savage/IX-MV | Linux (Gentoo) | Using xorg-x11 6.8.2-r1 and dri.freedesktop.org's savage-20050411 development driver snapshot. Follow the instructions at http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download | |
| SiS | 630 16Mb shared memory | 256RAM/WinXP | (But no cursor at the bases and some minor graphical issues) | |
| Matrox | Millenium G400 | Win2k | [1] | |
| Matrox | G440 DualHead MAX 32Mb | Mandrake 10.1 Community | Forum-Link |
Not Working
| Vendor | Card Info | Operation System | Additional Info |
| Hercules | Kyro II 64MB | - | - |
| Matrox | G400 | Win98 | Marginally usable: -No mouse cursor on bases. - Poor frame rate - Works only in fullscreen mode. If the game is running in a window, graphics are turning to gibberish. Re-maximizing doesn't help to restore graphics |
| Matrox | G450 32MB | Linux | - |
| 3DFX | Voodoo 4500 | Win98SE | - |
| ATI | Rage 128 Pro 8MB | G3 iMac DV 400 (512mb ram) | - |
I'm getting similar errors as shown below when trying to compile today's cvs version, What about that?
if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -DHAVE_SDL=1 -DSDL_WINDOWING=1 -DHAVE_AL=1 -DUSE_STENCIL_BUFFER=1 -DDATA_DIR=\"/usr/share/games/vegastrike/data\" -I/usr/include/python2.3 -DHAVE_PYTHON=1 -DUSE_BOOST_128=1 -I../../src/boost -I../../src -pipe -falign-loops=2 -falign-jumps=2 -falign-functions=2 -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT -pthread -pipe -MT gl_globals.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/gl_globals.Tpo" -c -o gl_globals.o gl_globals.cpp; \ then mv -f ".deps/gl_globals.Tpo" ".deps/gl_globals.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/gl_globals.Tpo"; exit 1; fi In file included from gl_globals.cpp:22: gl_globals.h:123: error: syntax error before `;' token gl_globals.h:124: error: syntax error before `;' token gl_globals.h:125: error: syntax error before `;' token gl_globals.h:126: error: syntax error before `;' token gl_globals.h:127: error: syntax error before `;' token gl_globals.h:128: error: syntax error before `;' token make[4]: *** [gl_globals.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/vegastrike-20040724/vegastrike/src/gldrv' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/vegastrike-20040724/vegastrike/src' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/vegastrike-20040724/vegastrike' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/vegastrike-20040724/vegastrike'
A:
- You need the latest version of glext.h to fix the error.
- Get it at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/ABI/glext.h
- Then you probably need to save it in
/usr/include/GL/glext.has root (Make a backup first). - If there is no
glext.hin/usr/include/GLthen do a search for it...
find /usr -name glext.h
- After that, gcc will probably have to rebuild most of the vega strike files again because that file changed.
- See also this post in the forum.
