I apologize if this upsets some; but I have tried to figure this out myself, and I have tried searching through the forums for an answer....but with no success.

a few months ago I downloaded America's Army, and was successful in installing it and playing it. I had a crap video card however and quit playing it. Since then my hard drive crashed and I have replaced it. I also replaced the video card with a new NVidia 6200. I want to try America's Army again so I downloaded the updated version, which happens to be a .run file. The previous version I downloaded was a .tar file.
I thought I installed the new .run version correctly but when I try to execute it, all I get is the America's Army logo for about 40 seconds then it closes. No error messages, nothing, just gone.

I have never seen a .run file extention in my relatively short linux experience. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
I am using Mandriva distro.

*.run files are the usual way of installing cross-distro apps such as games. Ideally you'd install everything with your package manager but it's not a perfect world

Run armyops from a terminal and see what it says when it quits. Have you installed the official nvidia drivers? If not that would certainly go a long way towards fixing the problem

I think I have installed the Nvidia drivers..... yes, yes I did install them. or at least Mandriva recognized them when I booted up the computer after installing the card, and I had to go through some configuring of the system.

oh, and I tried getting the armyops file to run by means of terminal, but I'm sure I didn't do it correctly as I could never get anything to happen.

I went into a terminal mode, typed in su , and tried typing in the name of the file "armyops250linux.run" and all that happens is that it says file not found. I know it's there because it's sitting right there on my desktop. And when I double clicked on it after downloading it, it began extracting and said that installation was complete.

Did I happen to mess things up by double clicking on the file icon instead of trying to install it within a terminal?

No not at all. Two things, first what do you get when you type this in at a terminal?
Second, don't try and install it again, just type 'armyops' at the terminal (don't worry about being root) and see what happens.

typing in " glxinfo | grep direct "
I get about a hundred or so of these:
Xlib : extention "GLX" missing on display ":0.0"


when typing in "armyops" I get: command not found


not sure what's going on about the command not found, but it appears that I have NOT properly installed the new video drivers. is that correct?

Sure is correct. You may have installed them but not configured your xorg.conf file properly. The newer drivers include an app that will do this for you, run nvidia-xconfig as root.

well, this just keeps getting more interesting (read: confusing).

It's obvious to me that I don't fully understand what you are asking me to do, as when I opened a terminal and went in as su, I typed in the command as you instructed and was advised that command did not exist.

so now I am totally lost