Since installing SuSE 10.0(SLICK, actually) on my laptop, I have been dual booting happily for awhile. I haven't been using my laptop massively, but given the remodelling going on at home, I wasn't able to use power for awhile from electricians working. So I fire up the laptop and use wireless for internet, all is fine.

I want to do a little gaming, so I boot into Windows XP, and off it goes. I try to fire up Gunbound which had been working before going dual boot, but I hadn't tried since. Now it updates and starts loading, and fires up nprotect(anti hacking software, it is suppoed to go) but that's it. It just stops there, gunbound never loads.

I have tried other video options, I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the software. I am left with 2 options as the at fault issue.

1) gunbound's latest patches coincidentally timed with my loading of SLICK onto this computer, and thier patches killed it.

2) somehow, partioning the drives broke the ability to play gunbound, but NOTHING else fails.

Either way, Directx 9.0c is fine, and all the DirectX tests still go, so it isn't a system wide video breakdown or anything. EVERYTHING else still works flawlessly in Windows XP, I can still update windows, and do everything else I did before. ONLY gunbound seems affected.

cant you just reinstall this gunbound??

maybe your disk was fragmented......

Disk was not fragmented in the least, and as EVERYTHING else works, I think that is evidence of the fact. I used Partition magic to repartition the drive, not the linux tools. So it was partioned sucessfully before I even installed SLICK.

Also, I have tried on numerous attempts to repair, uninstall/reinstall, and manually wipe every trace(including a registry wipe) of gunbound before doing a fresh install. I have tried older downloads, and newer ones, all with identical results. The only thing that happens is a successful update followed by loading of nprotect followed by absolutely nothing.

have u tried disabling this nprotect??

there's no way linux can make a differnce to this. i suggest either it's nprotect or a gunbound patch.

You can't. It is tied in to gunbound, without nprotect, or if you modify any files of nprotect or gunbound, it errors out and you have to get a fresh copy. It is anti hack protection FOR gunbound. A lot of online enabled games have similar stuff.

and that's why i only use open source software.....

it seems a wierd problem. unless nprotect can detect linux on a foreign file system and disable the game!! ;-)

could it be a firewall issue or something

Hi,i wonder if you would like to talk about somthing else?Like how to go a page forward while searching on internet using a terminal?

Trust me, there is no issue it can be, this whole issue makes as much sense as a frog with a banjo. nprotect shouldn't affect anything in terms of the gameplay because it doesn't scan other partitions or external drives. It pretty much just scans active memory and software for aimbots and other hacks. Even open source games have this kind of stuff, check some of the biggest, like PlaneShift. It is for hacking prevention and to stop cheating and packet sniffing.

Anywho, no it isn't firewall, or internet connection, or anything like that, none of that has changed. The ONLY thing that has changed(aside from probably my IP address from my ISP) is I am dual booting now.

So moving aside the nprotect... which isn't the issue, and moving back to getting the game running. Anybody else have an idea?

Heaven Fire - please open your own thread, and that depends on which borwser you are using.

quite frankly this is linuxquestions not windows games questions dot org

what do you expect when you buy crap like that....

there's not way its linux. are u kidding me? uninstall it then and go back to windows

I understand it is linuxquestions, but being as the ONLY difference between it working, and now not IS LINUX, so I figure the fault is somehow there. I see dozens of threads about gunbound here, so I am FAR from the only one interested in gunbuond here.

And buying crap like what...windows? Heaven forbid some people have an actual use for the most popular OS in the world. I happen to be a gamer and cedega, wine, and crossover office can't handle the gambit of every program in the world, esepcially games.

Not to mention my video editting, where Adobe, Pinnacle and other companies reign. Linux is WAY too far behind to be a valid option for video editting. Then you can talk AUTO CAD and other things, I am sorry, but some of us just HAVE to use Windows for some things still.

Assuming times change down the road, I would be happy to stop using windows, but in the mean time, I am TONS of others, have little choice. If you would like to rewrite every game and software program from Windows that currently doesn't yet work in Linux, most of us would LOVE to switch away from the bastard giant, but have no choice.

So if don't want to help, I totally understand, and I know that some people just despise anyone who can't force thier entire lives into Open Source, but that is quite a stance to take. Some people just can't use Linux for everything yet, and eventually elitest nerdy schmucks will get over that, but until then, just move along and help posts of people that have no use for windows because they don't work corporately, don't video edit, game, and have all the time in the world to spend on Linux.

i'm a nerd?

you're buying computer games that simulate killing people. thats' the crap i am talking about. have you ever seen someone die? GROW UP.

i tried to help you but you got annoyed with my suggestions. who's in the wrong there? I'm very helpful to everyone in this forum. It grates a bit when people throw it back in your face. people often email me direct. but you just babbling on about suse and your stupid game just shows you up. my suggestions were perfectly valid.

maybe if you spent more time expanding your mental capacity rather than shooting at imaginary objects, you might find it easier to solve your own problems.

conincidentally occured at the same time as your gunbound patch? please. that's just the kind of talk that infuriates me. you can't make assuptions like that.

i'm unsubscribing from this post. enjoy

I said it is possible that it happened to occur at the same time as patches. Clearly that is an option as online games PATCH ALL THE FREAKING TIME. Every week on a minumum. Since you don't game, you wouldn't get it, and perhaps you should stick to other threads.

You suggestions of what were valid? I told you in the first post I had tried uninstalling and reinstalling. I got annoyed because you obviously have no experience with an issue like this and have no interest in gaming, which probbaly means you shouldn't be assissting people in issues like that. Stick to what you know, which is not dual boot, and not gaming.

Thanks for unsubscribing, now maybe I can get someone with some actual experience in dual booting or gaming or something else which may actually be applicable experience to THIS THREAD.

And I called you a nerdy elitist schmuck, not a nerd. I meant it in the way of you are an elitist linux-ite with no real world experience in things others have to deal with on a daily basis, or can actually do in windows, that obviously Linux can't handle. Sorry that you find it so repulsive that people use Windows.

And in case you are interested... no one dies in gunbound, there are no "guns" and it isn't a shooter. It is like worms...freaking WORMS. And also, it is free, I didn't buy it, nor did anyone else who is playing it.

You hate windows, and games. Fine, then next time you see a thread that deals with either, move on.

lol


i came back for a laugh. apart from the fact that i am a qualified windoze admin in Active directory and MS exchange. and that i use windows all the time at work (for the above reasons). and i previously did windows 2nd line support for 2000 users. but as you say i dont have much real world experience. not like you and your dual booting laptop. holly cow. I will give up my job in hpux/sco admin and try and get some dual booting experience for my CV. ~WOW!!!! god where have i been going wrong.


even though any idiot can see that it's totally unrelated and that this isn't a games forum. i dont find windows repulsive. i find your boorish idiocy repulsive.

today i was looking at block level backup of windows servers over wan links to get synthetic full backups. but like you say i dont know anything about waht you can do on windows. OH YES I DO DONT I?? far more than you in fact! get it?

since option 2 is clearly crazy. please go away back to your online games and your AUTO CAD, that you've stolen. I love this post now. i laughed so much at your petty justification. DUAL BOOTING! wait till i tell everyone at work!!! knocks my Xen set up into a cocked hat eh? i'm enjoying being this childish. but some people need crayons to have a point illistrated.