Alien Arena 7.31 released!

[Irritant]

Version 7.31 of Alien Arena has been released today for windows and linux users! In addition to some exciting new content, there are also a number of engine improvements, optimizations, and gameplay enhancements.

Some of the new features in this release:


Improved shadow volumes with self shadowing.
Vertex buffer object management.
Sound improvements/bugfixes.
Security fixes.
Anisitropic image filtering.
New weather effects.
Callvoting.
Duplicate player renaming.
Two new levels.
Auto detection of settings on first run.
Run time optimizations.


For a complete changelog look http://icculus.org/alienarena/changelogs/7.31.txt

Alien Arena is open source, free to play, and sets a new standard in freeware FPS gaming. To download the game(windows or linux), or for more information, screenshots and videos, visit http://red.planetarena.org

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[Melcar]

Nice. Downloading right now.

[Irritant]

Lemme know how it works with the autodetection of video settings on first run. I was hesitant to do this before, and we always just set the defaults to a low level hoping that people would turn them up if they had nice rigs. Now it is hoping that people will turn them down if they aren't getting good performance, though the detection should give them an appropriate setting for their GPU. I think most games do this now, and it was time we implemented it. There were too many people firing the game up, and never seeing what it could look like on higher settings because they didn't even bother, even when they had the GPU for it.

[Melcar]

The game started at high settings for me, but in a 640x480 window.

[Irritant]

Hmmm that's odd that it started in that window size, shoulda been 1024x768. I'll look into that. Thanks!

[Carpentr]

Nice graphics as always. I look forward to playing it. I'm sure it will be just as fun, if not more, than the older versions. Keep up the good work.

[Irritant]

Nice graphics as always. I look forward to playing it. I'm sure it will be just as fun, if not more, than the older versions. Keep up the good work.

Thanks :) Got some more stuff in the pipeline for the next release underway already...

[Irritant]

7.32 will be released in a few days. We discovered that using the Nvidia 191.xx drivers completely blow the game up. Also, the automatic video settings on first run were causing problems for way too many people. So with these fixes, plus some new things, we'll have a release out shortly, as well as patch for those with 7.31

[benjamimgois]

When i execute ./crx i receive this message:

./crx: error while loading shared libraries: libXxf86dga.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


I'm running Karmic 64bit, Anyone know how to fix it ?

[Artificial Intelligence]

Try:
sh -c "cd <path> && ./crx"

[what, what?]

i downloaded the .zip file for the game, does anybody know what i need to do now?

[Skwerly]

Yea, I saw this at a buddy's house and thought WOW! It looks as good if not better than Halo :).

Sweet game!

[Artificial Intelligence]

i downloaded the .zip file for the game, does anybody know what i need to do now?

Guide, though it might need a little update: http://gwos.org/doku.php/guides:64bit:alien_arena

[what, what?]

Guide, though it might need a little update: http://gwos.org/doku.php/guides:64bit:alien_arena

ok, and i have alien arena on the linux mint part of my computer too but i downloaded AA a few months ago so its not up to date, is there a way to update it without having to download the zip file and wait another 2-3 hours and go through the whole process again?
(i know it doesnt make sense to have AA on both parts)

[spoons]

Irritant, do you think hardware tessalation support would improve the lower poly models? It's supported on ATi hardware so far, I don't think Nvidia have many/any cards that can do it yet.

[benjamimgois]

Try:
sh -c "cd <path> && ./crx"

Artificial Intelligence, i type the command that you suggest, but i receive exactly the same message. Any other sugggestion ?

[Enigmapond]

This game is great with one problem. Everything works well for me except there is no sound. I opened the console and it states no sound source found. Graphics and all else work very well...and fast but the sound problem I have is a bummer....any suggestion?

[Artificial Intelligence]

Artificial Intelligence, i type the command that you suggest, but i receive exactly the same message. Any other sugggestion ?

Then try this:
sudo apt-get install libxxf86dga1

[Enigmapond]

I did and it states newest version already installed....

[CheatCat]

Sometimes the game crashes and I get this error:

Received signal 11, exiting...

Please help! :(

[myromance123]

Looks awesome!
Can't wait to try it out with mah new screen :P

Downloading now! :D

[benjamimgois]

Then try this:
sudo apt-get install libxxf86dga1

The package libxxf86dga1 is already installed, maybe it's a problem with the 64bit system.

[Artificial Intelligence]

The package libxxf86dga1 is already installed, maybe it's a problem with the 64bit system.

Try compile it instead, or use getlibs to install it.
Also try running ldd on the binary.

[what, what?]

Guide, though it might need a little update: http://gwos.org/doku.php/guides:64bit:alien_arena

i tried it, didnt work.

[Artificial Intelligence]

i tried it, didnt work.

Where/what didn't work. If you post the input/output, you can get help (hopefully) to fix it.

[what, what?]

well i decided to do it the easy way with playdeb.net
and now i have a problem with it.
instead of it going to fullscreen, its windowed. as shown in the screenshot below:

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/599/screenshot2600x400.png
Does anybody know how to fix this?

And why does it say CRX?

[benjamimgois]

It finally work using the Playdeb PPA.

[Irritant]

It finally work using the Playdeb PPA.

What version do they have there? Version 7.32 is currently the latest released version.

[benjamimgois]

What version do they have there? Version 7.32 is currently the latest released version.

Yep, 7.32 is already there.

[Irritant]

Yep, 7.32 is already there.

Awesome! If there are any problems please report, we are always trying to make it easier on players in every way. In fact even today, all rainy and nothing to do, I found another optimization to speed it all up :D

[mick@zendo]

How do I upgrade the version I have installed (7.0) ?
I already downloaded and unzipped but cannot get crx.exe to run
cheers