bzflag

[eyebrowman92]

does anyone here play bzflag?

[DDM]

Yup. My handle is "Dooper"

(I'm a goon as well)

[eyebrowman92]

i like the game but my lag is etremely high and i get kicked constantly. does anyone know hot to solve this?

[Neeko]

Lag is dependant on the speed and quality of your internet connection. The exception is the Debian version of BZflag with the lag bug, this was also in the Ubuntu repositories.

Check to see if it is lag or jitter. Lag is the time in ms, and usually if you are under 250ms you will not be kicked. Jitter is the +- value after lag, this should be very low or zero or else you will get complaints. If its extremely high then you are using the buggy version.

Usually best to download source from bzflag.org and compile it yourself. When playing close all other applications that may be using your internet connection including mail and web.

[etc]

Download the latest bzflag here, and save it to your desktop: http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bzflag/bzflag-2.0.4.20050930.tar.gz

Then install checkinstall, which will make a deb package from the source
sudo apt-get install checkinstall

Let's remove the old bzflag just in case it causes any trouble
sudo apt-get remove bzflag bzflag-server

Now cd to desktop, and untar it
cd ~/Desktop
tar xvfz bzflag-2.0.4*.tar.gz
cd bzflag-2.0.4*


And grab the bzflag dependencies
sudo apt-get install libcurl3-dev gawk g77 gcc g++ libsdl1.2-dev

Now run the configure script
./configure

And if it says you do not have a package that is needed (for example libcurl) open up synaptic search for the package, and download the one that ends with -dev
Then go back and run the configure script again

If the configure script finshes with no WARNINGS or errors, then lets compile the package
make

If there are no errors continue on by using checkinstall to make a deb
sudo checkinstall

Follow the little wizard, and when you're done it should install the deb it just made, if it didn't then install it yourself
sudo dpkg -i bzflag*.deb

Test out bzflag in a terminal and you should be good to go

[eyebrowman92]

alright ill try but i have problems with downloading things not from the terminal or synaptic.

[NutrOn]

I tried the steps by etc. for making a deb. package but it installed in user/local and is "empty" so nothing runs, no bzflag found though I found and removed the package with synaptic. Seems like ny Ubuntu install only installed a user and no root account.
user=root but no root set kind of like mac. Is this the problem or is their another?
How can I set/create root, if needed?
Thanks,](*,)
NutrOn

[bradlis7]

I doubt if the root account was not created. Try using the original password created upon installation from your main account as the root password. I think that's what mine was.

[sudomania4]

i cant use the make command. The terminal displays bash: make: command not found

edit: ok, you have to install sudo apt-get build-essential to use the make command.

[j2fraser]

Just for clarity, that would be...

sudo apt-get install build-essential