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#1973: Playing Cube

by Tarnak on 10/11/2003 06:00

Cube is incredibly laggy to me. I'd like some help on figuring out what the problem is. I'd rather not give out system specs here, but drop me an email if you'll help: Karl_Evil@hotmail.com. I probably won't check this thread anyway, but I'll try to.

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#1974: Re: Playing Cube

by spentron-postcrash2 on 10/11/2003 07:09, refers to #1973

I'd say the absolute minimum spec is what I used to run: Celeron 333 MHz, TNT graphics card ... at 640x480 resolution. RAM requirement probably 32 or 64 MB. It's not as efficient as Quake due to more on-the-fly processing.

The resolution can be changed by editing cube.bat, or making a shortcut to the .bat, and adding -w640 -h480 to the target command line.

Driver and other issues can cause great slowdown. This is often an issue with other marginal graphics cards (e.g. Savage, lower Radeon, Voodoo, better Matrox) as opposed to ones will simply insufficient power (SIS, can't remember). I used Detonator 6.50 drivers I thought (nvidia368Win9xPCI.zip) with the TNT and now use 41.09 with GeForce2-MX (integrated).

You didn't say if this is online, which is a whole different matter, but should be OK if not broken.

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#1975: Re: Playing Cube

by spentron-postcrash2 on 10/11/2003 07:14, refers to #1974

Bad line break ... should have been:
-w640 -h480

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#1976: Server

by FireWhisper on 10/11/2003 08:56

Is There Any Way To Add A Server To My Domain?

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#1977: All right

by Tarnak on 10/12/2003 03:10

Thanks for the help Spentron. I use a Nvidia card and driver, but I\\\\\\\'m not sure of the quality of those. My computer is antiquated, and I doubt it will run. This is single player and I'm having 5 second lag flashes. (It shows 1 frame every 5 seconds.)

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#1978: Re: All right

by spentron-postcrash2 on 10/12/2003 04:47, refers to #1977

That sounds like a driver problem, or software OpenGL. I got about 15 fps on the opening map on the rig described, some small ones are better. I call it minimum because several Cube limitations come into play that make it so almost no maps will bring that system down below about 8 fps, tricky to play at that rate but not impossible.

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#1979: cube for windows

by nightbox on 10/12/2003 19:09

I was just wandering... Is there a port/version of Cube for Windows? If so, where can I get it? If not, then will there be one in the near future?

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#1980: Re: cube for windows

by pushplay on 10/13/2003 04:38, refers to #1979

The only Cube download comes with linux and windows binaries. You can find it in the unassuming files section up there. Also mirrored on my site. DI downloads have slowed down a little recently, so I have bandwidth to spare.

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#1981: Re: ..

by D.plomat on 10/13/2003 12:38, refers to #1968

If it's browser-based, you'll need MS docs on how to code com components... This is a high challenge, especially if you want to embed the 3D engine in an ActiveX. I think you should better keep it a Linux and/or windows binary, at least for the beginning of your project...

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#1982: ..

by Dr. Zin on 10/18/2003 07:30

is there a way to make teams, because ive got i killer idea for a map centering on a castle siege....

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#1983: Re: ..

by Verbal-Yes on 10/18/2003 21:17, refers to #1982

There are teams, but not in the fashion you want. The spawns are still random. You can\\\'t set up specific team spawns for a raid and defense scenario.

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#1984: Re: ..

by pushplay on 10/18/2003 23:41, refers to #1983

Though if you don't mind getting your hands dirty, team specific spawns aren't hard.

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#1985: ..

by Dr. Zin on 10/19/2003 03:55

i can handle a bit getting some dirt beneath the nails

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#1986: Re: ..

by pushplay on 10/19/2003 05:50, refers to #1985

Look at Thalion's code then.

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#1987: That damn tilde key!

by KesieV on 10/19/2003 23:28

Hi there!
Cool game, this Cube... I love tiny games and, for his genre, cube is sooo tiny and still funny!
Stop here. I need help.

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To open the console, I have to hit the TILDE key, right? But... in my European keyboard, I haven't that damn tilde key! Under ESC, I've (you too knows) the PIPE/SLASH key...
How I can bind that key to my keyboard? There is a flag... a special BIND command to put into autoexec.cfg? Help me!

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Plz... if anyone knows how to solve this damn problem, mail me! @

Kesiev [at] that_Micro$oft_webmailserver [dot] com

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#1988: Re: That damn tilde key!

by pushplay on 10/20/2003 07:33, refers to #1987

It's not tidle, it's a back quote. Tilde is what you get when you hit shift+back quote.

find:
bind BACKQUOTE "saycommand /"
and replace BACKQUOTE with BACKSLASH or CARET. At least I assume it's caret,

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#1989: Didn't Mean To Hit Send

by pushplay on 10/20/2003 07:33

because I can't find pipe in the keymap.cfg.

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#1990: Error: "Different cube protocol"

by cone on 10/20/2003 17:51

After I updated my SDL library to a newer version, cube didn't work anymore (crashed with "Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)"). So I came to the idea to compile it myself. I was able to build it, but after running it and opening the server browsers, I get the error "different cube protocol" on all running servers. Anyone kowns how to fix it?

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#1991: ..

by KesieV on 10/20/2003 19:29

Thank you! :D

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#1992: Re: Error: "Different cube protocol"

by pushplay on 10/20/2003 20:26, refers to #1990

Don't compile it yourself and don't use a different dll file.

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