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>> What is the game? I think that's the most important information you |
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> Sorry. The game is StarCraft with the add-on BroodWar. |
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> Thanks for the info! |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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Mark, I run BroodWar on my Gentoo laptop and it runs like greased magic. |
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I will however say that if the _game_ connected to the net to get the |
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update (that is to say, through the battle.net interface), then it's |
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probably incorrectly patched. Using the in-game updater has been known |
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to break the game on linux. You might try reinstalling the game and |
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getting the update from the website instead. This worked for me. |
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I use the game to play online games, but I haven't used the LAN function |
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of it to play on my local network, so this is a shot in the dark. You |
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might however, try starting Samba, in case it uses it for name |
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resolution or something. |
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Also, when you go to the multiplayer menu, are you clicking "LAN (IPX)" |
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or "LAN (UDP)." You want to make sure you use the same one on your |
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linux and your windows machines. If one doesn't work, try the other. |
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You may need to enable IPX support or something, but I really don't know |
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much about IPX on Linux. |
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Winston |
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