MegaGlest License Keygen
Annice Hemmerling
Open a terminal window, then use the pwd command to determine the directory you are currently in, and the cd command to change into the directory you have stored the MegaGlest installer in. To verify that you are in the correct directory, you can use the ls command.
Once you execute this command, you should get to see the graphical installer, displaying the MegaGlest licenses. You can now follow the graphical installer to install the game into your home directory. You may also install the game to a different location of your choice, within the boundaries of where your Linux user may write to, and this is usually not much more than your home directory (as well as possibly external media such as USB HDDs/keys). These boundaries are there for a reason, please do not try to run the MegaGlest installer with sudo/as root to work around them. Have a look at your Linux distributions' manuals or Wikipedia to learn more about the underlying file system hierarchy standard - it is well worth those five minutes you spend on it.
If, after spawning the installer as described above, you do not get to see the installer window but get an error saying "permission denied", this is either because you had a typo in the chmod command (review the Linux installation instructions) or because you may not execute commands in the current directory, i.e. the entire file system you are currently working on has the 'no execute bit' set. You can work around this until the next reboot using the following command:
This assumes that /home is the mount point of the file system you are currently working in. If you needed to use this workaround, it means that you are doing something the Linux distribution you are using thinks you should not be doing. Please consult the documentation of your Linux distribution to learn whether and if so, how and where you should keep a fixed set of executable files, libraries and application data (such as the MegaGlest installer provides) in one place if not in your home directory. Most likely you will end up either installing a MegaGlest package made for this distribution or violating this design by editing your filesystem table.
After spawning the installer as described above, you may not get to see the installer window but get an error about 'wrong executable/binary/ELF format'. If you run into this then you seem to have downloaded an installer package which does not match your system architecture, i.e. you have probably downloaded a 64 bit installer but have a 32 bit system. You can use the arch and uname -m commands to check which operating system architecture you are using, example:
The Linux installer always installs into your home directory, not system-wide. But if you don't like to rely on the installer to set things up for you then you're welcome to do your own installation instead. Here's how:
You can, of course, also create a shortcut on your favourite window manager so that you just need to point and click to start the game in the future, thus eliminating the necessity of using the terminal window each time.
You will likely get to see an error message then. Try to find help in the MegaGlest FAQ and in the forums - search them! -. If neither helps, copy and paste the complete output including where you invoked ./start_megaglest to the forums or to paste.megaglest.org, and optionally connect to IRC to check whether someone is around to help you - if you do, remain connected to the chat for at least half an hour, we are not always around. Or just wait till we respond on the forums.
1. Be sure that you have downloaded the correct installer (32 bits or 64 bits), especially if you see in the error message something also like this: "... wrong ELF class ...". See below to know how to find your linux type.
2. Be sure that you are launching game in the recommended way. In general e.g. if exist starting script "start_megaglest" then you should launch this script e.g. by ./start_megaglest instead of game directly by plain ./megaglest.
4. If game still does not work and you are trying to use some old game version like up to v.3.9.1 (with newer game version this method will not help) then, you may try running these commands from your MegaGlest root folder (probably something like /home/yourname/megaglest).
The most likely cause of this message is that you have selected a resolution and color combination that your video driver does not support. In this case, you should be able to get MegaGlest to start fine by either deleting your configuration file or by playing with different values in this line on a command prompt:
If this doesn't seem to help, the second most likely cause of this message is an unstable or outdated video driver. Try updating it from the chip, card, or laptop vendor / manufacturers' website. You must reboot after switching drivers, even if it doesn't say so. If they do not provide drivers which work with MegaGlest then read the Where can I get newer video drivers? section below.
The next best cause for this message is that 3D acceleration on the video card you bought is badly supported on your operating system. i.e. its manufacturer is not actually providing proper drivers for this operating system (version). Buying this hardware may have been a bad choice then.
The least likely cause is that your video card / chipset simply does not support OpenGL v1.3 at all (in terms of hardware). This can be so if you are trying to run MegaGlest on a mobile device, such as a tablet, mobile phone, or ultra cheap laptop with non-Intel / non-AMD CPU.
You should first check whether their distribution provides "backported" drivers for their graphics card and if so, try them. For example, if you run Ubuntu, take a look at the 'drivers-only' section of the xorg-edgers PPA (or even the complete X Updates PPA - but this is for people who really know what they are doing and don't mind sitting there with broken drivers and no X GUI). Be aware, none of these are fully supported - do read the instructions on these pages. Another option is to install a vendors binary driver. Those are often available through your Linux distributions' package repositories, too, and are often in better shape than those you could download from your vendors website. In case of Ubuntu, have a look at their Binary Driver How-to.
Try to get the latest drivers available from your video card manufacturer. If you have a laptop, get them from your laptop manufacturer instead. If you have legacy hardware and the drivers your hardware manufacturer provides have not received updates recently, you can try patched drivers. These are current vendor drivers which have been modified to work with older hardware as well as with laptops where the laptop manufacturer fails to provide driver updates (but the latest official video card drivers refuse to be installed) and to introduce additional features. For example, patched ATI drivers for current hardware and for legacy hardware are available. There's also a patching utility to (possibly) make current default ATI drivers work on laptops. Note that these are not official drivers, and are not guaranteed to work, nor does the Glest Wiki accept liability for problems that may occur.
Whichever platform your are on, try to disable synchronizing to the vertical blanking interval (also known as sync to vblank), if your video driver supports it (most do) and the side effects it introduces (tearing) are not noticeable or acceptable to you.
You can also tweak your configuration by placing the following settings in glestuser.ini. Be sure to overwrite existing options with the same identifier, i.e. do not just add the following lines to glestuser.ini but make sure each of these options occurs once only. To learn where on your computer the glestuser.ini file is located, see the page describing the MegaGlest configuration files. Do not edit a file named glest.ini instead, this is a different file which works differently.
If drawing selection boxes around units is slow or does not work reliably, give the Unit Selection Type setting in the options menu a try. Changing this setting can make it better or worse, depending on your video hardware and drivers.
This could be for many reasons. (see references to DGAMOUSE on libsdl.org). Alternately, you may press / in the game to switch the mouse-pointer. For a permanent change edit glestuser.ini and add this entry (or change it if it already exists but is currently set to "false" or "0"):
When you see a red note: "Incompatible Version" as part of the description of some server(s) then it mean that your local game version is different than server's game version.You should check and compare both version numbers.
On Windows, McAfee personal firewalls are known to come with a default configuration which will disconnect you off a game server immediately after you connected to it. For this and other firewalls, MozillaZine.org has good documentation on how to reconfigure your personal firewall to allow outbound traffic to a given location.
Normally, to connect to a remotely hosted game server, you do not need to configure anything - but read the section about personal firewalls if you are having trouble connecting to a MegaGlest server.
If you need to change it, do it by adding the same setting to glestuser.ini but adjust the port number as needed. If a user who will be hosting a game changes this port number, then all users directly connecting to this server mustdo so, too. TCP is used for all game communication. In a LAN setup the server will additionally use UDP broadcasts to inform clients on the same network that it is available to connect to.
Since v3.3.5 it is possible to separate the 'External' port from the 'Internal' port. The 'External' port is the port exposed to the outside world (Internet) and is usually the entry point into your network via a router. This 'External' port is the port that other users will see, and require to connect into your network. When you create a network game by selecting a 'Network' slot in the custom game menu you will see the 'External Port #' option at the top of the screen. By default we use TCP port 61357 but users may pick from a list of various port numbers (the one you pick must be setup on your router / firewall to 'Port Forward' incoming connections from the Internet to your computer). This list of External Port numbers is configurable as a property in glestuser.ini, eg.:
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