wolfenstein enemy territory

[psychomin]

i have wolfensetein enemy territory & ut 2k3
ut 2k3 runs hella fast on my pc
yet wofenstein is slow, yet it does not affect the gameply but when i double click on the icon to start the game for the first time it loads for 30s.... which is hella slow..
do you guys have the same prob as i do?
what can i do to fix it?

[Lemming]

hmmm, I've got a similar spec machine to yours and my ET runs v.quick, UT2k3 is pretty quick too.

[Icarus]

Hmm...mines not as good as yours and ET runs much better then UT2003...

Run it from the console and then check for any error messages

[psychomin]

i did not install the game as root
i hate installing games as root so i did not..
hm...... is it why et is starts slow?

[Icarus]

That shouldn't matter, installing as root would install for all users.

Try this. cd to the ./enemy-territory directory and then "./et"

[MadNewbie]

Hmm got a bit slower machine than yours, but just wanted to say that et takes a bit time to load on my pc as well. I am not really sure what causes it though. Sometimes it takes 4 secs to load and other 30 secs, but the game runs smooth though.

Looking in my terminal when starting up, gives me the impression that the initilation of the sound is what will take a bit time to do. I dont know if it is the same thing you encounter, but personally I dont see it as much of a problem for me.

MadN

[hardcore]

your /etc/hosts file might be pucked up.

make it look something like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 yourhostname

then edit your /etc/sysconfig/network file and make sure these are listed like so:

HOSTNAME=yourhostname
NETWORKING=yes

and finally edit your /etc/HOSTNAME file so that it contains thus:

yourhostname

and that's it, hopefully this resolves your problem.