Robocraft

What works

Almost everything.

• Installing
• Running
• Single-player
• Multiplayer
• Sound
• All video pref. sets (fullscreen, wine desktop emulation, 1024x786 - 1920x1080)
  
• Opening web links from in game
• Buying and spending GC
• Updating (updateprocess.exe)
• Regular blocks and elements
• Cosmetic blocks and elements

What does not

• Starting with "nofile" (ulimit -n) == 1024. "Error loading the files from the your HD"
  
• "Real" fullscreen video mode (without wine desktop) changes X video settings if game was not properly closed (kill -9 `pgrep Robocraft.exe`, killall Robocraft.exe, etc.)
• Crashes at start with Compiz.
• Sometimes it crashes while loading or checking files when IOWait is too long while reading from HDD ("GetThreadContext" error). Large RAM buffers helps a lot.
  

Workarounds

What was not tested

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

DE GNOME 2.30.2 WM Metacity 2.30.1 X.Org X Server 1.7.7 2x GeForce GTX 550 Ti (SLI) NVIDIA Driver Version: 295.59 !!! Warning !!! Default "nofile" (ulimit -n) in Debian 6.0 == 1024 The game opens at start about 2500-3000 files. You need to add into file /etc/security/limits.conf : * hard nofile 262144 * soft nofile 262144 You don't have to use 262144. The number must be greater than (now) 2668 (find *gamedir* -type f | wc -l)

Robocraft is now native in Linux. Please go to http://store.steampowered.com/app/301520/  to access the steam version.