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Kingpin: Life of Crime is being remastered with 3D Realms recently announced Kingpin: Reloaded bringing new life to the Quake II engine classic.

Originally created by Xatrix Entertainment and published by Interplay Entertainment back in 1999, it's being given a fresh look by Slipgate Ironworks with 3D Realms publishing who will be enhancing it with a new quest system, Ultrawide and 4k Support, classic and enhanced modes, controller support, a no violence mode (but all the profanity stays), multiplayer and more.

It was announced earlier this month, with a release due this year but we've only today got confirmation for Linux. I managed to speak to a rep from 3D Realms, who didn't beat around the bush in giving me an answer with "In regards to your question, the answer is YES! Kingpin will be on Linux as well.".

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Truthfully, I never played the original. I had heard of it but I was only about 10 at the time, this was back in 1999 so I was probably busy playing Total Annihilation as one of the few full games I actually owned then on PC (I had a ton of Amiga stuff though…). So for me, remasters like this are really great to see.

There's already a Steam page up which you can follow it on.

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Hamish Feb 3, 2020
Try this command in a terminal before launching the game:
export MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2000

A lot of older Quake engine games struggle with the amount of OpenGL extensions that are now exposed.
slavezeo Feb 4, 2020
Quoting: HamishTry this command in a terminal before launching the game:
export MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2000

A lot of older Quake engine games struggle with the amount of OpenGL extensions that are now exposed.

I already deleted my experiment with it but i'll reinstall this weekend and let you know how it goes. Thanks for the advice.
slavezeo Feb 9, 2020
Quoting: HamishTry this command in a terminal before launching the game:
export MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2000

A lot of older Quake engine games struggle with the amount of OpenGL extensions that are now exposed.

I got around to installing Kingpin again. I tried the the export with no love. I'm still got the black screen and hard lock. Guess I'm waiting for the remaster :)
Hamish Feb 9, 2020
Worth a shot. Interesting that it affects WINE as well.
Whitewolfe80 Feb 9, 2020
sees new 3d realms are onboard with linux a lot more than the current owners of their old ip. Guess Ion Maiden/Fury must of sold well on linux
whizse Feb 11, 2020
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Quoting: slavezeoI got around to installing Kingpin again. I tried the the export with no love. I'm still got the black screen and hard lock. Guess I'm waiting for the remaster :)
Broken 32bit drivers?

FWIW, the GOG release works fine in Wine (with MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2000).
slavezeo Feb 20, 2020
Quoting: whizse
Quoting: slavezeoI got around to installing Kingpin again. I tried the the export with no love. I'm still got the black screen and hard lock. Guess I'm waiting for the remaster :)
Broken 32bit drivers?

FWIW, the GOG release works fine in Wine (with MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2000).

I'm using an image of the original disc. I'm sure it's woefully outdated compared to the GoG release. GoG is great about updating little things here and there to help games work a little better on modern hardware. I'll have to keep my eye out for when Kingpin goes to sale on GoG. And for the remaster, of course.

I'm pretty sure my 32-bit drivers are ok as everything else 32-bit runs fine. I can't say with 100% certainty it's ok, but they seems to be.

Thanks for kicking around on this with me. It's always fun to bounce ideas back and forth.
whizse Feb 24, 2020
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Patching the game to the latest version might help, but maybe you already tried that?
http://download.kingpin.info/index.php?dir=kingpin/patches/official/

To get around the hard lock, try using software rendering with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
slavezeo Feb 24, 2020
Heck, I had no idea it was still being updated. This will be next on the road to play Kingpin.
slaapliedje Jul 29, 2020
Quoting: LightkeyWhoops! I wanted to link to the liflg.org (Linux Installers for Linux Gamers) project for their mojosetup Kingpin installer based on the unofficial port by Xatrix but noticed they moved to GitHub and somehow only Kingpin got lost in the move. I got them to upload it there a few days later but subsequently forgot about this again.
So five months later, here it is: https://github.com/liflg/kingpin_1.20-english_x86.
Guess that means I should track my CD down!
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