Or, as jwz so eloquently put it:

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. "

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This has been on the top of my wishlist for a while. I only tried two runs, but so far it shows a lot of promise. Also, just look how cute those bite-sized rally cars are! <3

Wonder if it will support custom cars so I can create a little Baas 99 Turbo and beat Stig Bloomist?

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Interesting? Disgusting? Weird? So glad I played it!

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Very much inspired by the classic Re-Volt* presumably.

* Native port available!

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I had DK2 sitting in the shopping basket, didn't pull the trigger on it yesterday. It's on sale today.

Procrastination does pay off! Wonder what else I can put off for profit?

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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/ [External Link]

To get around the hard lock, try using software rendering with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1

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My GPU died recently (poor little R285, only five years old!) so I for the moment I'm limited to less demanding games. Currently playing the single player campaign of Worms Reloaded.

I have been stuck on level 24 for a week, because in 25 years of Worms my skills with the ninja rope have not improved one bit. :sick:

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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).

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Don't know if there's any truth to this, but Wikipedia states: [External Link] "The game remains banned in New Zealand to this day and possession, distribution or even buying it for personal use is a criminal offense, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $50,000."

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Quoting: jensNice to read that. I'm not into multiplayer games, certainly into the type of games where this is needed, but still very cool and I hope that this will get more users to switch to Linux.

I was wondering though, to my knowledge (I'm not at home in this domain) this kind of anti-cheat software mostly ensure that no one tampered with the game files, related libraries and game state in memory . If one wanted to cheat on Linux, wouldn't it be far easier to keep the game, libraries and Steam (Play) related files as is, but directly target the GPU drivers (kernel modules, mesa etc) and tinker there to lets say make things transparent in a game? Is there even a chance to detect something like this with anti-cheat software?

On Linux you can override symbols with LD_PRELOAD and your own library so it's possible to modify a e.g. a driver without actually patching and recompiling it. I assume Windows have something similar, so just checksums for the driver is pointless. You need to detect this kind of behavior too.

Fun article on the subject:
http://haxelion.eu/article/LD_NOT_PRELOADED_FOR_REAL/ [External Link]

On thing might be for the game/anticheat to do off screen rendering tests and compare to some predefined output. If the tests are substantially different (transparent textures or wireframes for example) you're probably up to no good.

(No idea if anticheats on Linux use any of this stuff, just some idle musings...)

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