About ETQW bench (full game)

[niackho]

Hello!

I had difficulties to run this test, and I think I find solutions

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etqw.xml
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1) the game blocked at load UI
I had to add +set in_tty 0

2) there is this argument +exec etqw-pts.cfg, but this file is not created during installation, so I created etqw_pts.cfg (see install.h, below)

3) the game didn't quit so I made it quit in etqw_pts.cfg

4) I put +timenetdemo pts argument in etqw_pts.cfg
I think that it is be a good thing to place the argument +timenetdemo pts in etqw_pts.cfg instead of etqw.xml,
thus we could have the choice of different demo with different etqw_pts_*.cfg

	<TestSettings>
		<Default>
			<Arguments>+set in_tty 0 +set sys_VideoRam $VIDEO_MEMORY +set r_mode -1 +exec etqw_pts.cfg</Arguments>
		</Default>
		<Option>

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install.h
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The download of the client via ftp was so slooow that I used bittorrent,
but I had a message saying that there where more bytes in this archive I don't know why
but nervertheless continue, OK

I modified the script to create etqw_fps.cfg

We are asking to copy the ETQW files *.pk4 && *.mega, but they are huge, so I created symlinks.
I am not a programmer so please be indulgent with this code


creation of etqw_pts.cfg

     :
mv -f pts.ndm data/base/demos/pts.ndm

# etqw_pts.cfg
# pts.ndm is 2816 frames so we wait a little longer to get the fps
# AND WE QUIT (the bench blocks otherwise) 
echo "
set com_unlockFPS "1"
timenetdemo pts
wait 2818
echo ======================
echo wait '# of frames + 2'
echo timenetdemo ended
echo quit
echo ======================
quit" > data/base/etqw_pts.cfg

creation of symlinks *.pk4 *.mega script (this does the job rather well, but it should/could be improved, I repeat I am not a programmer)

# Since the game is installed, we search for the game directory
# where there are the ET:QW Game Files (*.mega) and (*.pk4)
# in order to "symlink" them

b=`pwd`
GAME_FILES_TYPE_DIR="megatextures"

CreateSymlinks () {
   cd $ETQW_BASE_MEGAT
   cd ..
   ETQW_BASE=`pwd`
   echo "   *.pk4  found in $ETQW_BASE 
   *.mega found in $ETQW_BASE_MEGAT"
#   echo "\\nwe are here : $b"  
   mkdir $b/data/base/megatextures/
   ln -s $ETQW_BASE_MEGAT/*.mega  $b'/data/base/megatextures'
   ln -s $ETQW_BASE/*.pk4  $b'/data/base'
   echo "symlinks created in
   $b/data/base/megatextures
   $b/data/base"
}


ETQW_BASE_MEGAT=`find -P $HOME -name $GAME_FILES_TYPE_DIR`
if [ "$ETQW_BASE_MEGAT" != "" ] #  found in '/home/username/'
  then
       CreateSymlinks
       exit 0
fi

ETQW_BASE_MEGAT=`find -P /usr/ -name $GAME_FILES_TYPE_DIR`
if [ "$ETQW_BASE_MEGAT" != "" ] #  found in '/usr/'
  then
      CreateSymlinks
      exit 0
fi

ETQW_BASE_MEGAT=`find -P / -name $GAME_FILES_TYPE_DIR`
if [ "$ETQW_BASE_MEGAT" != "" ] #  found in '/' so 
  then
      CreateSymlinks
       exit 0
fi	
           
echo  "no megatexture found
copy ET:QW Game Files (*.mega) in bases/megatextures
copy ET:QW Game Files(*.pk4) in bases"

exit 0

That's all.

[Michael]

Thank you very much. I'll get that committed and working next week -- out of the country right now and don;t have my ET:QW media on me to verify.

[niackho]

I googled about "+set in_tty 0" and I found this : http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux...569a8cd1b13537

Known issues
*
Doom III would hang during starting if you redirect the output. Pass +set in_tty 0 on the command line to fix: $ doom3 +set in_tty 0 > output.txt

Doom3 uses id Tech 4 game engine, as well as etqw and quake4.
This seems to be a ... feature

[niackho]

I googled about "+set in_tty" and found this information from zerowing.idsoftware.com

Known issues
*
Doom III would hang during starting if you redirect the output. Pass +set in_tty 0 on the command line to fix: $ doom3 +set in_tty 0 > output.txt

Doom3, ETQW and Quake4 uses the same game engine id Tech 4.

It seems to be a feature

[Michael]

Pushed to master, thanks.