Nexuiz fails to launch on x64 systems

[deanjo]

(or did you install 32 bit libs for alsa?)

Nope no 32-bit libs here.

[Kano]

Well usually in oss mode if you hear one (or did you install 32 bit libs for alsa?) - thats no good comparision. Also I found out that the Debian sid package of nexuiz was compiled with debug and that was much slower than the "official" one. Saidly this was compiled with a too new glibc 2.4 - other games like sauerbraten would work directly with the official packages. Therefore I disabled now the debug mode for the Kanotix repository - you can expect up to 40% speed improvement when you formerly used the sid package (or an unmodified backport).

[deanjo]

Well the nexuiz binary does not run with Debian etch, so I have to use a patch to use a locally installed backport. Also it seems to be wise to use -nosound option, because on 64bit sound does not work due to missing alsa in compatiblity libs.

Did you apply the latest patch? Sound works fine here.

[Kano]

Well the nexuiz binary does not run with Debian etch, so I have to use a patch to use a locally installed backport. Also it seems to be wise to use -nosound option, because on 64bit sound does not work due to missing alsa in compatiblity libs.

[deanjo]

Same here, runs fine on my 64bit 7.10.

I hope other distros fix that though.

Try it on a non Debian based system. The patch should be made official soon for the game and integrated into a new build.

[Vadi]

Same here, runs fine on my 64bit 7.10.

I hope other distros fix that though.

[deanjo]

Nexuiz runs fine on my Gutsy x86_64 system

That's because your probably running libtool 2.2 or libtool 1.5 with code patched.

[Melcar]

Nexuiz runs fine on my Gutsy x86_64 system

[deanjo]

pre Nexuiz patch

http://global.phoronix-test-suite.com/index.php?k=profile&u=dean-28190-9792-24916

Post Nexuiz patch

http://global.phoronix-test-suite.com/index.php?k=profile&u=dean-528-14647-16545

[deanjo]

I actually have no problems on x64 with Nexuiz and I know others have had no problems either with x64. Have you tried running Nexuiz manually to see if it works?

Yes it's a known issue with various x64 systems.
Slamd64, openSUSE, some older versions of Fedora, BlueWhite all have the issue.

Applying the latest patch found here

http://alientrap.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2824

cures the issue.