Technical Issue Installing MBII on Linux Mint 22

[Rave Blitz]

I'm using Linux Mint, and I wanted to try and play MBII but I'm not sure how to install it properly. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Defiant]

I get an error every time I try to run it after applying the patch. I'm on Fedora 41, and I'm pretty sure I set up everything right.

Thia is definetly not set up right as it has found 0 Pk3s

 

[Kameo Blue]

I uninstalled and reinstalled JA and MBII, and I made sure to carefully read and do what was listed on the wiki. I tried to check if any maps would load before I put the patch in, and it could at the very least go into the main menu and load Cloud City. Cloud City crashes when I trigger a door that slides open. After putting the patch in I got the same crash to desktop as yesterday with the same error log as last time.

 

[Defiant]

Here is an experimental compile of the mbii client for linux. Please let me know if it works or not. I will push it out for all users if it works well.

I've had another go, Think the last one might have failed and I didnt notice as i compiled it using WSL, this one is natively compiled using ubuntu.

 

[Defiant]

I've had another go, Think the last one might have failed and I didnt notice as i compiled it using WSL, this one is natively compiled using ubuntu.

Any feedback on this? Still broken?

 

[Valzhar]

Let me get in touch with one of them.

 

[TeKilla]

Any feedback on this? Still broken?

Thanks. Linux isn’t my main OS anymore, but I can still test it this weekend.

Edit:

I managed to test it briefly, and it seems that, using the Vulkan engine, I didn't encounter any bugs or crashes as I did before.

With the rend2 engine, I couldn't test very deeply, but I was able to load deathstar. However, the game CTD when starting the round, and it looked like some textures weren’t displaying correctly, as if there was a lighting issue.

 

[Kameo Blue]

I've had another go, Think the last one might have failed and I didnt notice as i compiled it using WSL, this one is natively compiled using ubuntu.

Sorry it took me a bit to get to this I've had a bit of a busy week. So far the application is staying at 4:3 aspect ratio and when I try to toggle fullscreen it stays at the same size and goes in the bottom left corner of the screen, filling the rest of the screen with black. When I try to change the resolution settings to try to fix it nothing happens.

The game still opens up to the main menu though, so far better than last time. I tried to join an Open DOTF server with a few people in it, but I got a "sound/null has length 0" error and got booted to the main menu. I tried joining a Legends Deathstar that was empty, but I got booted for a different error, "misc_model_static failed to load model 'models/map_objects/imperial/chair.md3'". Then I tried an empty open Smuggler that had the same model error but instead of "chair.md3" it's "switch.md3".

Edit:

Turns out I did do something wrong, when you install it right it works just fine.