Disable sound

[Altean]

Is it possible to disable sound when starting up ATITD? If not, is this something that can be added in easily?

As far why I am asking about this. I am having some fits with multiple programs using sound at the same time and I'd like to be able to do things such as watch MythTV while playing atitd.

-Altean

[Pardok]

Is it possible to disable sound when starting up ATITD? If not, is this something that can be added in easily?

As far why I am asking about this. I am having some fits with multiple programs using sound at the same time and I'd like to be able to do things such as watch MythTV while playing atitd.

-Altean

What sound system are you using? OSS? aRts?

I know if you use aRts (KDE 3.X) you can run multiple sound systems by adding:
artsdsp ./elaunch

before running the game. Thus, the client doesn't take over the entire sound system. Then, in game, you can turn down all game sounds from the client itself and watch your tv.

I don't know how to do it with OSS though...

Hope this helps. :/

[Tamutnefret]

Is it possible to disable sound when starting up ATITD? If not, is this something that can be added in easily?
If the various means of getting multiplexed sounds don't work, you can simply use the "-nosound" command-line switch to the launcher. You can explore a number of other wonderful command-line options in the README.linux file in your installation directory ;)

[Altean]

thanks snarky, -nosound works for me.

[Solalique]

If the various means of getting multiplexed sounds don't work, you can simply use the "-nosound" command-line switch to the launcher. You can explore a number of other wonderful command-line options in the README.linux file in your installation directory ;)
Downloaded and installed Linux client out of curiosity.

It installed itself into ./eClient, resulting in:

./eClient/LICENSE.FOSS
./eClient/elaunch
./eClient/update-launcher
./eClient/egyptc/*.ega [about 2377 files]

don't see a README.linux here ... :confused:

[Solalique]

I see now that it doesn't download this file until you launch the first time.

I was avoiding actually having to launch and run, because it requires the old compat-libstdc7.3 to do it. :P

[Pluribus]

The client requres the compat libraries as well. The README.linux file is included with the linux client itself that I can update it :-)...

The compat libraries are because TOO many people refuse to upgrade thier 4 year old distros to something modern... So, I have to build the client on a Redhat 7.3... which is the oldest compiler that I could get that at least semi worked.

[Solalique]

OK -- I know that post must have looked really dumb.

After recently learning about the -com="egyptc" command-line workaround for the Windows client, I was curious about what other command-line options might exist for the Windows client (we don't get a README :( ) -- so I wanted to get a look at the linux README to shop for clues. (Turns out it isn't useful in this respect).

So I was hoping I could just download the Linux package and take a look at the README file...

[Just trying to explain why I would want to do something so strange as install the client but not run it]