Warzone 2100 Forums

first i apologize i am very computer illiterate! I have downloaded the game at home and it works perfect but on my laptop it will not play. I can get as far as choosing the difficulty of opponents then when i click start it shows the map but stays on the map. I can move the cursor and even selest units but all i see is the map? if some one could help i would appreciate it. My cpu is vista and i set it to run as windows xp

Welcome to the forums and welcome to Warzone2100!

first of as its like a splinter in my eye
A CPU is a bit of hardware in the computer that crunches all the 1's and 0's (in fact a CPU is the computer and all other hardware is considered essential periphery)

An OS (Operating System) is a piece of software designed to interface the hardware with the human . windows of all flavours and linux are all operating systems.


sorry about that i couldnt help myself =D

it would help us a lot if you could give the following to start with.
Laptop model
warzone version ( listed on the main menu screen)

again, welcome to the forums and have heart, with computers there is ALWAYS an answer, even if it isnt nice, lol

i have a compaq presario with windows vista basic it has intel celeron processor. I downloaded the latest version of the game but i also tried it with the 2.3 earlier version with the same difficulties. Thanx

Most likely that you do have some Intel gma card in your laptop, so try updating a video driver.
Also, could you make a screenshot of your problem and post it here?

thanx for all the help i am able to play after the update of the video driver, the only issue i have now is small words and menu items but im gonna mess around with the settings a bit

Hello. I hope I am writting to a correct place in forum I managed to run Warzone 2100 latest release from SVN under Linux Kubuntu Karmic (newest) operating system. My simple question is, is it normal that I am not able to play in lobby using the latest version of wz? Do I have to use the release version to be able to do that or would it be possible to make it work as it is? Perhaps I can simply change wz configuration to pretend being using the latest release version? After all, it is the newest one

(lobby asks to use the latest version when I get there )

DisLike wrote:Hello. I hope I am writting to a correct place in forum I managed to run Warzone 2100 latest release from SVN under Linux Kubuntu Karmic (newest) operating system. My simple question is, is it normal that I am not able to play in lobby using the latest version of wz? Do I have to use the release version to be able to do that or would it be possible to make it work as it is? Perhaps I can simply change wz configuration to pretend being using the latest release version? After all, it is the newest one

(lobby asks to use the latest version when I get there )

What is the exact version of your 'latest version'?

And what do you mean you can't play in the lobby? version 2.3 b3 can only join 2.3b3 games, trunk can only join trunk, 2.2.4 can only join 2.2.4 ...

DisLike wrote:Hello. I hope I am writting to a correct place in forum I managed to run Warzone 2100 latest release from SVN under Linux Kubuntu Karmic (newest) operating system. My simple question is, is it normal that I am not able to play in lobby using the latest version of wz? Do I have to use the release version to be able to do that or would it be possible to make it work as it is? Perhaps I can simply change wz configuration to pretend being using the latest release version? After all, it is the newest one

(lobby asks to use the latest version when I get there )

Ubuntu/Kubuntu has a policy in which they do not provide the latest version of software to users of their stable releases. You'll have to either upgrade to Kubuntu Lucid, or download and compile the source code, if you want to play multiplayer.

Buginator wrote:What is the exact version of your 'latest version'?

"Latest version" in Karmic is 2.2.2.

Buginator wrote:And what do you mean you can't play in the lobby? version 2.3 b3 can only join 2.3b3 games, trunk can only join trunk, 2.2.4 can only join 2.2.4 ...

...and 2.2.2 can join none of the above.

Zarel wrote:Ubuntu/Kubuntu has a policy in which they do not provide the latest version of software to users of their stable releases. You'll have to either upgrade to Kubuntu Lucid, or download and compile the source code, if you want to play multiplayer.

I have compiled latest Warzone 2100 myself from Your SVN repository, so I gues I do have the latest (perhaps unstabile) version. The problem is that when I try to host a game, i get that lobby message saying I need to use the latest wz release.

By the way, when I compile Warzone and run it, on the right side it is written that version is locally modified. Perhaps that is the problem although I haven't changed anything myself. I have even reverted all the changes and updated again just to be sure.

On the other hand, the problem might be: "2.3 b3 can only join 2.3b3 games, trunk can only join trunk, 2.2.4 can only join 2.2.4" That would probably mean, that I will not be able to play in lobby at all

Use the source code tarballs off the download page rather than svn trunk.

Ok, I'll try that. Thanx.