Basic setup guide for linux.

Hey everyone,

I finally got around to updating this post 258 roll out. I decided that the obvious choice was to move it to the wiki. That way if I get hit by a bus some one else can update the thing.

Wiki Link

Please help me keep this up to date.


Important excerpts:

As of version 258 Mesa Drivers will not work with NS 2. You have to use either nVidia or AMD binary drivers.

You can run the game from the steam client which is recommended or via the command line as follows:

steam steam://rungameid/4920

Max says: You can run NS2 outside the Steam environment by using the Steam runtime. This is what we do for development. This readme describes more https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime/blob/master/sdk/README.txt

here is how this goes down:
$cd ~/path/steam-runtime/sdk
$./shell-i386.sh
$ cd ~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Natural\ Selection\ 2/
$ run.sh ~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Natural\ Selection\ 2/ns2_linux32

Known bugs (updated March 7, 2014)

• Some ATI users are having issues compiling shaders.
• NS2 is not compatible with any mesa drivers before version 9.0.x (3.1 Core profile required)
• For many users using high texture quality causes an out of memory crash nearly immediately (32 bit memory limit)

Legacy google docs link