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jebez

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Registered: 2025-01-15

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POSTAL 2: Share The Pain bugged

https://www.moddb.com/games/postal-2/do … ux-version

On Arch Linux KDE I found 2 bugs:
no sound
only the default 800x600 resolution works, above the game freezes.

Why not this game as a package, in AUR or normal?

Last edited by jebez (2025-04-01 09:37:44)

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Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: POSTAL 2: Share The Pain bugged

That seems to be a release from 2008 .

It's kinda surprising it still runs.

Why not this game as a package, in AUR or normal?

No one was interrested enough in it ?

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jebez

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From: France

Registered: 2025-01-15

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Re: POSTAL 2: Share The Pain bugged

It's kinda surprising it still runs.

Why? KDE still supports X11 by Xwayland.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/unrealtournament even older

Well I wrote "Why not this game as a package, in AUR or normal?" justly to give the idea to a passing packager.

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: POSTAL 2: Share The Pain bugged

The unrealtournament aur package uses patches from https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/ .
Since 2020 they did 11 releases .

Another example of an old game that is still very playable because of patches is Might and Magic VII (1999) .

only the default 800x600 resolution works, above the game freezes.

Many games from that era have 800*600 hardcoded as max resolution and need code changes to deal with higher resolutions .
They may also need newer versions of proprietary libraries used (windows 98 /DirectX 6 games often reiled on BINK & SMACK )

No sound

The game probably uses alsa for sound and pulseaudio / pipewire are NOT 100% compatible with plain alsa .
Try removing pulseaudio-alsa / pipewire-alsa so alsa using applications will go directly to alsa.

Well I wrote "Why not this game as a package, in AUR or normal?" justly to give the idea to a passing packager.

You can try posting in "AUR Issues, Discussion & PKGBUILD Requests" or use the report button to request moving this thread to that board.

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