penalty time

[Swarth]

i am new to this game, just downloaded it about 2 days ago and it looks like so much fun but i have yet been able to play it thanks to a pop up saying penalty time every time i have tried to accelerate , anyone know the problem because i really want to play this

if it helps i downloaded this game using the Ubuntu Software Center

[Kinsu]

Hi !
The penalty time is an STK feature : players must not start before the end of the countdown.
We already discussed removing it, if you want to give your opinion you can do it in this thread.

[Swarth]

i have the problem where my kart(and no one elses moves), there is no countdown, there is no movement by the other karts and i try to accelerate and of course i get the penalty movement, how long does it take for a countdown to start? i have waited 2 minutes plus for a countdown to start yet nothing

Note from hiker: I moved this posting into this thread.

[hiker]

Hi,

I took the liberty of moving your other posting into this thread, since I don't think it's related to the discussion in that thread.

Hi !
The penalty time is an STK feature : players must not start before the end of the countdown.
We already discussed removing it, if you want to give your opinion you can do it in this thread.

Do you get any messages on stdout? Also, do you have a gamepad connected?
Could you try using one of our static linux binaries?

Cheers,
Joerg

[Swarth]

Hi,

I took the liberty of moving your other posting into this thread, since I don't think it's related to the discussion in that thread.

Hi !
The penalty time is an STK feature : players must not start before the end of the countdown.
We already discussed removing it, if you want to give your opinion you can do it in this thread.

Do you get any messages on stdout? Also, do you have a gamepad connected?
Could you try using one of our static linux binaries?

Cheers,
Joerg

thank you very much, i am sorry i am quite new to linux and never heard of a stdout, i'll try using one of your binaries though, you know at the start how the other cars move forward and backwards ever so slightly? the other karts do that but the countdown never comes, i only use my keyboard to play the game, it is a Microsoft keyboard if that means anything(doubt it does but just making sure)

thank you i'll try to download one of your binaries and if that doesnt work i'll research stdout and try to see if i get any on it, sorry for my lack of linux knowledge

[hiker]

thank you very much, i am sorry i am quite new to linux and never heard of a stdout, i'll try using one of your binaries though, you know at the start how the other cars move forward and backwards ever so slightly? the other karts do that but the countdown never comes, i only use my keyboard to play the game, it is a Microsoft keyboard if that means anything(doubt it does but just making sure)

Don't worry about being new to linux. What I meant is: open a terminal (that should be somewhere under utilities or so), and then type supertuxkart (I hope that this will find the game). Unfortunately I don't know much about Ubuntu, but someone else here will

thank you i'll try to download one of your binaries and if that doesnt work i'll research stdout and try to see if i get any on it, sorry for my lack of linux knowledge

Similar thing - unpack them (you can do this in a temporary, or home directory), open a terminal (see above), and start the game. Unfortunately we need an unreleased version of irrlicht, and linux distributions might decide to use an official released version, which could trigger a bug. With our static binaries we know that at least this is correct (there is a script called run_game.sh or so which you should use to start).

Does the game actually freeze (i.e. do the other karts stop 'vibrating')? Or can you still get out with the escape key?

Cheers,
Joerg

[Swarth]

thank you very much, i am sorry i am quite new to linux and never heard of a stdout, i'll try using one of your binaries though, you know at the start how the other cars move forward and backwards ever so slightly? the other karts do that but the countdown never comes, i only use my keyboard to play the game, it is a Microsoft keyboard if that means anything(doubt it does but just making sure)

Don't worry about being new to linux. What I meant is: open a terminal (that should be somewhere under utilities or so), and then type supertuxkart (I hope that this will find the game). Unfortunately I don't know much about Ubuntu, but someone else here will

thank you i'll try to download one of your binaries and if that doesnt work i'll research stdout and try to see if i get any on it, sorry for my lack of linux knowledge

Similar thing - unpack them (you can do this in a temporary, or home directory), open a terminal (see above), and start the game. Unfortunately we need an unreleased version of irrlicht, and linux distributions might decide to use an official released version, which could trigger a bug. With our static binaries we know that at least this is correct (there is a script called run_game.sh or so which you should use to start).

Does the game actually freeze (i.e. do the other karts stop 'vibrating')? Or can you still get out with the escape key?

Cheers,
Joerg

thank you i will do those things because this looks like an amazing game, the game never freezes for me though it can get laggy, sometimes it will get laggy at the start and sometimes it works fine so i am unsure why it isnt consistant but it never freezes i line up at the start of the race, it looks like everything is going to happen properly but the race just never starts i just downloaded a version from this site(while still having my original version) so i will see how that works

thank you for all the help btw