[2023] NXT Update - 31st October 2018

Originally posted by ryselis

Any updates on Linux client compatibility with Ubuntu 18.04 and the cracking sound on Linux issue?

Originally posted by ryselis

looks like the update is not in the repo yet, did apt-get update and it says runescape-launcher is already the newest version (2.2.4) when trying to update it

Originally posted by ryselis

Libcurl issue may now be resolved by installing libcurl3, copying the binaries into some other place, uninstalling it, reinstalling libcurl4 and pointing library path to the location where libcurl3 files where copied. Maybe its possible to bundle your own version of libcurl3 and use that, but I'm not how it's going to work with other distros.

I am using the cracking sound workaround, but sometimes, not always, but like 30% of the time sound starts cracking on game start even with this workaround. If it does not crack on start, it never starts cracking while playing and if it cracks on start, it sometimes stops cracking, I think the tendency is that it stops cracking when teleporting to another area, but not every teleport fixes that.

Overall the linux client works quite well and I have noticed no major issues. Of course a working apt-get install would be a nice thing to have.

I will watch (listen?) the sound closely after the update and if happens again, I will report it here. :)

Originally posted by MertsA

Linux can be quite strict about custom thread priority for non-root processes

It's not "strict" at all. You can't just set your thread to be a higher priority than default without CAP_SYS_NICE or root. You can however set the priority lower than that without root. But that's beside the point, you shouldn't need to be messing with nice values for different threads at all to begin with. It's not like reliable tear free audio is some foreign concept on Linux or only possible with high priority processes. I've never heard anything else have buffer underruns even when doing long running compute intensive jobs like compiling a large program with 8 threads.

At the very least, NXT isn't that old. It was built to be cross platform from the ground up. Just have it increase audio latency if whatever thread handles audio can't keep up.