celeron55/minetest — Issue #50: FEATURE REQUEST: Separate server and client
Author: powder96
Created: 2012-01-30 21:46:01+00:00
State: open

I have a nice, old machine, which I'm using for everything, and it works just fine. So I started the game on that machine in _server_ mode - I thought that in _server_ mode game should display a console with some information and thats it. But this game tried to use 3D features even in main menu. It is needless to say that my weak videocard does not support this stuff.

Matrox Millenium G450 DualHead G400DHD.dll 6.12.1.2000
Device does not support required depth buffer.
Could not create DIRECT3D9 Driver.

So, I suggest two things:
1) simply split the game into server (configurable through command line) and client parts
2) or use just GDI to draw 2D main menu

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