JeZxLee Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 Hi, Been a while... I have a problem: My favorite desktop is a slow custom thin client. I run Linux Mint 18.2 KDE 64Bit on the thin client with a Win 10 virtual machine. On Win 10 VM there is no hardware acceleration so WebGL won't work - so that's a lost cause. On native Linux Firefox there is no hardware acceleration so the game runs too slow in HTML5 mode. On native Linux Chrome there is hardware acceleration but the game does not run locally. So that's my problem. How would I get PixiJSv4 game to run locally on Linux Chrome? I am using Linux Mint 18.2 KDE 64Bit with a rather crappy Intel HD GPU. I remember there is some method to run the PixiJSv4 locally on any browser, but I forgot what it is. Any help would be appreciated...would really like to use the thin client desktop with PixiJSv4 game dev. Thin client is over-clocked to 2.42GHz with 4 cores and has 16GB RAM w/512MB RAM dedicated to the Intel HD GPU. (also, I absolutely will NEVER run Windows native on ANY of my computers EVER, so don't tell me to try that) Thanks in advance! JeZxLee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taz Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 Sorry I'm not sure what you mean by running it locally on the browser. Maybe someone else will know what you're after or maybe you can explain more what you want that's different than normal... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan.popelyshev Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 https://nwjs.io/ Taz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exca Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 You have basically these options (as far as I know) 1. Use a browser supporting local files. (For example the NWjs in the previous post) 2. Creating a local web server and hosting files through that. I use a small python server whenever I need to run something locally outside of development. 3. Use a tool like Fiddler to create response from local system on certain urls. (I use this method) 4. Run chrome with --allow-file-access-from-files flag. 5. Put everything you need to load inside js file as base64 and parse the data dynamically. (not recommended) Taz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeZxLee Posted September 8, 2017 Author Share Posted September 8, 2017 Hi, Thanks for all the suggestions. I modified my Linux menu to open Google Chrome with "--allow-file-access-from-files" flag. Now I can use the slow thin client desktop with WebGL game dev and Linux Chrome locally. Many thanks! JeZxLee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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