Im a bit of a linux newb and cant find the settings screen in v41.
Im using mandriva 2008 and used the v41 rpm package.

I am launching scorched with run and scorched3dc, but thats launching straight into the game, bypassing the inital screen that comes with the windows install which let me access settings.

any help would be greatly appreciated as my frame rate is a little too slow for precise shot adjustment...

There are three binaries: scorched3d -- the launcher, scorched3dc -- the client; and scorched3ds -- the server. You're looking for scorched3d, not scorched3dc.

I thought it was something simple like that, so I tried it last night and just tried again now, but nothing is happening with them, only scorched3dc works, the others do nothing!

Do you get any error messages if you try to launch scorched3d from a terminal?

Yes, heres all the codes im getting, including when launching the client (which does launch)
[chris@localhost home]$ scorched3d
Fatal Error: Mismatch between the program and library build versions detected.
The library used 2.8 (no debug,Unicode,compiler with C++ ABI 1002,wx containers, compatible with 2.6),
and your program used 2.8 (no debug,Unicode,compiler with C++ ABI 1002,wx contai ners,compatible with 2.4,compatible with 2.6).
Aborted
[chris@localhost home]$ scorched3dc
open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy
Could not open SDL library: libSDL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Could not open ESoundD library: libesd.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Could not open aRts library: libartsc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Segmentation fault
[chris@localhost home]$


I have been trying to compile the source code, but getting error about not finding the opengl library (and not been able to resolve it)

mandriva comes with wxwidgets 2.8; the current version has been compiled with dynamic linking, wx2.8 dropped 2.4 support; result is incompatibility

so scorched3d won't run on your pc youless you compile it from sources & apply the edit i posted here

scorched3ds is the server, it seems that it doesn't work, but it requires special command lines params to work properly (or either use the scorched3d frontend to set it )

about openGL compilation errors, this command should solve them: