I’m guessing that the GW issues have
something to do with the new ATI graphics driver, or at least how it interacts
with wine.
I’ve not tried Cedega, but if I’m
gonna have to pay for a package, then I may as well stick with windows where I
know everything works.
I tried the LTS 8.04 version, but couldn’t
even get that one to install (New motherboard + SATA DVD drive possibly?) so I
think I’m just gonna wait until 9.04 and give that a go.
Matt
From:
main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of James Elsey
Sent: 15 December 2008 11:22
To:
Subject: Re: [ALUG] Why is it so
hard? (Making Ubuntu Work)
Hi Matt,
I think I'm in the same boat as you on this (apart from that
I don't have server experience prior to desktop)
I started my ubuntu adventures with gutsy, and was able to
run GuildWars off my XP partition with no problems.
The game was quite laggy, and some textures were missing,
but it was playable.
I'm not quite sure about GW, but for world of warcraft there
are lots of guides out there that detail how to set it up under wine. I had to
copy some windows DLLs over to the wine folder, and had to run the exe with the
/opengl parameter to get things working.
I havent tried guildwars/WoW under the latest ubuntu release,
and I think i was on wine .59 at the time so perhaps its better lately ;)
have you tried the commercial wine alternative? I forget the
name of it..
If you find any solutions I'd be interested to know
Regards
From: main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk
on behalf of Mephi
Sent: Fri 12/12/2008 18:05
To:
Subject: [ALUG] Why is it so hard?
(Making Ubuntu Work)
Ok, I've
been using Debian on my server for years and Knoppmyth (Debian
based) on my media centre for
slightly longer.
But I've
not really done much on the desktop. Since I do a fair amount of
gaming, I've stuck with windows for
my desktop.
Recently
though I've only been playing one game a lot (Guildwars) which is
supposed to work fine under wine.
Also I play GW with friends and we use
skype. Which has a linux client, so
I thought I'd give it a go...
I
downloaded and installed the 64-bit version of ubuntu, setup the ATI
graphics card, setup the medibuntu
repository and apt-getted skype and wine.
So now I
have 3 problems.
1. Now
they're using something new in Ubuntu called Pulse Audio, which puts
another layer between your devices
and your applications, and apparently
it's why I can't get my microphone
working in skype.
So, I've
been working through everything on the Ubuntu forums (it appears
I'm not the only one) documented by
someone else here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1006163
But nope,
none of that works...
2. I'm
trying to setup my screens to work at their native resolution.
I've got one that runs at 1680x1050
and another at 1280x1024.
I managed
to get them to run correctly, but the settings don't stick.
It boots
with both screens set at 1280x1024.
To get
them to work I do the following steps through the ATi Catalyst
Control Centre:
1. Disable the second screen
(1280x1024)
2. Reboot
3. Set the first screen to its
correct resolution (1680x1050) which wasn't
available before the reboot.
4. add the second screen in.
Then it works, until I reboot.
The third
problem is that Guildwars doesn't want to run under Wine. I've not
yet looked into this in great
detail yet, as I've usually given up by this
point and booted back into windows.
Matt
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