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3D Games on a Linux Notebook! Yes it is possible... Pls post your experiences

post #1 of 31
8/30/06 at 10:30am
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Hello All,

Now that I can play Guild Wars in Linux, my life is complete. It seems Wine and Linux have finally evolved to the next level of existence. I recently found I could play Guild Wars in the latest version of Wine and thought I would share my experience. If any of you have had good results gaming in Linux on a notebook, please drop us some info.

I am currently running Ubuntu Dapper on my Toshiba P25-S607 with excellent results. This is the first time I have had everything work in Linux right from the beginning on a notebook.

Kernel 2.6.15
Wine 0.9.19
Winetools

Issues:

-The mouse curser disappears sometimes after I hit the right-mouse button, cause unknown
-The fullscreen mode is only doable in a virtual desktop. I usually play windowed anyways, so I can chat and play at the same time.
-There are occassional graphics problems, like strange colors or missing textures
-Occassional crash, but then it does this in Winders XP also


Regards,


Nocturrne



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post #2 of 31
8/30/06 at 11:09am
It doesn't sound like you're having much success there so i'm not sure why your so happy...

I don't have much experience with wine and have never played guild wars. I do use Cedgea and have had suprising success. I have several games working extremely well, world of warcraft being one of them (even tho I never have time to play).

Cedega basically has all the configurations done for you as many games have profiles, so it basically takes out most of the guess work. Performance is about 85% -90% of what I would get in windows- and it gets better with each release.
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post #3 of 31
8/30/06 at 1:42pm
I have a Dell e1705 with Nvidia 7800/256MB VRAM and I have an Asus 8jm with Nvidia 7600 with 500MB VRAM. Both run Half Life 2 very nicely under Transgaming's Cedega. I will be trying out Prey shortly.


Alex
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post #4 of 31
8/30/06 at 5:26pm
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Originally Posted by adewolf
I have a Dell e1705 with Nvidia 7800/256MB VRAM and I have an Asus 8jm with Nvidia 7600 with 500MB VRAM. Both run Half Life 2 very nicely under Transgaming's Cedega. I will be trying out Prey shortly.


Alex
I have prey running. There's some slowdown in areas making it hard to play, but I haven't tried the newest release (of cedega) yet. I was using the Doom3 profile. I didn't notice a Prey profile yet.
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post #5 of 31
8/30/06 at 5:39pm
you're all weak. i play native linux games (ET).....frag penguin style!
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post #6 of 31
8/30/06 at 6:04pm
LOL sounds like this quote from Animal House:
"Your all weak and worthless. Drop and give me 50"



Alex
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post #7 of 31
8/30/06 at 8:37pm
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Originally Posted by abf
you're all weak. i play native linux games (ET).....frag penguin style!
lol Yeah, the only reason I reboot and switch to windows xp is to play counter strike source. I'm having quite a bad experience with wine not really knowing how to install steam and all ...Eventually I'll figure it out... Not a super big problem, just an annoyance Amazing, within a week and a half, I've gone from being a windows fan to a ubuntu/linux fan. I sometimes forget I'm even in Ubuntu
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post #8 of 31
8/30/06 at 9:18pm
i know that feeling....the only time i use the flying window os is when i am on my thinkpad (which is not that often at all)....otherwise its penguin power all the way for me. (except for the smiling blue box / bitten apple @ school)
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post #9 of 31
8/30/06 at 10:56pm
I have Prey working pretty well in Kubuntu. I actually got tired of folks saying linux gaming is not possible so I included it in my How-To for Kubuntu. Between native code like Doom3, Ut2004, and Cedega I can run any game I want to play. The only time I run Winders is for work in a VM session.
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post #10 of 31
8/31/06 at 12:23am
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I see a lot of people using Cedega. Isn't this just Wine that is preconfigured for certain games? If you don't want to pay for Cedega, I recommend you try Winetools. This will setup most of the base files that are the largest source or problems for most apps.

http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/

Winetools preconfigs a lot of apps for you, including Steam. Also, be sure to run the latest Wine. They just released 0.9.20 with improved OpenGL.

Regarding Guild Wars:

I fixed my mouse issue by stepping down the texture quality 1 step. Wine didn't like the 32-bit pointer. So far, it is just as playable for me as it was in winders. Maybe not as fast, but it's not like it requires high fps like a shooter. I also like the fact that I don't have to reboot all the time when it crashes. In winders, GW would hang the whole system. In Linux, I just load it again and I'm back in the game in 30 sec.



Nocturrne
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post #11 of 31
8/31/06 at 1:11am
nocturine, cedega actually has some closed source files that take care of OpenGL and all that DirectX stuff a hell lot better than your regular wine, its not all in configuration.
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post #12 of 31
8/31/06 at 7:33pm
Cedega also takes care of some copy protection issues on many game CDs. Something wine can't do.
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post #13 of 31
10/3/06 at 9:31pm
has anyone tried playing WoW on Wine or Cedega?
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post #14 of 31
10/3/06 at 10:29pm
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Originally Posted by polishman
has anyone tried playing WoW on Wine or Cedega?
read my first comment in this thread. WoW works nearly perfectly. When I say nearly, some very minor effects are turned off. I played at 1920x1200 with very good frame rates. BTW, if you can quit your WoW addiction, as I have, you will become a much more productive member of society.
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post #15 of 31
10/3/06 at 10:59pm
ok, but i have not played WoW for more than an hour, only at my friend's house a few times, and i was asking because i wanna install Ubuntu 6.6 on my imac, and play games via wine(or winex) or cedega
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post #16 of 31
10/3/06 at 11:02pm
The folks at Blizzard I believe worked some with Cedega to get WoW working pretty dang quickly under it, I have heard VERY good things about running it on Linux.

Seablade
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post #17 of 31
10/3/06 at 11:14pm
Why does cedega charge for SUBSCRIPTIONS?
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post #18 of 31
10/3/06 at 11:48pm
ugh, its 6.06.1 btw and dont bother, 6.10 is less than a month away (oct 28)
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post #19 of 31
10/3/06 at 11:49pm
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Originally Posted by SteveTheBot
Why does cedega charge for SUBSCRIPTIONS?

its proprietary work they have in there and they need a way to finance the development, its really not a big deal because subscriptions are rather affordable, besides, doesn't it make you feel good just to contribute financially to the linux community?
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post #20 of 31
10/4/06 at 1:32am
I believe that most of the Cedega custom DirectX work has gone back into plain ole wine. I think the only thing left are their mgmt utilities to help with installation and some of their copy protection workaround tricks.
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