for the Linux experts, WINE problem

[caravel]

I decided to give RTW another go with Wine 1.1.42. The result is a lot better than the last time I tried it under an earlier version of wine.

The game is actually very playable and stable.

No issues at all with the campaign map. Bump scrolling doesn't work properly (even with the option to prevent the mouse pointer leaving the window enabled), I got around this, in a fashion, by stretching the virtual desktop slightly. - though I use the cursor keys to move around anyway. All that's needed is a virtual desktop setup through winecfg and ensure that both battles and campaign are set to this same resolution in 32 bit colour. (I found that 16 bit crashes the battles)


Battles are ok apart from a few minor glitches. This one was with the higher quality shadows enabled, which don't seem to render properly. Disabling these fixed it.


All in all the battles are fine, though a little bit chuggy when lots of units are on screen and grass needed to be turned off as it caused artifacts. Also the terrain disappears at the start of a battle. Rotating the viewport 360 degrees seems to fix this. Apart from that it's a vast improvement though - and as I said, it's actually playable now.


I haven't tried M2TW yet.

[Tellos Athenaios]

That's very nice indeed. What kind of hardware + drivers is that on? The only thing I can see is that apparently your CPU is pretty much maxed out at 2.7GHz.

[caravel]

It's on a fairly humble Athlon 64 X2 (2.7GHz) with 2GB of RAM a Radeon HD 3650 and the latest fglrx. CPU always scales up to maximum clock speed when you launch a game.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Hmm. That might mean I could play EB on my desktop & new laptop (2.13Ghz Core i3, but more RAM and probably slightly faster graphics from the 4570) too ...

[caravel]

Hmm. That might mean I could play EB on my desktop & new laptop (2.13Ghz Core i3, but more RAM and probably slightly faster graphics from the 4570) too ...

Yes, I think you should give it a go.

[Husar]

Ok, yesterday my notebook overheated I think(well, it just turned itself off) and today Ubuntu won't boot anymore, it just shows the boot screen but doesn't go any further, my USB stick with an old Ubuntu version somehow drops me in a Bash console on both computers instead of starting as it used to. Is there any way I can repair it or would you advise me to reinstall everything (again....)?
Might try a different distro in the latter case, but one that doesn't require me to use the console to get the basics working and install programs might be useful(unless the commands are simple.

Oh yeah, not going to that Linux "course" because it would take too much time, unfortunately, I have more important subjects that have to be a priority now.

[caravel]

Ok, yesterday my notebook overheated I think(well, it just turned itself off) and today Ubuntu won't boot anymore, it just shows the boot screen but doesn't go any further, my USB stick with an old Ubuntu version somehow drops me in a Bash console on both computers instead of starting as it used to. Is there any way I can repair it or would you advise me to reinstall everything (again....)?

I'm not sure I follow you... You also have a previous version on bootable removable media and that won't load X either? Have you tried booting a live session from the livecd? If that doesn't load up X then you may have some hardware problems. If it's not a hardware issue and you can get to a terminal then it can be fixed. I'm not really willing to go into great detail because:

Might try a different distro in the latter case, but one that doesn't require me to use the console to get the basics working and install programs might be useful(unless the commands are simple.

That's up to you, but you won't get anywhere fast if you are unwilling to use the terminal from the start.

Assuming it's not hardware, you should be able to find help on this at ubuntuforums.org