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Hi all,
I am preparing to take my final step away from windows OS, as the more I learn about Linux, the more I detest the majority of my hard drive being dedicated to a monopolus (if that's a word), closed monster. However there is one thing that I need, Starcraft and TF2 (team fortress 2). In an i686 installation this would be very easy... install wine. This will not work, as I am posting in Arch64, you must have guessed that I have a 64 bit system.
I know there are ways to get WINE working on Arch64, outlined here
http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit
I was wondering whether you guys had any better ideas, so that I don't have to stuff my lean mean 64bit machine with 32bit libs
Thanks for the help.
Last edited by MattSmith (2009-04-02 07:41:33)
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there's a PKGBUILD in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7915
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WOW! easy as that! thanks for the pointer, everything works great! goodbye windows! Hello 120 gigs of space!
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A word of advice, after you install wine from the AUR make sure you edit your wine registry. These keys were not in mine and thus I had very very poor performance with TF2 (and I would assume any other 3D game under wine)
http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys
The only ones I added were Direct3D =>DirectDrawRenderer => opengl, Direct3D => videomemorysize , and disabled UseGLSL
Also I would recommend adding -novid to most of the launch options under steam and of course set your width and height here too. My TF2 performance is very playable under Arch
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Thanks a lot! i was have problems with performance! I'll give it a go after work tonight!
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Okay so the performance got a little better, I'm on a laptop, with an 8600 gt, intel core two duo at 2.0 ghz and 4 gigs of ram, I am only able to run tf2 on dx level 8 with everything set to the lowest, I mean uber low, except model detail is medium. Does that sound right?
Also I have been having problems with FAM, I can only play a steam game once, then it says regestry in use, after I restart fam, there is no issue and i can get one more play. Any idea's as to why this is happening?
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hmm...
Look at the wine homepage and see what they say. They usually have some really good pointers, per game. Just search the AppDB for the game you wanna play. simple as that!
You can also probably find something about FAM there. (I use gamin and it works fine)
Also know that if you and some friends sometimes put up LANs to play against eachother that can be cumbersome with a linux computer, due to the fact that normal home networks don't have ddns on their dhcp network. That sure have messed up things for me a couple of times. Windows has some default programs that kinda solves that, but it has failed for me aswell from time to time.
Dunno if there's more reasons yet why home networks sometimes fucks up since i'm still kinda in the proccess of learning. Just wanted to save you some trouble and let you know that having a windows partition (on say 20-30gb) can be a neat backup sometimes.
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heh, I just deleted my windows partition... no need for it. Every once in a while maybe once or twice a year my friends and I will fire up Diablo 2 or SC for a LAN party... I suppose I will deal with that when the problem arises.
I am happy to get rid of vista!
I think i will try gamin instead, because I am running into issues with FAM, I suppose I will do some looking around on the wiki.
thanks for all your help (everybody).
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FWIW, Diablo 2 works perfectly under Wine!
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haha I would hope it's ancient!
does anyone have ideas on where to get started with LANing games such as starcraft on linux?
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Might be a little late but Starcraft runs perfectly on Wine, so what's the matter?
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