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Zu` l33t
Joined: 26 May 2002 Posts: 716 Location: BE
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Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2002 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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Still no linux binaries? |
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BillyBreen n00b
Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Boston, MA
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Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2002 4:53 am Post subject: Progress with wine |
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Wine support is pretty good, according to this (http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=93405&forum=42&sp=60) thread at the NWN forum. Requires the 20020710 version of Wine (which you must unmask to install) and a Windows install for the installation (no current Wine -- wine, winex, codeweavers -- works for the install).
After seeing that thread, I ran out and bought myself a copy today. I don't have a true Windows partition anywhere, but I was able to install in VMWare onto one of my Linux partitions (mounted as a network drive). I had my Radeon/opengl config a little mucked up, so the game was pretty much unplayable rendering everything in software. However, nwconfig and nwmain worked, so it was possible to generate a character and everything.
I've fixed opengl and am now having problems getting the game back up. I'll post more (and hopefully some screenshots and stability reports) if I can get things squared away. |
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BillyBreen n00b
Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Boston, MA
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Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2002 4:58 am Post subject: Tee hee |
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Glossed over some important tidbits. My wine is running all builtin DLLs straight from the 20020710 ebuild. Also, after copying the installed NeverwinterNights tree into my fake_windows tree, I needed to replace the existing nwmain.exe with a no-cd crack version. |
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BillyBreen n00b
Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Boston, MA
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Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2002 6:26 am Post subject: Update |
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Gameplay works great. Action is smooth at 1024x768 with 32 bit textures. Cinematics don't work at all, but I'm not too concerned about that. I can wait for the official release for those. For now, it's just nice to have something I can play.
Screenshot at http://www.ryanbreen.com/nwn.png |
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Swishy Guru
Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ
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Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 5:43 am Post subject: |
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works great on my machine under wine as well, running 800x600 32bit sweet as (im only running an old matrox g400 to) BillyBreen did you get sound running on yours, Im using the cvs version and it didnt appear to want to run with sound enabled in the config???
Cheers
Dale. _________________ Theres no substitute for C.I. |
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BillyBreen n00b
Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Boston, MA
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Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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Sound works decently in-game, but I'm pretty sure sound issues are what mucks up the cinematics for me.
The trick for me was to make sure that artsd (I'm a KDE user) and esd are off. Wine doesn't play well with either. I've heard some reports that Wine and alsa configs can be problematic, but I'm using straight OSS drivers. |
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Swishy Guru
Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ
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Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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BillyBreen wrote: | Sound works decently in-game, but I'm pretty sure sound issues are what mucks up the cinematics for me.
The trick for me was to make sure that artsd (I'm a KDE user) and esd are off. Wine doesn't play well with either. I've heard some reports that Wine and alsa configs can be problematic, but I'm using straight OSS drivers. |
So are you running it under wine or winex????
Cheers
Dale. _________________ Theres no substitute for C.I. |
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BillyBreen n00b
Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Boston, MA
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Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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wine-20020710-r1.ebuild (which is masked by default)
Evidently, winex doesn't work, though I haven't tried it. Not much of a chance they will make it work any better since the native client is on the way. |
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Swishy Guru
Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ
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Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 11:29 am Post subject: |
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Ok , Im using the tar/gz version of the same from winehq ,and alsa so that might explain the lack of sound , popsup an error about directsound in the console when starting the game, I have tried it with arts on and off and it doesnt appear to make any difference , the game just freezes there and goes no furthur , if I turn the sound of in the nwconfig , it works sweet as , bit of a shame really as warcraft is working fine under winex with the alsa drivers , to the extent you'd be hard to pick the difference between windows and winex...
It'd be nice to have the same in NWN..
Cheers
Dale. _________________ Theres no substitute for C.I. |
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BillyBreen n00b
Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Boston, MA
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Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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Word. The Bioware forum about Wine (link in my first post above) had some discussion of the alsa issue, so maybe there is some reasonably quick fix you could throw into your NWN and Warcraft startup scripts (rmmod pcm*** && insmod ossdriver and vice versa).
As for overall playability, I get random crashes (every 15-20th time I open a chest I get a Wine segfault) and freezes (occasionally while loading a new area). These don't bother me too much as I compulsively autosave anyway. And from the sound of things at the Bioware forum, Windows users don't have it much better. |
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Swishy Guru
Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ
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Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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BillyBreen wrote: | Word. The Bioware forum about Wine (link in my first post above) had some discussion of the alsa issue, so maybe there is some reasonably quick fix you could throw into your NWN and Warcraft startup scripts (rmmod pcm*** && insmod ossdriver and vice versa).
As for overall playability, I get random crashes (every 15-20th time I open a chest I get a Wine segfault) and freezes (occasionally while loading a new area). These don't bother me too much as I compulsively autosave anyway. And from the sound of things at the Bioware forum, Windows users don't have it much better. |
cool , Ill check it out , I havent noticed to much in the way of chrashing , although it has locked (required a restart of x ) once , no segfaults though, oh Warcraft sound is working sweet as under alsa by the way ...
Cheers
Dale. _________________ Theres no substitute for C.I. |
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akhkharu99 Apprentice
Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 162 Location: Gainesville, FL
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Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 2:56 am Post subject: |
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hello all.
i have tried to get this game to work with both wine and winex, but neither seems to be able to get past the inital game menu. if i press any option besides play, nothing happens. if i hit play, i get the black screen with the neverwinter nights logo and then nothing. i have tried to turn off sound with nwconfig, but all i get is a segfault. any ideas?
i am using wine 20020710-r1.
thanks for the help. |
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Swishy Guru
Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ
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Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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try the nwmain.exe not nwn.exe
Cheers
Dale. _________________ Theres no substitute for C.I. |
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trolley Apprentice
Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 292 Location: Canada
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masseya Bodhisattva
Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 2602 Location: Baltimore, MD
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Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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AWESOME!! Are we going to have two announcements in one day? Who thinks we'll be playing NWN on Gentoo 1.4 by the end of the week? _________________ if i never try anything, i never learn anything..
if i never take a risk, i stay where i am.. |
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masseya Bodhisattva
Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 2602 Location: Baltimore, MD
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Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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Dude. You can't just say things like "The Linux Client page is up ..." without focusing on the page thing. Some people who just woke up would read that as "The Linux Client is up at ..." _________________ if i never try anything, i never learn anything..
if i never take a risk, i stay where i am.. |
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trolley Apprentice
Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 292 Location: Canada
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Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry to get your hopes up |
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dioxmat Bodhisattva
Joined: 04 May 2002 Posts: 709 Location: /home/mat
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Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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btw, linuxgames.com have lots of info about nwn if you can avoid the trolls about winex in the comments :) _________________ mat |
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trolley Apprentice
Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 292 Location: Canada
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Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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dioxmat wrote: | btw, linuxgames.com have lots of info about nwn if you can avoid the trolls about winex in the comments |
Arg...popups on every freaking page in the forum... |
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dioxmat Bodhisattva
Joined: 04 May 2002 Posts: 709 Location: /home/mat
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Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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yeah, their host sucks. but hey, mozilla blocks popups :) _________________ mat |
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ASCI Blue Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 07 May 2002 Posts: 132
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Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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I gave this a shot in Wine and unless I go to my /mnt/win_drive/Neverwinter directory it comes up fontless. Any way to fix that? |
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jawest12 n00b
Joined: 23 Jul 2002 Posts: 12 Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 8:29 pm Post subject: Gentoom YEAH!! |
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I must say, in the NeverEnding Wait for a native client, Gentoo is simply the best. Last night I merely emerged wine, emerged winesetuptk. Then copied the complete NWN directory from my "fake" Win98 install in VMWare. Then BOOM, sheer gaming bliss. Complete with shiny water, 64-bit textures and FSAA.
Granted, it's not native, but until then...
Once again, Good Job Gentoo team. |
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Swishy Guru
Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ
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Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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Judging by the nwn forums i'd say it runs nicer under linux than windows .....Ive only had one crash in the time ive been playing it on gentoo and wine.
Cheers
Dale. _________________ Theres no substitute for C.I. |
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jawest12 n00b
Joined: 23 Jul 2002 Posts: 12 Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, I have had no problems in WIndows XP at all with crashing. However Gentoo runs it just as well, which is even better |
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pjp Administrator
Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067
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Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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I have 2 friends that can't get it to run under Windows. One is using XP or ME, the other I think 98SE (not positive on this one). _________________ Quis separabit? Quo animo? |
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