How I got 32-bit games to work nicely... :D

ozric100 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 136

I gave this a shot to get Americas Army working... but no luck... the log files
seam to show that its loading the 64bit libGL.so as the version is not the 32bit version. not sure what else to try. Oh btw .. I must us agpgart as nvagp does not work for AMD 8111. This might be the reason but I am not sure.

ldconfig -p | grep libGL | grep lib32 has all the needed libs listed

Any Ideas. This is a real show stopper for me .. AA is the only game I play.
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sarah_t_s · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 21

I find the idea of playing my Windows 32 bit games on my AMD64 Gentoo installation quite interesting and all seems relativley easy. However, everyother machine I have avaliable is slackware based which doesn't have the coresponding directories.

I've got the 5336 Nvidia package here; although in it's <nvidia installer>/usr/lib/ I find
libGL.la
libGL.so.1.0.5336
libGLcore.so.1.0.5336
are these the fellas? I assume dump them in the directory and rewire the symlinks to point at them?

Also WineX, whilst I can emerge a version of it alegedly (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" emerge winex I take it?) what about the subscription version? Do I need to fiddle or is it a matter of ./configure make make install and it'll automagically get pointed to the emul layer?

Sorry if this sounds n00bish, but I'm really enjoying the sheer horsepower my 3400 has in 64bit mode after seeing XP pro stall all over the place in 32bit

ereptor · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 34

i would also like to be able to get thos lib's
thnx
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Imek · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 12:31 pm Post subject:

The libs are easy to get. You just get the nvidia installer for the drivers, and do a

ozric100 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 136

I gave up on GLX in 64it. I have the old disk for my AMDXP in my system.. SO .. I just use 32bit to play games. I still consider 64bit playland.
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GentooBox · Veteran Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 1168 Location: Denmark

did anyone solve this:

zicada · n00b Joined: 25 May 2004 Posts: 7

As far as i know, as long as the nvidia-kernel module you loaded before startng X is 64bit (wich ofcourse is the case for everyone, the 32bit nvidia-kernel wouldnt load into a 64bit kernel),- it wouldnt be possible to run 32bit nvidia-glx drivers.

The reason youre not getting any direct rendering or any fancy GL extentions or anything like that is simply because of this fact,- the GL drivers need to talk to software directly in the kernel, and the libGL.so's your 32bit binaries run, are actually the xorg-x11 ones, not the nvidia ones. This seems to be ok for some games (quake3 in vertex mode, nwn allthaught a bit slow) Other games rely on direct rendering, or use 3d instructions that require t&l and things like that (think quake3 in lightmap mode)

To get the games that actually do run ok a bit faster, create a chroot'ed 32bit environment, and compile the x libraries etc. with optimized flags,- this atleast made nwn playable. Im looking at around 1000fps with glxgears now.

Until we get updated nvidia-drivers that are able to coexist happily as 32/64bit i believe theres no way to get 32bit games to play any better than this.