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Also make sure that you have the latest release of wine, it will always help. On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > I have been getting this craving for some Mech2 (heck, I'd probably even > buy the MSMech4-Mercs if it worked). Does anyone know how to make this > puppy work under Linux? Or do I have to use a Grub option not seen in > many months? > > Any of the Mech series is appreciated. I've seen Mech4Mercs running on a > buddy's machine and was quite impressed. I bought Heavy-Gear back before > I knew Linux existed and found it to be trash by comparison. The Mech > engine has always impressed me. Activision did a great job and even > Microsoft's Mech4 looks pretty decent. > > I used CodeWeavers and got it to install in a very pretty fashion. But > when I try to run the game I've tried several things and run into > troubles. The latest (I skipped the "Splash" screen and moved right into > the game) trouble is that it is telling me that I need to have my monitor > at 256-colors or greater. I'm running 16 bit color in X, so I'm guessing > this is some setting in Wine or a problem with Wine. I'm running an > NVidia Riva card (Diamond Viper 330-AGP) but for the sake of getting it > working at all, I chose software-3D this time around. If I can get it to > work, then I'll try the OpenGL stuff. Or perhaps I should tackle the > OpenGL stuff first? Might OpenGL require LESS of Wine rather than More? > > Thanks in advance, > Matt > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
