Michael Crute schreef:
> On 9/14/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Would have done it months ago, Mike, if there was any way, but I
>> really have absolutely no budget, even for an MX440 (true
>> desperation, if I'm even considering an MX 440 in this day and age.
>> But I'd rather that than a 5200, all things considered.
>
>
> I know not everyone can afford a nVidia card... I was just giving you
> a hard time. It is worth noting though that nVidia on Linux is so
> easy. If anyone is building a new Linux box I wouldn't go with ATI,
> but then again I am biased against ATI.
>
>> What I'd really like -- a 6600-- is right out).
>
>
> If you're gonna spend that much money go all the way for a 6800 its
> well worth the cash.
Thanks for the tip.
>
>> I may wind up putting my Matrox G400 Max back in here, but Wine is
>> soo close on DX 9 (which the G400 of course does not support)
>> that I can't bear it.
>>
>
> Wine and DX9... I find this very interesting, where did you hear
> that? How would I follow that development? I am really hoping to see
> DX9 support in Wine so I can finally run some of the games I had to
> give up when jumping from Windoze. -Mike
I subscribe to the wine-devel mailing list (as well as wine-users).
There's an IRC channel as well, I think (you can find out on the Wine
site, http://www.winehq.org , as well as how to subscribe to either,
both, or more of the lists, like wine-bugs,. or wine-patches), but I
hate IRC almost as much as I hate IM, so I don't usually go there. I
would, if I could write a patch, though :) .
You might also consider getting wine from cvs, which might have some of
the uncommitted patches there, and Oliver Steiber (who's doing most of
the work on DX9 support) has a homepage for his work at
http://directxwine.sourceforge.net/ . Nice thing is he seems to have an
ATI card as well, so I'm hopeful that when the work does get committed,
it will work well with the ATI card (and maybe I'll be able to finish
Myst 4 and Uru, not to mention play the Sims 2, although I recently
managed to get the original Sims installed and running, so I might not
get too worried about the sequel. Being able to play NWN 2 -- if it's
not native, which I haven't checked yet-- and The Elder Scrolls:
Oblivion when they come out would be very, very nice,
though).
Since you have an nVidia card, you might also consider Cedega, which
runs a lot of DX9 games already (up to 9.0b, I think). If you have
another way to install them other than via the installer (like
previously installed on a Windows partition), you should be able to use
Cedega's CVS version (free). Or, of course, you could subscribe (5 USD
p/m, 3 month minimum) for the full monty (InstallShield support, current
version of the program, Point2Play, the graphical install and management
utility, support, ability to vote on what they work on supporting next,
ability to post on the forums, etc).
I don't so much like Cedega as opposed to Wine, because Wine tends to
work on 'global' issues (getting DirectX 9 working, for example), which
I consider 'normal', wheras Transgaming tends to work on 'getting the
game-of-the-week running, no matter what else breaks by doing so', but
hey, if you want to play HL2, and that's all you want, then Cedega is
definitely an option though not so much if you have an ATI card. I
know of at least two games that supposedly run perfectly under Cedega
with nVidia cards, but run like trash with my ATI card (severe graphical
corruption), and in fact the Cedega release notes mention several games
that they support which do not run, or run with severe problems
specifically when using ATI cards.
Oh, and btw, the original issue of this thread is [SOLVED], I updated
today and it went through fine. Haven't restarted X yet, though. But
afaik, the update isn't for me so much anyway (Gentoo changelog
indicates -r5 fixes some bug in 64-bit), but since there seems to be a
revision in the RPM as well, there might be some unmentioned
improvements for 32-bit users as well.
Holly
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