I was actually surprised since the game depends on DirectX 9, but thought I'd give it a shot anyway. Map scrolling was the biggest problem, no matter what setting I used in the preferences it was painfully slow. Using the mini-map wasn't too bad, only about a second delay before the focus changed. Units looked good but, again, a second or so delay before they executed their orders. Sound quality was poor, possibly due to KDE's sound server. Once the 2.6 kernel with it's lower latency is more stable there may be some hope for those of us who dream of not having to reboot anymore.
Conquests runs on Linux, but painfully slow.
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I was actually surprised since the game depends on DirectX 9, but thought I'd give it a shot anyway. Map scrolling was the biggest problem, no matter what setting I used in the preferences it was painfully slow. Using the mini-map wasn't too bad, only about a second delay before the focus changed. Units looked good but, again, a second or so delay before they executed their orders. Sound quality was poor, possibly due to KDE's sound server. Once the 2.6 kernel with it's lower latency is more stable there may be some hope for those of us who dream of not having to reboot anymore.
IluDeR
Warlord
How did you installed the civ on the linux???
I mounted my cdrom drive and ran autorun.exe with winex which is available from transgaming.com. Another possibility might be to try just mounting your windows partition under Linux but I wanted to test it in a pure Linux environment.
Puppeteer
Emperor
Are you using any Windows DLLs in your environment or is everything open source? If you're using any Windows files then from what version? (Win98, Win95, etc)
This is pretty high on the cool-factor list, but don't anybody expect any sort of support for running it this way. But then if you know what CVS is and how to get winex running from it then you may not need any support.
Oh, and kids, don't try this at home.
This is pretty high on the cool-factor list, but don't anybody expect any sort of support for running it this way. But then if you know what CVS is and how to get winex running from it then you may not need any support.
Oh, and kids, don't try this at home.
The free open source program Wine (which stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator) translates Window system calls into Linux system calls. WineX is a commercial fork of Wine that concentrates on translating DirectX and licenses CD copyprotection technology.
As for support, Linux users in general and Gentoo users (who compile their system from scratch) are used to supporting themselves B-). Besides, there are plenty of great resources on the net.
As an update, I did compile a 2.6 test kernel and tried out C3C but only saw marginal performance improvements.
As for support, Linux users in general and Gentoo users (who compile their system from scratch) are used to supporting themselves B-). Besides, there are plenty of great resources on the net.
As an update, I did compile a 2.6 test kernel and tried out C3C but only saw marginal performance improvements.
Puppeteer
Emperor
I'm familiar with Wine and Winex. Some people opt to take DLLs from their Windows CD for use in the Wine environment. I was curious if you were doing this, but it sounds like you're using Wine DLLs. Cool to know that it can work!
