CoH and Linux?
By
Carnifax_NA,
Posted on: 2010-05-04 03:57 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
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Ouch.|
Originally Posted by Sunstormer
Nevermind, void the subject now.
Gave up and went back to windows xp lol, I think I fried my brain. |
Okay, for reference: the Geforce4 Go was retired and placed on the old Legacy Driver list a long while back. SMXI should have installed the legacy driver by default. It's not why you got the black screen.
You got the black screen because: http://www.google.com/search?q=black...episguides.com
http://www.mepislovers.org/showthrea...hlight=GTS+250
The Nvidia driver is trying to set a higher refresh rate / resolution than the one your monitor actually supported. Before Debian got rid of dpgk-reconfigure xserver-xorg, we used to use that command to hard set the resolution and refresh rate for Nvidia drivers.
Now... since Debian got rid of one of the most useful tools ever made for any operating system... It's a bit more complex when Nvidia pulls the black screen trick.
On many distributions of Linux, if you run into the black-screen effect, you can get into the command prompt by hitting control alt F1 after the computer has reached it's normal log-in point.
The run the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg command, which will more than likely reset your driver back to the vesa or NV driver on nvidia cards.
Some Live-CD distributions, such as Mepis, contain a tool on the Live CD to copy the Live-CD's x.org configuration to the installed operating system, which can make this step easier.
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Once you have reclaimed your desktop and can log in, you can run nvidia-xconfig to enabled the Nvidia driver, and hopefully retain your resolution / refresh rate.
(So, please, try Mepis before you go back to WinXp).
Already went back to xp before you posted back 
sorry.
Strange thing though, since i reinstalled XP I installed my drivers and everything like before, however now i have better graphics and less lag in CoH, although I do still get the crashes on using anything requiring a photo of the charecter (tailor, name entry screen, contacts etc)
Less lag I could put down to less fragmented hard drives etc since its a clean formatted disk but the graphics? I used the same drivers as before as well which is why I cant explain it.
I may try try linux again in the future but I think its simply too complicated for me atm, everything depends on how many commands you know and a lot of them arent guessable in any way whatsoever.
For instance to download a package its 'apt-get' unless I read that elsewhere I wouldnt have guessed that in a million years lol plus I wasnt happy about how a driver that linux tells you to download can make your entire screen disappear. It maybe free but its also not very functional unless you have experience with it and i dont.
Thank you for all the advice though guys. Like I said I may have another go at some time in the future on a seperate pc just to tinker around with it.
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I've been watching these reports of crashing on the tailor/contact/whatever screens with some amusement -- before I17, they were a common Linux/Wine bug; but with the release of I17, they seem to have moved over to Windows.
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Originally Posted by Sunstormer
Strange thing though, since i reinstalled XP I installed my drivers and everything like before, however now i have better graphics and less lag in CoH, although I do still get the crashes on using anything requiring a photo of the charecter (tailor, name entry screen, contacts etc)
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lol so my solution of using linux to solve the tailor bug wouldnt have worked anyway?|
Originally Posted by Katie V
I've been watching these reports of crashing on the tailor/contact/whatever screens with some amusement -- before I17, they were a common Linux/Wine bug; but with the release of I17, they seem to have moved over to Windows.
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Typical
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* The synaptic package manager is basically a GUI for apt-get|
Originally Posted by Sunstormer
Already went back to xp before you posted back
sorry.Strange thing though, since i reinstalled XP I installed my drivers and everything like before, however now i have better graphics and less lag in CoH, although I do still get the crashes on using anything requiring a photo of the charecter (tailor, name entry screen, contacts etc) Less lag I could put down to less fragmented hard drives etc since its a clean formatted disk but the graphics? I used the same drivers as before as well which is why I cant explain it. I may try try linux again in the future but I think its simply too complicated for me atm, everything depends on how many commands you know and a lot of them arent guessable in any way whatsoever. For instance to download a package its 'apt-get' unless I read that elsewhere I wouldnt have guessed that in a million years lol plus I wasnt happy about how a driver that linux tells you to download can make your entire screen disappear. It maybe free but its also not very functional unless you have experience with it and i dont. Thank you for all the advice though guys. Like I said I may have another go at some time in the future on a seperate pc just to tinker around with it. |
I agree with you though, Linux may be great for some things (I can't do development work in Windows, it's too annoying) but it's not user friendly, especially not for first-timers. Mint is the closest I've come to being the best out of the box solution for my laptop, but if I'd run into the same problems as you did I'd have the same attitude to it. I wouldn't dream of bothering with running games on it either to be honest.
Windows 7 on the other hand I have to give kudos to, easiest install I've ever done, it even let me partition properly. Follow up with ninite.com to automatically install my essentials and it was a breeze.
Nevermind, void the subject now.
Gave up and went back to windows xp lol, I think I fried my brain.