Linux Ubuntu (newest version)
By
je_saist,
Posted on: 2010-07-09 23:14 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
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Right now Transgaming's Cedega is as close to "official / unofficial" support as you'll get with CoH on Linux.
If you need help installing the correct graphics driver, SMXI should work on any Debian distribution: http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Smxi
Thanks much!
also: as a note:
As of right now, on ATi Graphics Cards, Ultra Mode works with Cedega Public Beta Engine 2010052 and Catalyst Driver 10.4
To install this driver with smxi, drop to run level 3:
You should be able to do by tapping control-alt-F1 which should drop you to a command prompt.
Log in as root.
Then type telinit 3
and hit enter.
Then run the command: sgfxi -o 10-4
follow the prompts and UltraMode should be working if you have a RadeonHD 4850 or better. As a small note, Ultra Mode does not run as smoothly as it does on Windows....
Catalyst Drivers 10.2, 10.3, 10.5, and 10.6 have various issues that prevent CoH from running on the Beta engine.
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as of right now, if you have an Nvidia card, Ultra Mode will not work at all, reguardless of whether or not you use Transgaming Cedega, W.I.N.E., or Codeweavers Crossover Games.
as of right now, if you have an Nvidia card, Ultra Mode will not work at all, reguardless of whether or not you use Transgaming Cedega, W.I.N.E., or Codeweavers Crossover Games.
Heya, this thread looks relevant to my interests. I'm trying to run CoH on my Linux box, currently ubuntu 10.04. It's got an oldish GeForce 9800GT (512MB, I think). I accept that I can't get ultra mode, but I'm curious as to what I should expect to be able to get. FWIW, I currently have CrossOver Games 9.x (maybe things have changed, but back in the day the Cedega people were not good about cooperating with the open source community),
Right now, I'm at the stage where I found instructions for getting the downloader to stop crashing so much ("echo 8192 524288 3612672 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem" -- the middle number may not need to be that big, but seems to vary), and it's very slowly downloading a .pigg sound file. I tried to copy over the coh directory from my Mac install, but that Did Not Work.
Where I've gotten so far:
1. Need to create a bottle, then set it to use a virtual desktop, because if it tries to go fullscreen, the CoH logo backdrop is drawn IN FRONT OF the installer windows, so you can't do anything.
2. Need to allow stupidly oversized packets or the app coredumps.
3. ... That's as far as I've gotten.
For comparison, the Mac I'm running on is a laptop with a GeForce 330M, which is a generation or so newer than the 9800, but MUCH weaker by every other standard I know of. The 9800 could run WoW at 20+ fps in just about any circumstances, with 8x antialiasing.
I'm not inalterably opposed to buying Cedega if it'll make a huge difference, but if it's going to be pretty similar, I'd rather just get things working this way, since I already have this.
ETA: Looks like I lose, it can't do anything at all in any way related to downloading "soundMusic1.pigg", the updater just sits there getting zero bytes. If I kick it and restart it, same thing. Can't touch that file at all. No diagnostics, no errors, it just says "Fixing files: piggs/soundMusic1.pigg" and then sits there doing nothing. Ugh.
ETA 2: Okay, copied all the .pigg files from my existing installation. It still redownloaded about 1.9GB of them (no idea why), but once it had done that, the updater completed. I can now get a screen with the word "loading" on it. That's it. It stops there, using a small amount of CPU time, with no diagnostics or logs. Since this app is described by other people as working reasonably well, I'm assuming this is abnormal...
ETA 3: D'oh! So when people said you had to use -renderthread 0 to run on multicore machines, they actually meant you should do that, rather than ignoring it. Looks like I can make it run.
I seem to have hit a snag, similar to the above - soundMusic1.pigg stalls. Unfortunately, I don't have a handy Windows system to fall back on to download and copy files from.
Is anyone aware of a source for the I18/GR pigg files, other than the patcher, or is there anyone willing to send me the file mentioned?
Hey all,
Hoping someone can help me and I hope I'm not posting in the wrong forum.
I have installed Ubuntu and got COH to install, but it cannot update. It just goes back and forth at the update page with no progress, then crashes. I know other players are using Ubuntu at moment and they reported no real issues. Is there a walkthrough or any other info I can get. ANY input would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!