Universal Linux Launcher for NCSoft Games

I'm not having any problems. Are you running the latest version of the script?

nevermind, I was running script 0.8.1, updating to 0.8.4 seemed to fix it

So I have everything set up again on a shiny new install of Linux Mint 12, including a launcher for the perl script on my desktop with an awesome icon from deviant art. Everything works wonderfully, except no text is displayed in pop-up windows in game. This could just be a fluke, as I only saw one such window last night. It was probably the window saying "so and so needs your help" for the new WWD arc. But instead of saying anything it just had the OK button in it. Anyone know how CoH writes that text? Maybe there's some sort of font that I need to install in my CoH bottle for Crossover?

@Rorn ---- Blue Baron ---- Guardian

Ignore it. I saw it on a Windows PC last night.

Awesome. Thanks.

@Rorn ---- Blue Baron ---- Guardian

I can't seem to get this working, but having another go. Misread at least one thing the first time around.

I'm hoping someone here with a lot of patience could help me, I've only started using linux(Ububtu) in the last year, so I'm not very competent. I'd really like to get this working on Ububtu and have 1 less reason to boot into windows, I seem to spend more time in windows than Ububtu, something I'd like to change as I prefer Ububtu for everything but some gaming. From my experiences so far, solving this first problem will lend to many many more soon after.

Following the instructions here:
http://www.carnildo.com/cohlaunch/index.html
-I have perl 5.12
-I have wine
-I've just installed xdelta 1.13 from the software centre
I downloaded Wget but not sure wht to do with a .tar.gz or where to extract it to.
- under synaptic manager I have:
libxml-simple-perl 2.18 ( i think that covers the XML::Simple requirement)

in .wine/drive_c/Program Files I made a new folder City of Heroes and put the cohlaunch.pl in there. I then done this:

Yay, managed to get it working on Linux. Except that now I keep crashing. I'm standing inside Rikti War Zone between the two big robots guarding the entrance to Vanguard. Every time the guns above shoot wine crashes. :-(

I got it working thanks, only played for about 30 mins but looking a good aside from the sound which is borked, but I usually turn it off anyway when playing, and oddly after alt-tabing out of the game to surf the web for a minute, when returning the number keys activae powers in the middle tray instead of the bottom power tray, notihng I can't live with though.

I got it working and played it a lot yesterday. It went very smoothly and the frame rate was much better than when I was on Win7.

However, today when I try to launch it, instead of opening the window, the screen flashes black(like when it goes black before CoH shows) for a millisecond, then immediately closes CoH.

Here is what it says afterwards:

X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  10 (X_UnmapWindow)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x5000001
  Serial number of failed request:  80
  Current serial number in output stream:  83

That sounds like the sort of error you get when you update the graphics drivers without rebooting: there are three major parts that make up the Linux graphics drivers (the kernel driver, the X driver, and Mesa), and if they get out of sync, the most common symptom is that newly-launched 3D applications don't work properly, while 2D applications and currently-running 3D applications keep working.

Hello again.

I was saying earlier how it ran much smoother than win7. But it's starting to slow down to the same speed or slower than when I used win7 now. The framerate is really bad, even with all settings as low as possible.

Before I could play with most settings maxed in characters, lower settings for world, and x4 for the option beneath resolution, so that all the characters looked their best while the world still looked good with great framerate, even in Atlas.

However, last night(or the night before), the load screens were longer, and the framerate was suddenly bad. The only changes were me reactivating VIP and some updates from the update manager, I'm thinking the updates might be the problem, but don't see why they should be.

I tried reinstalling Linux, so if anything I put on their slowed it down, it wouldn't. After installing it, I of course accepted all updates though. So now with just CoH, a fresh Ubuntu, and the updates, I still have the issue.

I might try it again, but this time not update. But there are some updates that are necessary in there. Someone elses advice would be awesome, even if it's "please give us the info from [file] to help narrow it down".

Edit: After maintenance it worked. Before running the game there was another update to wine and some windows related stuff, so that might be what fixed it.

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It works perfectly except for one small bug. When I hit enter to chat, type my message, hit enter to send the message, the chat box doesn't release focus, so anything i type after sending my message (such as hitting W to run forward) ends up in a long string in my chat box. Anyone else encounter that?

Yes, the chatbox retaining focus is a very longstanding issue with CoH on Linux.

I've noticed that some of my keybinds do not work exactly as intended. Specifically alt+w which I normally use to launch into Fly. Why is this important? I didn't try alt+w until a few days ago and then started recieving the immense rubberbanding I saw mentioned earlier.

I'm going to audit my keybind file tonight and remove everything I can't remember the last time I used, that should leave me with just my chat binds. I'll try and watch for the rubberbanding after that. This won't be actual data backed test, more of just an observation, but I do think certain keybinds aren't working well with Wine and that might be causing the rubberbanding.

If you can find a reliable way of causing rubberbanding, by all means file a bug report for Wine, either as a comment on bug 13718 if it seems to be related, or as a new bug if it doesn't.