Comments on: Classic RPGs, thanks to gog and wine http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: nytewraeth http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-48133 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:17:15 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-48133 Thanks for the info and feedback, I appreciate it.

Yeah, I think it’s about time I try another distro on both my machines and see how it runs. To be perfectly honest, I’ve been considering trying something lightweight like Arch anyway as I really don’t like the direction that Ubuntu is heading, ignoring the fact that it really does have a lot of fluff that I don’t need. I only installed it out of laziness/ease of use, not because I felt it was perfect for me. :)

My biggest problems with these games on both machines have been various graphic corruptions (both in 2D and 3D acceleration modes where available) in addition to slow performance on my laptop, which is very underpowered compared to yours in every way but the video card. On my ATI iMac, there is heavy aliasing in text, sprites, avatars, pretty much everything… it’s like when you zoom in on a jpeg image and it becomes pixelated. In contrast, on my laptop I don’t get the aliasing (yay Intel?) but I have performance issues under both 2/3D, and both machines give me cursor flicker in IWD2 to the point of being nauseating.

To be honest I’d rather just get it working on my laptop since overall Linux seems rather finicky on Mac hardware, in addition to being able to drop my dual boot and just maintain separate machines instead.

Thanks again, I’ll post back how it goes.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-48120 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:55:15 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-48120 I’m using Arch on this machine, and I have zero problems with graphics or emulation. Very very rarely, the game will crash completely, but it really doesn’t happen often enough that I can tell what’s causing it or get it to happen again.

No flickering cursor, no graphics issues … quite enjoyable, really. Can you try switching distros as a troubleshooting measure?

]]> By: Oh great, another addiction (that I could swear I have seen before) « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-48112 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:04:37 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-48112 [...] any case, I have a little something that will distract me from Crawl and Icewind Dale for a while. That’s either a good thing or a bad [...]

]]> By: nytewraeth http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-48099 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:19:58 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-48099 Always great to see another person (hopelessly?) addicted to these classic games, especially the Icewind Dale series which always seemed to click with me even more than the Baldur’s Gates. I think it was the freedom to create the entire party, in addition to the artwork and locations which quite frankly put BG to shame IMO. But I digress…

I’m very curious of the system you are playing these games on, specifically what video card you have? My attempts to get these games running decently in WINE have failed, both on my old laptop (running Ubuntu 10.04) with a crappy Intel 915 integrated video card, and my iMac machine with an ATI HD 2600 (on which I have had issues both under Ubuntu and OSX WINE versions). Admittedly, OSX’s ATI drivers leave much to be desired with *any* kind of gaming, and on the Ubuntu side I have been using the open radeon drivers since I did not have good experience the last time I tried Catalyst.

Secondly, did you encounter the flickering cursor problem in IWD2, and if so how did you manage to solve it?

]]> By: A heaping helping of Linux games « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-47711 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:19:10 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-47711 [...] must be my recent addiction to Icewind Dale (ironically, a Windows-based game I was playing in Wine ) but I had a hankering today to play some [...]

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-47589 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:40:33 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-47589 Ah, you caught me. I am ashamed. :oops:

]]> By: Foz http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-47588 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:48:41 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-47588 You disappoint me K.Mandla, with your stance on lightbox logins and yet a love to gog.com:

http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/your-lightbox-effect-still-sucks/

And I quote:
“if you trap a login in that lightbox effect, I will officially never use your site, your service or your product, ever ever again, for as long as I live”

Gog uses lightbox logins… what gives?!?

]]> By: Mr_Robotic_Evil http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-47565 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:13:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-47565 Icewind runs on linux without wine.Try gemrb it’s a rewrite of the Infinity engine.

]]> By: A couple (or four) free games « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-47538 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:02:44 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-47538 [...] am somewhat short on time today, but I should make note that opening an account at gog.com, like I did last week, I got four games for free. Two of them I [...]

]]> By: Links 8/1/2011: GIMP 2.8 Status Update, Ubuntu GNU/Linux Ported to Nook | Techrights http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-47537 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 19:28:40 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/classic-rpgs-thanks-to-gog-and-wine/#comment-47537 [...] Classic RPGs, thanks to gog and wine I’m happier than a pig in mud today, after getting copies of three of my favorite games off gog.com, and finding that they all work flawlessly in Arch Linux and wine. [...]

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