Red Alert 2

[Milambar]

I got RA2 installed and running under wine, but it runs slower than molasses at the north pole... Even when I do sudo nice -20 wine.....

The PC is a 2.6Ghz based Intel Pentium IV, with 1Gb of RAM running Dapper Drake. Surely it should run at a playable speed at least?

Any suggestions of things to try?

[jISh]

Have you installed drivers for your video card?

[mixim]

I got RA2 installed and running under wine, but it runs slower than molasses at the north pole...
Any suggestions of things to try?

Sorry i think youll have to run it with Cedega to get satisfactory performance, but youll have to tweak the settings (look in cedega forums).... And even then, it will run pretty slow compared to Win...

That is my experience, maybe someone has better info?....

//Jocke from Sweden

[Milambar]

Have you installed drivers for your video card?
I don't have a fancy video card, just the plain-ole on-board video. Ubuntu detected and set it up ok (with the exception of getting the monitors Horizontal and Vertical scan frequencies wrong).

Sorry i think youll have to run it with Cedega to get satisfactory performance, but youll have to tweak the settings (look in cedega forums).... And even then, it will run pretty slow compared to Win...
Aww man. that blows. Thanks anyway.

[Bekker]

It should work correctly according to the wine applications database:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=252
I haven't tried RA2 with wine, so I can't really talk from experience. But the wine app. database is usually usefull and correct.

[Lord Illidan]

It should work correctly according to the wine applications database:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=252
I tried RA2 with wine, so I can't really talk from experience. But the wine app. database is usually usefull and correct.

If you tried RA2 with wine, you can talk from experience.. Or was that a typo :wink:?

I'd advise you to ask the wine guys your question. Perhaps they can give you a hint.
Also, make sure that there are no extraneous apps running.

And maybe you might want to adjust resolution within the game itself.

[wylfing]

Sorry i think youll have to run it with Cedega to get satisfactory performance, but youll have to tweak the settings (look in cedega forums).... And even then, it will run pretty slow compared to Win...
I seem to remember running RA2 perfectly well under Cedega out of the box with no tweaking. Honestly I never played it under Windows -- I got RA2 from a relative -- so I don't know if it's slower or not, but I never noticed anything I would call "slow" in the first place.

I know this doesn't really help the OP, sorry. If you are into gaming I really think Cedega is a good investment.

[Bekker]

If you tried RA2 with wine, you can talk from experience.. Or was that a typo :wink:?

Oops! ](*,) typo indeed.

[mixim]

I seem to remember running RA2 perfectly well under Cedega out of the box with no tweaking. Honestly I never played it under Windows -- I got RA2 from a relative -- so I don't know if it's slower or not, but I never noticed anything I would call "slow" in the first place.

I know this doesn't really help the OP, sorry. If you are into gaming I really think Cedega is a good investment.

Well, it runs very satisfactory, untill you begin to scroll. Then it chops around.. But in Win it flows around, smooth as butter, but as i said, it is acceptable!

And you can still download and compile Cedega for free, but it will be without the fancy GUI.

[fernandocordes]

Has anyone managed to play red alert 2 online in wine? I tried to, but the problem is that westwood online is not installed and i do not know how I can do this.

[revertex]

if you have a old win98 lying aroud, install vmware player > win98 > RA2.
run flawlessly inside vmware.
You can even enable experimetal videoaccel if your card support, but seems completelly uneeded.

[amgeex]

Install a wine version prior to 0.9.16 (ex: 0.9.9) and it'll run beautifully!