City of Heroes/Villains

[echinacea]

Howdy, I have downloaded and burned copies of almost all the popular linux distributions. So far FreeSpire seems to be the most friendly to converting Windows users but after poking around in the Ubuntu live cd and checking out the sheer number of projects and people working on it, I feel its a better choice. (apart from just the aesthetic appeal to it).

My prob is the only windows program I use is the game City of Heroes/Villains. I plan on trying it out first with Wine and then Cedega if necessary. I have viewed other threads and it seems hit or miss to me.

I have nvidia graphics (i read that ATI didnt work well).

Anyone have any experience good or bad they would like to share?

[tzulberti]

Check this:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=2980

[Nathan Otis]

So if I want to play CoH/V on Ubuntu, I'm boned?

So glad I read this... I would have spent two MORE hours trying to install something that's never going to work.

Unless I missed something, then I definitely need help getting this to run.
n.

[echinacea]

So if I want to play CoH/V on Ubuntu, I'm boned?

So glad I read this... I would have spent two MORE hours trying to install something that's never going to work.

Unless I missed something, then I definitely need help getting this to run.
n.

i still think it can be done but you may need to use Cedega.

www.cedega.com

at least i HOPE it can be done.....i dont wanna dual boot all the time

[chadk]

I had COH working with cedega, could've used a bit more tweaking but COH never held my attention very long, it's far to simple and cartoonish. No offense to you what-so-ever! I sometimes crave a little fast action and no other game has massive online fast action like COH. :)

Anyway, Cedega will let you run COH.

[Nathan Otis]

That's the problem, though... You have to pay to use Cedega, right? There seems to be something wrong with paying monthly to play a game that I'm paying monthly to play...

... Maybe it's just me.
n.

[Ferrat]

as I understand it there is a free cvs version but no grafic interface ect. I've never used it my self, just tried the free trial version, no support ect. and more trubble but free

[chadk]

If you search for Cedega CVS I think you'll learn that people are having a hard time getting it to run anything.
Yes, you have to pay for Cedega, but you can always just pay for the shortest term then cancel your billing. You can use cedega as long as you want you just won't get updates. I've read of people having success doing that.
If COH releases a patch that breaks your cedega install, then just pony up another short subscription, get the updates and cancel again.

Yah you're going to pay a little extra but you'll be able to save some of that money by not having a legal license of Windows installed ;)

[echinacea]

I bought cedega and still couldnt get it to run. At first it kept telling me my video card didnt support opengl...some GL extension wasnt on. Then after some tweaking it just gave me assertion failures. cedega support didnt reply.

i re-installed windows and everything works fine.

oh well, so much for ubuntu....its a great distribution out of the box, just dont attempt commercial software. ](*,) :-|