VietCanada
October 6th, 2010, 05:05 PM
Here's my success story. Perhaps others will share by adding theirs?
With an Intel onboard Video card on an Asus P5KPL-AM Motherboard I had beautiful graphics, much, much superior to my Win 7 install but the game was too slow to play. I searched high and low, tried everything but could not increase the frame rate. I reinstalled Wine and Civ more often in the past few months than 10 years of reinstalling various versions of virus infected, comically inept MS OSs.
:KSLast weekend I installed an Asus EN9500GT (Nvidia) card with 1 gig ddr2 video memory, 800 mhz, MS DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.0 support and increased my ram from 3gb to 4gb.
I went to http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu for the Nvidia driver. Actually I copied and pasted the above line into my software sources. I also allowed for experimental stuff to be searched for and added to my update choices.
I had no sound in the game until I opened Configure Wine from the Applications drop down menu and changed the audio from Alsa to OSS. Emulation. 16 bit, 48000 sample rate. In the game audio options I chose use system configuration and my own music file.
I used winetricks to install MSxml3 and d3dx9 first. I installed the games using the install button on the Uninstall Wine Software window and searching for the Autoplay or install exe's on the discs. I deleted msxml3 ddl from the warlords and bts files after using Browse C: Drive to find the game folder. I am using the latest available versions of Ubuntu and Wine.
The graphics are perhaps a bit better than Win 7 but the speed of the game is the same now.
I uninstalled Win 7 and now have only Ubuntu on my machine. I have an Intel dual core E5200 and onboard sound card.
I hope this helps somebody.
:(OTOH I can't get Civ V working at all but perhaps it's because I have no intention of installing Steam. Thats Sid's choice not mine. Sid can feel free to install Steam on his machine and love it all he wants but he has no business subsequently insisting that I do the same. I want Civ V. If I wanted Steam I'd already have it. Give your head a shake Sid.
Many months after finally taking the Linux plunge I can now enjoy my computing experience without taking out the MS mortgage and submitting to unseen, unwanted, self interested and greed based authoritarianism. I feel I've entered the modern age where I truly own my computer. I built it and I decide what software goes on it and what I do with it. Freedom. Nice try Bill. How's that Netscape thing working out BTW?
With an Intel onboard Video card on an Asus P5KPL-AM Motherboard I had beautiful graphics, much, much superior to my Win 7 install but the game was too slow to play. I searched high and low, tried everything but could not increase the frame rate. I reinstalled Wine and Civ more often in the past few months than 10 years of reinstalling various versions of virus infected, comically inept MS OSs.
:KSLast weekend I installed an Asus EN9500GT (Nvidia) card with 1 gig ddr2 video memory, 800 mhz, MS DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.0 support and increased my ram from 3gb to 4gb.
I went to http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu for the Nvidia driver. Actually I copied and pasted the above line into my software sources. I also allowed for experimental stuff to be searched for and added to my update choices.
I had no sound in the game until I opened Configure Wine from the Applications drop down menu and changed the audio from Alsa to OSS. Emulation. 16 bit, 48000 sample rate. In the game audio options I chose use system configuration and my own music file.
I used winetricks to install MSxml3 and d3dx9 first. I installed the games using the install button on the Uninstall Wine Software window and searching for the Autoplay or install exe's on the discs. I deleted msxml3 ddl from the warlords and bts files after using Browse C: Drive to find the game folder. I am using the latest available versions of Ubuntu and Wine.
The graphics are perhaps a bit better than Win 7 but the speed of the game is the same now.
I uninstalled Win 7 and now have only Ubuntu on my machine. I have an Intel dual core E5200 and onboard sound card.
I hope this helps somebody.
:(OTOH I can't get Civ V working at all but perhaps it's because I have no intention of installing Steam. Thats Sid's choice not mine. Sid can feel free to install Steam on his machine and love it all he wants but he has no business subsequently insisting that I do the same. I want Civ V. If I wanted Steam I'd already have it. Give your head a shake Sid.
Many months after finally taking the Linux plunge I can now enjoy my computing experience without taking out the MS mortgage and submitting to unseen, unwanted, self interested and greed based authoritarianism. I feel I've entered the modern age where I truly own my computer. I built it and I decide what software goes on it and what I do with it. Freedom. Nice try Bill. How's that Netscape thing working out BTW?