Search:

Type: Posts; User: Stormspireiv; Keyword(s):

Search: Search took 0.03 seconds.

  1. Re: HOWTO: The Best Way To Play Games On Ubuntu

    First of all, excellent work! I tried the original xgame script with limited success in Gutsy before I replaced it with Hardy. The original script was a terrible pain to set up (giving your user the...
  2. [ubuntu] Re: HOWTO: functional eye-candy with Avant-Window-Navigator

    1. To start AWN automatically on logon, go to your session preferences System>Preferences>Sessions and click on New. Name it however you like and for the command:

    avant-window-navigator

    2. Your...
  3. Re: Changing disks installing stuff with wine

    You may have already tried this, but it doesn't hurt mentioning it.


    wine eject

    It is different from the eject command.
  4. Replies
    18
    Views
    2,898

    Re: Wine 0.9.59 and WoW on 7.10

    I'm not a WOW user, but I can confirm that this bug does not only affect WOW.

    I found this happened in Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War (and expansions) as well. Launching the game in a seperate X...
  5. Replies
    1
    Views
    994

    Re: wine+DoW+multiple isos

    Unfortunately, the only way I know to get that to work is burn the CDs. Wine eject doesn't seem to like mounted iso files. I know for a fact that it will work if you burn the discs and use wine...
  6. Replies
    13
    Views
    55,853

    Re: How to configure controls for mednafen?

    You can also use that to set multiple buttons to the same command. The program knows you are done when you press the same button twice.
  7. Re: games in fullscreen with wine are not true fullscreen?

    Yeah, AWN will go haywire and appear at the top of the screen. It will fix itself once you open a "new" window (as in not one you have set up as a launcher in awn).

    I don't know about your...
  8. Re: games in fullscreen with wine are not true fullscreen?

    It is most likely compiz screwing with it. When I try to run a Wine game fullscreen, even with the compiz-fusion fullscreen workaround plugin, it messes with the fullscreen. For example, whenever...
  9. Re: Trying to run Starcraft in fullscreen mode

    What kind of video card do you have?
  10. Re: Trying to run Starcraft in fullscreen mode

    These are the settings I use to run Starcraft:
  11. Replies
    24
    Views
    9,462

    Re: Loki Alpha Centauri Install

    An update for Gutsy:

    For some reason, I think Feisty's desktop effects packages conflicted with SMAC. That is why some people needed to disable compositing in their xorg.conf

    In Gutsy (or...
  12. Replies
    44
    Views
    11,990

    Re: Alpha Centauri crashes?

    I could not get that patch to work. You need to get the 6.0b patch. Either Google smac 6.0b or PM me with your email and I'll send it to you.
  13. Replies
    44
    Views
    11,990

    Re: Alpha Centauri crashes?

    Did you make sure to change the file permissions on your .loki directory in your home folder?
  14. Replies
    44
    Views
    11,990

    Re: Alpha Centauri crashes?

    Well, I finally got it working. I posted my step-by-step instructions over in this thread.
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=345846
  15. Replies
    24
    Views
    9,462

    Re: Loki Alpha Centauri Install

    YAY! I got AC to work! I haven't tried multiplayer yet though. Here are the steps:

    1. Install the game.
    2. Install the latest patch. I have the 6.0b patch. Here is a link...
  16. Replies
    24
    Views
    9,462

    Re: Loki Alpha Centauri Install

    I applied the patch, but it made it run worse (movies don't work and most words don't show up). When I start a game, it still crashes giving me this error


    /usr/local/games/smac/smacx.dynamic:...
  17. Replies
    5
    Views
    687

    Re: Loki installers

    I checked http://www.liflg.org/ and they didn't have an installer for your game... I guess your best bet is Wine. Try comparing your Wine version with the version tested in AppDB. It may be something...
  18. Replies
    24
    Views
    9,462

    Re: Loki Alpha Centauri Install

    Maybe it needs loki_patch installed to run. I found the link, but it comes with no instructions to properly install it and I am still quite a newbie to linux and can't figure out how.
    ...
  19. Re: If theres a FreeCiv, is there a FreeCenturi?

    Personally, I could never "get into" freeciv or even the commercial Civilization series...I am just way too hooked on Alpha Centauri. I do know that if there was a "FreeCentauri" written from the...
  20. Replies
    24
    Views
    9,462

    Re: Loki Alpha Centauri Install

    I've been trying for a long time to find a good way to get the Loki Alpha Centauri Planetary Pack working on Feisty...and after a long time googling different things, I came up with this nice...
Results 1 to 20 of 20