Titanium and Wine

Angelox · #1 01-05-2009, 09:27 PM

See if you got this application; 'nvidia-settings' , should be able to just run the command, it usually is in /usr/bin/ I think it comes with the nvidia driver install.

cubber · #2 01-06-2009, 12:05 AM

Yah that is pulled in by default when I emerge nvidia-drivers in gentoo. I have gone through all of those settings. Right now everything is on application controlled and pretty much default. I use that when I need to set up a dual monitor. I don't think it is an nvidia issue since I can duplicate all of the same problems on an ATI based machine.

I did however manage to cob up a somewhat backwoods style hack job work around for my full screen issue.

1. Go to desktop background settings and change the background to just black

2. Start the game in windowed mode and center it in the desktop.

My desktop resolution is 1680x1050 and I need to run EQ in a window that is 1600x1024, because if I run it in a 1680x1050 window the wine menu border on top of the window causes the bottom of the window to be cut off and my mouse to click in the wrong place. If I scale the window down to 1600x1024 the window fits perfectly vertically and I have 40 pixels on each side of the window. With the black background it blends with the black border of the screen and looks like I am playing the game in a letterbox. Before my desktop background was too distracting.

This is very tolerable until real fixes can be found.

Like I said its not pretty but it gets the job done. I have a feeling my spell effect problem is related to me not being able to use pixel shaders 1.4 or 2.0

More research and trial and error shall tell.

Hey at least we beat this dead horse till it flipped over a bit!

Angelox · #3 01-06-2009, 07:04 AM

Makes me wonder why pixel shaders 1.4 or 2.0 didn't work with me before, but do now. I thought maybe it was Cedega, but must be something else.
I paid Cedega membership for over a year just because I wanted to use Eq in Linux, and really, they don't even support Everquest anymore, just have a few users that post ideas in the forums. Would be nice to try again with Cedega (just to see if that problem merges again), but I'm not going to give Cedega any more money since they don't support my game (money better spent to the Wine project).

cubber · #4 01-06-2009, 09:21 AM

I don't see any need for cedega. I did the same as you. Paid for a year and fought with it more than anything. It never worked for eq and wow always ran better in wine. If I recall correctly the last time I tried cedega (~6 months ago) it had the no model issue on titanium and lagged horribly.

cubber · #5 01-06-2009, 09:33 AM

My issues may also be dual core related. Both my test pc's are dual core and yours is not. Also you have an older geforce card, whereas the one in my laptop is pretty new.

When I get some time I may give this a shot on one of my older boxes with a single core x86 cpu and a geforce 7800 agp card. Just need to finish my gentoo install on that machine and get a sound card for it.

The older geforce cards use an older driver, and are not supported by the new one. For instance my game server runs gentoo and has a geforce 5900 fx series card and I have to mask any drivers past the 143 series of drivers.

That machine uses these drivers: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.15

My laptop on the other hand needs to use the latest nvidia drivers so I use: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.82

Angelox · #6 01-06-2009, 02:24 PM

I was thinking it could be dual core too - problem is, there's much info on Everquest and Linux, but no info on Everquest Titanium and EqEmu, aside from what we post, so we got to blaze a new trail.
Dual Core has dropped a lot in price, so maybe this year I might get one, so I get experience in that area too.

cubber · #7 01-06-2009, 02:39 PM

In order to play eq under wine with dual core you need to start it with the following command. Found this on the wineHQ site:

Code:

taskset -c 0 wine eqgame.exe patchme

I tried the game at first with just wine eqgame.exe patchme and it did play but was a bit slower than when I ran the above command. So I just created a script in my EQ directory called "start" that contains the above command.

then I just run eq by typing ./start in my eq directory.

The command just binds the game to one cpu. So I guess if you wanted to you may be able to run another instance of the game on the second cpu by using:

Code:

taskset -c 1 wine eqgame.exe patchme

From a separate EQ Titanium install of course.

Hopefully further testing will give us some concrete answers as to why these things are happening.