Titanium and Wine

cubber · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 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.

cubber · #4 01-07-2009, 10:58 PM

I made a copy of my eq directory in my:

Code:

.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Sony/

folder called:

Code:

EverQuest-Box

I then changed my start script to the following:

Code:

taskset -c 1 wine eqgame.exe patchme

I had my first install running on the first core as normal, and logged on to the second install which ran perfectly fine on the second core with no performance hit whatsoever to either running game window.

I also have my AA set to 16x and my AF set to 16x in nvidia-settings. What a difference in texture quality.

Pretty nifty!

cubber · #5 01-08-2009, 12:34 AM

Even better is the fact that Xfce4 has 4 virtual desktops. So I can run each instance of Titanium on its own desktop and just use ctrl+alt+arrow to switch over. Plus have a desktop with a web browser open for searches.

cubber · #6 01-19-2009, 01:42 PM

I just compiled wine 1.1.13 with the pCap hack and it does not work anymore. I get no models again.

cubber · #7 01-19-2009, 02:08 PM

Recompiling again, I may have made a mistake. Gentoo's portage may have overwritten my custom wine sources with the originals. Will report back after it finishes and I can test.

cubber · #8 01-19-2009, 02:31 PM

It still works with wine-1.1.13 , like I said in my last post gentoo's portage over wrote the custom bz2 file I had because I did not digest it properly.