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Cold Death
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Joined: July 24, 2011
Posts: 106
From: Right behind you...
|  Posted: 2015-09-18 11:58
So I recently made the switch from Win 7 to Ubuntu, because screw microsoft with their privacy invasion policies. But with my motives aside, I've gotten an itch to play this game recently.
I was wondering, is it even possible to run DS on Linux? Through Wine, perhaps?
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Ruuu
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Joined: November 20, 2009
Posts: 135
From: That Tree Over There...
| Posted: 2015-09-18 20:35
This post describes how to get GCQL working under wine 0.9.47
http://www.darkspace.net/?module=forums.php&page=/viewtopic.php?topic=43009&forum=100
probably really buggy though
[ This Message was edited by: RamRawR on 2015-09-18 20:36 ]
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Pantheon
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Joined: May 29, 2001
Posts: 1789
| Posted: 2015-09-18 22:44
Whilst the lobby only really requires Microsoft Foundation Class Library which Wine does a pretty decent job of emulating, the game itself requires DirectX 9.0c to work. No-one has ever gotten it to work under Wine before, and I don't except they ever will (Wine's DirectX emulation is basic at best).
We don't have the time to re-write the entire rendering engine over to OpenGL, which would be a massive undertaking for such a small benefit.
I'd highly recommend dual booting using Grub2 (for Linux) or Bootcamp (for Mac).
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Nine Arts Dragon
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Joined: March 11, 2003
Posts: 51
| Posted: 2015-09-19 09:59
What is it your using linux for, most Linux operations can be run from inside a virtual machine, that you could have installed on a windows partition.
That way you could have the best of both.
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Faustus
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Joined: May 29, 2001
Posts: 2748
From: Austin, Texas
| Posted: 2015-09-19 14:36
I've already ported quite a bit of the engine to Linux.. I haven't ported the graphics/audio parts however, which I have been considering doing sometime in the near future.
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TroyMars
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T-Roy! and Friends
Joined: July 05, 2005
Posts: 267
| Posted: 2015-10-15 23:38
I installed a VPN called Hotspot shield. It scrambles your IP adress like VPN do, but this one has an ad version for the penny pinchers. Also disable IPv6 through the Regedit because I found out it has some massive privacy issues. Go to https://www.hide.me/en/check to see what I'm talking about.
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