Old winblowz games on SuSE

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:40 pm

Well, just wondering... I never got my original of Thief: The Dark Project that I bought off eBay for 10p a few years ago to work on Winblowz eXPee Crapessional 'cause its old and something conflicts with eXPee. I know there are patches etc etc etc on the internet but I couldn't be bothered to mess around too much.

However my question is, is there any way I could get it to run on SuSE via WINE or anything? Is there anything I should try before I try something else?

Post by **windhound** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:08 pm

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=4205&iTestingId=1635
bronze rating, so it works with wine.. but just kinda

http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/games/view.mhtml?game_id=2536
cedega gives it a 5 star playability.. I'm assuming that means it works. however, cedega is not free. does bittorrent have it? probably.
personally, I dont like taking from what is already mostly free

but yeah. cedega should work

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:27 pm

Sweet... gonna go look some *laughs*...

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:29 pm

bump this up so the spam doesnt show first

Post by **Devari** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:35 pm

If you search on google for a website that is called (in one word) by an amalgamation of the name of a linux mascot and a common term for pirated software, and you click on the second link down, you may find what you are looking for. No more help from me, though.

Cedega indeed runs Thief - http://cedegawiki.sweetleafstudios.com/wiki/Thief_The_Dark_Project

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:12 am

K, got it (paid for it

), installed it.... God knows where its gone or whatever.... Maybe cause I'm tired. anyways off to bed now will look into it more in the morning *laughs*

thanks again for giving me a kick up the butt in the right direction

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:06 pm

Ok, now finally, I fixed it thanks to Beatle's help earlier in the other topic, however now cedega is installed I have ran into another proplem :/

[img]http://img288.imageshack.us/img288/848/arghzi5.th.png[/img]

Seems somethings up with "drivers" or whatever you call them in suse *laughs*... only problem is I wouldn't know where to start on updating them....... Maybe somewhere in YaST? I don't want to bust it again.... so I wont mess

Post by **windhound** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:10 pm

SuSe is not legally allowed to provide nice, spiffy drivers for your vid card. thus, for the most part, no 3D accel. means no shiny games
this is where extra repos come in handy, as they nicely give out theses spiffy packages

livna is the main one for Fedora
Beatles / Devari can hopefully give you one for SuSe

what video card you have would be helpful as well

edit: asdf.

Post by **The Beatles** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:10 pm

Yes, in Yast. Go to graphics card configuration, enable 3d acceleration, and hit "Test". If it doesn't display correctly, you can kill the test with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. If it does, it'll tell you what you can do. Then save the configuration, logout, login.

Also note, you may need to install nvidia drivers for this if your card is a nvidia. I think you do that by searching for the nvidia drivers in the yast package installer, but to be honest I don't remember that anymore, I did it such a long time ago.

As for OpenGL, I think you can also set that in the graphics card configuration, some option called "Direct GL Rendering" or whatever. In the very worst case, I know how to do it by editing the config file, but there's no need to do that (never had to under SUSE except when I wanted to disable a touchpad mouse).

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:18 pm

Hmm, I got Graphics Card & Monitor but I can't see anything in there about enabling 3d acceleration

maybe I'm going blind or something :/

Post by **The Beatles** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:27 pm

It's there, somewhere. It should be a checkbox directly on that page, greyed out if you haven't installed nvidia yet.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:10 pm

Video Card: ATi ATI MOBILITY Radeon 9000/9100 IGP

According to my mIRC script in Winblowz if that helps

Post by **windhound** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:19 am

http://linux.wordpress.com/2005/10/11/suse-100-ati-drivers-installation/

follow steps. looks basic enough. naturally ignore the 64bit steps

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:02 am

Cheers, will give it a try tonight

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:17 pm

Seems them instructions must be for an older version or something as the other is totally different... anyways I tried still and it kept giving me an MD5 checking error... I was just wondering if theres a way to temp. disable the md5 hash check thingy??

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