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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:02 pm    Post subject: Wine or Cedega or DirectX Substitue. Reply with quote

i want to play games on my gentoo gnome install. but when i run one like Wolfenstein ET it just spits me back out onto my desktop in a bad resolution. then i tried to find an emerge package to substitue directX because the game said it needed it. i could only find wine and cedega. so i go to emerge it and it says i have to go and buy a subscription. Does anyone know how to get a directx substitute without haveing to pay for it?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Enemy Territory is available for Linux, natively (opengl, in a linux executable, not windows).
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i know tht and i already emerged it but i still got the same problem. i emerged it before i did anything else.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

there are no real alternatives for directx support under linux except for cedega and wine. Unless you want to try vmware... Win4Lin has no directx support, so that won't run.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bergmjs wrote:
i know tht and i already emerged it but i still got the same problem. i emerged it before i did anything else.

Please then paste the error, especially the part about it needing a directx substitute.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 9:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like you haven't configured GLX and opengl on your system. Search the forums and you find how.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

that would be it. opengl or direct 3d hasn't been configged yet. thanks
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bergmjs wrote:
that would be it. opengl or direct 3d hasn't been configged yet. thanks

Note that Cedega/WineX/Wine/et cetera aren't Direct3D for Linux, but are instead applications that emulate Windows, and thus DIrect3D. So, there isn't any Direct3D to set up. Just OpenGL, hopefully - in you case - via the nVidia drivers, as the ATi drivers are total crap.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 10:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

o man. i have a radeon 9200 128mb with an Nvidia sound chipset.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

These should tell you what you need to know:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=105524
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=73260
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