Best (CD Bootable?) Linux Distro for Dominions?

SelfishGene · #1 March 25th, 2004, 09:34 AM

This is a bit OT, but how do you like Knoppix? It should be arriving tomorrow. Im getting it to kill an evil Linux partition Fdisk refuses to handle.

More specificially, QTPartition

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liga · #2 March 25th, 2004, 10:10 AM

I use Mandrake 9.2 for my Dom2 games at "work" at it work fine (I have noticed that under linux, with the same hardware, I got less efficeny in graphical details ... but it could be that I'm using a workstation not really configured well for graphics but just only for calculations) ... a way could be to install dominions 2 in a Linux box running into Vmware but I must admit I never tried yet ... I have one vmware running a Linux Mandrake 9.2 at home (on windows XP pro) ... i could try to install dom2 and post here a report.

good play
Liga

magnate · #3 March 25th, 2004, 12:31 PM

Debian Users should dist-upgrade to Sarge and all should be well. I use Sarge's own Nvidia drivers, not the newest Nvidia ones. (Yes, Sarge is still technically "testing", but it's very stable now.)

I don't mean to be rude, but isn't finding a solution enabling people to play Dom2 from a bootable Linux CD kind of missing the point about it being multi-platform? Wouldn't it be better to fix the bugs which prevent players on different platforms viewing battles? (Muchos apols if this has already been done to death.)

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Johan K · #4 March 25th, 2004, 01:22 PM

This bug has been fixed in the next patch. So hopefully you'll soon be able to mix OSes and still get correct battle replays.

GavinWheeler · #5 March 25th, 2004, 04:55 PM

I like Knoppix in general, but tend to keep my games on my lingering Windows partition. I did test the Doms 1 demo on linux (Mandrake 9.2) and found it to be surprisingly slow - way slower than on windows on the same, admittedly old, machine.

This seemed odd as it has always been the other way around for me - programs that ran on both platforms were generally way faster on Linux than on Windows. But Tuxracer also crawled when I tried it, which makes me wonder in Mandrake haven't messed up the graphics drivers somehow??

Anyway, we'll never get linux geeks to agree on the 'best' distribution. At least we can all agree that vi is the One True Text Editor.

Cainehill · #6 March 25th, 2004, 05:16 PM

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Originally posted by magnate:
I don't mean to be rude, but isn't finding a solution enabling people to play Dom2 from a bootable Linux CD kind of missing the point about it being multi-platform? Wouldn't it be better to fix the bugs which prevent players on different platforms viewing battles? (Muchos apols if this has already been done to death.)
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Well, until Johan posted in this topic that the bug is fixed in the next patch, there was no indication that it would be. Given that I don't have the source code, I felt that yes, it was worthwhile to devise a bootable Linux CD workaround. Presumably I'm not the only Windows based player involved in MP games via the mosehansen.dk site who is disadvantaged by hallucinatory battle scenes, and was surprised to find this to be the case.

PhilD · #7 March 25th, 2004, 05:17 PM

I shortly tried to get Knoppix to work, but wasn't very successful. Mostly, all my machines(*) are either dual-boot from the day I start using them, or Linux only. Repartitioning a mostly empty drive for dual boot isn't too hard, and only bothers you the very first time you have to do it.

But I'm not sure how you'd go about getting Knoppix to write your game data to a real partition... does it do it transparently?

(*) Two office desktops (one in each of my 2 offices), one office laptop, my home PC, my girlfriend's home PC, and my old personal laptop, though this one's mostly dead; yes, I qualify as a geek.