Win(e)SPMBT under Linux. (Ubuntu 7.10)

[bonehead]

Hi Deadeye,

So far I have played 5+ battles completely through. Thoughts as follows...

I deliberately (sp?) did not set any dll overrides in winecfg, just to see what happened. And had no problems.

I don't know how to patch or rebuild or recompile an rpm (or...?), (don't forget, I'm a bonehead) I just updated wine through yast package management. So far updating this way has left all my pre-existing preferances as is.

The only game problem that I have had is when I minimized the game, started open office, (Writer), and started a major print operation. Since I already had aMule, Konqueror, Firefox, Gwenview, Wine, and the game running perhaps I overdid my resource usage. The game then slowwwwwwed tremendously when I got back to it, but did not lock up or crash. I saved my game and closed it as a precaution. Closed my other programs, restarted the game, and everything then restarted ok.

Sound works just fine (selected ALSA in winecfg). Attempting to access the game guide from Game Options _did not_ work, but I have no brouser set up in wine to read html documents so that is no surprise. Attempting to play back the enemy's turn in the game (video replay button?) also did not work. Didn't cause any problems, just didn't do anything.

I have played 1 full scenario, started one included campaign (US VS Druggies?)(into the third battle), and started 1 user generated campaign (in the 3rd battle now). No Problems, no other issues to report.

Mobhack has worked flawlessly, other than the icon display problem that I mentioned before. I even did major obat editing between battles in a user generated campaign, and had no problems restarting the campaign.

So, so far everything is very good.

james

Asus A7V880+AMD 32bit Athlon 2.1ghz, 2gb DDR1, ATI 1650 AllInWonderPro Graphics. openSUSE Linux 11.0 + KDE 3.5x(?) desktop.

[Deadeye]

Originally Posted by bonehead

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The only game problem that I have had is when I minimized the game, started open office, (Writer), and started a major print operation. Since I already had aMule, Konqueror, Firefox, Gwenview, Wine, and the game running perhaps I overdid my resource usage. The game then slowwwwwwed tremendously when I got back to it, but did not lock up or crash. I saved my game and closed it as a precaution. Closed my other programs, restarted the game, and everything then restarted ok.

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james

Asus A7V880+AMD 32bit Athlon 2.1ghz, 2gb DDR1, ATI 1650 AllInWonderPro Graphics. openSUSE Linux 11.0 + KDE 3.5x(?) desktop.

Hi James,

Sorry but I haven't had a chance to try your WINE setup yet.

But regarding your slowdown, your system is not that different from mine (Athlon 2.0Ghz o/c'ed to 2.6Ghz, 2GB memory, 2xNvidia 8600GS SLI, Kubuntu 7.10) and I regularly run WinSPMBT in WINE with 3 Terminals, 2 Konquerors, Firefox, Thunderbird and Skype running, with no slowdowns whatsoever. And I have run OO spreadsheet at the same time as well. So I'm a bit perplexed by your slowdown. Linux should swap out the idle processes you have running and ensure WINE gets the cycles/RAM it needs.

The one difference I see is that I have multiple desktops set up for each program, so I don't minimize WINE - I just switch to a different desktop.

I'll try and duplicate your setup sometime this week and see what happens.

Deadeye

[Deadeye]

Hi James,

I setup a test environment with a stock, unpatched WINE 1.1.5, WinSPMBT v4, no DLL overrides.

After doing some quick tests (not exhaustive by any means), as you stated above WinSPMBT works great except for the icon in MOBHack and clicking the link for the Manual. The mouse worked great so there is no need for the mouse hack any longer. I had no indications of slowdowns when switching between WinSPMBT and other programs.

There is an easy way to solve the Manual problem.

First off, find the file
.wine/drive_c/Program Files/WinSPMBT/Game Notes/spmbtguide.htm
make a backup copy of it and open it with a text editor.

You will see two references to
images/manual.htm

Change both references to
Images/manual.htm

and save the file.

Now in your Linux version of Firefox (or Konqueror or whatever browser you use), you can just open the file
.wine/drive_c/Program Files/WinSPMBT/Game Notes/spmbtguide.htm
and bookmark it for easy access.

Deadeye

[bonehead]

Hi Deadeye,

I took your advice and have been starting mbt & ww2 in a new desktop, and have had no more slowdown problems.


"You will see two references to
images/manual.htm

Change both references to
Images/manual.htm"


A minor difference: I found this using KWrite...

"images/content.htm"
"images/manual.htm"

Then did as you advised (i to I), and that worked great! Thank you for the help.

James

[Deadeye]

Originally Posted by bonehead

A minor difference: I found this using KWrite...

"images/content.htm"
"images/manual.htm"

Then did as you advised (i to I), and that worked great! Thank you for the help.

James

Hi James,

Doh! - that's what I meant! Sorry if I misled you a bit. Anyhow the reason you have to change the lower-case "i" to upper-case "I" is that Linux is case-sensitive and Windows is not. So to Windows the "Images" folder name is the same as "images" or even "iMagEs". To Linux they are all different and unique.

Also, I forgot to mention that the Opponent's Turn Playback works fine for me in my PBEM games.

Glad things are working for you.

Deadeye