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I Installed Crysis on Gutsy Gibbon using Wine (ver1.0)
It installed almost successfully, only with a minor error that said
" Cannot add Crysis.exe to firewall exceptions"
Now, whan I run the game, It starts well, but except a black screen, nothing more is seen. The task Manager shows the process as running, but the application doesn't respond. Please Help Me Outta It!!!
System configuration
Motherboard: - ASUS M2N MXSE
3 Gigs of RAM (800MHZ, DDR2)
Nvidia 8600GT 512 MB DDR2 PCI-e
250 GB SATA I HDD
If you want to help me then plz do it but don't snub me saying that i get the award for this and that. And by the way, If you know the rules, then send me a link of it so that I can have a look at it. You do this to me, never repeat it in the future.
Distribution: Ubuntu, Slackware, Gentoo, Fedora, Red Hat, Puppy Linux
Posts: 370
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tommytomthms5 wrote:
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I dont understand the purpose of wine.... if you want to play your game that badly install windows in virtualbox and run it like that
Wine enables you to run some Windows applications in Linux without having to have Windows installed. You need not have a Windows license to run Windows applications with Wine.
You are required to have a copy of Windows and a valid Windows license to install Windows on a Virtual Machine under Linux.
I dont understand the purpose of wine.... if you want to play your game that badly install windows in virtualbox and run it like that
The purpose of wine is to run the game on your native installation without the need for a virtual machine. We could also say that "we don't understand the purpose of virtualbox, use wine instead". Besides that, there's no way to get 3d acceleration in virtualbox. That and the added overhead makes it useless for gaming purposes. Not to mention that you need to pay (don't you? mmmmm) a windows license.
On a first look, it seems that the support is not so good for crysis yet, but search yourself, there are more results matching crysis, and some of the user comments might be of help to get it working.
As far as virtual box is concerned, does it support the graphic card? Because what I generally got to see in Desktop virtualization softwares is that they have their own internal arrangements for graphics memory, generally not exceeding 32MB whereas this game requires nearly about 128MB Graphic memory to run smoothly. Anyways, I am considering an upgrade for My Distro and will update it to Hardy Heron, probably tonight. I have seen this game running in that version using Wine.
As far as virtual box is concerned, does it support the graphic card? Because what I generally got to see in Desktop virtualization softwares is that they have their own internal arrangements for graphics memory, generally not exceeding 32MB whereas this game requires nearly about 128MB Graphic memory to run smoothly. Anyways, I am considering an upgrade for My Distro and will update it to Hardy Heron, probably tonight. I have seen this game running in that version using Wine.
"THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT"
VM's usually only support 2d acceleration cards, something in the lines of the old cirrus logic chips or the like (qemu comes shipped with a CL rom, and I guess Virtualbox is probably the same). The only one that I know of that has some -experimental- 3d support is wmware (I don't know from which version). But as far as I know, it's experimental and not-usable. I don't follow it closely so it might have changed in the latest times. But I wouldn't hold my breath for it.
The quantity of ram is irrelevant, since the card will be lacking even the most basic requirements in which regards 3d and opengl capabilities.
You are right!! I saw the game's review in the link you provided. They gave a "Garbage" for installation and running of Crysis in Gutsy whereas they gave it a bronze for Hardy Heron. I think upgrade is the best possible solution available here for me.
Another question of me is that even after activation the cube desktop in Ubuntu, I am able only to flip it horizontally. Can someone help??
I would open another thread for that. I know nothing about compiz and can't help you with that.
Just one more thing: you were not trying to run crysis with compiz (the cube thing) enabled, were you? In that case try to disable it before running any 3d intensive stuff. It's known to cause lots of problems with wine and similar things.
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