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Hey everyone,

I've been having troubles with windows lately and so I've decided on moving to Linux. The main thing that is preventing me from definately changing is I'm not sure if Doomsday works on Linux. Could anyone tell me if it does? If so, how would I go about installing it and getting it to work?

By the way, if anyone could also mention if other paradox games (Victoria, Europa Universalis 2 etc) work on Linux, it would be a great help as well.
 
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Colonel Mooseus said:
Hey everyone,

I've been having troubles with windows lately and so I've decided on moving to Linux. The main thing that is preventing me from definately changing is I'm not sure if Doomsday works on Linux. Could anyone tell me if it does? If so, how would I go about installing it and getting it to work?

By the way, if anyone could also mention if other paradox games (Victoria, Europa Universalis 2 etc) work on Linux, it would be a great help as well.
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All paradox games works under Linux. It's one thread in the Victoria forum

I'm using Cedega and it works like a charm. Easy to install.( But it cost's money) It's more work to get it runing in wine, but wine is free.
 
Gaute65 said:
All paradox games works under Linux. It's one thread in the Victoria forum

I'm using Cedega and it works like a charm. Easy to install.( But it cost's money) It's more work to get it runing in wine, but wine is free.
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Dose it drain less sys power than on Windows Xp or more?
 
Mr. G said:
Dose it drain less sys power than on Windows Xp or more?
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It feels like it's loading faster in cedega than in XP. I would think that my Linux system drains less resources than XP, and therefore has more resources available to run the game. I could be wrong.


I haven't played that much with DD so I don't know how it's playing in 43/44
 
Gaute65 said:
It feels like it's loading faster in cedega than in XP. I would think that my Linux system drains less resources than XP, and therefore has more resources available to run the game. I could be wrong.


I haven't played that much with DD so I don't know how it's playing in 43/44
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How much syspower dose Cedega needs? Will it be able to run at my old 500mhz with 128mb memory?
 
Mr. G said:
How much syspower dose Cedega needs? Will it be able to run at my old 500mhz with 128mb memory?
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From the Cedega FAQ:

The operating system core requirements are a Linux Kernel 2.4 or higher, XFree86 4.0 (4.3 is recommended) or Xorg, and glibc 2.2 or higher. Since each game will have its own hardware specifications, we recommend for optimal gaming experience that you exceed the recommended requirements to run the game.
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Cedega cost 5$ month. You must pay for three months.
 
Gaute65 said:
From the Cedega FAQ:



Cedega cost 5$ month. You must pay for three months.
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Oh, ok thanks.

Edit: Do you know how wine works with HoI 2 DD?
 
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Like already stated. You're basically on your own when you try this. If it happens to work: great. But if not, we can't help you here. ;)
 
I went into winecfg (changing the environment to Windows 98) and then double clicked the setup.exe in winefile. Doing this I've got the installation working for Doomsday but I've encountered a problem. It goes at average speed until 23% but then it stayed there for around half an hour. It then moved to 24% recently. Now that it's on 24% it's doing the same thing for 23%. I've noticed that it's installing alot of bmp files. Anyone have any idea what may be causing the installation to go so slowly? It is going, like it hasn't frozen because I can see it accessing the cd and installing the actual components. I haven't done anything thing with my ATI drivers yet, could that have something to do with it?

I'm using Wine and have read the fellow who got it working's comment:

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5058

and he said his install went for 40 mins. Mines been going for an hour and 15 mins.
 
No idea. But keep in mind that the game uses literally thousands of small bitmaps (the leader and minister portraits). During setup these all need to find a home on your hard drive, and this is indeed a rather slow process, even on a native Windows installation.
 
Ok I thought I'd post my results with getting Doomsday to work on Linux. The whole installation with Wine didn't work. When I finally got into the program it was incredibly slow. Not sure what caused this. Note I was not using the latest version of wine, which may have helped.

I've decided to use Cedega which works a charm. Not only did it install Doomsday fine, but I was also able to patch it. The performance is akin to what I had on my Windows machine. I'm using the latest version of Cedega: 5.2.7
 
Good for you. :)
 
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