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Ubuntu Blues - Ichiru - 03-13-2013
Hai!
So umm... yeah leaving didn't last too long lerl, but I've somehow managed to screw my FL stuffs by not having a windows partition. Right now I have 3 choices to get my freelancer fix:
- Run Freelancer in Wine
- Run Windows XP in a Virtual Machine
- Attempt to somehow get my computer to run that recovery program that may or may not be on the hard drive
- Put freelancer on my touchscreen windows laptop/tablet/banana
Number 1 doesn't work for multiplayer, at all. Tried the work arounds, nothing. Number 2 is what I used to do, but it's worse on my Core i5 laptop with a dedicated graphics card than on my 2008/2007 Windows Dual Core Pentium laptop with integrated graphics that ran Vista (before I got rid of it). Number 3 is really tricky, and I'm not sure how to get the recovery to run without wiping everything, and I don't want to do that. Finally, Number 5 is just dumb and I can't play Freelancer on a touchscreen thingy that's meant for study.
TL;DR My computer hates me
Halp! :'(
RE: Ubuntu Blues - utrack - 03-13-2013
I'll suggest to update your plan C to "shrink bubuntu partition making 30GB free space, and install Win there".
I like the install-to-banana idea tho. ;D
P.S. Wine's dplay sux, but you can try old version of it - i seen report of dplay on Wine v1.1.10 with native libs working fine. DIdn't tested it though, i'm too lazy 8|
RE: Ubuntu Blues - Ichiru - 03-13-2013
I have no idea on how to install Wine 1.1 without seriously screwing up my system lol
RE: Ubuntu Blues - utrack - 03-13-2013
me too mate...me too
well actually you get that http://sourceforge.net/projects/wine/files/Source/1.1.10/
and follow that http://www.winehq.org/docs/wineusr-guide/installing-wine-source
it will build according to your current setup, so it will use right libs etc. The only thing - you need to uninstall current wine before installing one from source
RE: Ubuntu Blues - Ichiru - 03-13-2013
Right looks like it's recovery road then. I've got too much stuff in my wine prefix that I need lol