Hi all!
After an announcement that the original Command and conquer is available free for download, I decided to test it. Command and Conquer works perfectly in wine, I haven't tested network gaming over ipx, but that will probably not work. For the rest it's flawless, apart from the losing focus behavior, but playing it in a wine desktop helps.
Remember: KANE IS A TRAITOR! LONG LIVE THE GDI!
Cheers, Maarten.
On 23/03/2008, Maarten Lankhorst m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all!
After an announcement that the original Command and conquer is available free for download, I decided to test it. Command and Conquer works perfectly in wine, I haven't tested network gaming over ipx, but that will probably not work. For the rest it's flawless, apart from the losing focus behavior, but playing it in a wine desktop helps.
Remember: KANE IS A TRAITOR! LONG LIVE THE GDI!
This is great.
Welcome back commander! - Reece
Hi all!
After an announcement that the original Command and conquer is available free for download, I decided to test it. Command and Conquer works perfectly in wine, I haven't tested network gaming over ipx, but that will probably not work. For the rest it's flawless, apart from the losing focus behavior, but playing it in a wine desktop helps.
Remember: KANE IS A TRAITOR! LONG LIVE THE GDI!
Cheers, Maarten.
Hi Maarten,
It will likely run better if you use DirectDrawRenderer=opengl + RenderTargetLockMode=readtex (at least on Nvidia hardware that is fast). Second IPX network should work (if this is the c&c version with updated ipx) but you need root as plain users don't have enough permissions to create a raw ipx socket.
Roderick
Hi Roderick,
2008/3/23, Roderick Colenbrander thunderbird2k@gmx.net:
Hi all!
After an announcement that the original Command and conquer is available free for download, I decided to test it. Command and Conquer works perfectly in wine, I haven't tested network gaming over ipx, but that will probably not work. For the rest it's flawless, apart from the losing focus behavior, but playing it in a wine desktop helps.
Remember: KANE IS A TRAITOR! LONG LIVE THE GDI!
Cheers, Maarten.
Hi Maarten,
It will likely run better if you use DirectDrawRenderer=opengl + RenderTargetLockMode=readtex (at least on Nvidia hardware that is fast). Second IPX network should work (if this is the c&c version with updated ipx) but you need root as plain users don't have enough permissions to create a raw ipx socket.
Tested that, none of the opengl modes work well:
disabled: In the menu I only get the menu, not the text that's written on it. readtex: I get a white texture with only the text textex: Nothing at all readdraw: fails too
I'll play without opengl I think.
Cheers, Maarten.
Hello,
2008/3/23, Maarten Lankhorst m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com:
2008/3/23, Roderick Colenbrander thunderbird2k@gmx.net:
Hi all!
After an announcement that the original Command and conquer is available free for download, I decided to test it. Command and Conquer works perfectly in wine, I haven't tested network gaming over ipx, but that will probably not work. For the rest it's flawless, apart from the losing focus behavior, but playing it in a wine desktop helps.
Remember: KANE IS A TRAITOR! LONG LIVE THE GDI!
Cheers, Maarten.
Hi Maarten,
It will likely run better if you use DirectDrawRenderer=opengl + RenderTargetLockMode=readtex (at least on Nvidia hardware that is fast). Second IPX network should work (if this is the c&c version with updated ipx) but you need root as plain users don't have enough permissions to create a raw ipx socket.
Tested that, none of the opengl modes work well:
disabled: In the menu I only get the menu, not the text that's written on it. readtex: I get a white texture with only the text textex: Nothing at all readdraw: fails too
I'll play without opengl I think.
Hold on, even without opengl it will fail sometimes dramatically, it will stop updating the screen entirely if you fiddle around with the menu too much. After that it doesn't work any more at all.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Maarten Lankhorst m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
2008/3/23, Maarten Lankhorst m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com:
2008/3/23, Roderick Colenbrander thunderbird2k@gmx.net:
Hi all!
After an announcement that the original Command and conquer is available free for download, I decided to test it. Command and Conquer works perfectly in wine, I haven't tested network gaming over ipx, but that will probably not work. For the rest it's flawless, apart from the losing focus behavior, but playing it in a wine desktop helps.
Remember: KANE IS A TRAITOR! LONG LIVE THE GDI!
Cheers, Maarten.
Hi Maarten,
It will likely run better if you use DirectDrawRenderer=opengl + RenderTargetLockMode=readtex (at least on Nvidia hardware that is fast). Second IPX network should work (if this is the c&c version with updated ipx) but you need root as plain users don't have enough permissions to create a raw ipx socket.
Tested that, none of the opengl modes work well:
disabled: In the menu I only get the menu, not the text that's written on it. readtex: I get a white texture with only the text textex: Nothing at all readdraw: fails too
I'll play without opengl I think.
Hold on, even without opengl it will fail sometimes dramatically, it will stop updating the screen entirely if you fiddle around with the menu too much. After that it doesn't work any more at all.
Are you working on a SMP system? I had redraw problems with C&C Red Alert on my Athlon X2, but the schedtool solution presented in bug 4487 worked for me [ http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4487 ].
schedtool -a 0x2 -e wine
Bryan DeGrendel
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Roderick Colenbrander