GRLevel3 and Linux Wine..gamer

[Mike Davis]

GRLevel3 uses DirectX 9 very heavily, as I understand it. I use Ubuntu and was wanting to see if GRL3 worked. It does with Wine 1.0 .. well somewhat.

I have learned that there is a Wine-Gamer version being worked on that will make games with DirectX work better, which in turn means maybe GRL3 would work better.

Anyone heard of such or tried a beta of Wine-Gamer?

Anyone with tips as to how Linux can work with GRL3?

Thanks,

 

[Andrew Herron]

What issues are you having running GRL3 with WINE? I'm currently using version 1.1.2 and I've not had that many issues at all.

Trying to change the Animation Settings does still crash it, but I'm thinking that's less related to DirectX and more to how WINE handles the saving of those settings.

I did have to set my smooth to 16-bit in order for it to work, but since doing that I've had no problems.

 

[Mike Davis]

GRLevel3 with Ubuntu problems

I am having:

No memory of settings

Not all things like Track, TVS, etc shows checked on the screen.

I could not get smoothing to run.

I am just trying the version, so it may be that one has to buy to get all the functions, but I want to see if they work.

Animation changes crashes the system.

Probably some more, that I have not found yet.

Thanks,

 

[Andrew Herron]

As for the saving of settings, make sure you're running WINE 1.1.2 and the latest version of GRL3.

The saving of the animation settings has to do with it not being able to write to a certain part of memory.

I'm able to track all things though sometimes it blanks out and you have to turn them off and then back on again to get them back.

For smoothing make sure you set your settings to force 16-bit smoothing and then turn it on, that's what I had to do on my laptop. If it's still not working then it might be that the video driver you're using is not proper. On Ubuntu 8.04 I had to install the restricted Nvidia drivers.

What distro of linux are you trying to get this running on and what kind of video card do you have?