Pirates! under wine

[Jesse Allen]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:59:00PM +0000, Oliver Stieber wrote:
> 
> I'm getting memory allocation problems after quite a
> bit of game play, no videos yet, I haven't tried
> installing and I always use no-cd patches.
> 
> The speeds a bit choppy, but playable, and there are a
> few minor graphics gliches (I've got a test case for
> one so it shouldn't be too hard to fix) I would rather
> have slow gameplay than buggy gameplay.
> 
> Out of the box installs require a bit more than
> DirectX but hopefully the OLE and MSI work that's been
> going on lately should help that out.
> 
> 
> I'm also thinking working on half-life 2 and possibly
> WoW and Sim 2 as some point, but I may just try to get
> the DirectX 9 implementation as complete as possible
> first. [unless the makers of Sim 2 give me enough
> money to pay the rent!]
> 
> 

I've been trying pirates myself to see if I can actually get a DX9c game 
running.  It complains about a couple missing dlls.  Did you actually copy
some in?

As for WoW, I'm pretty sure it already works. I run it with the -opengl switch
because I think it has an opengl mode.  ("wine WoW.exe -opengl")  A while back,
it did not work unless I did that and forgot to test without this latest time. 
I didn't get a chance to log in either because my friend who has an account 
was playing at the time.  Though, it's true I'm kind of cheating by switching 
to opengl and not using D3D9. 



Jesse