[Wine] Running EQ2 under Wine locks my system... anyone else?

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 13:18:27 CDT 2007


Wine by definition cannot lock up your system unless you are running it as
root. This is most likely due to buggy (read: ATI) drivers.

On 9/18/07, Anurag Mishra <mishra.anurag07 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am not expert in this but it seems that game requires at least Shader
> Model 3 which is yet to be implemented by Wine.
> Moreover, people at AppDB do confirm that they have a lockup problem.
>
> On 9/18/07, Chris Howe <mrmessiah at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to make a return to getting Everquest2
> > running under Wine, but I'm hampered at the moment
> > by the fact that it hard-locks my system when it
> > gets to the "Adding player to world..." stage.
> >
> > A few months back it would get this far and crash
> > but now it absolutely locks up, mouse still moves
> > but cannot click, other windows on screen (such
> > as the one with "top" running freeze, keyboard is
> > dead, can't ctrl-alt-backspace, in fact even the
> > numlock light is stuck on - the only thing I can
> > do is reboot.
> >
> > I'm running the latest GIT source compiled on my
> > box running the latest Ubuntu Feisty with the
> > latest drivers from ATI for my X1600. Other (linux
> > native) 3D apps work fine, such as supertux cart
> > etc.
> >
> > Can anyone else confirm this happens with EQ2?
> >
> > --
> > Chris
> >
> >
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