Call of Duty on Ubuntu 11.04

mihir

mihir

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I installed COD WaW on Ubuntu 11.04 using wine and it worked. :D :D
According to this list wine can support MW2.
I also got a decent FPS. Like 50+.
Even though my Ubuntu is i386.
But I was not able to play Black OPs.
Did not try BFBC2 but I think it won't run.
Hitman Blood money failed as well but Cricket 07 runs fine and so does counter strike.
Just to let you guys know who haven't tried that much of gaming with GNU/Linux OSes.
Here is a useful link
http://appdb.winehq.org/
 
The best way to game in a Linux OS like Ubuntu is running steam using wine. From my understanding of steam is it is a virtual consol on your pc, so if you can run that it wine which it does the games in there run with no problem.

A lot of games run under wine these days, the only one's that are harder is games made by EA in my experience. EA put's some crazy security in the way to make sure there stuff is no pirated which makes it hard for wine to run it.
 
Any evidence? Let me edit this, what i mean is can you show some screenshots, what resolution, FRAPS> etc etc
 
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bigfellla said:
Any evidence? Let me edit this, what i mean is can you show some screenshots, what resolution, FRAPS> etc etc
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Resolution was 1920x1080.
Took ;)
BTW if you try to run the Solo mode directly it will give an error but you will be able to run the multiplayer mode and then switch to the solo mode.

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Why was I asked to give an evidence??
Did you not believe me and it is also given in the list that it supports mw2.
 
Great Job mihir! I got Starcraft 2 running a while ago with 10.04. Aside from the peformance issues that comes with running it on my laptop it ran great with no configuration.

I tried to get MW2 working and it did not go well at all. I got steam installed, it ran really slow but it was there and functioning. MW2 install screen was the wrong size so I had to guess where the install link was. I got it installing but it hung on the disk change. I never got it running.

I used the Play On Linux installer. Maybe I should just try it with Wine only.
 
salvage-this said:
I used the Play On Linux installer. Maybe I should just try it with Wine only.
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Play on linux is nothing more then winetricks with a fancy gui. I've never gotten anything to work under playonlinux, i found it much easier using what i find on WineHQ+winetricks when needed.
 
Yeah I know that it is just the config files that come pre instaled for you. How do you use winetricks? I have heard of it but I could never get anything good out of it. :(
 
salvage-this said:
Yeah I know that it is just the config files that come pre instaled for you. How do you use winetricks? I have heard of it but I could never get anything good out of it. :(
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download it, run it with
sh winetricks.sh
(or something like that)
dialog pops up, ask what you want to install. Find it, and follow directions as needed. Worked great installing steam, since it installs the needed fonts and hotfixes to keep it from crashing. This is on Cruncbang and Linux Mint. Never used it under Ubuntu, and every distro usually needs a tweak here or there.

You can usually find complete instructions for a game/app on WineHQ so i always check there first.
 
russb said:
Some people just like to be awkward and like to see their name up,hahaha.
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excuse me? pull your head in mate. I was simply interested in FRAPS benchies. Valid question, wouldn't be the first time someone has posted bs here. Secondly, i find your post russb highly ironic... btw i your sig should be spelt endorse, not indorse, which is a legal term for title transfer. Unless that is what you mean of course.

mihir said:
I installed COD WaW on Ubuntu 11.04 using wine and it worked. :D :D
According to this list wine can support MW2.
I also got a decent FPS. Like 50+.
Even though my Ubuntu is i386.
But I was not able to play Black OPs.
Did not try BFBC2 but I think it won't run.
Hitman Blood money failed as well but Cricket 07 runs fine and so does counter strike.
Just to let you guys know who haven't tried that much of gaming with GNU/Linux OSes.
Here is a useful link
http://appdb.winehq.org/
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mihir said:
Why was I asked to give an evidence??
Did you not believe me and it is also given in the list that it supports mw2.
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Given that you were even suprised "... and it worked :)" and that others didn't it is clearly not a cut and dry case here. I simply wanted to see more information.
 
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bigfella you are one big misable git,lighten up and see the funny side of life,we are not on this world for long.You take to many things to heart but i still love you,hahaha
 
bigfellla said:
Given that you were even suprised "... and it worked :)" and that others didn't it is clearly not a cut and dry case here. I simply wanted to see more information.
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No problem ;)

TBH you are right even I was really surprised that i worked since even I shared your doubts about it working :D

But when I checked out the list I discovered its true potential never imagined there would be a list like the one on winehq
 
I am it's just that you are too serious.My post's were ment in a friendly way so dont take them to heart.:)
 
russb said:
Some people just like to be awkward and like to see their name up,hahaha.
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russb said:
bigfella you are one big misable git,lighten up and see the funny side of life,we are not on this world for long.You take to many things to heart but i still love you,hahaha
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russb said:
I am it's just that you are too serious.My post's were ment in a friendly way so dont take them to heart.:)
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how is that friendly?
 
bigfella i'm sorry that you take my post's so serious they have(hahaha) at the end of two of them and :) at the end of the last one.If that gives you a different meaning to friendly banter then i would like to know your meaning of being friendly.I apologise to you mihir for disrupting your post.
 
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