Chronicles on UBUNTU 13.10 WORKING. (but laggy)

[CraiG^]

Well after a few late nights trying to get VirtualBox running Mir Chronicles on Tiny XP and failing due to graphics memory we have finally managed to get it working by :

Installing WINE on UBUNTU

Installing VirtualBox and creating a Virtual System.

Installing TinyXP (or any Windows O/S I suppose)

Set up File Sharing

Running Chronicles patcher in Virtual System to update client

Then share the up-to-date folder to your Ubuntu system

and run mir.exe through WINE.


This has been working successfully for me to get the game running but the lag inside the game it's pretty unbelievable. I'm too tired to work out any more yet but its great progress.

Anyone any ideas?

 

[MentaL]

considered using vmware ?

 

[holly]

How about using a speed hack? Most of the server use them and hey, if your lucky you might even be allowed!

 

[Surreal]

As Mental suggested try using VMWare. As far as I'm aware it runs fine on Ubuntu.

Edit: Wait, so the mir.exe runs fine under Wine? Why do you need XP? Does the Autopatcher not run?

 

[CraiG^]

I hadn't even thought of using VMWare but now that you have mentioned it Dan and Surreal, I will try it.

And to your question Surreal, Mir2.exe runs through Wine, the patcher doesn't. It is playable but it is really laggy,.

I will post my results with trying VMWare when I do.

Thanks.

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hmm, may have a problem, I ran VMware with 3 out of 4 gb ram and it didn't really run well at all so i brought it down to 2gb and started to install the O/S on VMWare. Which was working and then the computer crashed and I had to power it off, now I can get to grub loader and when the system o/s tries to start it powers off,.

HDD maybe?

Memory?

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Also, am I right in saying partitioning the drive into say 2 partitions with gParted and just running Windows for Mir and other games?

What would be the best way about this and what o/s do you recommend for mir? Micro? Tiny? 7?

 

[grimlife]

what is the aim of this thread?

I mean like, what are your trying to achieve? (why cant you play mir normally like everyone else?)

 

[Surreal]

I hadn't even thought of using VMWare but now that you have mentioned it Dan and Surreal, I will try it.

And to your question Surreal, Mir2.exe runs through Wine, the patcher doesn't. It is playable but it is really laggy,.

I will post my results with trying VMWare when I do.

Thanks.

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hmm, may have a problem, I ran VMware with 3 out of 4 gb ram and it didn't really run well at all so i brought it down to 2gb and started to install the O/S on VMWare. Which was working and then the computer crashed and I had to power it off, now I can get to grub loader and when the system o/s tries to start it powers off,.

HDD maybe?

Memory?

---------- Post Merged at 11:43 PM ---------- Previous Post was at 10:39 PM ----------

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Also, am I right in saying partitioning the drive into say 2 partitions with gParted and just running Windows for Mir and other games?

What would be the best way about this and what o/s do you recommend for mir? Micro? Tiny? 7?

Dual booting would be what I'd recommend. Make a tiny windows partition for mir (size depends how much space the OS takes up) and run it from there.

I personally run mir in a Windows 8 VM (VMWare) with 1 processor, 1 core and 2gb of RAM because, for some reason, that runs it incredibly well and my actual computer runs Mir very slowly (CPU: AMD FX8350 8core 4.5Ghz. GPU: AMD HD7970). I don't think the version of windows matters anymore, it used to, but Windows 8 seems to run it perfectly fine so install whichever takes up less space, I guess.
Mir makes no sense to me lol.

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what is the aim of this thread?

I mean like, what are your trying to achieve? (why cant you play mir normally like everyone else?)

He's trying to get Mir running well on Ubunutu, clearly.

Are you insinuating that having Linux as your main OS is "abnormal"?