Perfect World S3TC bug fixed in Wine 1.1.19 6 Comments

12:36 on 13 April 2009 by Sense Hofstede English Posts, Planet Ubuntu, Planets , ,

Earlier I wrote about getting Perfect World’s textures to work with Wine. As reported in Wine bug #12560 textures aren’t properly rendered and you needed to disable S3TC in the source and manually compile it.
This was fixed by commit 0591442469b8dfe28b05fb001d6b2338448d54aa(git sure uses weird commit names), which takes “Care for things like pitch and blocksize when [...]

Perfect World on Ubuntu 10 Comments

20:44 on 24 February 2009 by Sense Hofstede English Posts, Planet Ubuntu , ,

You may already know that I’m playing an MMORPG called Regnum Online, but I’ve also grown fond of the Asian game Perfect World. It is only available for Windows, and is listed as Garbage at Wine’s AppDB. There are indeed some glitches in the game and you’ll have to disable something in the code of [...]

Game series, part I: Regnum Online 7 Comments

14:58 on 18 January 2009 by Sense Hofstede English Posts, Planet Ubuntu ,

I often hear people complaining about Linux saying there aren’t any good games for the OS. Although I have to admit there are a lot more and a lot more good games written for Windows, I do think there are some good games for Linux. In this series I’m going to post about a few [...]