Yeah, it'd be sweet if I can figure out a way for my buddy to run Eve. He said he'd switch to Arch if he could find a way to play this game on it :D -AT On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Fredrik Eriksson <fredrik.eriksson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> You can, with some hacking. However I have yet to successfully make >>> this work with a win 7 VM. For XP in virtualbox, the following should >>> work: >>> >>> 1) Set up the VM, ensuing the 3d accel checkbox is checked >>> 2) Install XP >>> 3) Install the virtualbox guest additions >>> 4) Install wined3d into in windows from here: >>> http://aybabtu.com/rmh/wined3d/ >>> >>> After that, you should have fully operational opengl and d3d >>> acceleration in your XP guest machine. I have used this successfully >>> with audiosurf, other games may or may not work depending on what >>> hardware checks they make and what parts of d3d they use. >>> >>> NOTE: you should disable mouse integration when playing games under >>> this. The integration features mess up the mouse controls rather >>> badly. >>> NOTE: When wined3d asks you which parts to install, do NOT check the >>> first one, for direct2d. Doing so will break your XP install. >>> Checking the directx 8, 9 and 10 boxes however are all safe, so far as >>> I can tell. >>> >>> >>> HTH >>> -Aren Olson >>> >>> >>> -- >>> "Whoever said sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain." >>> - K. Jackson >>> Ubuntu Linux - www.ubuntu.com >>> >> >> Huh, this is excellent information, thanks. Probably still slow and >> regular Wine bugginess, but maybe worth trying. I have a friend at >> work who's a serious Eve addict. He might find this very interesting >> also. >> >> Cheers :) >> > > I would actually recommend using Cedega if you're too run Eve: Online. > I've dualboxed the game running nvidia twinview and cedega and it worked > perfectly on my GT6800. > I guess it should work fine with Wine also. > > I never experienced any bugginess and it wasn't at all slow :) > > Best regards > Fredrik Eriksson > >
