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  1. #21
    Have none of you people ever heard of dual boot?

    If you're 'smart' enough to use a Linux based O/S you are 'smart' enough to open a second partition of your HDD for a clean copy of XP and AO.
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  2. #22
    You could always wrap the offending process in a true virtual machine app. Since VMware supports DX8 and DX9 you could use that as an alternative.
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  3. #23
    I've been testing for work arounds for mac on my brother's computer, I'll keep you guys updated with this; I've got a few ideas.
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  4. #24
    i didnt wanted to start a flame war. my point was that windows is target no. 1 for pc games development just by the fact that windows has the biggest numbers of installations and not because it is better (my personal experience) or hassle free (the thing about dvd's).
    also i didnt wanted to say that xmb is the gamer os or something. it was about the claim that "most games are targeted for windows platform". probably not true if one counts comparable recent games for these platforms. but, that proves my point: even if xmb is way less complicated there are still games for windows. because you pay for them. its not about how great or not a platform is, it about how much money is in it. so if we would all switch to *nix, funcom would too </dream>
    and its not just the multi boot (i do have one, mostly for ao, wine on my laptop). i payed about 150€ for my copy of windows (and i got a vista license with laptop - well, not going to use that). i can very well understand that people dont want to spend that or feed microsoft at all - only for an at best redundant os. besides that it needs a separate hdd, because windows is not compatible to gparted (raids) ;p
    and the dell-sheeple-argument - its highly ironic that these people want to tell others what to do. or try to tell me what is niche. the biggest european intranet is powered by solaris mostly - or was, back when i could log in to most of computers in that net via shiny new sun rays.

  5. #25
    I have dual-boot as well as a VM. AO worked perfectly in Wine, whereas its very slow and clunky in VM and rebooting just to get my AO fix is a pain. What I had was as good as running in native Windows. I think that's why its particularly frustrating.

    I think I'm going to start referring to myself as a "Winer". =P
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  6. #26
    FC prolly made more on day 1 of the store launching than all the Linux/MacOS babies annual subs so...
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  7. #27
    Just run dual-boot.... use what ya need as ya need it.
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  8. #28
    Or get a second PC, PCs are dirt cheap.
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  9. #29
    It would be a shame to lose the linux players. Linux players: geek up and work out a fix.
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  10. #30
    Oki, enough with the win/osx/*nix discussion ... to me it's all about choice i choose to run *nix on my PC, i choose to play AO on my comp for a long time but since it now turned into to much of a hassle (dualbot, extra comp ?, virtual whatever ...) i choose to find some other game to spend my time on (when and if one can again play AO on *nix i might consider coming back but that is an other question).

    For my part i started out in EVE on a 14 day trial and so far so good (yeah it runs under *nix no hassle just use wine). And if some one is going to start up a corp (=org) for us former AO players, do drop me a line ! Would be nice to not be alone and noob :=)

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    2006 - Was that an Alien? Holy Mothership...
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    2014 - I saw a player!

  11. #31
    Bottom line is: You're playing a game which was made for Windows. Doesn't matter what OS you prefer, since this one was definitely made for Windows. If you're able to play it on other OS'es, great! Good for you. But don't complain to FC for breaking the poor windows support in your favorite OS, especially not when it happens as a result of implementing new things to bring the game up to speed with the current decade.
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