Talk:City of Heroes on Linux

Yes, I'm running it

That's right, I shed off my obligation to "the man" and swallowed the red pill this past weekend. I've posted in the forums about it. Hopefully, support for the game will improve over time, though it really does run very well now. Comments? Questions? Complaints? Post 'em here or in the forums! --TonyV 08:12, 25 September 2006 (PDT)

This article has a deep flaw; City of Heroes doesn't run on Wine, and Cedega is not a configuration tool for Wine; it's a suite of programs that includes a Wine fork called "Winex". It does support CoH though. If nobody objects, I'm going to take some time later to clarify this article. I'll try to preserve what I can of the hard work that was already done here. --Syberghost 09:04, 6 August 2007 (EDT)

Objection overruled. You may edit at your leisure. --Konoko 09:16, 6 August 2007 (EDT)

Linux and City of Heroes was my main poison for a long time untill i upgraded to Hasty Herron and nerfed my system. Some points:

1. Graphics is harder to tweek under Linux than Windows. Mainly due to driver problems with ATI and Nvidia (due to their nature of being closed source, they generally clash with the GPL and therefore left off many Pro-GPL distrutions. This may change in the future, people will need to research their graphic cards for combatability to the GPL or support in the main flavours of Linux.

2. The way that Cedega grabs the screen makes it hard to swap between apps, as you can do in Windows. However, Ventrillo works under Wine/Cedega, and there is a native TeamSpeak client under Linux. You just need to start them before you start CoX.

3. Be carefull with upgrades. Since video drivers is one of those red button issues in the linux world, sometimes what works in a previous releases may break in current versions. Be prepared to have to wipe and reinstall numerous times (Hasty Herron Ubuntu beta nerfed my system, however, it is beta, so i was prepared for the carnage....hopefully the fix will be in the propper release.

Voradams 07:52, 9 April 2008 (UTC)