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Everquest under Vmware?
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 3:13 am
by Amadeus
Is it possible to "trick" EQ into running under Vmware running on a Linux box? (ie, virtual windows 98 ).
If you've never used vmware, this question will probably make no sense whatsoever
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 5:36 am
by gingertips
not 100% sure whether it just uses a "generic" graphics driver or not. if it does, then u will prolly be stuffed.
I doubt it would be even playable tho, due to EQs system requirements.
y do u want to do this - aIm assuming u want to run showeq on your linux box? Y not do it the other way round and have EQW running on a windows box with showeq running in a vmware... showeq will have much less hw requirements!
or...go and buy a cheap old pentium pc - that will be good enough to run showeq...should only cost couple of hundred bucks for PC, monitor etc... probably about same price as copy of VMware...
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 3:18 pm
by L124RD
Salutations,
I know that EQ doesn't run under WineX, WineX doesn't support all the Dx8 stuff it uses...
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 6:52 pm
by Amadeus
Uhmm...I actually use my linux machine for other things besides ShowEQ.
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 2:43 am
by gingertips
M8,
i can check for u today - will let u know results.
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 10:20 am
by cyberglitch
I will have to answer no to this.
VMWare does not use actualy drivers for anything. It uses generic drivers for everything and this can not be changed. Hell if I remeber correctly most the drivers aren't even drivers at all just weird VMware code that ties into your current systems drivers to be proccessed in VMWare (does that even make sense?)
As for now there is no way to get linux up and running under linux. Closest I or anyone else has been able to get it up to the patching of the system which it does fine. Only way I see this ever happening is when/if WineX/Transgaming ports it over to Linux.
Hmm...
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 11:09 pm
by Imperfect
Why not just run Linux under VMWare on a Windows box?
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 12:44 am
by Amadeus
You've missed the point of my original post.
I need to run EQ under Linux (ie, under vmware) because my second PC is a linux computer.
...hehe, amazing how the original question/point gets lost throughout a thread
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 4:39 am
by gingertips
It didnt work m8 - no 3d card capable of running EQ.
If you need to play EQ on 2 PCs, remove Linux from it, install Windows & if u really need to have Linux, then have a linux VM installed! I still dont understand why anyone would want Linux though - you cant run EQ on it...
There ya go - thread answered.
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 11:49 am
by L124RD
Salutations,
Just because the thread is finished doesn't mean we can't post...
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 12:48 pm
by cyberglitch
Or doesn't stop L124RD from posting and being last post on all forums.
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 12:51 pm
by Madman
or you could say why would anyone want to post on a closed thread.
:-รพ
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 1:47 pm
by gingertips
interesting...think we need some more research on this...we dont have enough polls - I think i will create one...
Anyway, now im the last poster in this thread & maybe if someone could give me admin status, i will close it...
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 5:32 pm
by Amadeus
Actually, the biggest problem is the people that only read the LAST post in a thread before responding.
This thread is a perfect example. If you start with the first posting (which I made) you'll see that almost every response reads as though the person responding only read the last posting
Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2002 2:28 pm
by Goge
the problem is not because i only read your first and last post, its because i didn't read every thing in between :)
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