The Dallemagnes → GamesZentiaLately I’ve been finding myself perusing the MMO Market. Maybe it’s just a listlessness because for the most part all MMO’s are starting to feel the same, just with a different lore behind it. I’m trying to be as patient as possible but the more information that is released about Guild Wars 2 the harder time I’m having being happy with my current MMO choices. I have been quite happily playing Lord of the Rings online. Just being in Middle Earth more than makes up for the games quirks. Since I already have one max level character I haven’t really been playing so much. Recently I read a review over at Massively about a little game that is both quite new to
LOTRO Going Free to play & pylotroWell Lord of the rings online is going free to play on the 10th of September. Some of us over at the Ubuntu forums were wondering if pylotro would be updated. So I email the developer and asked him and he has since posted over at the forums that he indeed plans on updating pylotro for the change. So good news for all you linux loving lotro players, including me!
LOTRO & DDO on Kubuntu 10.04I wanted to share how I have gotten both Lord of the Rings Online & Dungeons & Dragons Online Eberron Unlimited working on my Kubuntu 10.04 install My Methods will require you to either have a copy of windows running in virtualbox or a dualboot with a working LOTRO install.
I haven’t had any sound issues and my game seems to run fine. Of course I
NWN2 On UbuntuI’m running Neverwinter Nights 2 with wine on my new rig
I installed using the 7 Disk PC/CD version in order to get it working I had to use winetricks I installed the following with winetricks:
in order to update to the latest version I ran /home/angel/.wine/drive_c/windows/regedit.exe and changed the value of HKey_Local_Machine>Software>Obsidian>NWN2>Neverwinter>NWUpdate from 0 to 1 The only issue I had was that the game only recognized a resolution of 1024×768 so I had to edit /home/angel/Neverwinter Nights 2/nwn2.ini manually and put in my 1600×900 resolution. All this info I found at The Wine Appdb. I hope this information helps other people.
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