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XP drivers for NVidia GeForce 8400M GS
December 12th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in Offline, Tech
How to run Spore on Linux
November 15th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in How Tos, Offline, Tech
Spore on Linux
Before we install, we need to be sure your system can really handle this kind of graphics. You should have a decent graphics card, and you should have the drivers installed. If not, check out this post.
The first step to installing Spore on linux is to download Wine. Obviously Spore is not a windows program so you’re going to have to emulate windows which is what wine does. If you’re on Ubuntu just go to the terminal and type in the following commands in this order:
sudo apt-get install wine alsa-oss
On other operating systems you can do likewise using your various package managers.
Then, after Wine is done installing, then you can pop your Spore CD into your CD drive and then it should install (if you’ve already installed spore on the same computer but in windows and you’re in a dual boot, at this point you can just browse to the folder where you already installed it in windows and run SporeApp.exe since wine is installed with all the other required packages).
After installing, get the no-cd crack from gamecopyworld here, install that into the program folder, and you’re all set!
Tags: card, ea, emulation, graphics, linux, spore, ubuntu, video, wine
Nvidia and ATI drivers for Linux
November 15th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in How TosSome programs in Linux (including the ultra-cool Desktop Effects) need graphics accelleration, so they need to use your card to the full. You need to install your graphics drivers if you want to play 3d games.
Here’s how.
First open the terminal (Applications, Accessories, Terminal)
If you have a recent card type this and hit enter:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new
-or-
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
If you have an older card (only for TNT, TNT2, TNT Ultra, [old] GeForce, and GeForce2 chipsets):
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-legacy
For ATI, enter this in the terminal and hit enter:
sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
After your graphics card is all set up you’re set to have fun.
Play around with desktop effects by installing this package:
sudo aptitude install compizconfig-settings-manager
Then go to the System menu, click on Preferences, and then click on Advanced Desktop Effects Settings, and have fun!