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I was wondering what MMO's are currently out that support Linux Ubuntu. I just installed it, but I'm dual booting with Windows. I can get WINE on my Linux partion and set up my games that way, but the thing is I'm tired of doing work to get my games to work *cough* Vista *cough*. If I have to, I will get WINE and make them work that way... but are any out there compatible with Linux straight out of the box?
(Not talking about browser-based)
Hmm... With a bit of searching I've come up with a list of games that should work with Linux. Adding the games you guys came up with, it is a pretty hefty list. Maybe this should be a sticky?
32-bit: AstroMenace
64-bit: Advanced Strategic Command |
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2/06/08 3:13:12 PM#2
I know of Eve, Wurm online and Tale in the desert. |
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2/06/08 4:29:28 PM#3
I don't know much about Linux, but I did see this posted on LOTRO forums. If it works with Ubuntu or not I don't know. But seems you can play LOTRO and DDO from linux using this. Hope that helps some!
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frkhot97
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2/06/08 4:47:06 PM#4
Add Dofus and Vendetta Online to the list |
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frkhot97
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2/07/08 8:24:04 AM#5
Yeah, it's a long list. But I think only about 1/5 of the games are MMOs or even multiplayer. |
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2/11/08 11:02:11 PM#6
I don't use Linux for gaming anymore, I just got tired of having to work at it or putting up with glitches and inconsistencies. However, WoW worked wonderfully with Cedega and I think WINE runs it perfectly now also. Guild Wars worked like a champ in Cedega, no idea how WINE handles it. Both of those (especially WoW for obvious reasons) had a lot of effort put into supporting them so I never had to do anything to get them to run other than setup a desktop icon. America's Army (FPS not MMO) used to have a native Linux client but I think development on that was scrapped a year or more ago? I'm hoping (perhaps hoping against hope) that Masthead, being a European company where Linux is possibly a larger market, will take CCP's lead and provide native Linux and Mac clients for Earthrise, like CCP has for EVE... |
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2/13/08 9:57:11 AM#7
Linux is fun, but too much of a pain to use on a regular basis. It's good to see if getting some gaming love. Certainly a bigger list than I would have expected member of imminst.org |
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3/19/08 5:35:08 AM#8
Hopefully as more games are written to support Macs they will be easier to port over to Linux (since they are both Unix flavors). However, I doubt that anyone will want to officially produce a Linux version of anything major just because it would be a pain in the neck to support all of the different Linuxes out there and there is very little commercial demand at the moment. When I was considering switching operating systems fulltime a few years ago, my biggest problem with Linux was weak driver support for the latest/greatest devices (there wasn't a free driver for any Audigy sound card for a long time, for example). But I use Linux to get work done as a coder all of the time. And, as it turns out, it's the only way I can VPN into my job because Cisco still hadn't written something that works with Vista-64 the last time I checked...
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3/31/08 11:47:16 PM#9
LotRO will run under Ubuntu.
Einherjar_LC says: WTB the true successor to UO or Asheron's Call pst! |
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frkhot97
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4/01/08 3:02:56 AM#10
Same thing with Tabula Rasa. Installing and patching doesn't work, but the game runs fine with Wine. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=11093 |
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4/27/08 8:34:43 PM#11
Hmm if u dual booting why u need to to run games true Ubuntu with Wine Emulator so much pain etc while u can boot xp and run them all :) www.ezuploads.net |
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5/15/08 4:11:14 PM#12
<blockquote><i>Originally posted by Fennris</i> Actually, |
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5/16/08 2:18:16 PM#13
You can add Second Life too, running without problem on Ubuntu, however I am using an alternate client, not the official one (that is crashing too much). RPG news - http://rpgland.extra.hu/news.php |
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5/22/08 8:21:55 AM#14
pretty sure runescape works
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5/22/08 8:23:23 AM#15
age of armour works as well as guild wars and wow |
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5/22/08 8:25:08 AM#16
Why is there a poll on what games linux can run? It's just some software as Photoshop and such it can't run.
There is lots of programs and tweaks to make you run basically any game you desire on Linux. The speed of the mole and the power of steel is my weapon |
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6/10/08 4:39:55 PM#17
I have just switched to Linux. I miss Civ4, and FreeCiv is hardly the same :P But... Vista... well pushed me over the edge. I'm glad to see there are a few good ones out there. I thought the main problem was DirectX? OpenGL does not have the same support. On the plus side I play less games... but if EVE is supported ... that might change :P If your including FreeCiv than Transport Tycoon Deluxe takes upto 12 players i think.
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6/14/08 5:44:49 AM#18
Im also using linux for gamming, but of course have dual boot xp, just to find out if the game is good before use all the time to installing it on linux, I have used both ubuntu and debian, and it works.... played most of the time wow, and with wine works it nicely... the good thing about linux is that there is alwayes a forum who is willing to help u out... and if more people is playing games on linux, then the gamming industry must see that linux is a gamming platform too
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7/26/08 8:42:10 AM#19
I've just updated my PC to Opensuse 11.0 (an excellent OS) and with Virtualbox from http://www.virtualbox.org I'm running Windows XP for any of those games I can't be without but are troublesome on Linux. I've installed and am currently updating Lotro through the virtualbox/XP setup and it seems to be going well. I'll report back if I get any problems but for all intents and purposes I'm running the game on an XP machine, so it should just work. For those purist out there who balk at the idea of running Windows in any form, you are unfortunately left with the likes of Wine from http://www.winehq.org, Cedega from http://www.transgaming.com or Crossover from http://www.codeweavers.com/products. Forgive me if I missed any. These solutions try to run the games without the need for a (true) windows instalation at all, while Virtualbox needs a fully licenced version of windows to be installed onto a virtaul PC. After that, it runs within Linux and at the very least removes the necessity to dual boot. Oh... and it's free! I hope that helps a little. EDIT: Something I forgot to mention in the first instance is that you have to make sure that your graphics and sound systems are set up correctly before installing games into your virtual XP, otherwise they won't find the resources they're looking for. I found a lot of help here... http://forums.virtualbox.org Now I'm going back to getting beaten up by Wargs.
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Cereberus
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9/09/08 8:52:43 PM#20
linux is great for everything apart from gaming and dont blame linux for that blame the devs who dont make the source for the game available too linux users |
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