Hey all
So might be having to get a new hard drive (very very low speeds on mine atm)
Unfortunately looks like my XP cd's were in one of the missing boxes when I moved (figures)
Anyway, not really looking to spend big $$$$ on buying anotehr copy of XP, and I've heard that vista won't let me watch a bunch of the movies/TV I've downloaded
so I was thinking of trying Linux.
Only questions are
1)- Does Linux work for people who have no idea about computers, or is it more of a OS for people who know their stuff
2) Can I play Op with Linux?
3) How hard is it to install as the OS?
Cool... Thanks Bonk!
<ponders if Bonk noticed the "for dummies" >
<still has no idea what Bonk's talking about but assumes it's important :P >Oh this is important and great news alright :D
Online. This is pretty cool.
I have no sound issues in my install, my spec:
Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring (2007.1)
wine 0.9.46
Running on my acer laptop with Realtek AC'97.
Prodedure:
1)Install wine.
2)Install SFCOP, just cd to your cdrom drive and run
wine Setup.exe
3)Install Patch. Note that the patch will not run. So you have to run it manually, cd to your SFCOP folder, and run
wine Patch.exe PATCHSFCOP-2500-2552.RTP
4)Run
wine SFCOPSetupMFC.exe
and choose software mode, 800x600. Directdraw HAL is SLOW, don't use it.
5)Done! Run
wine SFCOP.exe
and enjoy.:)
I don't use any dll override. Audio tab in winecfg is set to alsa, 44100 sampling rate, 16bit. I also have ARTS enabled in KDE control center.
That's good to hear. :thumbsup: What is the processor in the laptop, and how much RAM?CPU: Intel Pentium-M "Dothan" 1.5Ghz
Hey all
So might be having to get a new hard drive (very very low speeds on mine atm)
Unfortunately looks like my XP cd's were in one of the missing boxes when I moved (figures)
Anyway, not really looking to spend big $$$$ on buying anotehr copy of XP, and I've heard that vista won't let me watch a bunch of the movies/TV I've downloaded
No, no... don't just copy directories over. Install the latest wine.