Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge of neverwinter nights fails

[Chuck Milam <chuck@milams.net>]

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Peter Humphrey wrote:

> Yes; a perusal of the nwn Web site shows that you have to have bought a
> copy of the Windows program, or else you must buy a licence for it which
> I assume will cost the same. Guess who's lost interest suddenly  :-(

I'm excited to learn there is an ebuild for it and that some have
success in getting it to run under gentoo-amd64.  I'm going to try it
out later this week.  I've been booting into Windows for little NWN
breaks from the Perl scripting grind, it'll be nice to be able to stay
in Linux.

Obviously, I purchased the Windows version, I consider it $40 well
spent.  I do regret the Bioware/Atari/WoC/whoever/etc requires you to
purchase/have a Windows installation in order to run it from Linux.  I
am glad however, that they kept to their word and did release (the
original game) for Windows, MacOS, and Linux.  That alone led me to
purchase the game and register on their site as a Linux user.  I suspect
that NWN2 (in development by a different outfit) will not be
multi-platform, but alas, such is the state of the gaming market.

Those of you running NWN on gentoo-amd64:  I've got an eMachines M6809
that I run NWN on (Windows).  I suspect I'll have to get the ATI drivers
working in Linux in order to have any hope of getting the game to run
smoothly, yes?  How painful is it to get the ATI drivers installed and
working on the eMachines M68xx series of laptops?

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Chuck Milam
chuck@milams.net
http://chuck.milams.net

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