I have a ASUS Eee PC 1215N netbook, from the Seashell series.
It has a Nvidia ION graphic processor.
I'm running 64bit Ubuntu Linux (11.10 Oneiric Ocelot) on it.
I've tried to install LOTRO on it following the HOWTO on
But the game fails to run with one of:
- Game Error [105], "Could not initialize Direct3D. Please ensure that
DirectX 9.0c [Dec 2005] or higher is installed." - Game Error [129], "Hardware texture compression support was not detected. This video card feature is required to run the game."
The PyLotro wine output contains eiter
err:wgl:has_opengl Failed to load libGL: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
err:wgl:has_opengl OpenGL support is disabled.err:d3d_caps:WineD3D_CreateFakeGLContext Can't find a suitable iPixelFormat.
err:d3d:InitAdapters Failed to get a gl context for default adapter
Direct3D9 is not available without OpenGL.
Or a repeating errors ending in
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libdlfaker.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'librrfaker.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":2".
Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":2".err:winediag:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Direct rendering is disabled, most likely your OpenGL drivers haven't been installed correctly
Best Answer
Running software using the ION processor will require extra software. Windows 7 Nvidia supplies Optimus. On linux there's a project called Bumblebee.
To recap the several sources on the web for 64bit Oneiric:
Install LOTRO roughly following the howto
This will have created a wine environment (sometime revered to as 'bottle') in .wine-lotro in your home directory and installed the game there, including some native windows dll's that the game needs.
To launch the game from wine you'll need the special launcher called PyLotro. Normally on Ubuntu you do
But there's no Oneiric version in the ppa yet. So just get the source version (not the 'Stand-alone Version' exe one).
To have it use the Nvidia processor, you install Bumblebee
And since wine is 32-bit, and 64-bit Oneiric uses multiarch, you install the 32-bit version of some libraries like this
without it you'll see those
LD_PRELOAD
errors.To have the pylotro launcher use
optirun
to runwine
, I made a tiny wrapper script like thisIn pylotro /Tools/Options, tick the Advanced Options and set
/home/{username}/bin/optiwine
as theWine Program
. And of course set the rightWINEPREFIX
et al.