Ubuntu and wine

**Leutnant** · May 26, 2009, 04:23 PM

So I'm using the latest version of Ubuntu (9.04) and have gotten Medieval 2 to work via Wine. My problem is that the the battles are very nice and playable, the campaign map lags

. I have searched on this forum and the two solutions I found- tweaking nvidia drivers via coolbits and turning off campaign shadows- don't really help me out.

Is there anything else I can do?

**irishron** · May 26, 2009, 07:23 PM

My campaign map lags acroos moutains and forests. My card is 256mb on normal settings and still does it. It's the 3d engine this game was built around and not optimized for the latest cards of its release and never will be now.

When I'm scrooling the campaign map, I just set my mouse pointer down in the ui area off the map and use the arrow keys. For me it seems to help.

**Leutnant** · May 27, 2009, 10:19 AM

When I was running windows xp, campaign map didn't lag that much. I can only assume that either the linux drivers for my nvidia 6600 are causing this or wine itself. hmmm.... any linux gamers in here?

**irishron** · May 27, 2009, 12:13 PM

The only games I have anymore are Windows and only a few of those. I haven't seen many Linux based advertized, to be honest.

**Leutnant** · May 27, 2009, 04:26 PM

I think it has to do something with the sound. I read on another forum about how muting the sound in-game can improve campaign map performance. I tried it and it sort of worked, but still, the lag makes the game unplayable.

**irishron** · May 27, 2009, 04:44 PM

There was someone else a couple of years ago trying to get this game to work with Linux through WINE and I think he fially gave up because of the technical conflicts between Windows, Linux, and the way this game is programmed. Also over the years many people have had problems with Linux video drivers.