I mounted the City of Heroes CD (using the Mount button in Point2Play, very nice), and added the setup.exe to the choices in the menu. I ignored it temporarily and saw if I could get anything to work otherwise. I didn’t understand the error at first, but I was using a stock Debian kernel, so I didn’t know if there was a option it might have had set improperly. I run Point2Play, and it warns me on startup that I might have problems with pthreads because of something to do with my stack size being too small. For the record, the machine I am installing these packages on is a P4 2.66GHz, 512MB RAM, SoundBlaster Live, GeForceFX 5600 256MB dual monitor setup (1280x960x2monitors). I installed them via the command line (dpkg -i), and it seemed to go nice and quick, no dependency problems. I downloaded the Point2Play and Cedega packages, as well as the fontinstaller package.

To make a long story short (TOO LATE! - blatant Clue reference), I immediately subscribed and downloaded the. Then I saw the announcement of Cedega, and the support for City of Heroes. Unfortunately, City of Heroes only runs in Windows. Plus, I run a dual monitor setup, so it’d be nice if I could have CoH running on one monitor and a slew of other (Linux) apps on the other. I’m sure many of you Linux gamers out there feel my pain. It’s basically an impossibility to do anything long term (torrents, other downloads, maintain conversations via AIM, IRC, play music) if I want to play this (incredibly addicting) game. The XP install is a bare, firewalled install with a City of Heroes icon in the center of the desktop.

I have some games in Linux, but mostly first person shooters (thanks iD and Epic).

Nowadays, the -only- game installed on the XP partition is City of Heroes. It’s that whole “rebooting to play at home” part that I didn’t like, plus the waste of space that the XP install took up. I tend to play LAN-based games of BattleField 1942/Vietnam and the Rainbow Six variety, but since I am bringing my machine to someone’s house to play these, choosing “Windows” in GRUB is no big deal. I tried WineX (CVS) in the past, and had great success with Diablo II, but didn’t bother to try any ‘new’ games with it. Being a Nintendo (consoles) and Sierra (PC) kid, I’ve gravitated to consoles more lately, but the occasional PC game has kept my interest solidly enough to keep Windows around on a spare drive. One glaring issue I’ve had since my transition to Linux is video games.

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