buaidhnobas (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} buaidhnobas) wrote,@ 2007-01-22 00:54:00 |
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Some tech based triumphs.
I got home earlier than expected from my date tonight. Date went well, don't get me wrong. We just kicked off at 3 instead of 6. So, I had some time to come home and muck around with tech.
I found the problem with World of Warcraft. After _MUCH_ reading, I discovered it has to do with Cedega's handling of "scheduling" with dual processors. When I switched some things around to let Xandros handle the scheduling and raising the priority of the wine core Cedega runs on, the game now runs as well as it ever did, and by that I mean it occasionally glitches, especially in cities, but no more than it did when I ran the game in Windows.
Next mission, now that I know for a FACT I can get a game to run well, is City of Heroes/Villans.
In a side note, I'm starting to realize that Xandros Linux (formerly Corel Linux) is a very different beast than other distros like Slackware or Fedora Core. Xandros has very... robust hardware detection. In fact, their autodetection schema probably already set the flags for you optimally. In short, the more you muck about the more likely things are going to get worse, as opposed to other distros where the odds of getting it right are slightly better. In other words it's HIGHLY good at being an operating system you run things on rather than being an operating system to tweak things on.
In other words it's perfect for my "normal" use, well worth the $53.99 I paid for it on Newegg, and is now my operating system of choice here at home.
I got home earlier than expected from my date tonight. Date went well, don't get me wrong. We just kicked off at 3 instead of 6. So, I had some time to come home and muck around with tech.
I found the problem with World of Warcraft. After _MUCH_ reading, I discovered it has to do with Cedega's handling of "scheduling" with dual processors. When I switched some things around to let Xandros handle the scheduling and raising the priority of the wine core Cedega runs on, the game now runs as well as it ever did, and by that I mean it occasionally glitches, especially in cities, but no more than it did when I ran the game in Windows.
Next mission, now that I know for a FACT I can get a game to run well, is City of Heroes/Villans.
In a side note, I'm starting to realize that Xandros Linux (formerly Corel Linux) is a very different beast than other distros like Slackware or Fedora Core. Xandros has very... robust hardware detection. In fact, their autodetection schema probably already set the flags for you optimally. In short, the more you muck about the more likely things are going to get worse, as opposed to other distros where the odds of getting it right are slightly better. In other words it's HIGHLY good at being an operating system you run things on rather than being an operating system to tweak things on.
In other words it's perfect for my "normal" use, well worth the $53.99 I paid for it on Newegg, and is now my operating system of choice here at home.
