CGTalk - messiah and Wine?

Rhs_CG

08-05-2006, 11:58 PM

Well, as the title says, I was wondering if anyone has used Messiah with Wine? I saw the earlier thread where a guy was able to get it to work using another program, similar concept. I ask about wine, because that would effect not only Mac OS X, but Linux as well. So, has anyone tried it?

ThomasHelzle

08-06-2006, 02:56 PM

I tried it, but couldn't install the dongle driver.
Then I tried the demo, where no dongle is needed, but messiah didn't start fully - I guess because of OpenGL problems.
I don't understand Wine or Linux well enough to be able to understand what the problem is.
There were plenty of problems reported in the wine-console though.

On the same note: I wasn't able to get XSI running too - although there even is a Linux version of it. But is seems you need very specific specs.

My test was on Ubuntu 6.06 with Nvidia drivers (which weren't working correctly here though - I need to re-install them after each reboot - otherwise X doesn't start WTF :shrug: ).

If anyone can get it to run, I would be interested too.
Windows is getting closer to be annoying enough to abandon it.
But Linux is still too weird for me I fear.

Cheers,

Wegg

08-07-2006, 03:53 AM

I tried a little while back as well. No luck. AlexK is having fun using it on his Mac with a virtual machine. That same company makes a virtual machine for Linux as well. . .

Hmm..

http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/

Michael-Williamson

06-19-2007, 12:48 AM

Just tried running messiah demo using wine on UBUNTU FEISTY with the UBUNTU studio packages added later (running in low latency mode)

.... Worked a treat and was almost usable! (scrubs fine and responsive)

Play didn't update the screen, armatures seemed a bit flaky and popup windows haave no text, but very close to usable!

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/9333/messiahubuntuwinewd2.png (http://imageshack.us)

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