Running Qwaq in Linux through Wine
Evert's notes on how to get Qwaq to work in Linux. If you don't know what Qwaq is or how it works, read up on it on their site. The information on this page is based on Rob Izzard's guide, which has some more information that you may find useful.Prerequisites
To be able to run Qwaq at all you need- Qwaq (obviously). You'll need to download the .msi installer from www.qwaq.com. You'll need to have a username and password.
- Wine, from http://www.winehq.org/. The more recent the better, which means you may need to compile your own binary. If you can't be bothered (it is a bit annoying and takes a long time) and there is no binary package for your system, try the Slackware .tgz file.
- A 3D video card with working OpenGL hardware acceleration (which means you probably need to have the proprietary drivers installed).
- A working soundcard. Well, this is actually optional, but it's a bit silly if you cannot hear what anyone else is saying. A microphone is also optional, since the text chat works fine in all cases.
Test system
The system I use to run Qwaq is a single core AMD 64 bit machine with an NVidia GeForce FX5200 video card and an old SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 soundcard. I've seen people bash the card (and its ALSA driver) in various places on the Internet, but for me it gives decent sound output, allows more than one sound channel and doesn't crash X11, which is my experience with other soundcards I've tried. Your mileage may vary, depending on your system.
I did not get Qwaq to run on a different machine with dual Intel Xeon processors, the same NVidia GeForce FX5200 video card and an unknown on-board sound system: qwaq crashes on startup with a "VM crash", whatever that means. The log suggests that it was trying to load some OpenGL extensions at the time. Weird.
Installing Qwaq
(TODO)Running Qwaq
(TODO)Setting up the microphone volume
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