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MetalheadGautham
AFK
you are not a serious gamer but you chose nvidia8800 as user titlr but you use nvidia 8600gt.
bahut ajeeb admi hai re thu
MetalheadGautham
AFK
Its already installed. All you need are its codecs.
You might want to catch hold of the build-essential package, and compile its codecs yourself.
Or, you can take somebody's help and get an AptOnCD disc with GStreamer plugins(codecs), vlc, xine, mplayer, etc.
OP
nvidia
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How do i do that?
MetalheadGautham
AFK
sudo apt-get install build-essentialHow do i do that?
or just go here
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30367
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infra_red_dude
Wire muncher!
Before doing that just goto the terminal and type: sudo apt-get update
and then install the ubuntu-restricted extras. While that will install most of what you will need it is about 37mb download but then after installing that you may not need to install any codec/flash player etc. Do it if you can afford to download that much. Secondly there is is also a gui method to do this (synaptic etc.) but i'd suggest you use the terminal. You learn a lot that way
next, i'd suggest you skip the build-essentials and stuff. Give yourself more time in linux and then start compiling. atm, just download and enjoy
If you are low on bandwidht you can take help of cad-crazy for the offiline package insallation
ray|raven
Think Zen.
Please, compiling stuff and that too codecs is the last thing you wanna tell a newbie.
Dude nvidia, you gotta enable the restricted repositories.
Do this , goto
System > Administration > Software Sources
and enable the universe,restricted and multiverse repositories.
Now, trying to play a file through totem should ask to download codecs.
And will download them for you.
Or you could do it in a single shot,
Type this in the terminal.
After you enable the repositories.
Regards,
ray
MetalheadGautham
AFK
oh ok, go to software sources and ensure that universe and multiverse are selected.
infra_red_dude
Wire muncher!
Yes and as I said after this you need to "Reload" or use the command "sudo apt-get update" to get started
ray|raven
Think Zen.
Congrats
As for NFS MW, Not many people have been succesful in running it with Wine.
The percentage is a tad bit higher with Cedega -which is a commercial software forked from wine made to run only games.
You can try though.
Just one tip, run it - or any game for that matter,
from a linux partition, or at the most a fat32 one.
Running from ntfs just crashes games for me.
Regards,
ray
As for NFS MW, Not many people have been succesful in running it with Wine.
The percentage is a tad bit higher with Cedega -which is a commercial software forked from wine made to run only games.
You can try though.
Just one tip, run it - or any game for that matter,
from a linux partition, or at the most a fat32 one.
Running from ntfs just crashes games for me.
Regards,
ray
MetalheadGautham
AFK
@nvidia8800
forget installing non native games in linux, because all you will end up doing will be get the game running SLOWER than in windows, as the DirectX commands need to be translated to OpenGL to execute.
If you want to game in linux, get some good linux games. Doom3 will be a very good bet with your configuration. And Unreal Tournament 3 is another awssome game to try, but for it you need to add an extra gig of ram.
forget installing non native games in linux, because all you will end up doing will be get the game running SLOWER than in windows, as the DirectX commands need to be translated to OpenGL to execute.
If you want to game in linux, get some good linux games. Doom3 will be a very good bet with your configuration. And Unreal Tournament 3 is another awssome game to try, but for it you need to add an extra gig of ram.
ray|raven
Think Zen.
Not quite true,
I play AOE and Counter-Strike on wine and I dont see any slow down, compared to windows.
But then again , maybe newer games might.
Regards,
ray
kalpik
In Pursuit of "Happyness"
You can always have the LATEST Nvidia driver on Ubuntu using Envy
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