TUTORIAL - How to play Path of Exile on LINUX

This could be worth looking into. The only reason I'm using Windows right now is PoE.

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draegonH wrote:

hey guys, i just dropped in to tell you, that need to disable compiz / composite rendering in ur linux distros to have best gaming perfomance.

you could also use a lightweight desktop like xubuntu or lubuntu provide and u will have good gaming performance.

It makes absolutely NO difference on modern computers while gaming.
For example, i have two Linux installations. Kubuntu 13.04 and Arch Linux, where only Arch is optimized for gaming with an absolute leightweigt installation, no Effects and so on...
And theres not a single fps difference in games like TF2, Serious Sam 3 or Benchmarking Tests like Heaven 4.0

Optimizing that stuff is only helpfull if you happen to have a 6-10 year old computer

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andybmcc wrote:

Instead of a WINE wrapper, why not just grab VirtualBox ( the one directly from the Oracle site ), and get a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate from digitalriver?

Thanks, thats a good idea and i will have a look into it ;)

This is my plight: When I open Path of Exile, at first, it is extremely laggy. This does not completely bother me, although. Next, if I'm in Windowed mode, I have click under the button I want to press to actually press it. Finally, when I enter the game, before I actually load into the world an error message pops up saying
"Unable to create texture. D3DERR_NOTAVALIABLE not available"
Then "Runtime error! Program: C:... The application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information"

If somebody could help me that would be great.
-Archaeyon




This is the error report(start of it):
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000020 in 32-bit code (0x01fb8cd6).
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b
EIP:01fb8cd6 ESP:0283e8fc EBP:4fef6c90 EFLAGS:00210283( R- -- I S - - -C)
EAX:00000000 EBX:4fef70f8 ECX:00000001 EDX:00000b25
ESI:3dc46c80 EDI:01e95dac
Stack dump:
0x0283e8fc: 01e95dac 01e95c70 4fef6c90 4fef70f8
0x0283e90c: 00000062 7bc354f1 7bc354f1 4fef70f8
0x0283e91c: 7bc3591f 00000002 7bc3591f 7bc354f1
0x0283e92c: 0240acc0 003c12b5 3dc46c80 00001103
0x0283e93c: 4fef70f8 0000ac44 0000ac44 01e953e0
0x0283e94c: 003c1d50 0000ac44 007a45d2 3dc46c80
Backtrace:
=>0 0x01fb8cd6 in wrap_oal (+0x8cd6) (0x4fef6c90)
1 0x00000001 (0x4fef6f98)
2 0x00a1b238 in client (+0x61b237) (0x00a1b228)
0x01fb8cd6: movl 0x20(%eax),%eax

you need to install directx into your wine enviroment. Go get winetricks, then run winetricks dlls. Also just a heads up, poe runs like shit in wine compared to windows. Also, depending on your distro, you might have to override some dlls. A lot of distros dont use a generic wine enviroment on install, which causes issues, to say the least.

thyreil, Linux still has major issues with sdl/opengl and compositing. To pretend it doesnt is pure nonsense. Its a huge topic on thier respective forums. If you want eyecandy, use compositing, if you want performance, dont.

I'm a Linux Mint 15 KDE user and got PoE running without problems so far, exept for some stuttering after login to character. It's not so difficult to setup the whole thing:

1. install wine & winetricks
2. start winetricks and install libs - "winetricks usp10 d3dx9_36 vcrun2010 riched20" (riched20 is optional) ( following this guide http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=25078&iTestingId=78043)
3. the "lazy" way i used: copy the in windows installed PoE Client (around 6,3GB) to your linux partition
4. double click the Client.exe

for me it fired up the game almost immediately: no "allocating space" whatsoever, the laucher popped up for like a second and started the game. starting blackscreen with the GGG logo above loaded like 30-60 seconds and i logged in with no problems.

i have to play some hours to say something about stability.

€dit: i still get some stuttering when a lot of action is going on, but except for that it works fine, way better than with playonlinux

Trying now, will update if it works.

EDIT: Got "Failed resetting Direct3D device objects" so I had to set the parameter borderless_windowed_fullscreen=true in production_Config.ini and it worked.

Why would you play on Linux when you play like the majority of the human populations on Mac or Windows machines.

Linux...lol, early 2000s want their OS back.

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Warmey wrote:

Why would you play on Linux when you play like the majority of the human populations on Mac or Windows machines.

Linux...lol, early 2000s want their OS back.

You do understand that the Linux kernel is by far the most powerful operating system ever created right?

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Ontologist wrote:

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Warmey wrote:

Why would you play on Linux when you play like the majority of the human populations on Mac or Windows machines.

Linux...lol, early 2000s want their OS back.

You do understand that the Linux kernel is by far the most powerful operating system ever created right?

AHMYGAD...

you do understand that Windows is the most used operating system in the planet. Checkmate

...but it was a valiant effort.