America's Army

gilus · #1 8th November 2004, 11:51 AM

Hello, I'm thinking about moving to amd64. I'm reading a lot about it and it looks like there are still little problems with compability with I32 binaries. I'm Americas Army player - and one important thing to me is - would it be possible for me to run this game on my linux box? Probably I would buy MOBO with nForce3 chipset + GeForce 5700
I'm asking becaeuse - I'm also thinking about switching to P4 (FSB800) for the same price as amd64 arch. Is 64bit worth buying it now - or stay with 32 and wait 1-2 years?
Thanks in advance! Best Regards, Michal

clavan · #2 8th November 2004, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by gilus

Hello, I'm thinking about moving to amd64. I'm reading a lot about it and it looks like there are still little problems with compability with I32 binaries. I'm Americas Army player - and one important thing to me is - would it be possible for me to run this game on my linux box? Probably I would buy MOBO with nForce3 chipset + GeForce 5700
I'm asking becaeuse - I'm also thinking about switching to P4 (FSB800) for the same price as amd64 arch. Is 64bit worth buying it now - or stay with 32 and wait 1-2 years?
Thanks in advance! Best Regards, Michal

I'm a America's Army game player to. I have downloaded the file armyops210-linux.bin and installed on my Fedora Core 2 box (the linux client version 2.1) . And played the game. I have write a installation procedure on my website. Hopefully you can use this to installation to play the game 2. I also have a instruction how to make 3D accelaration support on your FC 2 box. Maybe you can use this. Good luck.

My webiste is http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.b.harskamp
click on the link My Linux Story and you will find some "usefull" info

gilus · #3 8th November 2004, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by clavan

I'm a America's Army game player to. I have downloaded the file armyops210-linux.bin and installed on my Fedora Core 2 box (the linux client version 2.1) . And played the game. I have write a installation procedure on my website. Hopefully you can use this to installation to play the game 2. I also have a instruction how to make 3D accelaration support on your FC 2 box. Maybe you can use this. Good luck.

My webiste is http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.b.harskamp
click on the link My Linux Story and you will find some "usefull" info

Hello,

I have run it on my FC2, Gentoo, and Debian box-es - but I'm going to buy amd64 arch and I'm curious - will this game run smoothly on 64bit architecture? Game is compiled for 32 bit? How it will go on FC3 on amd64? What about backward compability with 32bit libraries? How FC3 will run that?

Best Regards,
Michal

clavan · #4 8th November 2004, 01:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gilus

Hello,

I have run it on my FC2, Gentoo, and Debian box-es - but I'm going to buy amd64 arch and I'm curious - will this game run smoothly on 64bit architecture? Game is compiled for 32 bit? How it will go on FC3 on amd64? What about backward compability with 32bit libraries? How FC3 will run that?

Best Regards,
Michal

I don't know, ...I think it won't, but do not know this for sure. I will look for it, if I found something I will let you know.
I have read the same problems with a 64 bit architecture with CounterStrike. Not fully supportted or so, so me and my friends still plays the 32bit version of counterstrike. So thats why I think you got the same problems with America's Army to.
But when I found something new I will let you know.
Regards
Clavan

drews_blunted · #5 23rd November 2004, 10:58 AM

i have counter-strike running with cedega and 64 bit nvidia drivers and 64 bit linux

LinuxNewb · #6 23rd November 2004, 03:45 PM

From what i heard, if you have a 64 bit linux the 32 bit AA shouldnt have a problem as long as you also have 64 bit gfx drivers

bryancole · #7 23rd November 2004, 04:20 PM

I've got a couple of amd64 systems. You can install and run a 32-bit OS (Fedora Core, Win32, Whatever) just like on a AthlonXP or P4 platform. You still get the benefit of a Damn Fine Processor and can run all the normal 32-bit software.

However, for the ultimate performance, you do need a 64-bit operating system (like FC3 on i86_64). In my area (scientific applications), the 64-bit versions give up to 20% more speed (for numerical calculations). I don't know how games-performance would compare.

You can also run 32-bit applications on a 64-bit OS, but you occasionally get library conflicts. Packages in FCore are normally OK, but 3rd party applications can sometimes give this problem. The issue is that 32-bit applications must link to 32-bit libraries. With both 64-bit and 32-bit libraries install, sometimes the linker gets confused... (ok, so this isn't a technically exact explanation, but the problem is real enough).

My solution is to dual-boot FC3 (i86_64) with FC3 (ix86) on the same machine. I run the 32-bit version most of the time (so all my applications work), but boot into 64-bit mode when I need a bit more Oomph for a calculation (but a few applications don't work, or are unstable on 64-bit).

drews_blunted · #8 23rd November 2004, 08:57 PM

is there a good website that deals with programs on amd 64? i have it installed right now and i havent been able to get any of my loki installers to work, only the ones on liflg.com have worked. Also has anyone gotten flash working in 64 bit linux yet? and if so how?