The Cranky Sysadmin

I’ve been playing Dragon Age Origins a lot recently. It’s a really fun single player game. I’m a bit put off by the game information which gets uploaded by default, but the settings are easy enough to change. For now, I am enjoying single player games more then MMO’s.
Why would anyone play single player games now?

Just a quick note. After a lot of puttering around destroying my current wine settings, I finally got Dragon Age running…. by following the instructions… The only thing I had to add was dotnet 2.0 so the module loader would work. I’m using wine 1.1.38 with the pulseaudio patches (pulseaudio is not needed). If you try to get Dragon Age running, I suggest using a different WINE_PREFIX as many settings are incompatible with other game settings.

This will be a short post about getting Wine and pulseaudio to work together on Ubuntu. Pulseaudio is a sound system which aims to consolidate all of the various sound interfaces into one generalized interface. I’ve never paid much attention to pulseaudio except to be annoyed when it doesn’t work and rip it out. Ubuntu 9.10 makes this harder since the ubuntu-desktop package depends on it.
Getting Wine to play nice with Pulseaudio

Perfect World runs without a hitch on my ubuntu laptop. It’s a free to play (with a cash shop) MMO with a base in chinese mythology. The game has a martial arts movie feel to it with unrealistically high jumps and crazy combat sequences. The realm servers all seem pretty active and the people seem friendly and helpful. If you’re interested in an MMO with an eastern feel, Perfect World may be worth a go.