Point2Play-1.2.2
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Point2Play 1.2.2 Release Notes
May 11, 2004
Welcome to TransGaming Point2Play 1.2.2, which is the latest version of our official graphical frontend for Cedega.
Please refer to the Point2Play HowTo Guide, available in the Downloads section of the TransGaming website , and also from the help menu with Point2Play itself, for detailed usage instructions.
If you require assistance, please feel free to make a post to the Point2Play forum.
If you wish to have your post answered by a TransGaming staff member make a support request. (Make sure you are logged in and click on "Make a Support Request")
TransGaming depends on volunteers like you to make Point2Play available in a number of different languages. Please check out this link for details: http://www.transgaming.org/i18n
New in this release
- Fixed a bug for distros using SubFS where CDROMs were not detected properly. (One such distro affected is SuSE 9.1)
- When installing a game, user can now edit the WineX configuration that will be used during the install. Also, the program group to install to now defaults to the one selected.
- Add new "Debug" button, which makes generating traces from games much more convenient. You can choose to output to a file, to the console, or both. This is mainly for generating debug logs for TransGaming to help resolve support requests.
- The "All" program group is now selected by default on start up, so all your games are immediately available.
- User can now decrease the WineServer process priority, which may help the speed of some games. If your game is running slowly, try this option.
- User can disable or enable POSIX Threads (Pthreads) on a game to game basis
- User can now configure which sound card (specially, which DSP and Mixer device) to use for sound.
- Fix mounting of CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives whose device has multiple mount point entries in the system's fstab
- Improvements to the "Stop WineX" functionality to also terminate other possible hangabout WineX processes.
- Other incremental bug fixes.
How To Install Point2Play
Point2Play is available in a variety of pre-built binary packages designed to suit most Linux distributions.
First select the package that is right for you:
rpm - RedHat Package Management (RedHat Linux, Mandrake Linux, SuSE Linux, etc)
To install the Point2Play rpm package, open a console/terminal window and execute the following command as 'root':
# rpm -ivh Point2Play-[version].rpm
deb - Debian Package (Debian GNU/Linux, Corel/Xandros Linux, Lindows,etc)
To install the Point2Play deb package, open a console/terminal window and execute the following command as 'root':
# dpkg -i Point2Play_[version].deb
tgz - Tar GZipped Package (Slackware Linux, GenToo, etc.)
To install the Point2play tgz package, open a console/terminal window and execute the following commands as 'root':
# cd / # tar -xvzf Point2Play-[version].tgz
(The tgz was generated using the alien utility)
Known Issues
- Distributions such as SuSE 8.2 and Debian Unstable use a version of pthreads which only allows for a 2 megabyte per thread stack size. Most games do not require more than 2 megabytes per thread, however some games such as Metal of Honor: Allied Assault do require more than 2 megabytes and will not work. If you use any release of Cedega or a release of WineX more recent than 3.2 then you can play without pthreads and not face this limitation ; however, WineX versions 3.0 and 3.1 DO require pthreads and will suffer from the limitation described.
You can see if your distribution has this issue by running the "Test if POSIX Threads (pthreads) Are Required" test in the "System Tests" tab in Point2Play.
- Renaming a Program Group may affect game functionality as there is a slight chance that renaming a program group could affect the functionality of the games contained in it, especially regarding registry entries with UNIX paths rather than Windows paths.
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