Furcadia

What works

All main chat functions work without lag: talking, walking, digos, portraits, commands, uploading, sound, music.

Other functions work as well: DS Editor, Patch Editor, Furre Editor, Config Utility, link buttons (i.e. digomarket, forums, news), screen shot function.

Dreamweaver always lags, although it works fine.  Live Edit also works but is even slower.

Downloader/Installer combination works.

What does not

Log button to access log files.  The logs themselves save and may be opened by an HTML viewer.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Proxy and third party software.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Decent Linux user base provides support on the Furcadia forums for any potential problems. Limited third party software for bots and proxies are available for native Linux. This is the latest version of Furcadia. Dragon's Eye Productions (DEP) integrates support for Wine. See program's README.

Dreamweaver lags because it cannot find the fonts it is looking for, and the font used by default is nearly unreadable.  This is resolved by installing winetricks and the corefonts package. Alternatively, you can install msttcorefonts.  Depending on your distribution, this package may be included in the default repositories or you may need to wget it from another source.

Ubuntu users, who have the package in default repositories, may use apt-get to install it:

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

RPM compatible distributions may use the following commands to retrieve and install msttcorefonts:

su

cd /tmp/
wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec
yum -y install rpm-build cabextract ttmkfdir

rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec
rpm -ivh /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm --nodeps

(Instructions taken from http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-fedora-10-p4  and tested using Fedora 10)