--- Guillaume Vachon <gvachon@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I had the same probleme. I had to run it in a > windows mode to get it > started the first time. Then, you can put it back to > full screen and you > wont get that error anymore. > I hope this will help you > > -- > Guillaume Vachon > Administrateur Système > Techno Centre Logiciels Libres, http://www.tc2l.ca/ > Téléphone : (418) 681-2929 poste 123 Ok, I'm willing to give that a try, but the only way I know to switch GW to a windowed mode is from the ingame settings, which I can't get to. Or are you reffering to running Wine in a windowed mode, which I also would not know how to do? Thanks for the suggestion! > > > > Eatherington Philip a écrit : > > Hello all, > > > > I gave this a stab a few months ago but gave up > and > > just set up a dual boot. I'm running low on disk > > space now and tired of messing with the muliple > > partitions, so I'm giving it another go to get > Guild > > Wars running in Linux. > > > > > > I'm runing Wine 0.9.3 on Kubuntu 6.06 (Dapper > Drake). > > I'm able to go through the instillation without > issue, > > but when it actually tries to launch the game, I > get > > the error message form Guild Wars: > > > > "Unable to initialize 3D output. Please verify > that > > you have installed DirectX8 and an updated video > > driver. Click the URL below to open a web page > with > > more information. > > > > > http://www.guildwars.com/support/en-3dinitializationerror.php"; > > > > I'm running the command /pathtoGuildWars/wine > Gw.exe > > -dx8 -noshaders as I found this at the Wine HQ app > db. > > I've tried searching the archive and the web but > > don't seem to be able to find anyting on this > > particular issue - I'm ready to accept that once I > get > > past this, there will be other issues that may not > be > > solvable right now, but it seems weird that nobody > > else has had this error enough to even find three > > relevant hits. > > > > When I run it from the command line, the shell > fills > > up with more information than the screen can hold > - > > almost all of it I can see is items saying things > like > > the following: > > > > fixme:dxdiag:IDxDiagContainerImpl_AddProp > (0x1aa160, > > L"szClsidFilter", 0x34f2e4) > > fixme:dxdiag:IDxDiagContainerImpl_AddProp > (0x1aa160, > > L"szName", 0x34f2d4) > > fixme:dxdiag:IDxDiagContainerImpl_AddProp > (0x1aa160, > > L"dwMerit", 0x34f2d4) > > fixme:dxdiag:IDxDiagContainerImpl_AddProp > (0x1aa160, > > L"dwInputs", 0x34f2d4) > > fixme:dxdiag:IDxDiagContainerImpl_AddProp > (0x1aa160, > > L"dwOutputs", 0x34f2d4) > > > > So I'm guessing it is my DirectX somehow. I have > also > > tried it without the -dx8 flag. > > > > Any insight is appreciated! > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > The fish are biting. > > Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search > Marketing. > > > http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wine-users mailing list > > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on www.Answers.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
