> Hey all > > I have here two machines... > > Machine A) > AMD Athlon XP 2500+ CPU > Nvidia 6800GT GPU > 1GB DDR 400 RAM > Ubuntu 8.04-32bit OS > > Machine B) > Intel Q6600 CPU > ATI/AMD 3650 GPU > 2GB DDR2 800 RAM > Ubuntu 8.04-64bit OS > > > Machine A plays Civilization IV and Oblivion just fine, played for an hour > last night with no issues. > > Machine B gets to the part where it initializes the engine of the game and > after a brief glimpse of the intro video (if I'm lucky) it crashes to the > desktop. > > > The 6800GT from Machine A was installed in Machine B before I upgraded from > an E6300 with an AsRock board to the Q6600 on a Gigabyte board. The AsRock > board had support for both PCI-e and AGP, this Gigabyte board of course > does not, so there's no swapping the GPU's back where they were. (mobo is > now at work, CPU is now in server). > > > Anyway, point here is that with ATI using the latest drivers (8.5) and the > very latest version of Ubuntu, and the very latest version of Wine > (1.0-RC2), all DX games fail to load. Even more troublesome, they all fail > in the same manner, about 200 lines of err code output to the terminal. > > I have tried regressing the Wine version back to 0.9.54, and that works > *better* as in some very simple (FR-08) games will load, but they still > lack any graphics other than a blank screen. > Try an even older Wine version, like 0.9.40 Alexander N. Sørnes > > > For the record, yes, the ATI driver is installed correctly. glxinfo|grep > direct yeilds "Direct Rendering: Yes" or whatever, and fglrxinfo shows that > I do have the ATI driver installed, with the proper version and release > date. > > Furthermore, all native Linux 3D accelerated apps play flawlessly, getting > well over 100FPS in Nexuiz and the like. > > > And what's more, I'm not alone. I've been searching the web for over a > month now trying to find some sort of solution short of replacing the GPU > with an NVidia model, and what I've discovered is that there are many > others in my situation. > > The frustrating part is that the Community has failed to give an answer. If > you look at the forum posts where people post nearly the same exact lines > of error code, there is no response. The posts go un-answered on even large > forums like ubuntuforums.org for weeks. > > Even more frustrating is the "Blame Game". If you talk to Wine Dev's they > say it's the ATI driver. If you talk to most anyone other than the WINE > dev's they say it's WINE's fault. > > No one has come up with anything close to an explanation of where the fault > lies, or when something will be done about it. > > It's enough to really tick some one off. I have litterally spent over 8 > hours of my time researching this issue and trying to get it to work > myself. Every ATI driver release I get my hopes up again but for nothing. > > > > I would just like some kind of response. I'm sick and tired of people > saying things like "It's those ATI drivers" or my personal pet Peeve "you > should get Windows". > > > I'm not a noob at this either. I have taken a full semester course in Unix > using Linux, as well as using Linux full-time at home on Four PC's with > multiple distro's for over 2 years. > > > I'd just like some assurance that something will be done about this. > > Thanks, Dan.
