Wayne, I love your post for two reasons, first is you still play quake 2, and second because you represent most people trying to move to linux: advanced enough to troubleshoot but dangerous enough to blow it all up. :) I have half-life 2 installed on 9.04 and it works ok. It runs for about 5 minutes and then crashes. I haven't tried running it on 9.10 yet. The fact that opengl works illustrates your video card is set up properly. I had to lower the directx level using the "dxlevel" command. I found that suggested on many forums. Have you tried this yet? -Tres On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:10 PM, waynefoutz <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Sick of Vista, don't want to give MS another $200 for another bloated > crappy OS. My old laptop had Ubuntu 8.04, but it was incapable of running > Steam games, so I'm new to this Wine stuff. So here it goes, I've been away > from linux for the last 2 years, but when 9.10 came out, I decided it was > time to come back and give it another look. I have everything up and > running, with the drivers that come out of the box with 9.10. Wine is > installed, I have a bunch of older games, Quake 2 for example, and they run > great. OpenGL seems to be working fine, and linux native openGL games run > great. I can turn on and use all the desktop effects, but I have to turn > them off to get Quake2 to run in WINE. When I do...NICE! But I install > Steam, load up Half Life 2, it looks good through the splash screens and > logos, but when the game loads, I can't read the menus, and there is a > noticeable diagonal line through the middle of the screen, from top right to > bottom left. The only difference I can think of is Half Life 2 is a directx > game, not opengl. Anyhow, I can't get this stupid game to run. > > I've tried installing ATI drivers, but it breaks my install...by the way, > where in the hell did xorg.conf go??? WTF? According to ATI, the last > version of of Catalyst that supports my card is 9.2, which is incompatable > with Ubuntu's new Xserver version. Tried downgrading that, then installing > the 9.2 ATI, everything got hosed. Tried the older open source drivers, no > 3d at all. I'm kind of at a loss here, not sure where the xorg.conf went. > > My level of expertise with linux is pretty much copying and pasting lines > into the terminal, that was enough a couple years ago, when I was running > 8.04, everything worked.... > > Anyone have any suggestions? I just want to play Team fortress without > having this 25 gigabyte monster called Vista on my system! > > > > > > -- - Tres.Finocchiaro@xxxxxxxxx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20091110/adad62e4/attachment.htm>
