Wayne, What I find particularly interesting is this page by Cedega: http://www.cedega.com/explore/cedega_ready/ Read the bottom part about video cards. If you're not familiar with Cedega, its a version of Wine geared specifically for gaming. Read their video card recommendations. -Tres On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:56 AM, waynefoutz <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > FatButtLarry wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > Yeah, I've blown it all up about 8 times now. Luckily, it's just been Wubi > installs, which takes me less than ten minutes to get back up and running. > Can't remember the last time I played quake 2, I just found it buried in my > desk drawer and knew it was an opengl game, so it would be about perfect to > test with. No, i haven't tried the dxlevel command yet, that will probably > be my next step, but I'm not too optimistic. From what I read, that command > will improve my frame rate, but what I have now needs a lot more help than > that. > > I just downloaded the Dell Ubuntu 9.04 reinstall ISO from Dell, It's > supposed to have all the ATI drivers installed out of the box. Going to try > that. I have a one year old Latitude D531, maybe that will give me better > results. If nothing else, I found an old Windows 2000 disk, I'll just dual > boot and use that for gaming, providing it will see my SATA drive. Or, I > could just put 9.10 on it and give up on that game, but it really is about > the only game I play. I'm just tired of looking at this boring Vista. Yech! > > > > > > -- - Tres.Finocchiaro@xxxxxxxxx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20091111/69374154/attachment.htm>
