Success!! The problem: ATI doesn't support my card with any of the newer running xorg. At my first post, one suggestion had me trying to downgrade my xserver. Well , screw it. I put a variant of Ubuntu 8.10, Linux Mint actually, and it automatically picked up on that I had an ATI driver and installed a driver for it. Next, I downloaded Wine. Installed Steam. Installed Half-life 2. Launched it. Looked beautiful, but ran sluggish. Then I launched it with the -dxlevel 80 command. It fired up, not looking quite as good, but much more playable. Things look a little washed out in the game when there is a lot of light, in the game, for instance, in the opening scene when G. Freeman step off the train and into the sunlight, the colors aren't all that great. But it runs!! And with all the compiz effects still turned on in my desktop. Turning them on or off pretty much has no effect. Bottom line, If you have one of these unsupported ATI cards, 8.10 in the Ubuntu family of distros is as about as high as you can go. Anything newer will cripple your card. Thanks for the help! FatButtLarry wrote: > Off topic, but wouldn't he be giving the money to a person, not Microsoft? > :) > > If you do stick with Wine, please post your success. > > -Tres > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:13 PM, waynefoutz <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > > > > lahmbi5678 wrote: > > > > > If you really need Windows, then get yourself a used XP license from > > > > > eBay. XP is smaller, faster, cheaper. Most games still run on XP, and that > > will probably be the case for the next few years. > > > > > > > > And give Microsoft more money? Not if I can help it. besides vlite to > > dissect Vista looks like it might be kind of fun. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > - Tres.Finocchiaro@xxxxxxxxx > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20091112/aa281276/attachment.htm>
