Thanks for the feedback, it will help others for sure. On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:01 AM, waynefoutz <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > -- - Tres.Finocchiaro@xxxxxxxxx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20091114/a98c90b2/attachment.htm>
