[Wine] Re: Newb here.Ubuntu 9.10, ATI Adeon x1270, trying to run Steam.

[waynefoutz]

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 at winehq.org>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!
> > 
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> -- 
> - Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com
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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!