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

[A. Tres Finocchiaro]

Thanks for the feedback, it will help others for sure.

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:01 AM, waynefoutz <wineforum-user at winehq.org>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 at winehq.org
> >wrote:
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> > >
> > > 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.
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> > - Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com
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