Wayne,<br><br>What I find particularly interesting is this page by Cedega:<br><br><a href="http://www.cedega.com/explore/cedega_ready/">http://www.cedega.com/explore/cedega_ready/</a><br><br>Read the bottom part about video cards.<br>
<br>If you're not familiar with Cedega, its a version of Wine geared specifically for gaming. Read their video card recommendations.<br><br>-Tres<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:56 AM, waynefoutz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wineforum-user@winehq.org">wineforum-user@winehq.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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FatButtLarry wrote:<br>
> Wayne,<br>
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> I love your post for two reasons, first is you still play quake 2, and<br>
> second because you represent most people trying to move to linux: advanced<br>
> enough to troubleshoot but dangerous enough to blow it all up. :)<br>
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> I have half-life 2 installed on 9.04 and it works ok. It runs for about 5<br>
> minutes and then crashes. I haven't tried running it on 9.10 yet.<br>
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> The fact that opengl works illustrates your video card is set up properly.<br>
> I had to lower the directx level using the "dxlevel" command. I found that<br>
> suggested on many forums. Have you tried this yet?<br>
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> -Tres<br>
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> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:10 PM, waynefoutz <<a href="mailto:wineforum-user@winehq.org">wineforum-user@winehq.org</a>>wrote:<br>
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</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> > Sick of Vista, don't want to give MS another $200 for another bloated<br>
> > crappy OS. My old laptop had Ubuntu 8.04, but it was incapable of running<br>
> > Steam games, so I'm new to this Wine stuff. So here it goes, I've been away<br>
> > from linux for the last 2 years, but when 9.10 came out, I decided it was<br>
> > time to come back and give it another look. I have everything up and<br>
> > running, with the drivers that come out of the box with 9.10. Wine is<br>
> > installed, I have a bunch of older games, Quake 2 for example, and they run<br>
> > great. OpenGL seems to be working fine, and linux native openGL games run<br>
> > great. I can turn on and use all the desktop effects, but I have to turn<br>
> > them off to get Quake2 to run in WINE. When I do...NICE! But I install<br>
> > Steam, load up Half Life 2, it looks good through the splash screens and<br>
> > logos, but when the game loads, I can't read the menus, and there is a<br>
> > noticeable diagonal line through the middle of the screen, from top right to<br>
> > bottom left. The only difference I can think of is Half Life 2 is a directx<br>
> > game, not opengl. Anyhow, I can't get this stupid game to run.<br>
> ><br>
> > I've tried installing ATI drivers, but it breaks my install...by the way,<br>
> > where in the hell did xorg.conf go??? WTF? According to ATI, the last<br>
> > version of of Catalyst that supports my card is 9.2, which is incompatable<br>
> > with Ubuntu's new Xserver version. Tried downgrading that, then installing<br>
> > the 9.2 ATI, everything got hosed. Tried the older open source drivers, no<br>
> > 3d at all. I'm kind of at a loss here, not sure where the xorg.conf went.<br>
> ><br>
> > My level of expertise with linux is pretty much copying and pasting lines<br>
> > into the terminal, that was enough a couple years ago, when I was running<br>
> > 8.04, everything worked....<br>
> ><br>
> > Anyone have any suggestions? I just want to play Team fortress without<br>
> > having this 25 gigabyte monster called Vista on my system!<br>
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> - <a href="mailto:Tres.Finocchiaro@gmail.com">Tres.Finocchiaro@gmail.com</a><br>
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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.<br>
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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!<br>
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