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

[A. Tres Finocchiaro]

Wayne,

What I find particularly interesting is this page by Cedega:

http://www.cedega.com/explore/cedega_ready/

Read the bottom part about video cards.

If you're not familiar with Cedega, its a version of Wine geared
specifically for gaming.  Read their video card recommendations.

-Tres

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:56 AM, waynefoutz <wineforum-user at winehq.org>wrote:

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