[Wine] Re: Wine with Ati 3d Card

[DaVince]

What video card exactly do you have? The first thing to check is this so that you can check on the ATI site if it will even work with their proprietary driver. Not all ATI cards actually work in Linux.


> The only way I can play the big games like 
> call of duty and medal of honor in linux is using wine 
> 
> I hate multiplayer games and I only play the ones with 
> a single player campaign..... 
> 
> Have not found any single player campaign for linux ...... 
> 
> So thats why I have to use wine 
> So I will just buy a new card ok. 

This is alright, but please do not rely on Wine working well for everything anyway. Wine is still very much in heavy development so plenty of games and software will simply not run (well) on it, even if your graphics drivers are installed properly.


> I have never had any problems 
> and lacking and stuttering and I can run 
> all new 3d windows ftp single player 
> campaign games I wanted to play 

Then you were lucky that the proper video drivers were already pre-installed for you in Windows. Ubuntu tries to be as open source as possible, so it uses the incomplete open source drivers by default, which just aren't great for gaming. The Additional Drivers manager SHOULD usually work well, it's a pity it doesn't in your case.


> I have not had any hardware problems running 
> games and aps in windows xp 

See the above. It also has to be said that the games and apps you're trying to run were obviously designed to be run in Windows. Wine tries its best to do something about that, but yeah, it's not something you can just rely on 100%.

Finally, here's something to try: open the Ubuntu Software Center, search for "ati", and try installing the ATI Binary X.Org driver from the list. It may be doing the same thing that the Additional Drivers manager would normally do for you, but who knows, maybe this way makes it work.