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Ubuntu 8.10 Wine Assistance

post #1 of 6
12/31/08 at 5:51am
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After much frustration with Windows XP on my Hypersonic EX7 laptop, I've decided to move on to Ubuntu full time. I've installed wine and Call of Duty 4. Everything seemed to have gone to plan, except I get "video card or driver doesn't support alpha blending" upon initialization. Now I'm not all that Linux-Savvy. I've activated the latest nvidia driver (I have a go 7800 GTX) I've tried installing DirectX 9.0c manually to no avail. I've been searching on google, but none of the answers I've found seem to clarify anything.

I've also installed Steam, Team Fortress 2, and Xfire.

Steam and Xfire are running as promised in WineHQ's appDB. Team Fortress loads up until the menu. I'm left with a large cursor and a black screen.
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post #2 of 6
12/31/08 at 12:57pm
Sorry WINE tended to be one of those things that I would have tobe at the machine to work with, the best I can do is point you to here...

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...sion&iId=12804

But none of those patches seem to be for your precise problem, but I haven't looked to hard either, sorry.

You could also try a demo of Crossover Games and see if you have beetter luck there as they might match things a bit closer. Still uses Wine, but lets you set up custom bottles for specific games that require it(Plus the money for the full app goes to support further Wine Development since Codeweavers employs some of the lead Wine devs)

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post #3 of 6
12/31/08 at 7:42pm
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It looks like I just forgot to add some dx3d9 dll's. COD4 and Team Fortress 2 are running smoothly, albeit at low fps.
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post #4 of 6
2/3/09 at 3:53pm
some info i gleaned while trying to get tf2 running via wine...

the internets say to add -dxlevel 80 to the launch options (right click -> properties in the games list in steam). apparently you only need to do this once, and then remove it, otherwise it will reset your video settings every time you launch.

if you have a dual core processor, type "mat_queue_code 2" in the developer console. utilizes both cores (verified this with a cpu monitor). there's talk that this makes you more prone to crashes, but it hasn't hit me (or a friend running xp and this command) yet.

make sure hdr is off.

i've got it running reasonably well. it's at a level where it's at least playable on 12v12 servers, though still just a wee bit sluggish and very slightly stutters every few seconds. i'm gonna mess with it for a week or so in an attempt to not have to dual boot just for tf2.

any tidbits that might help would be appreciated, and i'll put anything else i learn in here...
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post #5 of 6
2/4/09 at 1:46pm
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Originally Posted by chode messiah View Post
It looks like I just forgot to add some dx3d9 dll's. COD4 and Team Fortress 2 are running smoothly, albeit at low fps.
I find most games run about 10fps to 30fps slower in Linux than they do in Windows. This is primarily becuase WINE is doing emulation. This is the same reason games run slower in Windows Vista than they do in XP. Vista emulates a 32bit environment so unless the game is true 64bit, it will always run slower on Vista. Just not as slow as it does on Linux.
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post #6 of 6
2/4/09 at 2:08pm
It depends on the game. In particular games that natively use OpenGL tend to perform much better under WINE actually, in some cases better under Linux/WINE than under Windows.

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