Ever since the RCs and the release of 1.2, I have been having trouble with
directx based games not working properly. They did work under wine-1.1.3x. The
problems are: video very slow and jerky, about 1 fps, objects appearing as
"tears" on the screen, missing some textures, and screen going blank
during certain effects.
System: 64-bit kubuntu-10.04, dual NVIDIA 9800GT w/ 512 mb, plenty of disk space
(hundred gb free), 8mb ram.
In the older versions of wine, I was able to tweak video settings in the
registry, and get the games working. Using winetricks to do those same tweaks, I
cannot fix the problems.
Specifically,
"The Witcher" - slow video, rendering problems as described above.
"Wolfenstein" - Very slow video.
"Return to Castle Wolfenstein" - won't start or run at all,
won't reinstall.
"Singularity" - Very slow video (~1 fps).
These games are all installed in their own .wine-gamename directories.
Winetricks is started with "env
WINEPREFIX=/home/myusername/.wine-gamename", and winetricks reports making
changes in the proper .wine-gamename directory, so that seems to be working.
Because this is going on with all the dx games I use, I suspect a configuration
or other more general problem, rather than a problem specific to one game, hence
my posting it here.
Note that 3D linux games (Nexuiz, Sauerbraten, others) work fine. I have tried
both gnome and kde desktops, both with and without video effects enabled.