Hello, I downloaded Wine 1.0.0 today for Ubuntu 8.04, but nothing seems to work like it should. I've tried to install several games, none of them works, and they all do one of the following: 1) It looks like it's loading like it should, but then the screen tears apart and I see a lot of blue lines which are about 5 millimeters thick on my screen. This makes it impossible to do anything. 2) The screen is split in halves. The left half then tries to show the full width of the screen, which fails, making everything unreadable. The other half of the screen is just black. As one of these symptoms always happens, I'm thinking that it's my Wine installation rather than the games causing these problems. I'd also like to add that I'm also new to Linux and Wine. I hope anyone can help me, any help is appreciated.
> I downloaded Wine 1.0.0 today for Ubuntu 8.04, but nothing seems to work like it should. I've tried to install several games, none of them works, and they all do one of the following: > 1) It looks like it's loading like it should, but then the screen tears apart and I see a lot of blue lines which are about 5 millimeters thick on my screen. This makes it impossible to do anything. > 2) The screen is split in halves. The left half then tries to show the full width of the screen, which fails, making everything unreadable. The other half of the screen is just black. > > As one of these symptoms always happens, I'm thinking that it's my Wine installation rather than the games causing these problems. >It is doubtful that it is your wine installation that is causing this. It could be your X setup though. You need to be more specific on what applications you tried for us to help. Also did you look for your applications in appdb.winehq.org? John
I tried Need for Speed High Stakes, which I looked up on the database. There were some instructions there, which I closely followed, but it still didn't work. The screen was split in halves when I tried to run it after the installation. It installed without any problems. This one had a Gold rating on the Database. I also tried The Settlers IV, which showed the blue lines before I even installed it. That game also had a Gold rating. Then I tried Rayman 3, which has a Platinum rating on the Database. Didn't work: blue lines across the screen after installation. I also tried The Settlers Heritage of Kings, Gold Rating, didn't work. No blue lines are half screen though, it just didn't do anything after I installed it.
You see...
There are 2 variants of Ati drivers
0) official proprietary - fglrx from www.ati.com
fast, but badly written
1) radeon from X.org
it's quality is better, but it is slower and supports less cards.
you should try it. radeon from x.org just replace "fglrx" with
"radeon" in your xorg.conf
Clemens Eisserer wrote:> > > > > > Hmmm. I do have an Nvidia card somewhere, but it's very old. Ah well, I'll see what it can do. Do you happen to know why ATI cards don't work? > > > > > Bad / Poor opengl drivers. > > > > Not true anymore, they rewrote their GL drivers for Linux some time > ago - and they are now basically the same as on windows. > Not best-in-class but definitivly not as bad as everybody mentions.Except they don't work in most cases, especially with Wine. See this as one example: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12929