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I'm using wine to run Steam based games like Counterstrike and Day of Defeat. This generally works well but from time to time the games radomly freeze(about every hour or so). To get further information I made an error.log(see below) and googled the error. I found quite some information but no way to solve the problem. Any ideas, assumptions...? ##Information on the system## Linux

Hey all, just upgraded to wine 1.2rc7 and am noticing an issue while playing cs1.6. I'll be playing in full screen mode when all of a sudden my regular xcursor will "pop-up" over my crosshair and intense lag starts up (FPS < ~5). It's almost as if something is competing with counterstrike for video output. Anyways, I've found that if I alt tab, then alt tab back, it fixes

Hello everyone. I seem to have a bit of a problem running some 3D accelerated games under wine, while using the open-source ATI Radeon driver. My graphics card is Radeon 9700, and the open-source drivers overall work much better than the proprietary fglrx. The fglrx driver allows me (in most cases) to run games like Temple of Elemental Evil (particularily) or Morrowind normally, but I can't

My games Heroes might and magic 5 tribes of the east and Civilization 4 are crashing on load in wine. They loaded before when I was using the Ubuntu drivers. Ever since I have changed to The ATI drivers have my Games stopped running. I have added the following to /etc/X11/xorg.conf Code: ection "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]" Driver "fglrx" Option

Hi, I am running Ubuntu 6.10 AMD64 in an Athlon64 3500+ with a ATI Radeon 9600XT with fglrx fully configured. I have installed wine using the i386 package and installing the ia32 libs. It runs alright, DIablo II works better than Windows. But I am having quite an issue with 3D Games. I tested Warcraft III and MOHAA Breakthrough. Both of them look very nice anti-aliased and smoother than in

I have a application in delphi 7, but i don?t printing, how do I can print in wine with application delphi ? Thanks

Well I'm able to get Steam running fine, however I've tried to play the following: Team Fortress 2 Left 4 Dead Counter-strike Source Portal When I try to launch Source based games the screen goes black and then it resizes the resolution to something like 1024x600. I am able to get the Left 4 Dead intro movie to play with this script: WINEPREFIX=~/.wine.steam wine

K I finally got HL to start correctly by not using my installed win98 as base. Now when I try to join a game in Counterstrike I get an "selected opengl mode not supported by your hardware" error from HL. This is only the case when I select the 3DfxMiniGL Driver (as I got a voodoo3). With Default opengl driver it works, but i get 4 fps. With Softwaremode I get 15fps but thats both

Hello all I am trying to make Mindstorm Lego's software work using Wine - but fail. What I get is some funny "Invalid ELF header" error trying to load fantom.dll. I suspect it is because it is accessing USB. Could I check it somehow? What is the level of USB support in wine? For anyone interested, Fantom SDK is available for download:

Hello. I'm running WoW 2.3.3, my wine version is wine-0.9.56. My PC: 512 ram, Athlon 300+ and ATI radeon 600x. Problem: 4pfs under Arch Linux and up to 12 under Ubuntu. Drivers: Fglrx (catalyst-8.3-1) Rendering: Yes Code: glxinfo |grep direct direct rendering: Yes fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: RADEON X600/X550 Series

I''m running Xen on a dual xeon system at the moment and somehow the results are a bit less than what i expected. I’ve started to do some monitoring on it to see how bad it is. you can see for yourself on: http://core.zokahn.com/cs-01/ I''ve installed Xen 2.0 using the howto in howtoforge: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_xen_setup_debian_ubuntu This virtual machine is running 2

wine version: 0.9.22 application : Steam (CS:S) I realize these are game related questions, but they directly relate to wine so I am hoping to find some answers here. INTRO: I am working on installing CS:S with wine vs 0.9.22. It's installed and I can connect to online games, but every time sound is played on the game, my fps drops to 10 fps (this is almost all the time). If I run to a

Hi! I installed wine in Kubuntu and afterwords i installed steaminstaller from my CSs CD! I could execute both steam and CSs very fast and without problems. I veryfied that my ATI drivers were properly installed, which they where. So no problems there :) ! Then I configured my video options in CSs (16:10 1680 x 1050) and started up the game, but then I got some strange problem with the screen.

Dear All, May I know can I change the windows version in wine without using the winecfg ? (as i can't enter winecfg) . Is there any command to do so? thanks for all your help!!

The latest version of Password Safe was compiled with a new version of Visual Studio: VC8.0. The program continues to install and run fine, but when it attempts to write it's configuration file at exit, Wine/Windows pops up a dialog window titled "Password Safe" with the text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Unable to use a XML reader

Hi all, I use an application named ride (from raisonance: C compiler) under linux (RHE3) through wine. I compile a lot of separated applications. the app wine_loader takes more and more memory. the application stops once the memory size taken by wine_loader is more than 100MB. I would appreciate any advice from you. Regards.

Hi, i trying to run wine within OS X (10.4.8) with XDarwin. Bad i have the following problem. I've been able to run some games/apps but the display is very sluggish und far away from smooth. With Crossover the display is very smooth. I think the cause of this is the way over X11. So i wanted to know if there is an Quartz Driver for wine?

Hi, I had posted the following issue a few days ago in Xen-users but I haven''t received any answer yet. So I decided to re-post it here in hope for some solution. Here''s the original post: Xen wiki states that using linux 3.0 and above as dom0 works with all graphics cards. I could install the fglrx graphics driver on my desktop machine with a discrete graphics card (Radeon

I there, I recently installed wine, and followed this document https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CounterStrike to install steam. After installing steam I logged into my account and installed Day of Defeat Source from my steam account. After downloading and installing when I click play I got this error in my command line: errle:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd (nil) errle:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd

I live in Bangladesh and have just installed Ubuntu dapper drake onto my shiny new desktop. The village where I live has no land lines or broad band so I connect to the internet through my old laptop using a GPRS mobile phone and Nokia PC suite run on Windows XP. I want to download wine onto my new computer so I can run PC suite and can continue accessing the internet via mobile but using