wine users - Jul 2008 - ATI Radeon 9600 was working once but not anymore....why ? :(

I have been using Mandriva 2008.0 regularly since last Jan so I'm not very
good. I have Tomb Raider Anniversary (TRA )and although i had to remove all the
graphic options everytime it loads i.e. vsync shadow reflection and water
effects, i could play it and i was happy.
After some time i had to stop because i had a problem with video codecs and i
had to install/remove a lot of things to get what i needed and by this time i
didn't use WINE at all. Now I want to play Warcraft 3 and it works a real
mess so i tried out TRA again and it didn't work anymore !!
I did a fresh installation on another partition but same thing is happening.
I know that once i messed with some gnome updates on KDE !?! I am really not
sure of what i did because It was my first time installing Linux to actually use
and i tried lots of things but messed up like it was, those days I could play
TRA and now no !
Is there a way that i could retrieve my older settings ?
Or could i find out what's wrong with it?
I ran TRA through terminal and this came up.
Please help me, my friends have started a tournament on WC3 and i'm the only
one who is not playing because only i use Linux.
Now i heard a lot of bad things from Wine users about ATI Radeon and i have to
disagree because everything used to work fine on Windows and even on my old
messed up Mandriva.
Thanks and regards,

[archimedes1981 at localhost cdrom]$ wine autorun.exe
[archimedes1981 at localhost cdrom]$ fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity
((nil),-1,(nil),(nil),0,3,(nil),0,(nil)) - stub!
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} not
registered
err:ole:create_server class {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} not
registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc}
could be created for context 0x17
err:wgl:X11DRV_wglGetProcAddress (wglMakeContextCurrentARB) - not found
err:wgl:X11DRV_wglGetProcAddress (wglGetCurrentReadDCARB) - not found
err:wgl:X11DRV_wglGetProcAddress (wglCreatePbufferARB) - not found
err:wgl:X11DRV_wglGetProcAddress (wglGetPbufferDCARB) - not found
err:wgl:X11DRV_wglGetProcAddress (wglReleasePbufferDCARB) - not found
err:wgl:X11DRV_wglGetProcAddress (wglDestroyPbufferARB) - not found
err:wgl:X11DRV_wglGetProcAddress (wglQueryPbufferARB) - not found
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0xe9efb4,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_CheckDeviceMultiSampleType Quality levels unsupported at
present
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 59 (SPI_SETSTICKYKEYS)
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_GetAvailableTextureMem (0x12aab8) : stub,
simulating 64MB for now, returning 64MB left
fixme:d3d:getDepthStencilBits Unsupported stencil format: WINED3DFMT_UNKNOWN
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_EvictManagedResources (0x12aab8) : stub
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_EvictManagedResources (0x12aab8) : stub
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_EvictManagedResources (0x12aab8) : stub
fixme:d3d:sampler
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
GL_INVALID_ENUM (0x500) from glActiveTextureARB @ state.c / 2183
fixme:d3d:sampler
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
GL_INVALID_ENUM (0x500) from glActiveTextureARB @ state.c / 2183
fixme:d3d:sampler
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
GL_INVALID_ENUM (0x500) from glActiveTextureARB @ state.c / 2183
fixme:d3d:sampler
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
GL_INVALID_ENUM (0x500) from glActiveTextureARB @ state.c / 2183
fixme:d3d:sampler
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
GL_INVALID_ENUM (0x500) from glActiveTextureARB @ state.c / 2183
fixme:d3d:sampler
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
GL_INVALID_ENUM (0x500) from glActiveTextureARB @ state.c / 2183
fixme:d3d:sampler
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
GL_INVALID_ENUM (0x500) from glActiveTextureARB @ state.c / 2183
fixme:d3d:sampler
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
GL_INVALID_ENUM (0x500) from glActiveTextureARB @ state.c / 2183

archimedes1981 wrote:
> I have been using Mandriva 2008.0 regularly since last Jan so I'm not
very good. I have Tomb Raider Anniversary (TRA )and although i had to remove all
the graphic options everytime it loads i.e. vsync shadow reflection and water
effects, i could play it and i was happy.
> After some time i had to stop because i had a problem with video codecs and
i had to install/remove a lot of things to get what i needed and by this time i
didn't use WINE at all. Now I want to play Warcraft 3 and it works a real
mess so i tried out TRA again and it didn't work anymore !!
> I did a fresh installation on another partition but same thing is
happening.
> I know that once i messed with some gnome updates on KDE !?! I am really
not sure of what i did because It was my first time installing Linux to actually
use and i tried lots of things but messed up like it was, those days I could
play TRA and now no !
> Is there a way that i could retrieve my older settings ?
> Or could i find out what's wrong with it?
> I ran TRA through terminal and this came up.
> Please help me, my friends have started a tournament on WC3 and i'm the
only one who is not playing because only i use Linux.
> Now i heard a lot of bad things from Wine users about ATI Radeon and i have
to disagree because everything used to work fine on Windows and even on my old
messed up Mandriva.
> Thanks and regards,

If you using 8.6 drivers - they are no good.
Wine since January had several improvements that ... of course doesn't work
with ATi because of poor quality drivers.

The only things you can do to get it back up and running:
1. Use old Wine version and forget about all new features
2. Get nVidia card and forget about ATi nightmares.