I bought a new computer for myself, and installed Kubuntu on it. I installed Steam on it, bought the orange box, tried to run TF2, and it didn't work. When I started it up, t showed the VALVE logo and played their little jingle, showed the Source logo, then the screen went blank and nothing happened :x . It opened it in the Konsole (Terminal) and it gave me this when the screen (on the desktop that I had TF2 on) went blank: wineserver crashed, please enable coredumps (ulimit -c unlimited) and restart. (There were a few error messages before that, something about GLshaders, but the above seemed to be the main thing.) So I looked online, and other people have been having the same problem. They were told to downgrade Wine to a more stable version. So I am posting this for 3 reasons: 1. To get extra confirmation on what I should do. 2. To see if the solution to the other cases is the same for this. 3. To find out how to put the solution into action (e.g. downgrade Wine) Please Help! [Exclamation] [Crying or Very sad]
I think I'm on Kubuntu Jaunty... :?
>I bought a new computer for myself, and installed Kubuntu on it. I installed Steam on it, bought the orange box, tried to run TF2, and it didn't work. When I started it up, t showed the VALVE logo and played their little jingle, showed the Source logo, then the screen went blank and nothing happened :x . It opened it in the Konsole (Terminal) and it gave me this when the screen (on the desktop that I had TF2 on) went blank: > >wineserver crashed, please enable coredumps (ulimit -c unlimited) and restart. > >(There were a few error messages before that, something about GLshaders, but the above seemed to be the main thing.) So I looked online, and other people have been having the same problem. They were told to downgrade Wine to a more stable version. So I am posting this for 3 reasons: >1. To get extra confirmation on what I should do. >2. To see if the solution to the other cases is the same for this. >3. To find out how to put the solution into action (e.g. downgrade Wine) > >Please Help! [Exclamation] [Crying or Very sad]Oh, there's a Ubuntu bug about this, too, with some information... I just looked and I can't find it now. Sorry.
i suppose you are running wine 1.1.23. that version had a regression that broke all steam games with source engine. just update to wine 1.1.24 and everything should be fine.
MooTM wrote:> > So you think I should UPGRADE from 1.1.23 Beta to 1.1.24 Beta which is going to still be a bit unstable, rather than downgrade to a stable version; 1.0.1? Thnx for the help, I will wait for more replies and see what the majority says before taking a decision (not saying that your advice is wrong). In the mean time, I don't suppose you could tell me how to update plz? (it's probably really simple, but I'm new to Linux). Thnx for the help all the sameWith synaptic package manager (I'm on debian, mother of [K]Ubuntu) you can force packages to install from other repositories than the one you originally installed from. You will probably have to add something like and "experimental" or "unstable" line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file (Synaptic offers this in Settings->Repositories, Third-party Software). Since I use Debian, your Kubuntu milage may vary, but if you have a search on ubuntuforums, I guess you will find how to write an apt line to get more experimental versions. Just for the record, in Debian experimental, wine-1.1.22 is available and not the newer betas listed above. Then you may need to compile from source. Nice practical exercise for a newbe :-) Tip: search for compiling debian package from source in your favourite search engine. -- Svenn
MooTM wrote:> I installed Steam on it, bought the orange box, tried to run TF2, and it didn't work. > wineserver crashed, please enable coredumps (ulimit -c unlimited) and restart.This problem is fixed in wine-1.1.24. However, Wine's performance in TF2 really sucks and not playable on the real servers. You can get it to some-what okish FPS with -dxlevel 81 TF2 command line option (set from Steam). But it still not stable and really laggy.
James McKenzie wrote:> MooTM wrote: > > > tparker wrote: > > > > > > > MooTM wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > If you know how, could you maybe tell me how to do this please? (I'm new to Linux, it's so complicated lol!) Thnx v. much again! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If I remember correctly you are using Ubuntu. If that is correct you can > > > go to this page: http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html > > > and download the package for your computer of the version you want, this > > > lists versions older than the current one in your repositories. Once you > > > have finished the download you should be able to install by double > > > clicking on the package. > > > > > > > > > > > > Which one do I download? 'i386' , 'amd64' or 'lpia' > > (I am on Ubuntu, Kubuntu to be precise.) > > > > > > > Depends on your processor: > > i386 is for 32 bit Intel processors or 64 bit processors > amd64 is for 64 bit AMD processors > I don't know about lpia but it sounds like Intel 64 bit processors. > > James McKenzieCorrection: -i386 is for 32 bit INTEL-COMPATIBLE processors, and also for 64 bit AMD-COMPATIBLE processors with a 32 bit operating system. -amd64 is for 64 bit AMD-COMPATIBLE processors (includes all Intel 64 bit processors, except Itanium) -lpia is for intel atom In general, if you have to ask, you probably need i386.
David Griffith wrote:> I'm not sure what you guys are stumbling over, but I just lauched Portal and it works fine except for some choppyness from a high load average.Portal and TF2 are two totally different games now. Yes they had the same engine to begin with, but that was long time ago. Valve added lots of extras to TF2, with each adding more problems to Wine. About a year ago I could run long demos with TF2 in offline mode. Now same demos play for 10-30 seconds and TF2 crashes.
>> David Griffith wrote: >> > I'm not sure what you guys are stumbling over, but I just lauched Portal and it works fine except for some choppyness from a high load average. >> Portal and TF2 are two totally different games now. Yes they had the same engine to begin with, but that was long time ago. >> Valve added lots of extras to TF2, with each adding more problems to Wine. About a year ago I could run long demos with TF2 in offline mode. Now same demos play for 10-30 seconds and TF2 crashes. > >Portal doesn't work either! I doubt that HL2, HL2:Ep. 1, or HL2:Ep. 2 work either (I have the Orange Box). Even though I haven't bothered installing them because my bro is going to reformat my computer because it's all messed up. For example (This isn't a wine problem) My Synaptic Package Mangager doesn't work! >When I click on Software Updates, it says: >Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) >When I type anything into Software Management it says either: >Package cache could not be opened >or >Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) > :( HELP! :( >(Thanks so much to everyone who has helped so far! You have all been awsome! :D )I just got here, and don't know what I'm talking about, but don't forget to undo the insidiousness of pulseaudio: sudo nano /etc/pulse/client.conf --then edit the following to: autospawn = no