wine users - Dec 2009 - Some display issues

Hello,

I just got wine for my computer and I gotta say that it is awesome :D

However, I am having a slight problem. I just put my copy of Encyclopedia
Britannica and Halo on it and they are both having issues. With halo I do not
see any visual effects, only a white background and black buttons on the main
menu (or vice versa, I can't remember which way it was). With Britannica my
screen keeps flickering. i have tried to fiddle with the settings and was not
able to fix this on my own. Does anybody have a solution? The configuration is
currently set at the default settings.

Thanks in advance,
Ben

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:27 AM, BenW <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just got wine for my computer and I gotta say that it is awesome :D
>
> However, I am having a slight problem. I just put my copy of Encyclopedia
Britannica and Halo on it and they are both having issues. With halo I do not
see any visual effects, only a white background and black buttons on the main
menu (or vice versa, I can't remember which way it was). With Britannica my
screen keeps flickering. i have tried to fiddle with the settings and was not
able to fix this on my own. Does anybody have a solution? The configuration is
currently set at the default settings.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ben
>
1. Upgrade to wine-1.1.34

2. Go to appdb.winehq.org and find your application and read what it
says about that.

3. Read the wine faq. Post terminal output.

4. And if you can replace whatever graphics card you have with a
nvidia card and use the latest nvidia binary driver.

go to the AppDB on winehq.org and look up the specific programs you want to run,
and see what experiences others have had, and what extra info they have listed
there that needs to be done to fix issues.