wine users - Jan 2010 - First real installation attempt- Warcraft III

I have ubuntu and have no idea what I'm doing. I just got Wine today and
apart from doing what the website told me to do about Debian-based ATI readers
or something in the Software Sources application, I just installed Wine from the
software center.

Warcraft III is the only windows application i have on a CD that i can find, so
I used that to test it. I installed it successfully and it appears under the
virtual program files folder, and looks like it should work. But whenever I
start it, the screen just goes blank. The disc stops spinning. The computer
stops making all its little working noises. Pretty much nothing happens.

Are there some graphics/video drivers I have to install or something?

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 22:38, StartedTheFire <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> I have ubuntu and have no idea what I'm doing. I just got Wine today
and apart from doing what the website told me to do about Debian-based ATI
readers or something in the Software Sources application, I just installed Wine
from the software center.
>
> Warcraft III is the only windows application i have on a CD that i can
find, so I used that to test it. I installed it successfully and it appears
under the virtual program files folder, and looks like it should work. But
whenever I start it, the screen just goes blank. The disc stops spinning. The
computer stops making all its little working noises. Pretty much nothing
happens.
>
> Are there some graphics/video drivers I have to install or something?
The CD is not needed with any recent patch.

Have you followed the howto on AppDB? (Set opengl mode and deleted the
movies?) http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=1177

Gert

Wow, that actually worked!

However, now it's running at about 1 frame per second. Literally.

I have a dell xps 430 and everything is standard. It has like 4 cpu's or
something.

Sorry but I didn't catch what was going on with this OpenGL stuff. Is it
something I have to download? Sorry I'm an idiot but what is it? I googled
it and I still don't know what to do with it.

I downloaded a new driver for the graphics card, though. Now there are a bunch
of annoying mac-like animations whenever I open/close/minimize something or move
things around or whatever. How do I make them go away?

StartedTheFire wrote:
> Sorry but I didn't catch what was going on with this OpenGL stuff. Is
it something I have to download? Sorry I'm an idiot but what is it? I
googled it and I still don't know what to do with it.
OpenGL = hardware acceleration, which in turn means the computer leaves
intensive graphical processing to the video card. Depending on your video card
and the availability of Linux drivers for it, you may or may not have full
(OpenGL) hardware acceleration available on your system.

First thing to check is Ubuntu's Hardware Drivers panel, it usually shows
some drivers you can install (if available) so you can enable hardware
acceleration properly.