I recently updated my Ubunto from 11.04 to 11.10 and I can no longer play windows games via wine. However I can still launch and use Steam, but I cant play any of the games there, Steam shows the "preparing to launch..." message but the game never launches. Also with World of Warcraft the game launcher opens up, I can see the news and all, but when I push the play button the launcher closes and the game doesn't show up. I was wondering if anyone had a similar issue on using wine on ubunto after updating and if they found a work around it :P
On 10/18/2011 07:48 PM, madmaxfh wrote:> Also with World of Warcraft the game launcher opens up, I can see the news and all, but when I push the play button the launcher closes and the game doesn't show up.This happens very often with WoW. The work around for the issue is to run Wow.exe instead of launcher.exe. You will still need to start up the launcher occasionally for the program to patch when needed, after patching completes close the launcher and go back to using Wow.exe to play.
Thanks for the tip, Launching via wow.exe worked :) however I find it strange that I used to be able to play via launcher before :S And I still cant play on steam :(
madmaxfh wrote:> Thanks for the tip, Launching via wow.exe worked :) however I find it strange that I used to be able to play via launcher before :S > > And I still cant play on steam :(Oneric its a nightmare LOL the only people having good experience with Oneric are Microsoft workers hired to "update" Ubuntu. LOL http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?s=aaed806e050e38df3872bb17bd1fe7b1&f=103
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 08:05, JuanPabloCuervo <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> > madmaxfh wrote: >> Thanks for the tip, Launching via wow.exe worked :) however I find it strange that I used to be able to play via launcher before :S >> >> And I still cant play on steam :( > > > Oneric its a nightmare LOL > > the only people having good experience with Oneric > are Microsoft workers hired to "update" Ubuntu. LOL > > http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?s=aaed806e050e38df3872bb17bd1fe7b1&f=103Unity is a nightmare IMNSHO. You should probably try using XFCE or gnome-classic (by installing gnome-classic-fallback IIRC)
I tried gnome classic and it made everything worse, now I cant even play WoW using the wow.exe and the launcher doesn't launches. Steam still opens but cant play anything there.
Well I had nvidea driver 270 before update and after I got 280 so I'm guessing ubunto updated it automatically during the update.
I seem to have the same problem - I cant start a game different than Civ2. Really old games - Caesar3, Zeus crash. I run unity 2D, the driver was updated and the video is intel 8xx - famous for having stability issues. Any suggestions, I will try with Kubuntu now and report :) 11.04 worked for me
Same results with both Kubuntu and ubuntu - no of my games will run the way they used to...