Hi people.
So I got Steam running properly in WINE by reverting to version 177 of the nVidia driver. Now I have a new problem.
I have really shitty performance for Source games in WINE. (Haven't tried other games.) This means rainbow-y colors, glistening walls, at ~13 fps with all lowest graphics settings.
High quality native linux games run beautifully at all highest settings, including Penumbra and Prey and Quake 4.
I went into regedit and added HKCU>Software>Wine>Direct3D>VideoMemorySize = "896"
The games ran without improvement. Also, after a minute or so, the games started crashing. I can only assume this is some sort of running out of memory error. This would suggest that WINE is confused about my graphics cards. What do I need to do to configure WINE to use one (would both even be possible?) of my graphics cards? Card PCI Busid are 2:0:0 and 3:0.0
Also, I tried all this with Xinerama on/off, 3/2/1 monitors. I also added the registry key to disable XRANDR, but I think that was probably disabled from the start by default.
[EDIT] I dunno if this is important, but my WINE registry is missing a lot of the stuff listed in the UsefulRegistryKeys on the wiki, including the Direct3D key, which I added.
The only stuff I added to the registry is the stuff I have mentioned above. (Direct3D>VideoMemorySize and UseXRandR)
Wine with 2x nVidia GTX260 lame peformance ingame?
The 177.x driver branch has very poor performance (this is valid on windows aswell). Grab the 180.22 from http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us and disable Xinerama. Figuring out what the original problem is (what made you revert to 177) would be a good start.
As for the registry keys, if they are missing in your registry, their default value is used.
As for the registry keys, if they are missing in your registry, their default value is used.
The problem I had appeared to be the 180.22 driver. I posted a thread about it on this forum earlier.
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=3715
Short version: with the 180.22 driver, I couldn't open any new windows from Steam. This includes running and installing games from the "My Games" menu.
EDIT:
I installed 180.22 again using the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaManual (manually, no EnvyNG, etc) and now it works. Thx
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=3715
Short version: with the 180.22 driver, I couldn't open any new windows from Steam. This includes running and installing games from the "My Games" menu.
EDIT:
I installed 180.22 again using the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaManual (manually, no EnvyNG, etc) and now it works. Thx
