Battlefield 1942 Graphics

that idiot over there · Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:34 pm

Hi, I'm trying to get the Battlefield 1942 demo to work. The game runs, and I can start a game. but all the graphics are messed up. The ground is black, weapons and vehicles are blue and missing parts. I installed DirectX 9 but it changed nothing. Any ideas?
Thanks!

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jeffz · Post by **jeffz** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:02 pm

that idiot over there wrote:Hi, I'm trying to get the Battlefield 1942 demo to work. The game runs, and I can start a game. but all the graphics are messed up. The ground is black, weapons and vehicles are blue and missing parts. I installed DirectX 9 but it changed nothing. Any ideas?
Thanks!

WIne ver: 1.1.17
Debian lenny
EEE PC 900
Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM

There is no need to install directx 9, this game does not use dx9.

The problem is likely to do with your video card and drivers, the game works perfectly with nvidia hardware.

Warren Dumortier · Post by **Warren Dumortier** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:39 am

I had the same problem, even with latest wine and nvidia drivers, now i am
on ubuntu jaunty with newer drivers, so i will test today...

2009/3/24 jeffz <[email protected]>

that idiot over there wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to get the Battlefield 1942 demo to work. The game runs,
and I can start a game. but all the graphics are messed up. The ground is
black, weapons and vehicles are blue and missing parts. I installed DirectX
9 but it changed nothing. Any ideas?
Thanks!

WIne ver: 1.1.17
Debian lenny
EEE PC 900
Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM
There is no need to install directx 9, this game does not use dx9.

The problem is likely to do with your video card and drivers, the game
works perfectly with nvidia hardware.

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jeffz · Post by **jeffz** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:19 am

Warren Dumortier wrote:I had the same problem, even with latest wine and nvidia drivers, now i am
on ubuntu jaunty with newer drivers, so i will test today...

Please don't post in HTML, use plain text. Are you sure you had a problem with Battlefield 1942? Not Battlefield 2 or newer?

that idiot over there · Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:43 am

Anything I can do? I doubt I can replace the graphics card on my tiny computer, so is there some driver I can use? I'm able to play most native linux games well, but wine must not like my card

sunoccard · Post by **sunoccard** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:31 am

try putting it in windowed mode then running it, it's fixed all my issues.

that idiot over there · Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:19 pm

Hmm... Battlefield doesn't have a windowed mode in the prefs. I tried a virtual desktop, but it didn't help. Is that what you meant or did I miss something?

Warren Dumortier · Post by **Warren Dumortier** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:43 pm

It works fine here with latest wine out of the box, i sue nvidia tough,
might be a intel related problem? Do you experience the same issue with
other games?

2009/3/26 that idiot over there <[email protected]>

Hmm... Battlefield doesn't have a windowed mode in the prefs. I tried a
virtual desktop, but it didn't help. Is that what you meant or did I miss
something?

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that idiot over there · Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:48 am

The game "Cube" (www.cubeengine.com/cube.php4) runs perfectly. Of course, it uses OpenGL and not DirectX... Does anyone know of a small download that can test DirectX? Thanks.

jeffz · Post by **jeffz** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:55 pm

that idiot over there wrote:The game "Cube" (www.cubeengine.com/cube.php4) runs perfectly. Of course, it uses OpenGL and not DirectX... Does anyone know of a small download that can test DirectX? Thanks.

Wine translates dx to OpenGL, it also includes tests if you download the source distribution.

that idiot over there · Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:55 pm

I tried running the game on a friend's Compaq Presario running Ubuntu. It had exactly the same result. The laptop has an ATI Radeon 2000 video card, using the open source drivers. Is there no hope?

jeffz · Post by **jeffz** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:26 pm

that idiot over there wrote:I tried running the game on a friend's Compaq Presario running Ubuntu. It had exactly the same result. The laptop has an ATI Radeon 2000 video card, using the open source drivers. Is there no hope?

If you don't use a proper OpenGL implementation then you will get bad results. nvidia is the only way to go unless you plan on trying to diagnose, report and possibly fix these bugs.