No Video in Video Game

yedidyah · Post by **yedidyah** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:20 am

I am installing the original Stronghold Crusader when I install it using wine all seems to go well until I actually start the game then when the aspect ratio changes for the game there is no video but from what I can hear when I move my mouse everything else seems to be responding normally.

I thought it might be related to the nVidia drivers that were installed by the "hardware drivers manager" so I downloaded the current drivers from nVidia but have not installed them yet as I have to do it outside of X and I am not sure how to do that or if it is even necessary.

Is it a video card driver issue or something that can be adjusted in wine?

I am using Kubuntu Hardy Heron.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:43 pm

yedidyah wrote:I am installing the original Stronghold Crusader when I install it using wine all seems to go well until I actually start the game then when the aspect ratio changes for the game there is no video but from what I can hear when I move my mouse everything else seems to be responding normally.

Make sure you have required video mode available.
Run 'xrandr' and verify it lists all video modes your game needs.

yedidyah · Post by **yedidyah** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:35 pm

Thank you this is what was listed in xrandr

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 800 x 600, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected 800x600+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1024x768 50.0 51.0 52.0
832x624 53.0
800x600 54.0* 55.0 56.0 57.0
720x450 58.0
640x480 59.0 60.0 61.0 62.0
640x400 63.0
640x384 64.0
576x384 65.0
512x384 66.0 67.0 68.0
416x312 69.0
400x300 70.0 71.0 72.0 73.0
320x240 74.0 75.0 76.0

I am not sure how to test to see what the game requires.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:26 am

yedidyah wrote:I am not sure how to test to see what the game requires.

Most likely because 600x800 and above don't list 60Hz modes. This indicates you have not disable twinview in nvidia drivers.

yedidyah · Post by **yedidyah** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:02 pm

I went to
Kmenu > System settings > Monitor & Display > Administrator mode and under the size, orientation & positioning tab the "second screen" box is not checked.
but under the hardware tab it shows 2 monitors:

Monitor #1: Plug 'n' play
Role: Primary (1)

Monitor #2: <unkown>
Role: Secondary (2)

There doesn't seem to be an option to disable twinview.

Thanks for your help and time.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:34 pm

yedidyah wrote:There doesn't seem to be an option to disable twinview.

It is in xorg.conf:
Option "DynamicTwinView" "FALSE"

yedidyah · Post by **yedidyah** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:40 pm

thank you friend for all your help
here is the contents of my xorg.conf file I listed it because I am not finding the dynamictwinview option:

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:43 pm

yedidyah wrote:thank you friend for all your help
here is the contents of my xorg.conf file I listed it because I am not finding the dynamictwinview option:

Then add it.

yedidyah · Post by **yedidyah** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:14 pm

Okay vitamin I got it thanks.

yedidyah · Post by **yedidyah** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:01 pm

Okay what ultimately happened here is I followed vitamin's directions and added
Option "DynamicTwinView" "FALSE"

to the xorg.conf file
This worked for a while then I adjusted something in wine under the "graphics" tab. I clicked "emulate a virtual desktop", because my game was still not running right, then I put my desktop size to 1024x768.

Things went fine for a couple of days then when X started it wouldn't get out of 640X480. So I had to use my live disk and replace my xorg.conf file with one that I know worked (from my previous mistake above) that does not include:

Option "DynamicTwinView" "FALSE"

Now everything is back to normal so far.
I appreciate your assistance in this vitamin thank you. I am very grateful for all the work you guys at wine have been doing.

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