Counter-Strike Craches

bluepepsi · Post by **bluepepsi** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:29 pm

Hey,

I have installed Ubuntu a few days ago, since my experience with Windows Vista has been horrible. I decided to run steam using wine, and I was also going to run Counter-Strike. So I installed wine first using the following command, "sudo apt-get install wine". Then downloaded steam and installed it. When I launched Steam, my friend's names were very hard to read. It's like it was a mess. (By the way, I did put tahoma.ttf font in drive_c/Windows/Fonts) Not mentioning it was very laggy. So then I downloaded Counter-Strike, and ran it. When I first opened it and clicked on "Find Servers" it crashed. So i had to restart the computer. I ran it again and again and had no luck.
Maybe I did something wrong when I installed it?
These are my specifications,
Processor: AMD Phenom 1.8 GHz Quad Core Processor
Video card: ATI Radeon HD3200 1Gb (If that matters)
Memory: 4 GB DDR2
Operating System Version: Ubuntu Desktop 9.04, 64 bit

Do you have any suggestion on what is wrong or what I should do? Please keep in mind that I am really new to ubuntu, and I do not know what some of the things might be. So please be specific when you tell me something.
Thanks

bluepepsi · Post by **bluepepsi** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:30 pm

This is what my steam page looks like.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:33 pm

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:29 PM, bluepepsi<[email protected]> wrote:

Video card: ATI Radeon HD3200 1Gb (If that matters)

ATI has pretty crappy video drivers...make sure you've got the latest
drivers for it, and upgrade wine to 1.1.25.

--
-Austin

bluepepsi · Post by **bluepepsi** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:53 pm

I installed the driver that ubuntu offered me. When I downloaded and installed the latest "official" drivers from AMD site, it downgraded it, instead of upgrading it. I couldn't even run Normal Visual Effects because of it.
By the way, I successfully ran Half Life 2 Deathmatch (well with a lot of bugs). So the problem shouldn't be in performance, since cs doesn't even need opengl running. It runs in software mod too. But just to make it clear, I did run cs in opengl.

Snake450 · Post by **Snake450** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:23 pm

I've tried the drivers that came with Ubuntu and the official site ones, I've used Envy to get me drivers too and none work. What I find interesting is wine can run Half-Life 2 but not Counter-Strike : Source so there is something wrong going on in CS. If I find something I'll let you know but right now I can't think of anything really to fix it.
CPU : AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-core 2.6 GHz
Graphics : ATI Radeon HD 3200
OS : Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit

I think it has something to do with an update with either CS or ATI drivers cause Counter-Strike : Source was working perfectly fine last week but I reformated my PC and now it just doesn't work at all.

bluepepsi · Post by **bluepepsi** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:11 pm

I see you have the same video card as I do. What drivers did you install? The ones that ubuntu offered to you, or did you find them?

Snake450 · Post by **Snake450** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:21 pm

Yo I found the problem downgrade that shit. I downloaded 9.4 and took off 9.6 drivers now the games are running, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1133950&page=2, do what Kmhr33 does, If you need the url to 9.4 -> http://www.icewalkers.com/download/ATI- ... -2874/old/.

bluepepsi · Post by **bluepepsi** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:06 pm

Snak450 can you please tell me what to do? I am pretty new to ubuntu, so I totally got no idea how to delete drivers.

bluepepsi · Post by **bluepepsi** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:16 pm

By the way, the link you gave me is to the driver I need to run the games?

bluepepsi · Post by **bluepepsi** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:30 pm

Allright, thanks. I figured that out. Looks like all the games work now.
THanks again