The only thing I miss since my switch to Ubuntu is playing a nice game every once in a while. There's really not a whole lot of native linux games out there so that leaves me with wine. Unfortunately I don't have much luck with wine.
My favorite games are those of the Civilization series. I can enjoy playing civ4 for hours and hours on an end and I miss playing the game. I tried to run Civ4 through wine a while back but without any luck and today I decided to give Civilization Colonization a try, but this is the (same) result..
I read this game runs pretty well for most people through wine, but I have less luck as you can see. I really don't know much about wine tweaking so I'm hoping anyone here can help me out.
Emass wrote:I read this game runs pretty well for most people through wine, but I have less luck as you can see. I really don't know much about wine tweaking so I'm hoping anyone here can help me out.
What graphics card/driver? If it's not nVidia, that's most likely the problem.
Unfortunately, I suspect the same as dimesio. I have the game (and expansions) and they work great with my nvidia card.
When I've seen corruption similar to what you're showing here, it's usually a bug in the OpenGL drivers of the video chipset. Is this a laptop with ATI/Intel graphics?
Sigh yes that is right indeed. I have an ATI 4850. It was pretty cheap when I bought it. It always served me well for 1.5 years now. This is the first time I regret buying it.
Guess I have to save some money for a new card then. Booting to windows all the time kind of sucks. Maybe anyone here has a suggestion for a nvidia card that equals the power of the ATI 4850 (for hopefully a nice price)?
