DXT-support

justay · Post by **justay** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:07 pm

I'm receiving the following message:
Warning
The DXT texture format is not supported by your hardware but required by the game. Text won't be readable.
On Radeon hardware, the DXT-support can be enabled through the Catalyst Control Center.

The graphics card is a Radeon HD4350. I checked Google but cannot seem to find any reference to this error. Can anyone provide some direction?

TIA

kernel 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686
Fedora 15
wine 1.3.20-1.fc15.i686

Post by **DanKegel** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:47 pm

If I understand correctly, there seems to be a snafu related to
patents which is delaying a fix. See e.g.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14939
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression
http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/EX ... n_s3tc.txt

You might be able to patch wine yourself to get around this,
if you're sufficiently skilled and motivated. I haven't verified this myself.

justay · Post by **justay** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:04 am

Motivation I've got.

Might this issue also explain why the application always crashes when I start it from a command line (it actually starts when launched from file manager).