Problem with graphical rendering.

[Proudhonite]

Well these are basically two problems in one, but the second one is the one of least interest for the moment.
Basically, i installed age of Empires 2 thru the terminal, the instalation went smoothly, and after it, the game starts fine; the problem comes when i close it, i can not run it with the terminal again, the game says that my graphical card/ interface is not suitable for direct draw , the interesting part comes when i run it directly, double clicling the icon, it starts correctly again.

The reason why i need the terminal is because of sounds problems, i need to start wine with and additional alsa command for it to reproduce sound.

The second problem, is that i can not run a more advanced 3D game (torchlight) again, because of d3d, is this a common problem in Suse? (Because in my older debian based distros, i could run both games fine! And wine has been quite problematic since the begining in Suse)

Thanks beforehand!

[dimesio]

I've used openSUSE for 5 years and never had an issue with 3D games other than bugs in Wine. However, I have an Nvidia card and am using the proprietary driver. If you have anything else, that could be the source of your problems with 3D games.

As for the issue starting Age of Empires 2 from the terminal vs. the desktop link, there may be some difference between the command you have been using and what is used by the link. Try entering the exact command the link uses.

You didn't say what Wine version you're using, but if it's not the latest development release, upgrade.

[Proudhonite]

I directly compiled the wine source like two weeks ago, and as far as i remeber, the only libraries that i could not get for the compilation where related with peripherals like webcams and scanners.
The thing is that i could run this games perfectly in wine in other distros ( ubuntu and linux mint especifically) and i have made no modifications to mi graphical card ( which is an intel).

And, how do i get the desktop link? How do i get the information of the command that the graphical interface is using to open AoE2?

And thanks for the reply!

[dimesio]

And, how do i get the desktop link? How do i get the information of the command that the graphical interface is using to open AoE2?

In KDE, open the menu editor, select the menu item for your game, and look at what's in the Command field. I don't know about other desktop environments, but imagine they have something similar.

[Proudhonite]

sorry for the delay, but i have been quite occupied this week, anyway, let us continue.

i cant find my AoE in KDE menu editor (only a few programs that i installed in an old wine), is there anotehr form to see the command that the program is using?
and i have another problem, wich is quite appart form this, since i applied ALSA to my wine, i can not longer hear multiple "sound lines" (for example, i can only hear my music reproducer, but not a youtube video, or wine, but neither of the other things that are reproducing sound, depending on the order of execution), how can i revert back or preferably, menage an equilibrium?

[dimesio]

Check the properties of the .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications.

As for the sound, if I understand correctly, what you are saying is that no other app can produce sound when Wine is running. If your hardware does not support hardware mixing, you need a software mixer (e.g., dmix) to have sound from more than one app.

[Proudhonite]

this is what my .desktop says:

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[Dolphin]
Timestamp=2013,4,14,19,48,42
Version=3

[Settings]
HiddenFilesShown=true

what information should i gather from there?
about the sound problem, it is no only with wine the problem, but with any program (the first program i open, is the only one to have sound); i assume i have dmix, because as far as i remember, this problem happened until i adapted ALSA to wine, and besides, i need to use the comand ALSA_DEFAULT_PCM="plug:dmix" for mi wine to emit sound. It would be very helpful if you told me of a place to remit for information about ALSA and/or dmix commands.

And thanks a lot for the help thus far.