WINE Help

Post by **DanKegel** » Fri May 08, 2009 10:25 am

DanKegel wrote: OK, I tried it. I found three problems:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18398
...

To install, you have to do "winetricks pdh".

Hans Leidekker fixed bug 18398 for you today, so
when wine-1.1.21 comes out, you won't have to install pdh
to install Roblox.

But I still don't know what problem you're running into,
or how to reproduce it here. In addition to the screenshot,
please tell us what you did, and what you expected to happen,
and what really happened instead.

Have you tried launching a game directly by running

$ cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/RobloxVersions/version-*
$ wine Roblox -play http://www.roblox.com/Game/join.ashx?jo ... 4d6b142eb4

? If you do, what happens?

BillBurt · Post by **BillBurt** » Fri May 08, 2009 11:24 am

I get a Roblox window, only where there is supposed to be a game, I get a black screen, and that huge terminal output that I posted in Pastebin

BillBurt · Post by **BillBurt** » Fri May 08, 2009 7:40 pm

I could really use some help with this..

Post by **dimesio** » Fri May 08, 2009 8:41 pm

Are you using the nVidia proprietary driver? If not, install it and see if that helps. If you are already using it, or if installing it doesn't help, I suspect the problem is that your graphics card simply isn't up to the demands of running games in Wine.

BillBurt · Post by **BillBurt** » Fri May 08, 2009 8:47 pm

Yes, this is the Nvidia proprietary driver. And I would think it was my graphics card except that other people with different graphics cards have the same problem..

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wine/1 ... oblem.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... es-662408/

Please help!

BillBurt · Post by **BillBurt** » Sat May 09, 2009 11:26 pm

So I would assume I am alone on this?

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Sat May 09, 2009 11:35 pm

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:26 AM, BillBurt <[email protected]> wrote:

So I would assume I am alone on this? [Crying or Very sad]

The solution to the first link was to disable desktop effects. Have
you done that? On my laptop when I ran ubuntu the first thing I did
after removing pulseaudio was to uninstall desktop effects knowing
that both of these would cause me problems with wine and other
applications.

John

BillBurt · Post by **BillBurt** » Sun May 10, 2009 4:38 pm

No, turning off desktop effects does not help.

Addys · Post by **Addys** » Mon May 11, 2009 11:20 am

BillBurt wrote:No, turning off desktop effects does not help.

Upgrade to wine-1.1.21, it seems there have been some d3d improvements. To recap the few tricks (most have been said in this thread though) that can help:
- Upgrade to nvidia 180.x driver branch (I personally run 185.19).
- Run winecfg, tab Graphics try disabling Vertex Shader/Pixel Shader
- Turn compiz off, using metacity --replace or selecting None in Appearance Preferences => Visual Effects => None
- File a bug on bugs.winehq.org on the application if something is not normal (make sure there isn't already one.)