System Lockups when restarting Windoze programs

[ciphermagi]

I have attempted to use wine 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 to install Rosetta Stone 4e and Diablo III on my Mint katya 64 bit computer, and I am having no problem getting the applications to run initially, but when they attempt to update or launch a new window from inside the program they lock up my entire system. I was wondering if anybody can help me figure out what to do to run these programs on my system.

Thank you,
Ciphermagi

[L. Rahyen]

Wine (or any other userland program) cannot lockup your system. You probably have problem with your video driver - make sure you are using latest proprietary driver (for NVidia GeForce it's 304.30). If you already using latest driver, then most likely you have non-NVidia card. Non-NVidia cards are not so good for Wine or Linux in general.

[ciphermagi]

I can't seem to find 304.30. 259.59 is the latest that I see on the NVidia website.

[dimesio]

I think you mean 295.59, the latest long-lived branch version. Try the latest short-lived branch version, 302.17. http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

[ciphermagi]

Got it installed, did this:

ciphermagi@Sniper ~ $ inxi -xG
Graphics: Card nVidia G96 [GeForce 9400 GT] X.Org 1.10.1 Res: [email protected]
GLX Renderer GeForce 9400 GT/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 302.17 Direct Rendering Yes

My 'Additional Drivers' says, however:

No proprietary drivers are in use on this system.

NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current) [Recommended]
This driver is activated but not currently in use.

EDIT:

ciphermagi@Sniper ~ $ more /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 302.17 ([email protected]
ia.com) Tue Jun 12 17:05:44 PDT 2012


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

[L. Rahyen]

I can't seem to find 304.30

It is there. By the way, very convenient way to know what's the latest driver is to look at ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/; looking at http://nvidia.com is much less convenient.

For Debian (may work for Debian-based distributions like Mint too, but I did not test this so no guarantee), I do not recommend downloading it from NVidia website. It is much better idea to use kernel.org Debian repository. Just add this to /etc/apt/sources.list

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deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free

...and run:

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apt-get update
apt-get -t experimental install nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-settings nvidia-vdpau-driver nvidia-glx-ia32 nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-304.30 libgl1-nvidia-glx-ia32

For other distributions, try to look for already existing repository with NVidia driver installer. If you fail to find repository with latest NVidia driver for your distribution, download from NVidia directly.

Try the latest short-lived branch version, 302.17.

I strongly do NOT recommend 302.17. With it my X got hanged very often, sometimes few times a day. And I have modern powerful video card. So it is very likely it will be unstable for a lot of people. 304.30 fixed this problem and works very well.

My 'Additional Drivers' says, however: "No proprietary drivers are in use on this system"

What program "says" that? Most likely it just assumes that you install only distribution-specific NVidia driver package and does not check what really installed. Most reliable way to check what version of NVidia driver you have installed is to run nvidia-settings and in the "X Server Information" tab look at "NVIDIA Driver Version".

[ciphermagi]

What program "says" that? Most likely it just assumes that you install only distribution-specific NVidia driver package and does not check what really installed. Most reliable way to check what version of NVidia driver you have installed is to run nvidia-settings and in the "X Server Information" tab look at "NVIDIA Driver Version".

The program title given in the Administration Menu is "Additional Drivers" - I'm not sure what the actual program name is, it might be jester.

Now I'm encountering a different sort of problem, though it seems to be related. I'm not hanging anymore, but at the same time, when I click the 'Play' button on the launcher where it should open a new window with the game in it, now it does not open anything. It no longer hangs, but when I attempt to open the D3 again, I get a message saying "Diablo III is already running."

[DanKegel]

That's a different problem. Better start a new thread for that.
(Or discuss it on http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=25588, maybe.
You have tried the ideas there, right?)