Nothing seems to work when using Wine.

The Beanjamin · Post by **The Beanjamin** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:03 am

Hello,

I downloaded Wine 1.0.0 today for Ubuntu 8.04, but nothing seems to work like it should. I've tried to install several games, none of them works, and they all do one of the following:
1) It looks like it's loading like it should, but then the screen tears apart and I see a lot of blue lines which are about 5 millimeters thick on my screen. This makes it impossible to do anything.
2) The screen is split in halves. The left half then tries to show the full width of the screen, which fails, making everything unreadable. The other half of the screen is just black.

As one of these symptoms always happens, I'm thinking that it's my Wine installation rather than the games causing these problems.

I'd also like to add that I'm also new to Linux and Wine.

I hope anyone can help me, any help is appreciated.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:13 am

I downloaded Wine 1.0.0 today for Ubuntu 8.04, but nothing seems to work like it should. I've tried to install several games, none of them works, and they all do one of the following:
1) It looks like it's loading like it should, but then the screen tears apart and I see a lot of blue lines which are about 5 millimeters thick on my screen. This makes it impossible to do anything.
2) The screen is split in halves. The left half then tries to show the full width of the screen, which fails, making everything unreadable. The other half of the screen is just black.

As one of these symptoms always happens, I'm thinking that it's my Wine installation rather than the games causing these problems.

It is doubtful that it is your wine installation that is causing this.
It could be your X setup though. You need to be more specific on what
applications you tried for us to help. Also did you look for your
applications in appdb.winehq.org?

John

The Beanjamin · Post by **The Beanjamin** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:48 pm

I tried Need for Speed High Stakes, which I looked up on the database. There were some instructions there, which I closely followed, but it still didn't work. The screen was split in halves when I tried to run it after the installation. It installed without any problems. This one had a Gold rating on the Database. I also tried The Settlers IV, which showed the blue lines before I even installed it. That game also had a Gold rating. Then I tried Rayman 3, which has a Platinum rating on the Database. Didn't work: blue lines across the screen after installation. I also tried The Settlers Heritage of Kings, Gold Rating, didn't work. No blue lines are half screen though, it just didn't do anything after I installed it.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:50 pm

The Beanjamin wrote:I tried Need for Speed High Stakes, which I looked up on the database. There were some instructions there, which I closely followed, but it still didn't work. The screen was split in halves when I tried to run it after the installation. It installed without any problems. This one had a Gold rating on the Database. I also tried The Settlers IV, which showed the blue lines before I even installed it. That game also had a Gold rating. Then I tried Rayman 3, which has a Platinum rating on the Database. Didn't work: blue lines across the screen after installation. I also tried The Settlers Heritage of Kings, Gold Rating, didn't work. No blue lines are half screen though, it just didn't do anything after I installed it.

What video card and driver version (glxinfo | grep version)?

The Beanjamin · Post by **The Beanjamin** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:11 am

name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon 9550 / X1050 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7769 Release
OpenGL extensions:
GL_AMD_performance_monitor, GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers,
GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_fragment_shader, GL_ARB_multisample,
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shader_objects,
GL_ARB_shading_language_100, GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shadow_ambient,
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_float,
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_vertex_shader, GL_ARB_window_pos,
GL_ATI_draw_buffers, GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap, GL_ATI_fragment_shader,
GL_ATI_meminfo, GL_ATI_separate_stencil, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3,
GL_ATI_texture_float, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_copy_texture,
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit,
GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample, GL_EXT_framebuffer_object,
GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil, GL_EXT_packed_pixels,
GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color,
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texgen_reflection, GL_EXT_texture3D,
GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map,
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,
GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB, GL_EXT_vertex_array,
GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_texgen_reflection,
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod,
GL_WIN_swap_hint, WGL_EXT_swap_control

I don't know what to do with grep, sorry. I installed the latest drivers for this card because the drivers that came with Ubuntu were too slow.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:04 am

The Beanjamin wrote:OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon 9550 / X1050 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7769 Release
I don't know what to do with grep, sorry. I installed the latest drivers for this card because the drivers that came with Ubuntu were too slow.

Good luck with that hardware. If you want to get anything running you will need to get Nvidia card.

The Beanjamin · Post by **The Beanjamin** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 3:47 am

Hmmm. I do have an Nvidia card somewhere, but it's very old. Ah well, I'll see what it can do. Do you happen to know why ATI cards don't work?

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:38 am

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 4:47 AM, The Beanjamin
<[email protected]> wrote:

Hmmm. I do have an Nvidia card somewhere, but it's very old. Ah well, I'll see what it can do. Do you happen to know why ATI cards don't work?

Bad / Poor opengl drivers.

John

Lockywolf · Post by **Lockywolf** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:10 pm

You see...

There are 2 variants of Ati drivers

0) official proprietary - fglrx from www.ati.com

fast, but badly written

1) radeon from X.org

it's quality is better, but it is slower and supports less cards.

you should try it. radeon from x.org just replace "fglrx" with "radeon" in your xorg.conf

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:13 pm

Lockywolf wrote:radeon from x.org just replace "fglrx" with "radeon" in your xorg.conf

Then better get that old nvidia card since this "radeon" driver doesn't support anything from the past 5 years of 3D.

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 4:07 pm

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Lockywolf <[email protected]> wrote:

You see...

There are 2 variants of Ati drivers

0) official proprietary - fglrx from www.ati.com

fast, but badly written

1) radeon from X.org

it's quality is better, but it is slower and supports less cards.

you should try it. radeon from x.org just replace "fglrx" with "radeon" in your xorg.conf

2) RadeonHD drivers from x.org

Looks promising, any kind of test results hard to find though...
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd

3. R300 drivers...

http://megahurts.dk/rune/r300_status.html
No idea how that works...
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/R300

Gert

Clemens Eisserer · Post by **Clemens Eisserer** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 4:32 pm

Hmmm. I do have an Nvidia card somewhere, but it's very old. Ah well, I'll see what it can do. Do you happen to know why ATI cards don't work?
Bad / Poor opengl drivers.

Not true anymore, they rewrote their GL drivers for Linux some time
ago - and they are now basically the same as on windows.
Not best-in-class but definitivly not as bad as everybody mentions.

lg Clemens

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:40 pm

Clemens Eisserer wrote:
Hmmm. I do have an Nvidia card somewhere, but it's very old. Ah well, I'll see what it can do. Do you happen to know why ATI cards don't work?
Bad / Poor opengl drivers.
Not true anymore, they rewrote their GL drivers for Linux some time
ago - and they are now basically the same as on windows.
Not best-in-class but definitivly not as bad as everybody mentions.

Except they don't work in most cases, especially with Wine. See this as one example: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12929