Portal crashes when I click new game.

[Dystopianfr33k]

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with the newest version of Wine. I'm relatively new to Linux, but I do understand the basics of terminal. I have Portal installed on the Steam platform in Ubuntu through Wine, and when I open it, it all starts up beautifully, but when it gets to the main menu, some objects are missing in the background and you can see some glitched up areas. Then, when I click new game, it loads fully and then simply crashes. I am running the game with -windowed and -directx 81 switches. I have a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz processor, a 256 Mb, slightly low-end video card (it still will play Portal at medium quality on Windows).

Is there any way I can configure either the game or Wine so that it will run?

[eps]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Dystopianfr33k
<[email protected]> wrote:

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with the newest version of Wine.  I'm relatively new to Linux, but I do understand the basics of terminal.  I have Portal installed on the Steam platform in Ubuntu through Wine, and when I open it, it all starts up beautifully, but when it gets to the main menu, some objects are missing in the background and you can see some glitched up areas.  Then, when I click new game, it loads fully and then simply crashes.  I am running the game with -windowed and -directx 81 switches.  I have a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz processor, a 256 Mb, slightly low-end video card (it still will play Portal at medium quality on Windows).

Is there any way I can configure either the game or Wine so that it will run?

This may help.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=9432

[Dystopianfr33k]

I looked that over, and tried all the things it gave me (disabling compiz, disabling steam in-game community, running with a couple different switches) and nothing worked. The same problem persisted.

[eps]

On Saturday, May 15, 2010, Dystopianfr33k <[email protected]> wrote:

I looked that over, and tried all the things it gave me (disabling compiz, disabling steam in-game community, running with a couple different switches) and nothing worked.  The same problem persisted.

What brand and type is your graphics card? What drivers and version
are you using?

[Dystopianfr33k]

lshw displays these two messages for my video card:


id:
display:0
description: VGA compatible controller
product: RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id:
0
bus info:
pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list rom
configuration:
driver = radeon
latency = 0
resources:
irq : 26
memory : d0000000-d7ffffff(prefetchable)
ioport : dc00(size=256)
memory : dfde0000-dfdeffff
memory : dfe00000-dfe1ffff(prefetchable)



id:
display:1
description: Display controller
product: RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id:
0.1
bus info:
pci@0000:01:00.1
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration:
latency = 0
resources:
memory : dfdf0000-dfdfffff


The second one is in red.

I haven't installed any proprietary drivers for it, I just went with the one Ubuntu 10.04 pre-installed for it, and I don't know how to view that information.

[eps]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Dystopianfr33k
<[email protected]> wrote:

lshw displays these two messages for my video card:

I'm not familiar with ATI sorry so I cannot help you further.

I will note that saving games using Portal does crash the game for me.
Otherwise, I would consider this a platinum game.

[vitamin]

description: VGA compatible controller
product: RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc

Rung 'glxinfo' and post it somewhere (on pastebin, not here). Then drop a link to it.

[Dystopianfr33k]

http://pastebin.com/NGgkBfR6

This is the code it gave me.