direct3d9 is not available without opengl

Crowey17 · 10-05-2012, 01:00 PM

I am trying to install Guild Wars 2 from playonlinx application and it keeps crashing and when I go into debugging this pops up the most:

direct3d9 is not available without opengl

is there a way I can fix this so I can install and play GW2?

TobiSGD · 10-05-2012, 01:22 PM

Do you have appropriate drivers for your video-card installed?
Also, according to the entry in the WineAppDB for this game (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...estingId=74044) it may be possible that you have to start the game with the -dx9single option.
According to the entries the game will be unplayable slow even with high performance video cards.

Drakeo · 10-05-2012, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Crowey17

I am trying to install Guild Wars 2 from playonlinx application and it keeps crashing and when I go into debugging this pops up the most:

direct3d9 is not available without opengl

is there a way I can fix this so I can install and play GW2?

it is calling on the opengl wich is part of the mesa project. that said if you are using a none 3d graphics card and most likley a proprietary driver though may still have problems.
this is a big issue here.

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but it can be run in wine. look here Guild wars on linux wine
good luck

Crowey17 · 10-05-2012, 01:26 PM

I don't know if I have drivers installed I thought I did but maybe I didn't I had to redue my ubuntu this morning because I tried to update my graphics card so maybe I deleted something. Could you direct me to the drivers and how to install them properly? I have a Geforce GTX 660M.

TobiSGD · 10-05-2012, 01:37 PM

Do you by any chance have a laptop with Nvidia's Optimus technology?
On Ubuntu you can use the additional drivers program to install the drivers, but if this is an Optimus setup you also need Bumblebee.

Crowey17 · 10-05-2012, 01:44 PM

Yes, I do. I just installed bumblebee now what?

TobiSGD · 10-05-2012, 01:49 PM

Read the documentation in their Wiki to learn the usage of Bumblebee: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki

Crowey17 · 10-05-2012, 03:55 PM

So I reinstalled bumblebee on how the page tells me and I tried to use it on how it tells me and when I try to run playonlinux with:
sudo optirun playonlinux
I get
Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:0:0.

TobiSGD · 10-05-2012, 04:24 PM

Do you have the proprietary driver installed?

Crowey17 · 10-05-2012, 06:56 PM

I don't know is there a way to check? and if I do or don't what should I do?

TobiSGD · 10-05-2012, 07:20 PM

If you don't have done that manually with the Additional Drivers program then you don't. You won't get switchable graphics working without that driver, as stated before.

Crowey17 · 10-05-2012, 08:01 PM

I don't have that option in the additional hardware application. So either I did already or I can't is there a way I can check if I did?

TobiSGD · 10-05-2012, 08:44 PM

The additional driver program usually will report if you have the proprietary driver activated. Pleasepost the ouput of

Code:

dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Crowey17 · 10-05-2012, 10:40 PM

ii bumblebee-nvidia 3.0.1-3~preciseppa1 nVidia Optimus support using the proprietary NVIDIA driver
ii nvidia-common 1:0.2.44.2 Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
ii nvidia-current 304.51-0ubuntu1~precise~xup1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-settings 304.51-0ubuntu1~precise~xup1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver