Ubuntu 10.04 Beta & Crossover & Guild wars Problem
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Ubuntu 10.04 Beta & Crossover & Guild wars Problem
Hi,
Here are my Computers spec's:
Compaq CQ61Z
AMD dual core processor (2Ghz)
ATI Radeon HD 4200 916MB VRAM / 500MHZ
2GB RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate
Ubuntu 10.04 (beta)
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I am trying to play guild wars on my ubuntu computer ontop of crossover games, but it just wont work right. here is a picture of what i see: http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/y...Screenshot.png
Any ideas? Thanks
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Thanks for your reply-
I forgot to tell you i use a 64-bit version of the OS (if that helps at all)
Anyways, i just click on the link on my desktop that it created
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Originally Posted by jamescondron
Run it in a terminal, lets see what it spits out. Also, how did you install it?
Since im using the desktop icon, i went into its properties and copied its command. I pasted it into the terminal. when i do, the window wont even open. There is no output/backtrace. here was the CMD: /home/lambda/.cxgames/win2000/desktopdata/cxmenu/StartMenu.C^5E3A^5Fwindows^5Fprofiles^5FAll^2BUsers^5FStart^2BMenu/Programs/Guild+Wars/Guild+Wars
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I decided to reinstall evrything. This is the new error output:
Unable to initialize the 3D output. Please verify that you have installed DirectX 8 and an updated video driver.
Click the URL below to open a web page with more information. http://www.guildwars.com/support/3d-init-failure.html
I've never used Crossover (so I don't know about the DirectX part), but I'm pretty sure you will need the current (proprietary) drivers installed for 3D to work.
I just searched Crossover's site for 'GuildWars' and got 0 matches. Did the same for wine with the following response:http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...rsion&iId=9194
Based on this, I would use wine. It was described as running 'flawless' on Ubuntu 9.10.
Last edited by brucehinrichs; 03-18-2010 at 07:54 PM.
The Ubuntu 10.04 alphas are using the open source radeon driver by default. They do provide 3D acceleration but it may not work properly with various games under wine. The proprietary drivers will probably work better, *however* I do not believe AMD has released drivers that work with X server 1.7.*. I know that Ubuntu has access to beta drivers with this support for the purposes of beta testing before the official 10.04 release, so it is quite likely that the proprietary drivers will work properly at that point.
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Originally Posted by adamk75
The Ubuntu 10.04 alphas are using the open source radeon driver by default. They do provide 3D acceleration but it may not work properly with various games under wine. The proprietary drivers will probably work better, *however* I do not believe AMD has released drivers that work with X server 1.7.*. I know that Ubuntu has access to beta drivers with this support for the purposes of beta testing before the official 10.04 release, so it is quite likely that the proprietary drivers will work properly at that point.
Adam
Thanks for your replies-
So i should just go ahead and install ubuntu 9.10, and wait another month for ubunu 10.04's release?
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