thibbit
February 2nd, 2009, 03:09 PM
So, i'm finding myself in need of a bit of help here.
hardware
amd 64bit 3200
2.7 gig ram (wont see the whole 3)
nvidia gforce le 6600
2 monitors, a dell e770s and a compac ev700 (running in twin view)
OS
dual booting (shouldn't make a difference and they are on separate hard drives)
ubuntu 8.10 (kernel linux 2.6.27-7-generic
and
windows xp sp3
I have the nvidia accelerated graphics driver version 177 installed and running with nvidia x server.
I have compiz config settings manager 0.7.8 for all the shiny bits.
I am trying to run “oblivion elder scrolls IV”
did some searching/reading
I have installed wine 1.0.1
installed oblivion but would not run
did more searching/reading
added mscoree into the wine library file and disabled it
installed directx 9c from the oblivion disk
game starts and fails to identify graphics card. It gives a generic setting of
“adapter = direct3d hal”
“resolution = 2560x1024”
“antialiasing = none”
it is spanning both monitors and running at the speed of dirt while in the character selection.
Back on line search/read/repeat.. shutdown go to bed reboot... return loop.
Shutting off one of the monitors in xserver I have oblivion search for a graphics card, it still wont see it but it now gives me a total of 4 options for my resolutions, one being “1280x1024” (the other options are all higher and try and use both of my monitors).
I try and run it under the 1280x1024 it runs but again, slow as dirt.
search/read/repeat.. fiddle with every graphic option I have, search through the game logs and try and find a resolution setting (fail fail fail).
I have looked into every forum that I can google on the subject and have yet to find a solution.
So now I turn to the great collective ubuntu community brain in a plee for help.
I just switched to using ubuntu and while I can follow some of the baser ideas, please keep the instructions simple enough for a chain smoking monkey (that would be me) to follow.
hardware
amd 64bit 3200
2.7 gig ram (wont see the whole 3)
nvidia gforce le 6600
2 monitors, a dell e770s and a compac ev700 (running in twin view)
OS
dual booting (shouldn't make a difference and they are on separate hard drives)
ubuntu 8.10 (kernel linux 2.6.27-7-generic
and
windows xp sp3
I have the nvidia accelerated graphics driver version 177 installed and running with nvidia x server.
I have compiz config settings manager 0.7.8 for all the shiny bits.
I am trying to run “oblivion elder scrolls IV”
did some searching/reading
I have installed wine 1.0.1
installed oblivion but would not run
did more searching/reading
added mscoree into the wine library file and disabled it
installed directx 9c from the oblivion disk
game starts and fails to identify graphics card. It gives a generic setting of
“adapter = direct3d hal”
“resolution = 2560x1024”
“antialiasing = none”
it is spanning both monitors and running at the speed of dirt while in the character selection.
Back on line search/read/repeat.. shutdown go to bed reboot... return loop.
Shutting off one of the monitors in xserver I have oblivion search for a graphics card, it still wont see it but it now gives me a total of 4 options for my resolutions, one being “1280x1024” (the other options are all higher and try and use both of my monitors).
I try and run it under the 1280x1024 it runs but again, slow as dirt.
search/read/repeat.. fiddle with every graphic option I have, search through the game logs and try and find a resolution setting (fail fail fail).
I have looked into every forum that I can google on the subject and have yet to find a solution.
So now I turn to the great collective ubuntu community brain in a plee for help.
I just switched to using ubuntu and while I can follow some of the baser ideas, please keep the instructions simple enough for a chain smoking monkey (that would be me) to follow.