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Flintkalle
February 1st, 2006, 05:16 PM
Hi I've finally managed to get my Warcraft 3 working, but. I think its something wrong with the graphics because it lags like ****. I have a ATI Radeon X700PRO card and I dont think wine likes ATI of what i have read. But if anyone else have a solution to why it lags so much please tell me how to fix it. :cry:
handy
February 2nd, 2006, 05:30 PM
There are apparently GOOD ati drivers available now, if you havn't installed those it would be a great place to start.

Apart from that, getting games to run smoothly using the Wine, WineCVS, Cedega API's is a black art, especially when it comes to 3d by the look of it!

All the best!
Kuprin
February 2nd, 2006, 08:06 PM
GOOD? Define good. Working isn't good. They work, but they're slow as molasses...ATI really dropped the ball again, as far as I'm concerned, and I'm still dual-booting because of it.
handy
February 2nd, 2006, 08:28 PM
Hey! I'm just going on happy ati card user's reports here in the forum!

"They" say that ati have at last lifted their game, with the newly released drivers.

From experience I don't know, I use nVidia! :KS

The nVidia card & linux drivers, are fast as, or even faster, than windoze when I use UT2k4 which is a native install, but initially laggy after zoning, when I play Guild Wars, under Cedega.

There are a LOT of variables here!

This forum would probably not exist if there weren't so many!
Flintkalle
February 3rd, 2006, 05:24 AM
I dont know if I have the latest ATI drivers. But I think they should be there because I installed it not so long ago. But to make it easy I'm going to dual-boot it with windows.
handy
February 3rd, 2006, 08:46 AM
It seems to be the easiest way to make the transition, as we learn more about linux, linux itself is continually growing & improving. So, is the support. :cool:

The ati drivers are owned by ati, so they are not installed with Ubuntu. If you need to know more about that, then I would post in the Hardware / Video & Sound sub-forum.
Flintkalle
February 3rd, 2006, 06:00 PM
I think I got a bit further in solving the problem, :) I've had this problem with some 3dscreensavers lagging and they runned smoothly after making a update of the ATI drivers. So I hope Warcraft 3 will work. (I almoast know the whole cd-key now without looking) ;)