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Andaconda
February 18th, 2007, 03:03 AM
Ok, I have two questions.

1: I have installed wine on my computer and I am trying to run Guild Wars. I used the method here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=283122 that is supposed to be able to run Guild Wars. I used the updatewine.sh method. When I try to run Guild Wars I get an error message saying "Guild Wars has detected that your video gard may not be support Guild Wars...." ( I have an Nvidia GeForce 4 MX420 video card) I click continue and wine runs Guild wars in really small window. See image below. If the image isn't working tell me please.
http://24.2.93.175:8080/junk/screenshot.png

2: I am trying to install Beryl so I need to install a 3d acceleration driver (at least I think I do). So I install the Nvidia driver that I found ( I found a few and they all do the same thing ) but after I install it and reboot my computer, the X server wont start. I have an Nvidia GeForce 4 MX420 video card.

If anybody could help with either of these problems I would appreciate it. Thanks.
Oh, and I don't really know anything about Linux so I would appreciate it if you could give directions to me in terms that I can understand. Thanks.
Andaconda
February 18th, 2007, 04:37 AM
So I got smart and I configured wine to emulate a desktop that was my resolution. The only problem is that it runs really slow, there is really choppy, it hangs when it tries to load the game after I log into my character, and it still has an error about the graphics card and when it does it changes the resolution of the emulated Desktop to 640 x 480. I have an Intel Pentium 4 2.53 GHz. So I dont see why it's so slow. I am still having problems with beryl.
fktt
February 18th, 2007, 07:29 AM
imo, that video card is a bit, ouchie..(actually im only on a "bit better" card, fx5200) but oh well, have you changed the games gfx options (well i guess you have but, just in case)
cb951303
February 18th, 2007, 07:43 AM
can you actually play guildwars with that card on a windowz pc?
fktt
February 18th, 2007, 08:15 AM
umm, actually i belive a frien could, when i loaned him my game for testing, but he tested it to compare hes geforce 4 mx, and hes new geforce 6600... :P
Andaconda
February 18th, 2007, 02:30 PM
imo, that video card is a bit, ouchie..(actually im only on a "bit better" card, fx5200) but oh well, have you changed the games gfx options (well i guess you have but, just in case)

So i'm guessing that this graphics card isn't that great? And yes I have changed the games gfx options. Except i tried installing a driver for the card so that I could run Beryl and now Guild Wars wont run because it is "unable to initialize a 3d output."

So do you think i wont beable to run Beryl or Guild Wars unless I get a new Video card?

can you actually play guildwars with that card on a windowz pc?

Yes, Guild Wars runs just fine with this card under Windows.
handy
February 18th, 2007, 08:13 PM
You need a directX 8, capable card. I'm currently using a GForce4 TI 4800/128Meg of ram, & it is straining under the load, but still usable for GW.

I would think that an MX card would have a hell of a time with Guild Wars, at least under Wine/Cedega!
Andaconda
February 18th, 2007, 11:17 PM
You need a directX 8, capable card. I'm currently using a GForce4 TI 4800/128Meg of ram, & it is straining under the load, but still usable for GW.

I would think that an MX card would have a hell of a time with Guild Wars, at least under Wine/Cedega!

Thanks for the info. I scrubbed the idea and decided to install Ubuntu on my other computer. It has some off brand Video card but it works great.