ZarathustraDK
August 12th, 2007, 05:09 AM
Don't know if this has been emphasized before, but here goes.
I've had loads of trouble with running Steam through wine, probably mostly because of complicated howtos on how to tweak steam using wine throgh svn, compiling it yourself or any other highly customized wine-version.
Specifically I had a lot of trouble with the graphics. Textures were either corrupted, running very slow, crashing and everything in between (especially in Half-Life Episode One).
Part of the reason for this is (I guess) that a lot of newer steam-games utilize some exotic new directx-features which is not yet supported by wine. This problem can be bypassed by starting every steam-game with the "-dxlevel 70" property added (right-click your game in the gamebrowser ---> properties ---> set launch parameters).
This sets the directx version used in the game to directx 7.0, and rids the game of all those fancy graphic-features and makes the game playable (and much MUCH more faster). Counter-strike Source for instance runs completely fluid as in native windows on my comp, whereas with directx 9 it is a very choppy and unplayable experience. Sure it may not look as fancy as native with eye-candy, but blablabla. No need for any -opengl flags anywhere, just wine steam.exe and set the -dxlevel.
Cheers
I've had loads of trouble with running Steam through wine, probably mostly because of complicated howtos on how to tweak steam using wine throgh svn, compiling it yourself or any other highly customized wine-version.
Specifically I had a lot of trouble with the graphics. Textures were either corrupted, running very slow, crashing and everything in between (especially in Half-Life Episode One).
Part of the reason for this is (I guess) that a lot of newer steam-games utilize some exotic new directx-features which is not yet supported by wine. This problem can be bypassed by starting every steam-game with the "-dxlevel 70" property added (right-click your game in the gamebrowser ---> properties ---> set launch parameters).
This sets the directx version used in the game to directx 7.0, and rids the game of all those fancy graphic-features and makes the game playable (and much MUCH more faster). Counter-strike Source for instance runs completely fluid as in native windows on my comp, whereas with directx 9 it is a very choppy and unplayable experience. Sure it may not look as fancy as native with eye-candy, but blablabla. No need for any -opengl flags anywhere, just wine steam.exe and set the -dxlevel.
Cheers