Default What games did you guys get running with your ATi cards?

[Melhisedek]

Hello there folks.
Well I've been trying to use Linux on and off for a while now, but the rebooting to XP to play games always gets me

I've tried getting WoW and Guild Wars to run but so far with no success I have 1900XT card and drivers that came with Ubuntu 7.10 ( I had to enable them IIRC ). Compiz is working ok I guess (don't have anything to compare it with) and the card should be enough to play at least some games.

So what games (except for the Linux native ones Quakes, Dooms and NWN afaik) did you guys get running on ATi cards? I'll use Cedega if needed no problem.

I understand Linux is not a gaming platform but I would only like to get a quick gaming fix here and there :)

Thank you for your time!

[aoanla]

So what games (except for the Linux native ones Quakes, Dooms and NWN afaik) did you guys get running on ATi cards? I'll use Cedega if needed no problem.


Portal is playable in Wine 0.9.42 with the 8.41.7 fglrx driver (but not with the 8.42.3, which causes crashes on all versions of Wine, for me).


I understand Linux is not a gaming platform but I would only like to get a quick gaming fix here and there :)

Thank you for your time!

Well, it appears that Linux is much more of a gaming platform with Wine if you have an nVidia card... >.>

[Melhisedek]

Well, it appears that Linux is much more of a gaming platform with Wine if you have an nVidia card... >.>

Yeah I understand that :( Sadly I went for the ATi card so I'll just have to make best out of it, try to make best of it :)

[Cochise]

i have Loads of native linux games running, UT2004, QUake 3/4 etc. Under WIne i have half-life 2, wow, counter-strike, football manager 2008, if you need help my msn is in my profile or im on #ubuntu on irc.freenode.com alot. i have an ati card with 8.42.3 drivers

[Melhisedek]

All right I'm gonna seek you out :) Just a quick question... What card do you have?

[aoanla]

I'm going to guess it's an R600 card - they seem to get the best out of 8.42.3, and are certainly afflicted with less of the stability issues under Wine. I'm also going to guess he's running a 32bit Ubuntu, not a 64bit one, as the 64bit ATI driver is much less reliable.

[mikedep333]

I'm going to guess it's an R600 card - they seem to get the best out of 8.42.3, and are certainly afflicted with less of the stability issues under Wine. I'm also going to guess he's running a 32bit Ubuntu, not a 64bit one, as the 64bit ATI driver is much less reliable.

Back a year or two ago when I used Suse, I noticed that wine apps encountered much more bugs on 64-bit linux in general.

[thexero]

when i was running suse linux, if i enabled xgl, 3d games didn't work so i haven't got compiz running

i only use the linux native games on my gaming laptop with ubuntu 7.10

quake 4
alien arena
open arena
ut2004
and ofcourse
google earth (purely for the flight sim)

if u have got verion 4.2 of google earth, press
ctrl + win key + a

cheers

[Cochise]

im using an x300

[Ferrat]

A big problem for some games

Guild Wars
Neverwinter Nights 2
Homeworld 2

is the fact that after 0.9.45 some big changes to the dx drivers in Wine uses a Z value that works great on nVIDIA but not on ATi, ATi renders invisable models and textures with games using this specific value.
Not clear if all ATi cards are affected but many are.

As for the 8.42.3 drivers they do boost preformance but are somewhat unstable overall on some cards and seems to have some small problems with later kernels