wombat20
October 18th, 2005, 12:00 PM
Hi,
I've been using Ubuntu now for a few weeks and have got my ATI driver sorted finally (thanks mlomker!). Cedega (or P2play) reports that my system passes all tests and Direct Rendering is "Yes". So I figured I'd be ok to try some games.
Warcraft 3 - basically works, but is slow and jerky to the point of being unplayable - scrolling the screen with the mouse is uncontrollable. I guess it's doing about 2 fps, even on the lowest graphical settings.
HL2 - Steam was ok. Game seems fairly smooth, but many of the wall/floor textures are white and everything else is pretty jagged. Also, people talking seem to start their second sentence before finishing the first, so it overlaps. :mad:
Both of these run really nicely in WinXP on the same machine. I didn't even dare to try Planetside.
I read in the Cedega HowTo text file (which of course you download AFTER you've paid for it!) that ATI drivers may not work properly and performance/ stability is not guaranteed.
I've got a Radeon X800, 1G RAM, Athlon 64 (although running 5.10 i386). Surely these games should work better than this?
So do I...
1. Try harder, fiddle with the drivers, try different versions, read every forum out there about it and waste my life banging my head against the wall.
2. Sell my wretched ATI X800 on ebay and buy an nVidia one.
3. Just sigh and write off the $30ish I wasted for a year of Cedega and boot into Windows for games.
Unless anyone has any great suggestions I'm opting for 3 atm... :(
I've been using Ubuntu now for a few weeks and have got my ATI driver sorted finally (thanks mlomker!). Cedega (or P2play) reports that my system passes all tests and Direct Rendering is "Yes". So I figured I'd be ok to try some games.
Warcraft 3 - basically works, but is slow and jerky to the point of being unplayable - scrolling the screen with the mouse is uncontrollable. I guess it's doing about 2 fps, even on the lowest graphical settings.
HL2 - Steam was ok. Game seems fairly smooth, but many of the wall/floor textures are white and everything else is pretty jagged. Also, people talking seem to start their second sentence before finishing the first, so it overlaps. :mad:
Both of these run really nicely in WinXP on the same machine. I didn't even dare to try Planetside.
I read in the Cedega HowTo text file (which of course you download AFTER you've paid for it!) that ATI drivers may not work properly and performance/ stability is not guaranteed.
I've got a Radeon X800, 1G RAM, Athlon 64 (although running 5.10 i386). Surely these games should work better than this?
So do I...
1. Try harder, fiddle with the drivers, try different versions, read every forum out there about it and waste my life banging my head against the wall.
2. Sell my wretched ATI X800 on ebay and buy an nVidia one.
3. Just sigh and write off the $30ish I wasted for a year of Cedega and boot into Windows for games.
Unless anyone has any great suggestions I'm opting for 3 atm... :(