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em4g.3ht
July 28th, 2008, 08:34 PM
Hi all, I just wanted to post a success...

I have an ati hd2900xt and I am running hardy. I installed wine to try and use some of my windows games (tf2, ut3) and nothing was working. I tried everything short of regestry hacks. Then I came across this easy guide

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Hardy_Installation_Guide

and bam! new drivers... that didn't do it.. :(

I was about to give up, but the i noticed as I looked through the settings once more, than wine was emulating xp, I thought to myseld hmmm, so I switched it to emulate vista... and BOOM! the clouds parted and the heavens opened up and I am now able to play tf2!!! (among others)

*I guess my post is to show, if you can't access steam and your playing on a newer ati card, try and switch to emulating vista*

Spydr4590
July 31st, 2008, 01:55 AM
Very much awesomeness!!!

Koosti
July 31st, 2008, 05:00 AM
Hmm... Wonder if this would also fix my problems with some Steam games. Worth a shot I guess. Going to test as soon as I finish re-installing the games.