Ubuntu + ATI + Gaming is not working for me >.<

[RussianWizard]

Alright I have run into quite a dilemma. I have an ATI 3870 video card and I'm running ubuntu 8.10 with wine 1.1.13. I have tried to run games such as TF2, CSS, and COD4. TF2 is the only one that would play, but it lagged horrendously on medium settings in DirectX 8. I can't even get Warcraft 3 to run properly on this machine, even though my laptop with an integrated Intel card (specs in the sig) that's running the same config runs it fine. I have followed all the guides and tweaks possible for these games, and i've read through all of the appdb pages. The rest of my system specs are also in my sig, and this machine can play the latest and greatest games on high settings in windows. I don't expect to play games with the highest settings in ubuntu, but I at least want to play them without crashing or lagging >.<

[coopstah13]

have you set it so the games will use opengl? I know TF2 and CSS have this possible(-opengl to startup properties of game), not sure about CoD4.

[RussianWizard]

TF2 and CSS only work with DirectX, and WC3 has rendering problems regardless if it's using opengl or directx. I've also tried wine doors and still no luck.

[kr0nik]

try installing steam with wine and running the games with that. also, try running the games from terminal but using winedebug="fixme-all" wine game.exe

[coopstah13]

Are you sure the drivers are properly installed? What do you get when you enter this in terminal

glxinfo | grep -i direct

Also, ATI has only recently entered the linux world with their drivers, support is coming along, but its still nothing compared to nvidia.

[RussianWizard]

Are you sure the drivers are properly installed? What do you get when you enter this in terminal

glxinfo | grep -i direct

Also, ATI has only recently entered the linux world with their drivers, support is coming along, but its still nothing compared to nvidia.

When I type that in, it says thats it's enabled. I ran cedega and it failed the hardware acceleration test how would i go about enabling hardware acceleration?

[RussianWizard]

bump, any ideas on how i can enable 3d acceleration?

[coopstah13]

3d acceleration should be enabled as long as the drivers are properly installed, since you say the output from before was that direct rendering=yes, it should be enabled, something is wrong, you should try reinstalling the driver or something