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#1 2008-09-10 18:30:58

BeholdMyGlory
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Age of Empires 2 with wine

I've installed Age of Empires 2 with wine on my laptop.
The installation itself seemed to go smooth, but when running the game, the screen gets corrupted(is that a correct use of that word?)
The weird thing is that when i take a print screen of the game, it shows up as it should. You can compare these two, the first one is what I see when I try to play the game, and the other is a screendump:

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/6710/dsc00800yp9.jpg
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/4674 … respj0.png

Anyone know why this is? If you need to know anything such as specs or something, just ask.

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#2 2008-09-10 18:57:16

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Re: Age of Empires 2 with wine

I tried to install a simple pong game for windows, when launching it, it corrupts the screen just like AOE2. I tried using virtual desktop, and it seems that the games corrupts the whole screen, not just the game itself.

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#3 2008-09-10 18:58:00

byte
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Re: Age of Empires 2 with wine

I saw the same effect with Catalyst 8.6-8.8 and Starcraft/Wine. First workaround was to use Catalyst 8.5 but then I got issues with some other games and after the 2.6.25->2.6.26 kernel upgrade 8.5 ceased to work.
The next workaround was to use Google. I think what solved it was to configure an 'odd' resolution in xorg.conf, 1401x1050 instead of 1400x1050 (19" CRT).

But then, I'm using [testing] and catalyst 8.8 doesn't work with xorg-server 1.5, so I had to switch to the open source driver. That one works fine without any workarounds, albeit quite a bit slower.


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#4 2008-09-10 19:20:23

BeholdMyGlory
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Re: Age of Empires 2 with wine

byte wrote:

I think what solved it was to configure an 'odd' resolution in xorg.conf, 1401x1050 instead of 1400x1050 (19" CRT).

Exactly what section should i put that in, and exactly what should i write? It doesn't seem to say anything about resolution anywhere in my xorg.conf.
I am using the Catalyst driver, with a resolution of 1280x800, do you think it would fix it if I chose 1281x800 for example in my xorg.conf?

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#5 2008-09-19 09:13:31

FirstWizardZorander
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Re: Age of Empires 2 with wine

There is a weird workaround for this. I experienced the same problems with Jedi Academy. The solution was to make wine use a virtual desktop and switching to a lower resolution with <ctrl><alt>-/+, start the game and restore the resolution. Switching resolutions like this also fixes the screen corruption with blender.

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#6 2008-09-19 10:24:39

byte
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Re: Age of Empires 2 with wine

The bug should have been finally fixed in Catalyst 8.9. Just wait for the package and we'll see.


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