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Aschere Thursday 17 November 2011 at 6:12
AschereAnonymous

Hi all,

New to Linux, looked around a lot but don't quite seem to see any other threads open on this bug, so I'll post about it and maybe someone will have some insight into what I might be able to fix.

First, the problem:
Steam installs fine and appears to run functionally (i'm still downloading some games so I haven't tested any graphic intensive games. Braid ran fine).

However, when I run steam, a black screen is created everywhere not covered by the program. If I drag the window around it acts super funky. It also acts really funky if I try to swap to another program and come back to Steam. Here is a picture of what it looks like:

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/1171/screenshotat20111116223.png

Games might run fine... but my guess is when COD finishes downloading it won't run properly at all (although that could always be another problem all together).

My computer specs:
Ubuntu v11.10
Wine v1.2.3 (installed both independently on the system and through PlayOnLinux)
Wine v1.3.28 was default installed by PlayOnLinux. I installed 1.2.3 and configured steam to run it in 1.2.3 in hopes that the mismatching versions were the problem... it wasn't.
Video Card: EVGA NVidia GTX 285
Video Driver: Nvidia Accelerated Graphics. I went through a million different installation procedures, but the one I finally settled on (after a fresh re-install of ubuntu) was the instructions here: http://mygeekopinions.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-install-nvidia-2750907-driver-in.html
Running Ubuntu in "2D" startup mode
3d acceleration/"direct rendering" enabled - checked via "glxinfo | grep direct" on command line

Any suggestions of what I should look at? Wine installs? Graphics drivers (please don't tell me this one)? PlayonLinux installs? Any specific settings to try? Any other info that might be useful in providing?

Thanks!
-Ash
GNU_Raziel Thursday 17 November 2011 at 10:13
GNU_Raziel

This problem is solved in latest unstable wine version (1.3.33-git), just wait a little more for official release and install it through PoL :)
Aschere Thursday 17 November 2011 at 22:29
AschereAnonymous

Great! Any idea of when to expect it?
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