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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:51 pm    Post subject: [solved] Diablo 3 - xf86-video-ati Reply with quote

Hi,

I just installed the d3 beta with wine. After patching wine the installation was successful, but when I start the game I get the "your graphic hardware is too old :p"-message. Is there any way to play d3 with the open source radeon drivers (xf86-video-ati with KMS)?

Or will there be in the future. Does anyone know which features the xf86-video-ati driver is missing and/or if those features are on the 'todo' list?

I know that I could use the fglrx-drivers, but since my system is running totally fine now and installing fglrx is a major pain in the ***, I would rather install windows on a separate partition..


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Teegrins, danielcb!

Unfortunately, I know very little about using ATI graphics with Linux and I know about Diablo 3 even less (except for that it looks like Diablo 2 with a quick glance), so I don't really have any tips on it specifically. I would like to suggest you to, if you haven't yet, check the #winehq channel at irc.freenode.net where many a knowledgeable person oft dwell.


Good luck!
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, how old is your graphics card to begin with?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

With graphics card that needs xf86-video-ati drivers and cant use ati-drivers (fglrx) I dont think it will be playable.

ps: what tutorial did u use to run D3? thanx
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Caicos [Radeon HD 6450]


Not one that is on Blizzards list.

And for D3: there are two patches on the winehq bugtracker. Without them I couldn't install the game.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanx for the patches, if u have HD 6450 why not use fglrx driver? U should get better performance with that.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A shot in the dark, but do you have media-libs/libtxc_dxtn installed? It adds some additional functions to Mesa that some games want, but it's patented and can't be added to it.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Etal! After installing media-libs/libtxc_dxtn it works.

@tomtomp because I really like the idea of opensource drivers and because I like KMS. Also I used fglrx in the past and got screenfreezes, kernel panics and the like.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What system are you running DIII on and how is the performance?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've got very bad performance and _very_ low framerates. It's not playable, but I think that might be, because of the xf86-video-ati drivers?

My system:
Intel Core2Duo E8400 3.00 Ghz
ATI Radeon HD 6400 2GB DDR RAM
4GB RAM

Although not a super fast gaming system, it should be more than enough for good framerates on reasonable settings.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hm... thanks.
I have a 512MB nvidia gforce 8400gs. I hope that is enough for DIII.
Will have to try once I got it.
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PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2012 9:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So... I'm probably out of luck with my good old GMA4500 onboard graphics... :lol:
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