Problem with Guild Wars in Ubuntu Linux
Posted on 2006-06-11 at 15:25
So, I got Cedega running nicely under the latest version of Ubuntu, but when I installed Guild Wars (a seamless install process!) it told me that my video card was undetectable and asked me if I wanted to continue or cancel. When I selected Continue, it hung indefinately. This was a problem.
The fix was straightforward, though. I set my Cedega app to run games in a window, then when I entered the game and the error popped up, I hit Continue and it showed me the screen. I set the video up manually there, then exited to save the changes to disk. Then I restarted Cedega (not sure I needed to, but I did) and changed the Cedega optiosn to open full screen again. Viola! All was fine.
What was the problem, you ask? Many modern games have all sorts of card-specific commands they utilize to take advantage of native card performance. Cedega, however, only shows them a generic card, so the game could not detect the card properly. The video was all skewed and the result was what looked like a black screen. In the window mode, however, I could see that the screen was there and running, but in a small corner of the open window. Manually setting the video options to what I want saved them to disk so that the next time the game was opened it didn't try to detect the card and change the settings. All worked fine after that.
If you have a similar problem, I hope this helps.