Hi I haven't been to any lug meetings or posted for a while, I suppose the only thing really that has changed that I have to tell you all is that I finally plucked up the courage and bought a subscription to Cedega. I have had some joy getting a few old favourites going like Diablo II, Doom and the like, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
Annoyingly the latest release now supports COD4, I say annoyingly, because well, in typical fashion, not on my PC, apparently all down to the Graphics Card (an ATi x800 RX 256 Mb AGP Card), most of the test systems at Cedega seem to be nVidia, and the game runs fine - when i ran it I kept getting an error about "The hardware or driver does not support separate alpha blend" so heres where my story enters: (again there was probably a way to get the game running on the ATI card, but with all the hassle I had, and knowing that Cedega seems to like nVidia....) I went to PC world today and got myself a PNY 512Mb DDR2 nVidia graphics card. I first disabled the restricted ATI driver, rebooted, then shut down, switched off, took out the ATi card, plugged in the nVidia card, truened her back on and BOOM the big error about the x config or something comes on the screen, I didnt really know what I was doing but I have a damn good try and well its fixed but there probably coudl have been a more graceful way of doing this (if anyone can tell me what I SHOULD have done that woudl help me technical skills) but here is my way of fudging it back to working order. I simply turned off teh computer, botted it back up, stuck the original installation CD in the drive, waited till I got to a X desktop, copied the xorg.conf file from the ramdisk to the original /etc/X11 directory, after backing up all the original xorg.* files I had in there. Turned off, rebooted, and bingo. I'm back in action. I am just about to restart after enabling the restricted nVidia drivers then I am going to have another go at playing COD4.... Cya laters... -- ***** Richard Forth >>> Team Ωmega <<< http://www.aloevera-crowland.co.uk/ ================================ Do you want to work from home? Part-Time? Running your own business? With Unlimited and uncapped income potential? Call me now to find out about opportunities in your area 01363 898 136. ================================
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