Update, after rebooting the game (COD4) now loads and plays as sweet as it did on Windows - only faster!
If interested the Graphics card I got was PNY nVidia 512 Mb DDR2 7300 GT AGP, PC World £54.99 2008/9/7 Richard Forth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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. > ================================ > -- ***** 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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