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Playing Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Under Ubuntu Linux

Alex — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:45:08 +0000

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install wine1.2
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks vcrun2005
sh winetricks d3dx9
wine regedit

under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine, create key Direct3D if it doesn’t already exist
inside Direct3D create the following values:
- string: DirectDrawRenderer value: opengl
- string: OffscreenRenderingMode value: fbo
- string: RenderTargetLockMode value: auto
- string: UseGLSL value: readtex
- string: VideoMemorySize value: (video card memory size in MB)

Sound Problems With Urban Terror, Pulseaudio and Ubuntu Karmic

Alex — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:01:54 +0000

I fixed it by installing libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio (which replaces libsdl1.2debian-alsa). So it might be worth a try if you get sound problems with any other programs.

Source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/372843

You know Flash is inefficient when ..

Alex — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:55:13 +0000

…DOOM 1, a 15 year old game converted to flash, is jerky on a fairly recent computer.

It’s still worth a try, play now.