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Different Pictures For Items
On my desktop I have alot of different shell files that run a game. I want to replace those ugly shell file looks on your desktop and replace it with the game's logo. Is there a way to do this?
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Is gaming on ubuntu possible (choice of games) [duplicate]
So im updating my old pc preferable for gaming.
Are the games (mainly first person shooters) on the market able to be played on Ubuntu?
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Gaming on 13.04 using more advanced drivers for Intel 3000 HD lagging?
I recently found a beta version of portal for steam. I install the beta version and started it up to find the graphics didn't look right at all. I looked through the comments from OmgUbuntu seeing ...
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Best graphics card brand/ drivers for gaming on Ubuntu?
I'm making up plans for when I eventually want to build my own gaming desktop with Ubuntu installed and use the steam client Linux version. The only thing I'm having problems with is what are the best ...
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How to download the latest NVidia GeForce drivers in Ubuntu 12.04? (x64) [duplicate]
Long-time ATI user here and I finally made the fortunate switch to a GeForce GTX 660 (Ti). I know too much about how AMD does it, so I'm wondering what's the best way to get up-to-date drivers for ...
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How to diagnose/fix TF2 performance issues, despite good FPS?
I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 with an AMD 6630M and the AMD 13.4 drivers. I run Team Fortress on Windows on the same machine, and despite getting 30-40 fps, the game is quite playable, very smooth and ...
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Open-source ATI drivers&problems with gaming
I recently installed Steam, and bought a few games, mainly to show support for games being ported to linux.
My problem is as follows:
My computer has an ATI mobility radeon HD 3400 video card, ...
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How can I play QuakeLive (or other games) on 12.04? (NO WINE)
I play a game called Quake Live (Browser Based fps).
I tried getting it to work in Chrome (Linux version) but it shows as grey screen.
I downloaded the Quakelive plugin for Linux and tried the ...
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Why can I not run paid version of braid from ubuntu software center
When I run braid in ubuntu 11.10 with:
sudo /opt/braid/braid -windowed
I get the following output:
Game Startup Error: Unable to set up graphics.
Reason: Failed to initialize OpenGL display.
To ...
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GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc error when opening a Steam game
So I was trying to play Team Fortress 2 when this message appears:
Error! Required OpenGL extension "GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc" is
not supported. Please install S3TC texture support.
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does My laptp has empty PCI slots
I am getting that I have 3 PCI Bridges.
Here goes my lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ...
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Games stuttering about every 7 minutes
Whenever I play a game on my Linux machine, it stutters every 7 minutes or so for about 5 seconds. Seems like not a serious problem but it is still a bit annoying. So any ideas on how to even trace ...
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TV doesn't support resolution for video game
I downloaded a game from Steam (run via q4wine) and installed it. When I launch it, the screen turns black and my Samsung LED television says, it doesn't support resolution and I only can exit by ...
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Does linux support Intel DVMT?
Does Linux (Ubuntu in particular) support Intel DVMT?
I've Intel i5-2500K, 8GB RAM with NO graphics card. It has inbuilt 32MB dedicated graphics memory.
In my Windows OS, graphics memory is ...
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Minecraft runs really weird in Ubuntu 12.10
When I have Vsync on my framerate is capped to 30 instead of 60. Also, when I go fullscreen the mouse seems to have really fast acceleration and the game looks really jumpy. I could run this on ...
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Ubuntu Nvidia Driver 310.14Beta Stretch OpenGL Feature
I have a HP Mini 311 running an outdated version of the Nvidia drivers (The recomended from the additional drivers option), alongside my Ubuntu 12.04.
Now the problem I am running into is the feature ...
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Games are playing but very slow response and poor graphics
The graphics memory of my notebook is 2.5 GB , 1 GB dedicated memory. After installing Ubuntu 12.04, I activated the graphics card from Applications->additional drivers. I have dual boot, all high end ...
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How stable is wow on linux?
Hi I have a very simple question for anyone who has played wow on Linux. The title says it all but how is wow on Linux running wine.
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Blob And Conquer: SDL not showing textures
This is something that has happened since I upgraded to 9.10, but hasn't got fixed yet.
I'd like you to look at Blob And Conquer and some of his screenshots, like this one:
Now, install the app ...
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Torchlight is missing some textures
I am using a Radon HD6850 and just bought the indi bundle. Torchlight is missing all face textures (and face textures only). I have had problems with shaders before (graphic would be displayed as ...
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ATI Radeon 4200 has graphics and performance issue; how to rectify?
I have a ATI Radeon 4200 graphics card. When ever I launch runescape the graphics tear and get shifted all over the place. Is there anything I can do to fix this? I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.
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What packages/programs should I install to get better graphics and performance on gaming?
So, I want to install some packages/programs to get better graphics and performance while playing a game on Ubuntu 11.10. What packages/programs you guys recommend to me?
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How to run games smoothly on my Lenovo G580?
I'm fairly new to Linux OS so go easy.
I have been trying to figure out why my frame rate rapidly spikes from 60 to 5 constantly making games unplayable for me. The games I have tried are Guild wars ...
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Couldn't find matching GLX visual (Resource temporarily unavailable)
When I execute etracer (ExtremeTuxRacer) from within a terminal all I get is:
"etracer error: Couldn't initialize video: Couldn't find matching GLX visual (Resource temporarily unavailable)"
I have ...
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Can I play MMOs on Ubuntu? [closed]
I have always been into MMOs and recently I was thinking about switching to Ubuntu.
The question is: Can Ubuntu handle mmos like World of Warcraft and SRO?
My PC has a dual core 2.8 GHz processor, 2 ...
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Can't Run Assault Cube
I installed assault cube from the Software centre and it just opens for half a second and closes. When i run in it from the terminal, this is what i get -
d@d-platform:~$ assaultcube
Using home ...
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Bastion on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit gives only a black screen
I just downloaded the Humble Bundle with the game Bastion. After installing Bastion and starting it up, only it shows first a few logos, and then only a black screen and the mouse pointer. I can here ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 crashing when playing some games [closed]
That is, Ubuntu 12.04 64 bits crashing when I play Savage, Savage2 or stunt-rally.
I have nvidia 9800 GT as graphic card, with the latest (current) driver installed from jockey.
The crash sometimes ...
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all but GUI is black
whenever i play a video game that has 3d graphics all i can see is the GUI and none of the actual rendered world... note: i'm a noob and just installed Ubuntu yesterday.
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Oil rush 11.10 install [closed]
ive just bought Oil rush and it installs just fine. Everything works until the games screen. It says firing up the engine. That works. Then loading the game. Sometimes the screen just goes black and ...
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How do I get my graphic card to work properly?
I been having some problems with my graphic card for a time now. But I had enough when I didn't get Oil Rush to work on my HP Pavilion g6. The system has suggested hardware drivers for me, but the ...
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Issues with Ragnarok Online under Wine and VMWare [closed]
I've been trying to get Ragnarok Online working under Ubuntu 11.04 with both Wine and VMWare Player, but I've had no luck getting it to run. Under VMWare it just gives me a "GFC" error, and after that ...
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“Cogs” startup problem
When I try to run the game Cogs from the command line, the game spits out the following error and dies immediately:
Couldn't set 800x600 OpenGL video mode: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
What ...
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Shader problems: Heroes of Newerth
I am getting strange "artifacts" in 3D games such as Heroes of Newerth.
I have Ubuntu Natty,
I am not running the propriety graphics driver as I am using GNOME3 and the driver does not work well.
I ...
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How do I fix a kernel and graphics driver error? (radeon open-source) [closed]
Every time I try to play a game that uses OpenGL i get this error and the game crashes and quits.
drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -12. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command stream. See dmesg for more info.
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Best graphics card to use with 10.10 [closed]
I am a gamer running on Ubuntu 10.10 with a G92 [GeForce 9800 GTX+] graphics card using the binary drivers. It runs alright, but even on simple games like teeworlds and minecraft I find they can max ...
