Guest Adriano Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 I'm having trouble with 3d gaming. Since yesterday (when I did some serious ****up of fstab but managed to come out relatively unscathed) Enemy Territory, Warcraft 3, and RTCW have stopped working for my user. However, they run if I login as root (but not if I su[code] from a user console). I can run glxgears as my user, and no errors are displayed when I checked .xsession-errors. The symptoms: When the level of each game starts loading, the game starts to wildly access the disk (paging?). In warcraft's case, I could see from a console that numerous processes with the same name had spawned (wine /usr/local/...). With wolfsp and et this doesn't happen, but the games start paging and if I kill them or wait until they die, the mouse is frozen. I even tried running wolfsp with the sound disabled, to rule that variable out. same result. I am now downloading the newest kernel (not that I should change it because of this) and will try reinstalling the driver (as I must if I want the new kernel to see any 3D). Any pointers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 If they are working if you run them as root, just outr of curiosity, have you tried creating another user and then run the game? Maybe something in your profile is messing things up? I like your nickname btw. "El pollo Diablo". Very funny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Awright, here's the situation so far: - I deleted my ET and Wolf profiles, and they are working again. - I still have the same problem with Warcraft, partly because I do not know what to erase and what not to. Methinks a fresh install would solve this, but it goes against my linuxy nature. - Yes, it is a problem with my user. Everybody else can use the games as usual... GRR. -"El pollo diablo" is taken from "The Curse of Monkey Island", the 3rd game in the Monkey Island series. Very funny indeed :) - I'll try again with warcraft, this time with a bit more detail. I hope to be able to change the subtitle of this thread to "FIXED" by the next time I post here. Still, I'd like to know what the hell was going on here (no offense to anyone). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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