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i like crossover games, linux and rift.
but at the moment i have to play it in windows because my graphics card(ati 6950 flashed to 6970) seems to be not supported by crossover games on linux and rift.

is there any way to get hardware rendering working on linux with this card?
i have problems with many games, wich are marked "gold status" in crossover games (modern warfare, call of juarez for example). i think this is because of my ati card

games loading and crashes immediately.
and legacy rendering looks so awful in rift.

are there problems with the ati 69xx series generally?

ps: sorry my english is not the best

This is an in GENERAL reply..

Linux drivers for ATI have not been the greatest. The OpenGL and general 2D support are just not up to the NVIDIA ones.

I am dying to try some of the new ATI/AMD cards and I don't because of this problem. I hope that their Mac partnership will advance their drivers in the future.

The only thing I can suggest is to get the latest ATI drivers which are supposed to be very good and see if that helps you out.

What distro of Linux are you running?

Well i also realised, that the ati drivers are not the best ones.
got serial problems with that card under linux but i love eyefinity(in windows) and so i am using this card.
flashing the card to a 6970 was also a reason for me to buy that thing.

i am running ubuntu 10.10 (dont want do upgrade to 11.04) and the latest catalyst 11.5 and still got many problems with games...no matter of using crossover games or not.

on my system with nvidia (1 8800ultra because sli dont work under linux i think) there are no problems.

but the 6970 is much better than the 8800 so i hope, that there will be good support in the future :)