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I have recently purchased the Orange Box (mostly because of Crossover computability) and have gotten it installed on CXGames 7. Steam seams to be working fine with only the occasional error that can be easily fixed with reloading. HL2 and Episode 1 I know don't work with CXGames 7 (shows the loading screen then crashes) so I'm not going to worry about that. HL2 Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2 all do the same thing when I try to run them. First my screen goes blank then it shows the game in the task bar while using a newly adapted resolution (same as the games?) then the resolution goes back to normal with the window where the game should be having just a screen of that previous desktop of bad resolution. No loading screen at all! I then have to force quit the game or wait a while for it to crash, though I don't have to reset the bottle and Steam is still running fine. (If running Compiz Fusion instead of Metacity I get a warped and blurry view of whatever is running in an alternate desktop. I switch from CF to Metacity using the CF Icon for trying to run this game.)

ATI Radeon 2600 512MB using Proprietary driver
AMD Phenom 2.5 quadcore
4GB Ram
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron 64 bit
Win 2000 bottle (default set my CX)

--Jedi Knight 2 I can run at full graphics with little errors in a Win 2000 (or possibley XP. Can,t remember which) with no configuring at all. Just installed and played, though I do get the screen flickering with CF.

Also my Steam system information says my DX driver version is 6.14.10.6764. Shouldn't it be 7, 8, or 9? Plus how do your run dxdiag? I tried typing it into run but nothing happened. Do I have to download and install DX directly from M$ instead of the one auto installd by CX?

Try setting the resolution manually. Right click the game then go Properties>Launch options. Add (for example) "-fullscreen -width 1024 -height 768" and it will set the resolution to 1024x768.

You don't need to install Direct X, CrossOver works by implementing it's own separate APIs to mimic Direct X. This is why a copy of windows is not needed when you install CX. Direct X 9.0 works in Crossover, but it's incredibly slow and laggy to the point of being unplayable. The team is apparently trying to see what they can do to improve these issues.

For now, I'd just run in DirectX 8.1 or 8.0 by adding "-dxlevel 80" or "-dxlevel 81" in that same launch window mentioned above.

All that happened was dxlevel81 made my broken game take several minutes to load and dxlevel 80 made it take a matter of seconds instead of the standard 20 or so. Setting full screen made it so I had to use a different desktop to quit the game.

Trying to command each game HL2 plays the loading vids then crashes as normal. Episode One does nothing, and Episode 2, Portal, and TF2 all give the error "Setup file 'gameinfo.txt' doesn't exist in subdirectory 'hl2'. Check your game parameter or VCONFIG setting."

Does anyone else have those files and if so could you paste the contents of the TF2 one for me to test?

All that is in the hl2 subdirectory for TF2 is the folder "media" which contains "startupvids.txt" and "valve.bik" if you want to compare to your working one.

Regarding the dx driver: The version is the driver version. The 7, 8, 9 is the directx version the driver and card implements, which is a different thing.

CrossOver doesn't have a dxdiag, and usually you don't need it. If you really want to run dxdiag, you have to install the dx runtime into the bottle. However, dxdiag won't do anything interesting, other than telling you that many DLLs aren't Microsoft's(which is correct, since CrossOver has its own implementations). You could run the D3D test, but since Jedi Knight runs it is pretty sure that your 3D driver is installed properly.

I am afraid you're running into some fglrx driver problem here. fglrx works with HL2 and TF2 for me on my radeon X1600, but things could be different on your card. Also make sure you're running the latest driver, and disable 3D desktop effects.

Silly me I didn't modify my sound for ubuntu so wine and CX weren't with sound. I updated that and have gotten the sound test to work with wine and more surprisingly Portal (with no launch settings) now plays the valve logo then displays the powered by source screen (which it didn't before) before either crashing or freezing. I still have no audio though and sound test for wine config in CX all fail.

--Jedi Knight now has no audio.

-Edit-
Undid my previous work with the audio and now I have sound for Jedi Knight and Steam Apps (which I never had before) plus the vids for Portal still play which they didnt used to though the game still crashes.