ATI Mobility Radeon X1700 and FPS Games

I have to use my personal laptop with Vista for a while... It happens... and one thing that never worked properly was the graphic card, an ATI’s Mobility Radeon™ X1700 .

To get it working properly with my FPS games (Enemy Territory and Quake Wars), I had to follow this tutorial.

Enemy Territory - To Do's for Ubuntu

My favourite site to download ET stuff :) It has the executables, the patches and some hints and tips :)


Plus you should download etpatch 2.60b and follow the instructions :)

In Ubuntu there are a couple of things that you might have to do.

• If you don't have sound when launching the game, do:

echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss

• If PB kicks you "by game violation integrity" then go to $INSTALATION_PATH_FOR_ET/pb/ and run pbweb.x86. Then go to your $HOME and do rm -fr .etwolf/pb (to clean previous pb files). Recreate it (mkdir .etwolf/pb) and copy your files from $INSTALATION_PATH_FOR_ET/pb/ to that directory. Then run pbweb.x86 again there.

• Some ATI cards have some issues with Quake games. If you get flashes when running ET, then you have to disable compiz before running the game. Do metacity --replace & before running ET and after it, do compiz --replace &. I don't know how NVIDIA cards behave regarding to this.

You can always patch these things together in a small script, like:

#!bin/bash
# Bugz in ET:

# solve flashes
metacity --replace &

# solve sounds
sudo echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss

# run et
et

# recover graphics
compiz --replace &