Games

[Husse]

Please give some facts about your system
Which version of Mint?
What hardware - above all which graphics chip
There used to be an issue with ATI being able to either use compiz or play games, not both

[McLovin]

Husse is right, what graphics card do you have, and have you installed the drivers for it?

[Alpha-Geek]

Here is some info:
* Intel Core Duo T2400 / 5 Mb Cache / 1.83 GHz / 667 MHZ FSB
* 15.4" Wide-screen XGA Display with Truelife
* 120 Gb 5400 rpm Sata Hard Drive
* 1 Gb DDR2 SDRAM / 553 MHZ
* 256 Mb ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 Hyper memory
* Windows XP Media Center
* 9 - Cell Battery

Have you tried using the latest version of Envy to install the latest video driver?

[Lantesh]

Go to Tombuntu and download a utility called compiz-switch. This little utility turns the compiz 3D effects on and off. Make sure before launching any games that you have compiz switched off. I had horrible crashing problems with games before trying this, and now my games never crash.

[Lantesh]

My mistake. Tombuntu only linked to the file on Forlong's Blog. Here it is.

The page - http://forlong.blogage.de/article/pages/Compiz-Switch
The file - http://blogage.de/files/1393/download?c ... u_i386.deb

[Lantesh]

Hey your welcome. I do hope you can get your ATI driver to install correctly though. Compiz-fusion is really nice to have turned on when you are not playing games. I only turn it off for gaming. Most of the time I leave it turned on. You will however need your ATI driver's working properly to enjoy compiz. In any case I'm glad you got your games running.