Hello, this is my first post here, so I don't know if this is the correct section, move if is not please.
As the title suggest, I'm having quite a big problem with some old school games on my (also) old school laptop, I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 equipped with an outstanding ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 with 64mb of VRAM and a wapping Intel Centrino Duo T2300 @1.66Ghz with 2GB DDR2 Dual Channel for hardcore... office applications, I used to have a very much powerful desktop PC but since the pandemic begin and I lost my job and due to that I had to sell it to pay the bills, so I had to return to this old laptop that was laying around in my closet for more than a decade, it is amazing how resistant this thing is because I just connected it and it turned on with the old fashion Windows XP still running, and it was running old games with no problems at all, but I was having a lot of problems with web browsers and stuff because as everyone knows XP is cold dead since a long time ago so I made the decision to migrate to some Linux distro, specifically Lubuntu 18.04 x86 which works great with the latest Firefox version and with some tweaks I also could get YouTube and Netflix working smoothly with 720p videos, what is great since this computer is so limited compared to today's standards, but something was missing and it was the games, the I made some investigation and learned how to use Wine and run Windows apps, actually I play World of Warcraft WoTLK with no glitches at all but for other games I had to use PlayOnLinux, with the first ones like Fable: The lost Chapters I just followed the instructions and everything went fine, but things started to become weird with games like Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Halo: Combat Evolved, both games run but when they start the graphics on screen go bananas, I don't know how to explain the issue so just watch the screen caps and judge for yourselves:
Before you ask I already used different Wine versions and tried to install DirectX9 with the same results, the thing is that on XP it used to work nice and smooth with no problems at all and I don't use dual boot because I made a clean install of Lubuntu and I don't want to start from scratch again and restart my computer anytime I want to play. Sorry for extending me too long here, I hope someone can lend me a hand, thanks for reading and have a nice day or night depending of your time zone lol.
As the title suggest, I'm having quite a big problem with some old school games on my (also) old school laptop, I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 equipped with an outstanding ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 with 64mb of VRAM and a wapping Intel Centrino Duo T2300 @1.66Ghz with 2GB DDR2 Dual Channel for hardcore... office applications, I used to have a very much powerful desktop PC but since the pandemic begin and I lost my job and due to that I had to sell it to pay the bills, so I had to return to this old laptop that was laying around in my closet for more than a decade, it is amazing how resistant this thing is because I just connected it and it turned on with the old fashion Windows XP still running, and it was running old games with no problems at all, but I was having a lot of problems with web browsers and stuff because as everyone knows XP is cold dead since a long time ago so I made the decision to migrate to some Linux distro, specifically Lubuntu 18.04 x86 which works great with the latest Firefox version and with some tweaks I also could get YouTube and Netflix working smoothly with 720p videos, what is great since this computer is so limited compared to today's standards, but something was missing and it was the games, the I made some investigation and learned how to use Wine and run Windows apps, actually I play World of Warcraft WoTLK with no glitches at all but for other games I had to use PlayOnLinux, with the first ones like Fable: The lost Chapters I just followed the instructions and everything went fine, but things started to become weird with games like Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Halo: Combat Evolved, both games run but when they start the graphics on screen go bananas, I don't know how to explain the issue so just watch the screen caps and judge for yourselves:
Before you ask I already used different Wine versions and tried to install DirectX9 with the same results, the thing is that on XP it used to work nice and smooth with no problems at all and I don't use dual boot because I made a clean install of Lubuntu and I don't want to start from scratch again and restart my computer anytime I want to play. Sorry for extending me too long here, I hope someone can lend me a hand, thanks for reading and have a nice day or night depending of your time zone lol.