Trying to make this thread appear...

I tried posting this in the quake forum, but it would never show up... okay... now posting only half of it allows it to show...

This is what I wrote to support. There are 4 more images I could attach but the forum wont allow 600 kb files for some reason.

I keep getting "Winsock IPX bind failed" when I try to launch Quake. I have attached some photos of the errors I first got when I tried to launch quake. Why do more of you games not have Ubuntu support? I mean, you can easily make them ALL support Linux far as I have heard.

The non IPX bind fail images can be seen on post #10 here https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2378164

The IPX bind fail image can be found on post #11

I DO NOT KNOW IF THE MODS ARE INSTALLED! I have not downloaded mods from other sites. I prefer vanilla.

Below are the instructions that I wrote and followed when I tried to install my AMD drivers, then WIne, then Quake. Below those instructions are notes from trying to get all this working.

I made a thread about it here. The last post on the first page and first post on the second page are the only ones currently important.
All previous post are worthless as I have reloaded everything.

And why are the no DETAILED instructions on how to do this? That is why I wrote the instructions below, because all the instructions I have seen are crap and don't include basic details.

This is the thread.
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2378164&page=2

Now I am following the instructions I have thus far set forth:

ALWAYS TYPE IN COMMANDS!!! DO NOT COPY AND PASTE THEM!!! THEY DO NOT WORK WHEN YOU COPY AND PASTE THEM!!! AND DO NOT INCLUDE THE QUOTATION MARKS WHEN YOU ENTER THE COMMANDS INTO THE TERMINAL WINDOW!!!
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Instructions for installing AMD GPU drivers.

1) I download the driver file from http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Driver-for-Linux-Release-Notes.aspx

Go down to the part where it says Ubuntu file. At the time of this writing it looked like “AMDGPU-Pro Driver Version 17.40 for Ubuntu 16.04.3”

I download the file directly to the temporary folder I made on my desktop. But you can also copy and paste the downloaded file to a temporary folder. I called my folder “AMD driver” or something like that.

2) STAY ONLINE!

3) Right click on the downloaded file and select “extract here” (once it is in its own folder)

4) Right click on home screen and open terminal window. Paste “dpkg -l amdgpu-pro” into the terminal. This tells me if any AMD drivers are installed. None were. Great!

5) Right click ON THE WINDOW OF THE FOLDER THAT CONTAINS THE DOWNLOADED AND EXTRACTED DRIVER!!! and then left click open terminal in the menu that shows.

6) In my case I inserted “cd amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261” into the command terminal. In your case you will replace the “17.40-492261” with whatever number is on the file name.

7) Then put “./amdgpu-pro-install –y” into the command terminal and hit enter. Then hit enter and typed in my password (the password will not show when you type it in!). Be patient. Don’t do anything until you see your user name ( it will be in color) again.

8) Then type in “sudo reboot”. You can be offline for this part.

9) After restarting and logging in, right click on the home screen and type “groups”. It will show some data

10) Then type “sudo usermod -a -G video $LOGNAME”. Type in your password again when prompted. (it will not show as you type it!). It will seem as though nothing happened. I think this is normal. Now log out and log in again.

11) And I think that is it!

These instructions are a modified version of the instructions found here http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Install.aspx and are to be used for Ubuntu and AMD drivers.

Now to instal WINE. Instructions on how. Stay online while doing this.

1) Right click on the home screen and select open terminal window.

2) Type “sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386” into the terminal window. Type in your password when asked for it and hit enter. It will seem like nothing happened.

3) Then type in “wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key” and hit enter.

4) Then type in “sudo apt-key add Release.key” and hit enter. It will say OK.

5) Then type in “sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/” and hit enter. It will seem like it did nothing.

6) Then type in “sudo apt-get update” and hit enter. Some stuff will happen.

7) Then type in “sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-stable” and hit enter. You want the stable version if you are reading this. Select Yes. And a bunch of stuff will happen. Be patient and don’t do anything until your username appears again in color. Close the terminal window.

Now to install Quake from GOG.com

1) Download Quake from GOG.com after you buy it.
2) Put it in a folder and name the folder “Quake”

3) Right click on the file and hover the cursor over “open with”.

4) Then click on “Wine Windows Program Loader”.

5) Install the Gecko and Mono stuff when promted. Just click “Install”

7) When I figure out how to get all the error to stop I will finish writing this.

Instilation odyssey notes:

Didn't think they were duplicate anyway. I reloaded Ubuntu and am starting over from scratch. I would like to note, before I begin, that when reinstalling Ubuntu, one time it froze up right after the part where you click restart to finish the install. It had some black page with white letters and digits and stuff in the upper right corner. Anyway, I redid the install and that didn't happen.

Please sticky this. It will help many newbies like me.

1) This time I installed the Ubuntu 16.04.3 AMD drivers for my RX560
a) I did what this page said http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Install.aspx
b) on the part where it says to extract, just make a new folder and paste the downloaded file there, then right click on it and select "extract here". Don't bother with the command line junk in this part.
c) Where it says install... right click on the window of the folder you extracted the tar file into. Do not right click on the home screen! Right click on the folder window! Then select open terminal.
Insert (don't include the quotation marks!) "cd amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261" and hit enter. The AMD website is outdated on this little part. When you insert this command look at the extracted file name. If this is outdated by the time you read this then insert "cd amdgpu-pro-NN.NN-NNNNNN" where you replace the N's with the exact number on the file just like I did earlier in this paragraph.
d) then insert " ./amdgpu-pro-install -y" into the terminal window.
e) then very carefully insert your password. As you type it your cursor will not move nor will the password show. When you have it correctly typed in then hit enter. Make sure you are online then hit enter. The first time i did this I was not online when I hit enter and it was not able to complete the task after hitting enter. In this case I went online, then typed "./amdgpu-pro-install -y" in again and hit enter. Much more stuff happened this time.
f) then type in "sudo reboot" and hit enter again and your computer will restart

Personally, after reboot I opened a terminal window and entered “dpkg -l amdgpu-pro” to see if it had all gone well.

I got “u75@75:~$ dpkg -l amdgpu-pro
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii amdgpu-pro 17.40-492261 amd64 Meta package to install amdgpu Pr”

I don’t know if that is good or bad. I guess since I got lower case it is all good? I was worred about the part where I tried to install it while I was not on the net. As some files were not installed due to me not being on the net when I first entered “./amdgpu-pro-install -y” I was worried that I duplicated the files that were installed. What are you supposed to do if a AMD GPU driver is already installed and shows when you enter “ dpkg -l amdgpu-pro”? Did I screw up?

g) Okay, So, I worried that I screwed up. So, after reading farther down on that page I learned I could undo everything by simply inserting “amdgpu-pro-uninstall”. So I did! Yay! Now I can restart this the RIGHT way!

REDO!!! ALWAYS TYPE IN COMMANDS!!! DO NOT COPY AND PASTE THEM!!! THEY DO NOT WORK WHEN YOU COPY AND PASTE THEM!!! AND DO NOT INCLUDE THE QUOTATION MARKS WHEN YOU ENTER THE COMMANDS INTO THE TERMINAL WINDOW!!!

This is what I am doing now!

1) I am redownloading the driver file from http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Driver-for-Linux-Release-Notes.aspx

Go down to the part where it says Ubuntu file. At the time of this writing it looked like “AMDGPU-Pro Driver Version 17.40 for Ubuntu 16.04.3”

I download the file directly to the temporary folder I made on my desktop. But you can also copy and paste the downloaded file to a temporary folder

2) This time I will stay online!

3) Right click on the downloaded file and select “extract here”

4) Right click on home screen and open terminal window. Paste “dpkg -l amdgpu-pro” into the terminal. This tells me if any AMD drivers are installed. None were. Great!

5) Right click ON THE WINDOW OF THE FOLDER THAT CONTAINS THE DOWNLOADED AND EXTRACTED DRIVER!!! and then left click open terminal in the menu that shows.

6) In my case I inserted “cd amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261” into the command terminal. In your case you will replace the “17.40-492261” with whatever number is on the file name.

7) Then I put “./amdgpu-pro-install –y” into the command terminal and hit enter. It failed the first two times because I pasted it into the terminal instead of typing it in.

8) Then I hit enter and typed in my password (the password will not show when you type it in!)

9) Now I will re-enter “amdgpu-pro-uninstall” to start all over again :(

10) Now I am redoing 1-8. This time I am TYPING it all in.

11) Then type in “sudo reboot” and be patient while it restarts. You can be offline for this part.
12) Then I right clicked on the home screen, selected open terminal, and typed in “groups” and got some info

13) Then I typed in “sudo usermod -a -G video $LOGNAME” and then typed in my password. It will seem as though nothing happened. I think that is normal.

14) Now, log out and then in again

15) I am redoing everything AGAIN just to make sure. Don’t want to waste time going forward if it is done wrong. Type right click on the home page and click open terminal. Then I type “amdgpu-pro-uninstall”. Then I reboot.

After this I did what is shown in the instructions above.

I noticed that if I type quake into the system search bar I get a file that looks like a toolbox and says "Quake (Software Model)". If I click on it it sorta runs, but at a very low resolution, and VERY slow at a higher resolution. I am guessing wine fixes the resolution? How do you play it in 1080?