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Update 3 ( Friday 09/14/012) Steam Version (no-crack) with Patch #3

• Installation: http://www.davidgis.fr/xen_wine_games/html/ch02.html

Update 2 ( Wednesday 09/09/012) : Patch #3 from Vigil Team is out on Steam. This patch was out on Friday 09-07-2012...SKIDROW version was provided in SKIDROW Web Site

. Finally I bought the game on Steam and the 3rd Patch works perfectly adn the game is very impressive. Here are the news:

• Youtube Video, posted today (09-09-2012) http://youtu.be/F_gA7RmA3n8
• I have submitted a ticket on www.winehq.org hoping it will be Ok. Unfortunately it has been rejected. Then I posted the expected instructions on several forums hoping it could help.
• Installation notes (same as provided below): http://www.davidgis.fr/download/Darksiders2.notes.txt

Update 1 ( Wednesday 08/29/012) : Patch #2 from Vigil Team is out on Steam...SKIDROW version was provided in SKIDROW Web Site

Several days have been needed so I can find the expected patches in order to play this game. I was able to play for the following resolution 1920x1080).

Notice: In order to stay compliant with reporting test on Wine Web Site, I took decision to not publish a report on http://www.winehq.org from my own tests because this is not a compliant version (Steam....). But I guess that the tests should be the same.

Test were done using a NVIDIA card GTX 560 Ti.

DarkSiders II on Ubuntu Precise 12.04.1 ( resolutions has been reduced)

Building Wine 1.5.11 using patches

1. Download Wine sources for 1.5.11 version

   wget -q http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.5/wine-1.5.11.tar.bz2 && tar xjf wine-1.5.11.tar.bz2

2. You weed to download/apply the following patches
   • RawInput Patch so the game can start up: RawInput Patch
   . Expected else the game can't start up.
   • Crysis 2 Double Buffer Patch: Crysis Double Buffer patch. This is the magical patch so I could bypass the error for CODEREVIEW

   cd wine-1.5.11
   wget http://www.davidgis.fr/download/wine/patches/raw3.patch
   wget http://www.davidgis.fr/download/wine/patches/double_buffer.patch
   patch -p1 < raw.patch
   patch -p1 < double_buffer.patch
   ./tools/make_requests
   

3. Build and install as usual

   ./configure --prefix=/opt/wine/apps/DarkSiders_2 && make && make install

Winetricks

Be sure that your winetricks file is updated or else download the lastest version.

./winetricks d3dx11_43 d3dx9_36 vcrun2010

Regedit (DirectD3D)

"DirectDrawRenderer"="opengl"
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
"VideoMemorySize"="2048"
"VideoPciDeviceID"="0x1200"
"VideoPciVendorID"="0x10de"

I don't know if VideoMemorySize, VideoPciDeviceID, VideoPciVendorID are mandatory but I am used to put these parameters. Expected values depend on your graphic card. If you've got a veryl old video card, then you will be well advised to add VideoMemorySize parameter.

Known issues - Patch is being written by Vigil Team - TESTED!

Refer to

• artifacts while playing but the game is playable
• graphical glitches from time to time but the game stays playable.

I guess that since this is the PC version developers from Vigil didn't do the expected jobs to improve graphics. But once again the game is playable and I was a bit suprised to be able to play using a high resolution. I head of Vigil Team is working on a patch to improve graphical glitches. With the patch #2 done by Vigil I have sound now for video scenes

Untested patches done by a player

All links below refer to the same patches

1. http://community.darksiders.com/go/thread/view/138731/29342419/Darksiders_II_MOD_and_Patch_v1.2_Own?pg=last&lang=fr
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svDlAQnZUJw&feature=player_embedded
5. http://www.mediafire.com/?9yb84hbxyzdvksq

• http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=4662;tips=1
• http://code.google.com/p/winetricks/issues/detail?id=220
• http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30845

X-blades et Blades of time: divers

• http://gamespcmods.blogspot.fr/2012/07/blades-of-time-mods-2012.html
• http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B001G1GAUQ/ref=dra_a_cs_mr_hn_it_P1400_1000?tag=dradis0d-21
• http://www.digioso.org/cgi-bin/download.pl?dl=136

Blood Rayne 2: mod FSAA Patch 1 et HD Textures

• Documentation/Installation: http://www.coopdb.com/modules.php?name=BR2fsaa&op=Info
• Downloads: http://www.coopdb.com/modules.php?name=BR2fsaa&op=Download

This is a follow-up to this article . New patches could be downloaded at www.davidgis.fr/download/xen-4.2_rev25240_gfx-passthrough-patchs.tar.bz2.

Due to changeset 25525, don't forget to add this parameter to your configuration file

pci_msitranslate = 1

Else when booting your domU you may have critical issues. This setting hasn't been taken into account in my patches.