Le blog de Jean David TECHER, un Réunionnais à Saint-Priest/Lyon

A pretty amazing/classical MMO. Its main Web Site is http://www.arcgames.com/fr/games/forsaken-world

1. Video (Youtube)

2.Prerequisites: subscription and installer

• Subscribe on arcgame website http://www.arcgames.com
• Download the installer from http://www.perfectworld.com/arc/download. As of 19-Dec-2015 the file to download is ArcInstall_v20140625a.exe

3.Prerequisites: winetricks

AFAIR to get this game to work I did something like this

winetricks -q allfonts riched20 ie8 d3dcompiler_43 d3dx9

• riched20: required so the Arc.exe can install the launcher of this game
• ie8: required by the launcher of this game and to fix a couple of issues

4. Install the game

• Set up a new WINEPREFIX, run winecfg etc....
• Run the installer

  wine ArcInstall_v20140625a.exe

Once the main launcher is started than choose the game you want to installer (Forsaken World). The main launcher will download and install the game. Once you launch the game then the game is able to download the latest patches before you can really play as shown in video above

5. Tips to know (Sound , Path to Arc.exe and Black Screen)

• Sound

  First time you launch the game you may hear nothing. While in-game open the menu options and click on the check-box to get sound to work.

• Path to Arc.exe (Main launcher)

  cd "${WINEPREFIX}/drive_c/Program Files/Perfect World Entertainment/Arc/"
  wine Arc.exe

• Black Screen

  To avoid black screen once you have clicked on the "BIG" button "PLAY" then move your mouse to draw circle. It seems that the game requires a few enthropy.

In September 2014 youtuber Yaroslav Andrusyak uploaded a video for this game. This Saturday 19-Dec-2015 I took decision to redo the same kind of video to see how performances are compared to the previous version of Gallium-Nine | RadeonSI.

Here is the video

Winetricks

As a simple reminder to install this game I did something like this (I didn't exactly remember what is useless|usefull)

winetricks -q d3dcompiler_43 vcrun2010 xact_jun2010 d3dx9 riched20 usp10

Steam and its dependancies (fake installations)

1. To let Steam believe that dependancies are installed just do this
   • Write a temporary registry file

     cat << _EOF_ > poe.reg
     REGEDIT4
     
     [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Valve\Steam\Apps\CommonRedist\vcredist\2010]
     "x86"=dword:00000001
     
     [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Valve\Steam\Apps\CommonRedist\DirectX\Jun2010]
     "dxsetup"=dword:00000001
     

   • Load this file

     regedit poe.reg

2. Now install Steam as usual

   winetricks --no-isolate steam

Tips to know (Sound)

If you launch the game for the first time then you may hear nothing. Go to your options and choose "...PulseAudio..Software" instead of "..PulseAudio...HardWare..."

This game works out-of-the-box. Nothing to install except Steam!

This is the version from playbns.com. This is a update of a ticket I wrote on 12-Feb-2015. Its content should be almost the same

Winetricks

winetricks -q vcrun2005sp1 corefonts

Sound

To get sound to work

• Download openal32.dll from Internet (Google is your friend)
• Put it in ${WINEPREFIX}/drive_c/windows/system32
• Set it as "native" using winecfg

Video (Youtube)