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This game is both available on Steam and Aeria Games Web Sites. Its installation on Linux using Wine is quite similar to installation of Scarlet Blade.

There are a couple issues for this game. I will try to add more information in this article when I get more time

Based on my own experience I was able to install and to patch it. Below are two videos

Video 1: PVE - Players vs Environment

Video 2: PVP -Player vs Player

• [-]To be honest I read a lot of tests about this game on the Web. This game is not really popular, sadly developped, sadly maintained. It is a P2W (Play To Win). Well I played this game. I don't really know what is the "FEAR experience". I didn't play any game from FEAR serie before

  There are two servers:
  1. USA: 1
  2. Europe: 1
• [+]I didn't buy nothing. I played only for the fun.
• [+]I played for a couple of hours. Players I found for matches I did were pretty cool :). Perhaps I was pretty lucky while I was playing but it was pretty fun :).
• [+] I got nice FPS while playing
• [-]Even if I was able to play it using Wine there are a couple of issue to take into account.
  • You can't do the tutorial due to a couple of issues. At least you can missions, play a couple of matches
  • You have to rewrite the setting.cfg before running the game by setting "Gamma" to "1,0000" to avoid black screen. I don't really know why but "Gamma" parameter is reset to 0,0000 or 0,990000 once you quit the game.

    vim $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/AeriaGames/FEAROnline/FEAR_Online/settings.cfg

    And update set gamma to 1

    Gamma" "1.000000"

  I will try to redo another video later when I get free time.

But once you are in match versus other players it was really pretty cool. It was really funny!

http://playbns.com

• Go to http://playbns.com
• Set "Language" to "English" in the top left and corner
• Subcribe , download etc...

Youtube Video

Winetricks

winetricks vcrun2005sp1 corefonts

Tips to know

To get sound to work download openal32.dll from Internet and set it as "native" using winecfg

UPDATE 02/12/2015: This game is available on Steam since 02/12/2015

Youtube - Video

This is a pretty nice game. Unfortunately it is quite difficult to find gamers to play online. In video below I play vs I.A.

Subscribe to gameengame.com Steam

• Go to http://www.gamengame.com/games/online-game-media.asp?online-game-no=111
• Subscribe and download the installer

Winetricks - Prerequisites

• Install Steam

  winetricks --no-isolate-steam

• Install the requirements

  winetricks d3dcompiler_43 d3dx9 vcrun2008sp1 vcrun2010 mfc42

Tips to know

• Compared to the video above set up a virtual desktop. There is a transparent windows issue for the launcher ( as shown in video 00:17 - 00:21). If you use a virtual desktop then it should fix it.
• This game used Unigine. There is the well-known glicth for "Red Wall" using Gallium Nine. To fix it set "Effect" in option to its lowest value (video: 01:08 - 01:11)

There are interesting links to read

• https://bugs.wine-staging.com/show_bug.cgi?id=40
• https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/pull/303#issuecomment-72321139

That should be pretty nice to see GalliumNine being pushed in Wine-Staging. In a nutshell once you read links above you may understand that it requires a lot of work

• rewritte the code

The second part written below is my own opinion so could be really useless to read

I used one of my PC for Mesa/GalliumNine. This is a dedicated PC only for this project. To be honest this is really cool when you notice that you can play your favorite games using Open Source Driver and AMD Card -- I am speaking for AMD users here --. It does not mean that it works all time and it does not mean that you may have interesting FPS for all games.

For the 4 past years I tested a lot of games (Windows) using wine and my GTX 680 -- NVIDIA Card hard-moded to GRID K2 --. I used my own AMD cards for perhaps one or two months to play only a couple of games. To be more precisedI did this because I worked on Xen VGA PassThrough -- to be able to access my own AMD graphic card for my virtual machine --. I discovered GalliumNine in October, 2014.

Gallium Nine is really interesting! This is from my own point of vue. Wine developers shared another point of view. Quite understandable!