If you play DS2 using Wine-Staging 1.7.35 then you did a great choice since
- now the menu ingame stopped to flicker.
- if you have a xbox 360 controler then it should work out-of-the-box.
However there might be DS2 players which are not able to install wine-staging from sources. While I am writting this article I don't t really know if there is any PPA on Ubuntu to install wine-staging 1.7.35 flawlessly. That's the reason why I wrote this article.
- I built an installer which will install DLLs taken from wine-staging which may be used by any current version of wine ( DLLs for WineD3D: d3d9, wined3d and libwine to be more precised)
- All instructions to build those DLLs from wine-staging sources are provided too (this is optional).
Quick install (if you don't use wine-staging but if you use the current wine version)
Once you installed the prerequisites
winetricks -q devenum quartz wmp10
All you have to do is to download this installer
DarkSouls_2-Wine-1.7.35_WineD3D-Linux-installer_v1.2.exe and in a terminal
wine DarkSouls_2-Wine-1.7.35_WineD3D-Linux-installer_v1.2.exe
That's all!
Instructions to build these DLLS yourself
In this installer there are 6 DLLs.
- d3dcompiler_43.dll (native Windows)
- d3dx9_43.dll (native Windows)
- d3dx9_36.dll (native Windows
- d3d9.dll (from wine-staging)
- wined3d.dll (from wine-staging)
- libwine.dll (from wine-staging
3 of those DLLs are built from wine-staging so you don't have to patch your current version of wine.
However if you have the current version and don't know how to build wine-staging the best idea is to rebuild WineD3D DLLs as shown at http://wiki.winehq.org/WineD3DOnWindows
Here are the instructions I used if you want to do it yourself without using this installer
Build Wine-Staging 1.7.35
Notice: Instructions are taken from https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/wiki/Packaging
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.35.tar.bz2
wget https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/archive/v1.7.35.tar.gz
tar xvjf wine-1*.tar.bz2
cd wine-1*
tar xvzf ../v1.7.35.tar.gz --strip-components 1
./patches/patchinstall.sh DESTDIR="$(pwd)" --all
cd ..
mv wine-1.7.35 wine-staging-1.7.35
Build WineD3D DLLs
Notice:Apply instructions taken from
http://wiki.winehq.org/WineD3DOnWindows Two minors updates are just applied
MAIN_PATH=${PWD}
unset CC
rm -rf wine-tools wine-win32
mkdir -p wine-tools
cd wine-tools/
../wine-staging-1.7.35/configure --without-x
make -j4 __tooldeps__
cd ..
mkdir -p wine-win32
cd wine-win32
../wine-staging-1.7.35/configure --without-x --without-x --without-freetype \
--host=i586-mingw32msvc CFLAGS="-O2 -DWINE_NOWINSOCK" \
--with-wine-tools=${MAIN_PATH}/wine-tools/ LDFLAGS=" -static-libgcc"
make -j4 dlls/d3d9 dlls/wined3d-csmt
mkdir crossdlls
cp -vf dlls/d3d9/d3d9.dll crossdlls/
cp -vf dlls/wined3d-csmt/wined3d-csmt.dll crossdlls/wined3d.dll
cp -vf libs/wine/libwine.dll crossdlls/
for DLL in d3d9 wined3d libwine;
do
strip crossdlls/${DLL}.dll
done
Set the DLLs as native
All DLLs are located in crossdlls folder.
After this you just have
- to install the 3 native DLLs (Windows)
winetricks -q d3dcompiler_43 d3dx9_36 d3dx9_43
- to copy the 3 DLLs to your
$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/system32/ folder
cp -avf crossdlls/* $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/system32/
- to set the 3 DLLs as native using winecfg in this order
- d3d9.dll
- libwine.dll
- wined3d.dll
Finally your winecfg should be like this
