Par david techer,
dimanche 15 mars 2015 à 16:32 ::Linux Gaming
A couple of games were tested this week.
Guild Wars 2: Wine 1.7.38/ GalliumNine / Patches for this games
Wine - Sources to download
My wine sources can be downloaded at : https://www.mediafire.com/?r7drj8c8te4m8rd. In these sources I applied a couple of patches I found on the Web to fix issues for mouse while rotating around character etc...
Tips to know - if [W], [A], [S] [D] are locked while pressing, Virtual desktop and Installer crashes
Installer crashes while installing/updating/Virtual Desktop
It is higly recommended to use a virtual desktop while using the installer/launcher. While installing/updating if the game crashes then just stop the installer and relaunch it! That should do it!
Directional pad ([W],[S],[A],[D] locked)
Just rotate around your character using your mouse and click somewhere using the right click mouse. After that you should be able to use [W],[S],[A],[D]
Launcher hangs on "Initializing" for a while
This issue was noticed on 03/17/2015. The workaround is to use the following line
Source: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/SweetFX-and-Initializing-SOLVED/
A couple of users use SweetFX which is based on a modified d3d9.dll. Gallium Nine "uses" a particular d3d9.dll (I try to keep it simple here whereas it is more complicated). There was an update done on 03/17/2015. So SweetFX and Gallium Nine have the same issue. Command line above will fix it
Graphical tests
I did a couple of tests to find which graphical options were OK for GalliumNine
Default settings: graphical minor glitch
Lettings graphical options to their default values, I got decent FPS but a minor graphical glitch as showned in video below.
Guild Wars 2(Gallium Nine): Default Settings and FPS - Minor glitch
Higher settings: no more graphical glitch
Finaly I found options I need so I can fix this issue -- as showned in video below --.
Guild Wars 2(Gallium Nine): Higher Settings and FPS
Contagion(Steam): Wine-Staging 1.7.38 / Mesa Gallium3D/ CSMT / Patches for this game
For a couple of maps this game requires more than 3GB of virtual memory. So I patched my wine sources using the well-know patch to have 3GB of virtual memory. Only Mesa Gallium3D + CSMT can be used for this game. I got a issue with GalliumNine.
Afterfall Reconquest Episode 1 / Gallium Nine / ATI HD 7970
Installation: Steam tries to install Dotnet 3.5 SP1 whereas DotNet 4.0 is required (fixed!)
Issue:The real issue is that Steam will try to install DotNet 3.5 SP1 each time you want to start this game whereas Dotnet 4.0 is required and even if you installed Dotnet 3.5 SP1 before
Fix:There is a fix for this issue using a fake install.
Follow this guide and it should be OK
Set up a new WINEPREFIX using winecfg
Install steam (POL or winetricks). For winetricks use command below
winetricks --no-isolate steam
Install DotNet 4.0 and xact_jun2010 using winetricks
winetricks -q dotnet40 xact_jun2010
Launch Steam using your own credentials. Buy the game and let Steam install the game. BUT DON' START THE GAME!!!
Now we will make Steam believe that all depencies are installed (DirectX, DotNet 3.5 SP1 and vcrun2008)
Copy/Paste the following content in a file called foo.reg
Par david techer,
lundi 9 mars 2015 à 11:48 ::Linux Gaming
To install this game I just
installed steam
winetricks --no-isolate steam
I installed Dotnet 2.0 (to be honest I don't really know if it is really needed. That's what I found on winehq.org for this game. So I installed it)
winetricks -q dotnet20
Quake Live (Steam) - Mesa Gallium3D.
This game works perfectly with Open Source Drivers (Mesa 10.6.Devel/ xf86-video-ati / LLVM 3.7 SVN). You should get 110-120 FPS. With GalliumNine I got 110-120 FPS too. Here GalliumNine is useless.
I read somewhere that someone made a Linux Launcher for this game. I don't test this Linux installer. As showned in video above the game started perfectly through Steam. There is no much CPU consumption. Here I got 40% since I am recording. Without recording I get 20-30%.