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Wine 1.5.13 supports Raw input for keyboard and mouse. Unfortunately the full Raw Input patch hasn't ported completly in Wine code. Indeed this feature could be usefull for some games but for not all expected games. Below are the expected commands to patch the entire real patch.

# Reverse the patches
wget -q "http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/patch/c6fcc0255c3e7a655b157d1e68e5c80fe328bdf2" -O - | patch -p1 -R 
wget -q "http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/patch/faaf3d388eb6db8c2594cb11f76a2b1bce77edf3" -O - | patch -p1 -R 
wget -q "http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/patch/5befb959dd6f6e3567f0cd4fabd28b3b3b92966d" -O - | patch -p1 -R

# Apply the full patch
wget -q "http://baboonlinuxzone.free.fr/wineWOT/patchs/Patchs%20non%20fonctionnels/raw3.patch" -O - | patch -p1

Issue: For Streaming Replication if you have a a slave you are supposed to know that for a slave queries like "unlisten ...", "notify..." are disallowed on the slave-side not on the master-side. Npgsql used this type of query.

Fix: Remove these queries from the Npgsql sources. Below is the expected patch I use to do that. This patch could be improved but it works

Download

You can download it at http://www.davidgis.fr/download/Hot_Standby_SR.txt

--- Npgsql2.0.12.0.src/src/Npgsql/NpgsqlState.cs        2012-01-12 19:44:55.000000000 +0100
+++ Npgsql2.0.12.0.src_new/src/Npgsql/NpgsqlState.cs    2013-01-07 12:17:04.000000000 +0100
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ namespace Npgsql
             //Qlisten notifytest;notify notifytest;
             Stream stm = context.Stream;
             string uuidString = "uuid" + Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N");
-            PGUtil.WriteString("Qlisten " + uuidString + ";notify " + uuidString + ";", stm);
+            PGUtil.WriteString("Qlisten " + uuidString + ";", stm);
             Queue buffer = new Queue();
             byte[] convertBuffer = new byte[36];
             for (;;)
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ namespace Npgsql
                                     throw new EndOfStreamException();
                                 case 'Z':
                                     //context.Query(new NpgsqlCommand("UNLISTEN *", context));
-                                    using(NpgsqlCommand cmd = new NpgsqlCommand("UNLISTEN *", context))
+                                    using(NpgsqlCommand cmd = new NpgsqlCommand("-- UNLISTEN *", context))
                                     {
                                         context.Query(cmd);
                                     }
--- Npgsql2.0.12.0.src/src/Npgsql/NpgsqlConnector.cs    2012-01-12 19:44:55.000000000 +0100
+++ Npgsql2.0.12.0.src_new/src/Npgsql/NpgsqlConnector.cs        2013-01-07 12:17:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ namespace Npgsql
         internal void ReleaseRegisteredListen()
         {
             //Query(new NpgsqlCommand("unlisten *", this));
-            using(NpgsqlCommand cmd = new NpgsqlCommand("unlisten *", this))
+            using(NpgsqlCommand cmd = new NpgsqlCommand("-- unlisten *", this))
             {
                 Query(cmd);
             }

Apply the patch

# Download Npgsql 2.0.12 sources and uncompress on the fly
wget -q "http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/postgresql/projects/pgFoundry/npgsql/_npgsql2/Npgsql2.0.12/Npgsql2.0.12.0.src.tar.bz2" -O - | tar xjf -

# Go to Npgsql folder
cd Npgsql2.0.12.0.src/

# Download the patch and apply on the fly
wget -q http://www.davidgis.fr/download/Hot_Standby_SR.txt -O - | patch -p1

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