Linux - Playing PWI on it.

Thanks for posting here per our recommendation b:pleased

Anyone in the community had any luck emulating Windows to run the game on Linux?

As you all know, we don't offer support for it, but maybe some of you have had some success.

I've gotten it to run almost perfectly.
The only problems atm is the graphics aren't entirely like on windows (less ground details).
And that if you minimize the menus, player models, etc get screwed up (so never ever minimize it).

I haven't installed it using linux, since I had it on windows before I got linux again, so can't help you there.

But if you want to get it running.
1. Download wine source
2. Apply the patch from http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12560 (patch: http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=17457 to be exact).
You can do this using gedit/kate if you're new to linux.
The - lines get removed and the + lines get added.
3. open a terminal and cd to the directory.
then
"chmod +x ./configure"
"./configure"
"make"
"sudo make install"
4. Wine should be working now so run "winecfg" and set the audio, etc.
5. Run "regedit" and set the following keys (all are strings (REG_SZ)):
Directory | Key name | Value
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D" "Multisampling" "enabled"
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D" "DirectDrawRenderer" "opengl"
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D" "RenderTargetLockMode" "textex" (or "texdraw")
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D" "OffscreenRenderingMode" "fbo"
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D" "UseGLSL" "enabled" (not needed anymore, but to be safe)
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D" "VideoMemorySize" "512" (the amount of memory your videocard has. (512MB in my case so value is 512))
6. Get winetricks using (in terminal ofcourse)
"wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks"
"chmod +x winetricks"
"sudo mv winetricks /usr/local/bin"
7. Install "allfonts" package using "winetricks" in the terminal
8. Terminal to the patcher directory of PW and do "wine patcher.exe"

And you should be all set to play

I might have forgotten something, so post any problems you might get xP.

Small edit: Make sure you use the last videocard driver from nvidia or ati (not beta's! they often have broken opengl)

The only problems atm is the graphics aren't entirely like on windows (less ground details).
And that if you minimize the menus, player models, etc get screwed up (so never ever minimize it)

There's some chance that these issues are caused because some GFX Cards's drivers (Such as the entire Intel mobile series) aren't entirely supported by Linux. At least, it could explain why the graphics look less detailed in the emulation than in the "real" Windows... Have you tried installing alternative or restricted drivers?

Some of the steps above are not needed, cause WINE can imidatly run the game. But I would suggest 2 do the registry entries if u rly wanna use ur Graphic cards potential.

HalfYoma - Lost City wrote: »

Some of the steps above are not needed, cause WINE can imidatly run the game. But I would suggest 2 do the registry entries if u rly wanna use ur Graphic cards potential.

so using Jaunty what would be the exact steps you'd follow?

It pays off to read the Wine AppDB entry:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9923
My name there is Pekka Paalanen.

My experiences on Wine 1.1.34 were:
- no winetricks needed
- installation will fail, you need to kill the installer before it undos everything and get the missing files from somewhere.

I have no experience from copying over a Windows-installed PWI tree.

Until the recent problems, I played PWI satisfactorily for months.