Sirens on Linux

Sizzer - Raging Tide wrote: »

I have a question do you guys play PWI in a well-manner and does it give a satisfaction gameplay? Since this game is made on Windows platform and u guys are playing it on Linux ? Just asking

wine doesn't decrease performance much. Only problem is that little fighting time to time when new patches comes.

Of course native linux client would be awesome.

Thank you for starting this thread. I just installed Mint 13 KDE as the only OS on my shiney new PC. Im still a Linux n00b but im getting the hang of things. Ive been looking at different threads over the past few days to try to sift through all the different and outdated ways to get PWI to work on Linux. I just tried the 1.2.3 wine method through Play on Linux. I had the same issue with the launcher just looking like a frozen nonresponsive image. I just cleaned everything up, uninstalled the virtual drive and all versions of wine and the /home/user/.wine file and im ready to try again. Gonna try to use 1.5.17. Ill keep you updated b:victory

spaceplumber1 wrote: »

Thank you for starting this thread. I just installed Mint 13 KDE as the only OS on my shiney new PC.

Wine 1.5.17 and Linux Mint 13 (Cinnamon edition) definitely work fine here, the only problem I had so far is that the game font now looks incredibly ugly.

Rehdon

Hi there, just reporting my installation method. I got a working pwi sirens of war with little performance issues. Launcher launching, but not sure if updating.

My system is Linux Mint 13 (maya) with kernel 3.2.0-23-generic (32 bits) and nvidia proprietary drivers and cinnamon desktop. Didn't have any previous wine version, so it's advised that you purge the previous wine versions if trying this approach,

I already had a working pwi installation in windows partition, so just run it with wine.

First built dependencies:
gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Added this line "deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted universe multiverse", not that the "precise" part varies according to your version, this line is just like the one above, but with the "src-" added at the start
apt-get update
apt-get build-dep wine

Then downloaded and compile wine-1.5.17, as some users here suggested:
Inside the uncompressed wine folder run:
./tools/wineinstall
(will prompt for super user)

Then got winetricks and installed some packages:
wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
sh winetricks vcrun6
sh winetricks vcrun2005 vcrun2008 directx9
sh winetricks d3dx9_36 vcrun6 ie8
wineboot
Note that i repeated a couple of packages, since copy-pasted the lines from other posts, but winetricks is smart enough to avoid installing stuff twice.
Also, take into account that you will see some license agreement windows and bug warnings in the terminal.

Set this environment variable:
export LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
(each time you run or on your .bashrc)

Finally
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
dconf-editor
And changed org -> gnome -> desktop -> wm -> preferences -> mouse-button-modifier to <Super>
In order to avoid the move window function when Alt+clicking, which overrides the pwi function of auto navigation on map

Dextar - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Wine 1.5.17 and Linux Mint 13 (Cinnamon edition) definitely work fine here, the only problem I had so far is that the game font now looks incredibly ugly.

Rehdon

I have the same issue

shadowbranch wrote: »

Basically, it just gives me a scrambled message box. I'm running latest version of Lubuntu 64 bit.

this hapens to me if my working directory is not set to .../Perfect_World_Entertainment/element/ if running elementclient.exe or to launcher if running Launcher.exe

ive had some decent luck using POL, makes it easier to setup, dont remember my wine ver. i was using since i deleted it all and going to start a fresh install when i get the time. but i found most of my problems were gfx driver related. installed new grfx driver and it all worked.

also, if your using POL, you can paste the debug log, maybe someone better at this than i am can help you figure it out.

i used the perfectworld script under testing to install. i think it used a 1.2 something wine ver. but yes it worked for me. im guessing you can choose a different wine ver. under config. 1.5.17 is what one person in this thread was using i think.

anyways going about installing pwi atm and seeing if i can get it to run smoothly.

yea i ditched POL and have somewhat of the same problem. patcher works but game doesnt launch and i get some dll errors if im not mistaken...havent had time to miss with it for a while now, and prolly not for another week.

if you figure this out post back with your results.

peace

Has anyone tried this with the latest content update? Does it work well, or do we have to wait until a new version of Wine is released? Just curious, because I'd like to get this working on my Ubuntu 10.10 machine at some point.

I thing I'll stop play this game. Never ending problems with that, if it works or not... b:irritated

Tried to run Launcher.exe and elementclient.exe with wine 1.4.1 but didn"t work. Do I have to install it again with this version? Will it be better?
Ty man

I think i tried installing IE8, but it didnt correct the issue. Also i had a facial render issue with the Tideborns and Earthguards race.(black faces with eyeballs )

And this was done on Ubuntu 12.10 64bit with wine1.4 i believe.
Only thing i did was:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.4

Sorry for late reply, been really busy. b:bye

edit: the launcher and patcher didnt work for me either with 1.4 BUT 1.5.26 they worked flawlessly.
Also i installed the vcrun stuff(to lazy to type it all) and the direct x stuff through winetricks, but it didnt improve/correct anything. Would be nice if the wine appdb maintainer for pwi would upload my test data, since all this is on it >.>

Nevermind i figured out how to get it working thank you all b:pleased

Confusionzzz - Raging Tide wrote: »

Nevermind i figured out how to get it working thank you all b:pleased

what linux distro and wine ver. are you using?

I dont know how to make that prefix.....tried to do it via POL, but didnt work for me....MG! Anyone here knows some other game which works easy on linux? It makes my angry.

Still doing an bug report for me.... with each version of wine