Aion f2p - freezes on certain objects

[Kodama]

I just installed Gameforges's free 2 play version of Aion with:

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winetricks d3dx9 vcrun2005sp1 vcrun2008 dotnet20 dotnet30 gdiplus

the launcher doesn't work for me but that's alright, I simply run it with:

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wine .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Gameforge/AION\ Free-To-Play/bin32/aion.bin -ip:79.110.83.80 -port:2106 -lang:enu -cc:2 -noauthgg -noweb

with the default engine ("high quality" gives me fog that covers everything in the lower half of the screen) and glsl disabled (otherwis fog/vapor/steam effects are solid white) the game runs very smoothely.

but now I have two quests where I have to activate a certain object. (in one case it's a giant bucket and in the other it's a gate I have to destroy). As soon as I move the mouse pointer over that object the sound stops and the game freezes. I can't give you guys any error message because I have to close it all to get back to the desktop.

The game itself was fun and I was so happy that it ran very smoothely. So I'd really appreciate it if you guys could help me so I can continue playing Aion.

[lahmbi5678]

Hi,

The usual: Upgrade to latest wine (1.5.2), if you haven't already. Run from command line and post terminal output. Before starting the game, cd into the directory of the binary, in your case something like
cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Gameforge/AION\ Free-To-Play/bin32/

[ruinairas]

I too play aion and I find it best just to simply disable the fog within the game, disabling GLSL causes a lot of instability within wine.

[Kodama]

I too play aion and I find it best just to simply disable the fog within the game, disabling GLSL causes a lot of instability within wine.

thanks for the advice. I'll try that. This freezing bug when trying to activate objects hasn't happenend ever since even though there were quests where I had to do just that.

I can't find an option where I can explicitly disable fog in the graphics menu. With GLSL enabled the steam from fireplaces, magic effects, sandstorms, fog and vapor effects, etc...it's all solid white and everything is covered and makes the game unplayable for me. (but I'm on an AMD HD 6950 so no wonder)

and I'm on wine 1.5.2. but can't give you an error log because when I try to close the frozen window it closes the underlying console window first. (might be due to my tiling-wm).

[lahmbi5678]

Hi Kodama,

are you really running from command line, i.e. typing "wine whatever.app"? I don't know anything about tiling-wm, but it sounds like you are just clicking on an icon, which pops up a console window, which will automatically be closed, when the program has been terminated (this behaviour might depend on some configuration options in you Window Manager).

[ischou]

Noticed this thread so I thought I'd check out Aion now that it's F2P, but the font is completely unreadable. (See picture: )

Running Wine 1.5.2, Mac OS X 10.6, XQuartz 2.7.2_rc4

Any ideas? I used winetricks and installed corefonts, allfonts, and fontfix and they didn't seem to help.

I've tried -lang:enu -cc:1 -ls for command-line arguments to Aion too.

[Kodama]

Noticed this thread so I thought I'd check out Aion now that it's F2P, but the font is completely unreadable. (See picture: )

Running Wine 1.5.2, Mac OS X 10.6, XQuartz 2.7.2_rc4

Any ideas? I used winetricks and installed corefonts, allfonts, and fontfix and they didn't seem to help.

I've tried -lang:enu -cc:1 -ls for command-line arguments to Aion too.

this looks interesting...I've never seen something like this. What does happen is that fonts are cut off in the game as you can see in this screenie:



and this also shows what the game looks like for me if GLSL is enabled. All fog and steam effects are solid white:

[ruinairas]

Yeah, AMD drivers are poorly made. It even has graphical problems playing games like Halo 1. You're best bet is to get a Nvidia graphics card. They work wonders

[silentlexx]

WINEDEBUG=fixme-all,err-all,warn-all,trace-all helped me, all freezes are gone.