Sudden Strike 2 is not working with wine ??

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Sudden Strike 2 is not working with wine ??

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Dear all,
i have recently installed linux mint on my laptop as it gets older and older and i need a stable lightweight system. I use a IBM Thinkpad R60 and somehow my favourite game is not working with wine what makes me really sad.

The Game i would like to play is Suddenstrike 2 Resource war mod. Singleplayer is working fine but Multiplayer Games are not possible. When i try to create a game or try to join a multiplayer game i am getting a error message that says that the software could not initialize the network interface card.

Somehow an other user from the community uses wine and suddenstrike 2 resource war mod and it works fine on his system.

Is there anybody out there who can help me figure out the problem?

Kind regards
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Re: Sudden Strike 2 is not working with wine ??

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@philippoinzagi

Make sure you're using the latest development release of Wine (2.15) or Wine Staging (2.14). See WineHQ Download: Ubuntu ...

Then try:

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winetricks directplay
Using the native directplay.dll often fixes game multiplayer issues.

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Re: Sudden Strike 2 is not working with wine ??

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Dear Bob,
thank you a lot for your replay. i am totally new to linux so sorry for my noob attitude but where do i have to enter this specific code ?
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Re: Sudden Strike 2 is not working with wine ??

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Hey Bob,
sorry for the attitude but i am really new to linux. how do i use this direct play.dll what should i do ?
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Re: Sudden Strike 2 is not working with wine ??

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The easiest and quickest way to install most native Windows DLL's - is to use the winetricks helper script.

Rather than using some random Windows DLL Download site - which is not recommended! :mrgreen:

Just make sure your copy of the winetricks script is up-to-date:

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winetricks --version
20170614-next - sha256sum: bf44dcd390518b890f1894b4c082cf97eaf4b336bc0a16ad3e9fcb8935a4f967
Then to install and override the native Windows directplay.dll:

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winetricks -q directplay
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Re: Sudden Strike 2 is not working with wine ??

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Dear Bob,
i managed to install winetricks and the game is running in multiplayer mode now. great and thank you very much for your help.

now i a have another problem with the game. when i start the game it is not opening in fullscreen mode so that i can play only in a small window. The maximum game resolution is 1024x768 and i use a 15"TFT Screen with a resolution of 1400x1050 pixels.
Is it somehow possible to play the game in fullscreen mode ?

kind regards
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Re: Sudden Strike 2 is not working with wine ??

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philippoinzagi wrote:Dear Bob,
i managed to install winetricks and the game is running in multiplayer mode now. great and thank you very much for your help.

now i a have another problem with the game. when i start the game it is not opening in fullscreen mode so that i can play only in a small window. The maximum game resolution is 1024x768 and i use a 15"TFT Screen with a resolution of 1400x1050 pixels.
Is it somehow possible to play the game in fullscreen mode ?

kind regards
The Internet appears to say no - about changing to higher resolutions...
Sudden Strike 2 Gold
PC Gaming Wiki: Sudden Strike 2

What's the output from:

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xrandr
?

Are you sure you've not enabled a Wine Virtual Desktop - in winecfg.
Otherwise the game must support an option to switch between window / fullscreen modes (either in a configuration file or the main menus).

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Re: Sudden Strike 2 is not working with wine ??

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Dear Bob,
i had the virtual desktop activated with a resolution of 1400x1050 pixels. now i removed the checkmark and the game starts in fullscreen mode but as i enter the real game it switches back to a window. the output from xrandr says as follows...

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1400 x 1050, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS connected primary 1400x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x 228mm
1400x1050 60.02*+ 50.00
1280x1024 59.89 60.02
1280x960 59.94
1280x854 59.89
1280x800 59.81
1280x720 59.86
1152x768 59.78
1024x768 60.00 59.92
800x600 60.32 59.86
848x480 59.66
720x480 59.71
640x480 59.94 59.38
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
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