Dawn of War: Dark Crusade model problems

Subsidiarity · Post by **Subsidiarity** » Thu May 06, 2010 9:46 pm

Hello,

I've recently installed Wine and Steam on my Linux (OpenSuse 11.2 KDE) instalation and have run into problems. The models do not show correctly in Dawn of War:Dark Crusade. They are mostly either invisible or distorted beyond recognition. Everything else about the game seems to work fine. I could post a screen shot if people would find that helpful.

I'm running Wine 1.1.43-6.1 with OpenSuse 11.2 under KDE. I installed my graphics driver for an ATI 3850 using YaST and have version 8.723-1 of the package fglrx64_7_4_0_SUSE112 installed. Its version number is listed in red. Another package, named x11-video-fglrxG02, is also installed. It also has the same description as the first one namely: X Window display driver for the ATI graphics accelerators. Is this a problem? The red would indicate to me there's something wrong if I undertand it correctly.

I tried earlier to install the latest graphics drivers using the RPM package from ATI's website, but it never worked for me. I lost my GUI.

I have played this game before successfully without this problem on previous incarnation of this system.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Subsidiarity.

eps · Post by **eps** » Thu May 06, 2010 10:10 pm

That sounds like a new issue? And like a damn good excuse to install DoW.

I'll update the thread when I have a chance to try it with my results.

zimzum · Post by **zimzum** » Fri May 07, 2010 5:57 am

just to chime in on this, DoW and its expansions all run without the issue you described for me. Although my "taskbar" doesn't hide behind the game.
I'm on opensuse 11.2 gnome and using an nvidia card (195.36 drivers).

fdelente · Post by **fdelente** » Sun May 09, 2010 5:07 am

I have Soulstorm installed on two machines, one with an Nvidia card and the other an Intel i965 mobile.

On Nvidia everything is perfect; on Intel I get polygon distortion or missing models; I posted a bug on the Intel Linux Graphics site, and somebody told me that everything was ok for him.

So I really don't know whether it's a wine bug, a driver bug, or a mix of the two...

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lahmbi5678 · Post by **lahmbi5678** » Sun May 09, 2010 6:21 am

Hello fdelente,
the intel integrated graphics chip is quite weak, even though it is advertised with DX 9.0c compatibility. When it comes to things like Vertex/Pixel Shader 3.0, the intel drivers have to do most of the work in software, as the hardware simply can't do it. You could try Soulstorm under Windows, to see, if it works there. And you should try to turn down any graphics settings to lowest.

Subsidiarity,
do you really need the fglrx64_7_4_0_SUSE112 package? The x11-video-fglrxG02 should be sufficient. I'd try to remove the first one, and I'd try to pick up the current x11-video-fglrxG02 from the ati repository, if you haven't done that already.

fdelente · Post by **fdelente** » Mon May 10, 2010 12:01 am

Thanks for your reply. I suspected a hardware capability :^(

I can't try on Windows, since I erased it entirely from my laptop.

I'll stick to playing on my desktop machine, then :^)

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Subsidiarity · Post by **Subsidiarity** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:59 pm

Just wanted to mention that I have managed to solve the problem with the models distorting in Dawn of War. I upgraded wine to the latest release candidate. That made the difference.

However, now I have no sound. It seems to work under winecfg when I test it there but I don't get any ingame with Dark Crusade. I'll start another thread for that though.

Subsidiarity

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:33 am

I don't think you need to, there's been plenty of issues on sound reported recently already. Ie. the issues are well-known now.

Subsidiarity · Post by **Subsidiarity** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:52 pm

Hello All,

Just wanted to say that the latest version of wine fixed the model and the sound problems. The game isn't yet playable however because it lags like crazy. Game play stutters and jerks. I've turned down a few settings but it doesn't seem to make a difference. I'll make a new topic about that though.

Subsidiarity

Gingo · Post by **Gingo** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:12 am

I have just tried uninstalling then installing again, still the same problems, but it did help with the army painter (it now rotates, it didn't before).
I've tried the links, but neither improve the problems, just make the game run slightly faster (is this what they are meant to do?)
Could it be the CD that's the problem?
It's not exactly in perfect condition, if you know what I mean...
Is there anything that would let me check the files, as in to make sure they're all there and working?