farcry2 texture bug

Lord_Valarian · Post by **Lord_Valarian** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:05 pm

Two problems with wine. I have the latest version for suse 11.4 and wine-1.3.12

The "load game" reads the saved files index from the hard drive. It takes a few mins to load. It should cache this list.

The sky textures most of the time are solid black. Usually at night in game. MSWIN(XP) doesn't have this problem.

Also, these I think are game or graphics driver related. The game will drop to desktop during play. It will freeze up during loading. I will have to use control-alt-esc to exit.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:45 pm

On 7/15/11 2:05 PM, Lord_Valarian wrote:

Two problems with wine. I have the latest version for suse 11.4 and wine-1.3.12

First, try updating to wine-1.3.24.

James

Kairhos · Post by **Kairhos** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:03 pm

I've just finished playing through Farcry 2 using wine-1.3.24 two days ago. I had no problems with the "load game" dialog (it would show up instantaneously). To get rid of the black sky bug I had to set one of the ingame graphics options to medium (I believe it was shaders), the rest can stay at the highest possible setting. I also experienced a bit of flickering when using HDR, so I disabled that as well. The frequent crashes can be circumvented by shutting down your ethernet devices (i.e. for me: ifdown eth0) before playing. Why this works, I have no idea, but I never had a single crash when eth0 was shut down and when it wasn't it would crash all the time. The only ugly thing remaining is that the game would eventually run out of memory (after 2 - 3 hours of continuous playing), but that seems to be the game leaking memory (not wine related). Of course you have to patch your game to the newest version as this fixes lots of crashing problems that can't be solved otherwise.

Lord_Valarian · Post by **Lord_Valarian** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:08 pm

jjmckenzie wrote:On 7/15/11 2:05 PM, Lord_Valarian wrote:
Two problems with wine. I have the latest version for suse 11.4 and wine-1.3.12
First, try updating to wine-1.3.24.

James

I'm using suse 11.4 How? Download and install the file directly. Through the yast menu.

Post by **dimesio** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:25 pm

Lord_Valarian wrote: I'm using suse 11.4 How? Download and install the file directly. Through the yast menu.

Add the Wine repository to YaST. http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_packa ... ories#Wine

Lord_Valarian · Post by **Lord_Valarian** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:38 pm

dimesio wrote:
Lord_Valarian wrote: I'm using suse 11.4 How? Download and install the file directly. Through the yast menu.
Add the Wine repository to YaST. http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_packa ... ories#Wine

I have the package repositories. Which one(s) are the development versions?

Can rename/change them so they work with play on linux?

Post by **dimesio** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 6:06 pm

Lord_Valarian wrote: I have the package repositories. Which one(s) are the development versions?

They're all the development version in the repository I pointed you to. The ones with "snapshot" in the filename are daily snapshots of git.

Can rename/change them so they work with play on linux?

PlayOnLinux is not supported here. This forum is for plain Wine.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 6:33 pm

On 7/16/11 3:38 PM, Lord_Valarian wrote:

dimesio wrote:
Lord_Valarian wrote:
I'm using suse 11.4 How? Download and install the file directly. Through the yast menu.
Add the Wine repository to YaST. http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_packa ... ories#Wine
I have the package repositories. Which one(s) are the development versions?

Can rename/change them so they work with play on linux?

You will have to ask the POL package maintainer if you can use the
lastest/greatest Wine development version with this program. We have
agreed that is how this will be handled with them.

However, you are free to use winetricks to try and install this program,
if it has an applications entry. Winetricks works with the latest
development version of Wine to install additional packages to make
programs like this function well (sometimes perfectly.)

James

Lord_Valarian · Post by **Lord_Valarian** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:23 pm

dimesio wrote:
Lord_Valarian wrote: I have the package repositories. Which one(s) are the development versions?
They're all the development version in the repository I pointed you to. The ones with "snapshot" in the filename are daily snapshots of git.

Can rename/change them so they work with play on linux?
PlayOnLinux is not supported here. This forum is for plain Wine.

FYI, Their registration button is not working. I'v already emailed them. I'll have to wait until I get help on fixing the install scripts. Until then, I can't play farcry2. I''ll use them instead manually typing it on here.

Lord_Valarian · Post by **Lord_Valarian** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:43 pm

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You will have to ask the POL package maintainer if you can use the
lastest/greatest Wine development version with this program. We have
agreed that is how this will be handled with them.

wine-snapshot
wine-shapshot-32bit

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However, you are free to use winetricks to try and install this program,
if it has an applications entry. Winetricks works with the latest
development version of Wine to install additional packages to make
programs like this function well (sometimes perfectly.)

Winetricks in suse 11.4 - kde Bash script

I'll check it out for "Nexus - The Jupiter Incident". I'll make another post about it, see if it will install that game and run it. Does winetricks put an icon on the desktop? One click run.

Lord_Valarian · Post by **Lord_Valarian** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:01 pm

I used playonlinux to add the latest development version of wine. That should fix my texture problem. Thanks.