Battlefield 1942 not Working correctly.

[iTails]

I installed it from the way it was described on a couple sites and they all seemed to be the same. I have updated it to version 1.6.19 and tried to go in-game. The menu's screw up and when I try to load a map, the game crashes.

Could I get some help?

[jeffz]

I installed it from the way it was described on a couple sites and they all seemed to be the same. I have updated it to version 1.6.19 and tried to go in-game. The menu's screw up and when I try to load a map, the game crashes.

Could I get some help?

Make sure you have installed _both_ patches listed here:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=7591

Which Wine version? Which video card and drivers?

The game works fine for me, except for the 3 listed bugs there:

Description Status Resolution Other Apps affected
9685 Punkbuster removes me from game
11351 battlefield 1942 - strange text rendering
11499 sound effects not played correctly Battlefield 1942

[iTails]

I do get the text rendering problem. I just can't see why the maps don't load.

Well, I'm hoping the 1.1.6b patch will work.

EDIT: Also, how do I make it so wine uses the CD directly? I read something about it in the Bug Reports.

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To make it launch the game, not just exit silently, make sure your cd drive is configured in winecfg properly - the content of the CD has to be accessible through some drive letter and the drive type has to be CD-ROM.

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[jeffz]

I do get the text rendering problem. I just can't see why the maps don't load.

Well, I'm hoping the 1.1.6b patch will work.

EDIT: Also, how do I make it so wine uses the CD directly? I read something about it in the Bug Reports.

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To make it launch the game, not just exit silently, make sure your cd drive is configured in winecfg properly - the content of the CD has to be accessible through some drive letter and the drive type has to be CD-ROM.

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if the drive isn't detected, then start winecfg, click the drives tab, click autodetect, click ok

[iTails]

Alright, thats done, but it still has problems running...

Is there a way I can install it through source? Through Terminal at least to get the Text Rendering gone?

If so, I want to make a plugin for BF 1942 so that the text will work properly

[jeffz]

Alright, thats done, but it still has problems running...

Is there a way I can install it through source? Through Terminal at least to get the Text Rendering gone?

If so, I want to make a plugin for BF 1942 so that the text will work properly

What do you mean "has problems running"?

Are you using Wine 1.1.8?

I don't think there is much you can do about the text rendering unless you are familiar with the relevant code in Wine.