GTA3 lub Baldur’s Gate pod Linuksem? Czemu nie? Zwłaszcza, że właśnie pojawiła się trzecia wersja WineX – produkowanego przez TransGaming oprogramowania ułatwiającego życie linuksiarzom kochającym gry. Wymagania: kernel 2.4 lub nowszy, XFree86 4.0 lub nowsze, glibc 2.2 lub nowszy oraz karta graficzna z dopalaczem. Zapraszam do lektury changeloga…
----------- WineX 3.0 ----------- Release Notes, April 16, 2003. Overview ======== TransGaming is pleased to announce the release of WineX 3.0, dubbed "Milliway", giving our users access to more Windows games in Linux, with greater ease. TransGamers can now download WineX 3.0 3.0 3.0 in RPM, Debian and TGZ formats from the downloads section of http://www.transgaming.com/ As a brand new alternative, the Point2Play graphical user interface is capable of downloading, and installing, both new and old versions of WineX. RPM, Debian and TGZ packages for Point2Play can also be found at the the downloads section of TransGaming's home page. WineX 3.0 is the culmination of substantial effort over the past months to bring you many of the underlying technologies required for the next generation of exciting new games, voted for by our subscribers. We are pleased to announce that our users will be able to enjoy playing BF1942, SimCity 4, EverQuest and Medal of Honor: Allied Assault among the new titles WineX 3.0 supports. Additionally, this release heralds the arrival of WineX's new graphical interface, Point2Play; an exciting new way to simplify your Linux game playing experience. Under the hood the WineX 3.0 release sports enhanced graphics capabilities with implementations of Vertex Shaders and Cube Maps, improved copy protection support, significantly extended installer functionality and a number of game speedups. Enjoy! New Features ============ * Point2Play graphical frontend is now available to help TransGamers manage multiple WineX versions, store configuration options and stop using arcane command line options and syntax. * Hardware accelerated Vertex Shaders have been implemented. These are only supported on OpenGL drivers which implement the NV_vertex_program extension. The ARB extension will be supported in future releases. * Copy protection support for newer, and several older, SafeDisc versions. Additionally SecuRom copy protection speed has been enhanced for some hardware configurations. * Many installer-related issues have been resolved; starting installs with autorun.exe should now work in many cases, multi-disc installs should now have fewer issues with disc changing, and large installers are now supported. Additionally, significant effort has gone into making InstallShield 6 graphics update correctly and InstallShield 7 work. * Render to Texture and Cube Mapping support implemented for cool texturing effects. * The core threading model has moved to pthreads to decouple WineX from the continuing changes to certain core system libraries. * Better handling of X11 Window Manager idiosyncrasies - WineX 3.0 does a much better job of going into 'full-screen' mode. * Many texturing robustness fixes. * A combination of optimizations should provide faster game play for some games. * A new ALSA sound driver backend has been provided although it is untested at this point. * Force feedback joysticks are now supported, but untested, on newer versions of the Linux kernel (2.5 series at this time or get the patch yourself at http://user.it.uu.se/~johannd/projects/ff/). Thanks to David Engle who kindly contributed this functionality. Unfortunately, TransGaming has not had enough time to do extensive testing on this new feature. System Requirements =================== Operating System ---------------- Core requirements are: - Linux Kernel 2.4 or higher. Stock Kernels recommended over RedHat 7.x/8.x kernels. - XFree86 4.0 or higher (4.1 and above recommended) - glibc 2.2 or higher - Working hardware accelerated OpenGL video card CPU Type and Speed ------------------ Recommended minimum hardware is - 500 MHz or faster Pentium or Athlon CPU - 64MB of memory; 128 MB or higher recommended - 1-2 GB free hard disk space for games - Linux Supported 3D graphics card with 16MB of video RAM is required. nVidia GeForce-class GPU recommended. Running WineX 3.0 ================= With the offering of the new Point2Play graphical interface for WineX, TransGaming now offers two seperate ways to use WineX. The WineX 3.0 release continues to offer the command line option, but now provides a graphical interface to free you from the command line for everything from installing and playing a newly purchased game to managing all the special game tweaks and WineX versions. The WineX rpm and debian packages have changed name from "winex" to "winex3" with the new release. This will allow you to have the 3.0 release without the need to remove your previous winex package. The command to start WineX has also been changed from "winex" to "winex3", for the same reason. Point2Play ---------- If you would prefer not to run from the command line, or are a first time user, you may want to download the Point2Play_beginners_guide-1.01.txt from the downloads section of www.transgaming.com and start PointPlay. This document should explain everything from installing Point2Play to installing games and WineX itself. WineX 3 from the command line ----------------------------- If you would prefer to run from the command line and are a first time user you may want to download the winex_beginners_guide-3.01.txt from the downloads section of www.transgaming.com . This document is updated to reflect the changes in WineX since the 2.2 release. New Command Options ------------------- This release has added a few new options for the winex3 script and has also retired a few. If you get the help from the winex3 script you'll see the following options are available: winex3 [-bigexe] [-use-pthreads] [[-]-winver ] [[-]-debugmsg ] [[-]-version] [[-]use-dos-cwd ] [application parameters] In most cases you'll only need to require only "winex3 " but in the odd case some of the newer options will be required. Some unzip installers make assumptions about the layout and availablilty of memory in a process. Quite often this conflicts with the Linux memory layout. To provide a better memory environment for these installers, the winex3 startup script can be given a new command line option "-bigexe". In most cases, the use of this option will not be required. This option is a good one to try if your application doesn't start and just returns you to the command prompt immediately. The -use-dos-cwd is a option which closely resembles the retired -workdir option. You use this parameter to set the current working directory where your application should be launched from. For some installers, they require setting the -use-dos-cwd option because the autorun program expects the working directory to that of the cd drive. This option was introduced so that SimCity 4 would install. Recent changes to glibc have been causing WineX problems for a number of releases. Finally they've changed it in a way that we couldn't continue with our historical implementation of threading. Thus we've decided to switch to using POSIX Thread (or pthreads for short) library for our programs. It also helps that the implementation of pthreads on Linux has gotten a major overhaul and is now much more standard compliant (and less buggy). WineX 3.0 will attempt to determine if your platform is suitable for using pthreads for threading. Sometimes, however, the particular game may not work well with pthreads or may exercise bugs in that pthread implementation. If this is the case, you may find that using -use-pthreads no will make your application run. However, please note that distributions such as Mandrake 9.1 and RedHat 9, which use glibc version 2.3.1 + patches or later, MUST use pthreads for WineX to even start. New Configuration Options ------------------------- This release introduces six new configuration options which can be used to tune WineX's graphical, and internal settings, according to th e particular application. The new graphics tweaking options can be found in the $HOME/.transgaming/config directory in the [d3dgl] section; and the others in [Version] and [memory]. The new graphics options are: "AnisotropicTextureFiltering", "VertexShaders", and "ClipSpaceFix". Generally you will not need to modify these from their default values. However, here is a brief description of the purpose that they serve. * Anisotropic filtering is a technique which improves the look of textures when viewed from an angle. While the visual improvement can be obvious in some cases, the speed penalty paid for this is considerable. If you can handle up to a 50% reduction in frame rates, feel free to set this to "Y" * The ClipSpaceFix option allows WineX to better emulate the differences in the graphical depth component (z) between D3D and OpenGL. If you are running in 16-bits per pixel mode, you should leave this option as "Y". In 24-bit mode, or when using applications which make use of vertex shaders, you should choose "N" instead. This flag will most likely be controlled automatically in future releases. * Vertex shaders are often used to add complex-to-compute graphical routines that are often optional. While our implementation of vertex shaders is hardware accelerated when the underlying OpenGL driver supports it, it may be implemented in software emulation on some cards. Unfortunately, it is impossible for WineX to determine whether or not the underlying implementation uses software or hardware. When this flag is set to "Y", WineX tells applications that hardware vertex shader support is available. With the flag set to "N", some applications may rely on their own optimized software fallbacks. TransGamers have been telling us that they find using -winver on the command line too clunky, so we've added the [Version] section, which is overriden by any command line use of -winver. The new options in this section are "Windows" and "DOS". * The "Windows" option indicates what version of the Windows operating system WineX should behave as. The default setting for all applications is "win98", to behave the same as previous versions of WineX. There are, however, some application specific overrides to this version included in the config file that are required to successfully pass copyprotection. Should you not have this option, the default behaviour is that of win95 barring specific command line or config file overrides. * The "DOS" option indicates what version of DOS WineX should seem to be. This option is only useful for DOS applications for which there is limited support. The default is 6.22 and you will probably never find a need to change it. Lastly, WineX 3.0 ships with the new [memory] section which was originally designed to work around a specific bug in Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault which was rarely triggered running on its original operating system. The problem has been fed back to EA and should be included in the latest Spearhead expansion patch. The only option in this section is "MemoryLayoutOverride". We do not recommend using this option for any application other than those provided by default in the config file as it is known to cause problems with at least Starcraft and WarcraftIII. If you can't get through the day without an unhandled exception crash or two, feel free to use this option for all your gaming needs . Known Issues and Comments ========================= Sound Cards which do not support mono output -------------------------------------------- Many builtin i810 based sound cards are capable of only producing stereo sound. So what you ask? Who'd be silly enough to use mono sound in a game? Well the answer is many games will use it on the initial display screen. If you own one of these cards, or a sound card which does not handle mono sound, there is an occasional race condition that can happen during startup or shutdown where you often have to click a "play" or "exit" button. In these situations the game will hang. The only solution presently is to "killall -9 wine" and try again. Alternatively, you could just get yourself a spiffy new sound card. Speed Issues with RedHat ------------------------ WineX may not perform to full capacity under some RedHat systems with standard RedHat kernels. TransGaming has narrowed down this problem to issues with the scheduler in RedHat's Kernels. We expect to find a solution soon, but in the meantime recommend the use of stock kernels from Kernel.org for RedHat systems. In some cases, Starcraft comes to mind, changing the priority of active wine processes may provide significant performance benefit. Please note this is not possible with RedHat 9, since a stock kernel is currently not compatible with WineX on that distribution. A command similar to the following may be run as root to increase the priority of WineX processes: renice -10 -p `ps ax | grep wine | cut -d" " -f1` Battlefield 1942 ---------------- * The game must be patched to at least version 1.3 in order to fix problems that will prevent it from starting the game engine properly. * The [d3dgl] 'ClipSpaceFix' option needs to be disabled to run the game. This has been configured by default in the config file. * For best performance, run the game in 'low detail' sound and graphics mode. The problem is especially obvious during the first playing of the movies. We recommend skipping the movies the first time using the application parameter "+restart 1" and setting 'low detail' and then restarting the game to watch the movies. * After quitting a multiplayer game BF1942 can sometimes indicate it is unable to join another game with the message "Please insert either Battle Field 1942 CD". There is no workaround for this other than to restart. * The movie does not play in the background of the main menu. * High detail mode does not work. Dungeon Siege ------------- * The installer for the full game does not presently work, though the demo works well. If the full game is installed in Windows and copied over to Linux, it will work as well. * Do not hit the 'ESC' key during game play, as it will cause the game to freeze. * The water does not flow in the game. * Multiplayer support is not yet available, due to the use of DirectPlay 8 in the game. Sim City 4 ---------- * To install the game, you must insert and mount the CD-ROM, and use the following command line: $ winex3 -use-dos-cwd f:/ -- f:/autorun.exe If the installer asks you to install a new version of DCOM, say 'no'. * The game has small graphical glitches when scrolling with the hardware renderer. Use of the software renderer is recommended. Black & White ------------- * The mouse wheel is not working at this point in time. Users can zoom by holding both the left and right mouse button at the same time and moving the mouse towards or away as needed. Zooming can also be accomplished using the ctrl key and the up/down arrows. Rebinding the control for the mouse wheel in game should restore the functionality. * When clicking the mouse button, the cursor may jump to a new location momentarily. * Playing in low texture mode will lead to crashing. You may not be able to get back to the configuration screen to return to normal detail. Grand Theft Auto 3 ------------------ * The opening videos for Grand Theft Auto 3 work quite slowly under WineX. The movies may be skipped by pressing the space bar twice. EverQuest --------- * When connecting to a world in EverQuest, the load bar at the bottom is supposed to fill with blue. It does not do this. Baldur's Gate 2 --------------- * The "Software Mirror BLT" option under the "2D 16 bit Color Depth" should be enab led if the character sprites appear garbled. Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault ------------------------------ * A defect in the game software, which should be fixed in the latest Spearhead expansion patch, causes the game to crash under WineX. The WineX team has provided a workaround described in the "New Configuration Options" section above. Both Point2Play and the winex3 start script are setup so that this game will work out of the box.
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