Anarchy Online is set almost 30,000 years into the future, in a science-fiction world created uniquely for the game. Players will participate in the ongoing conflict between revolutionary rebels and the mighty Omni-Tek corporation, and ultimately play a key role in deciding the fate of the planet, Rubi-Ka.
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
Installation (small client), patching (after using winetricks ie6) and logging in, changing resolution (also after I am logged out - everything is set to normal)
What does not
I can't get into the game. After logging in it takes ages to load and come to the Anarchy online title screen. I can also hear some music after that I am disconnected. Also the KDE-panel is shown the whole time.
This step-by-step guide will help you install and run AO in Linux (including working patcher). Note that this guide is COMPLETELY UNSUPPORTED,
Funcom support staff will NOT help you with anything related to this
guide, or any problems you might encounter with the install while
playing using this setup.
The only supported operating system for Anarchy Online is Windows, and
you will be doing this entirely at your own risk. Basic Linux
commandline knowledge is assumed.
1) Install Wine.
2) Download and install IEs4Linux. Select the options to install IE6. I
will assume you used the default install directory of ~/.ies4linux.
Code:
tar xvzf ies4linux*
cd ies4linux*
./ies4linux
3) Make a copy of ~/.ies4linux/ie6 and call it ~/.wine-ao.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
another waste of time
by Mark Shafique on Friday November 20th 2009, 22:16
just dont try it...
i have never seen only one game working on linux, every games does not
work properly or doesnt start...
in this particular case, the patcher is not working... and the download
page for ie4linux is blocked...
as i said just dont even think about playing windows games with linux.
it is just not working. i will delete wine from my linux machine
because it is useless
Window mode
by Brenton on Thursday May 7th 2009, 15:39
been trying to get this working with out avial. would love to have it in order to use Clicksaver with a but more ease.
Full screen mode works great but if I try to use window it goes to black sceen where it hangs then crashes. I don't get any crash report so do not know what is causing the crash.
updated my wine to 1.1.20 to see if that would resolve the issue but still having the same issues.
running wine on Ubuntu 8.04 at this time with a Nvidia restricted drivers.
had some one look at my xorg.conf file and it appears to be in order.
tried different device settings in the game and different resolutions only difference I find is that the black screen will last longer before crashing.
RE: Window mode by Pavel on
Thursday October 15th 2009, 8:20
LE Mish Room
by Zach on Friday December 12th 2008, 1:18
Was wondering if anyone else has had a problem in the LE missions, theres one room that I crash in over and over. Even standing in the doorway = Client Crash.
The room doesn't even look like anything spectacular.
RE: LE Mish Room by Karel Tejnora on
Wednesday July 1st 2009, 16:23
Direct Draw error
by krayl on Tuesday August 19th 2008, 13:22
I know I'm probably stupid and missed something but i got this error when anarchy tries to load the game,"The error was: Failed during retry to create the z-buffer DDERR_INVALIDPARAMS" I realize it has something to do with direct draw, which I would assume that has to do with Wine. I am on Wine 1.1.2 on the Hardy version of Ubuntu. Im just learning this stuff so be gentle.
by Kolbjørn Fredheim on Friday March 21st 2008, 14:56
It's most probably a item that chrashes you, I have created a patch for it, just need the confirm email from the mailinglist to post it to be included in the next release.
(this is if wine hangs/exits with a stack overflow)
RE: by Kolbjørn Fredheim on
Friday March 21st 2008, 14:58
starting it up
by James on Monday February 18th 2008, 19:15
Okay heres the deal. i got anarchy online up and running. and when i create a new character i can play but when i exit and come back to try to load the character i made previously the screen turns black for a minute the says there was and error. i have no idea what the problem is.
Low fps in certain areas?
by pyhis on Friday February 15th 2008, 13:07
Hi,
Finally got AO working in 7.10 ubuntu gutsy gibbons + Wine 0.9.46.
It runs smooth untill i enter certain areas, such as borealis, player city shop room, apf place's bridge. my fps drops to 0 or near.
yet in OA for example my fps is steady and theres no visible laggyness. I can do alien playfield raid with 40+ people on screen and still runs smoothly, but when ever i turn my view on a building in borealis with no other people on screen my fps just drops!
Anyone else had this problem? and anyone got a clue how to fix it? i'd hate to have to go back to using M$ software :(
Fog From nowhere?
by Lee on Saturday January 12th 2008, 16:28
Sometimes randomly when I am walking through a town, the client will just crash out of no where. Just as if it had seen fog. I have come to the conclusion that when I see a certain profession using a certain buff, that effect makes the client use fog. Fog crashes the client, and therefore this does too.
I'm assuming it's fog because it gives the same output errors as fog. I had to disable tracers to get it to work correctly.
Black screen on Starting
by Lars on Monday November 26th 2007, 8:43
Everytime, I try to start Anarchy Online. I get this problem:
1. First, I click the link on my desktop.
2. Click Accept, and go to the login screen.
3. I put in my Account name and Pass and press Enter.
4. I choose my Character and press Ok
!5. The login screen closes, and I get the screen from AO, where it normally should run. And it is black.
(Screenshot: img164.imageshack.us/img164/3937/blackscreenvs0.png)
I have sound though, so that's not a problem, but maybe useful to help. The problem is this black screen.
I have no idea what is happening here, I tried a few things, but nothing helped so far.
Version AO: 17.6.4
Version Wine: 0.9.45 (For running Warcraft 3) and I think also the 0.9.49.
Hope someone can help me out, because I enjoy(ed) playing AO for a long time.
I was getting an error saying something about permissions and how it couldnt save patches but now it wont even open the application at all. For a while it seemed as though it was going to work but then it all just closed. I am running wine 0.9.44 and I just downloaded AO yesterday if that has anything to do with it. I'm fairly new to linux so im not exactly sure how to do much of anything but I checked faq's and everything and I still can't seem to find any answers. please help me out here.
I'm not sure if anyone else is having this issue, but something appears to be haywire with the patcher here.
I haven't tested AO in a long time, so when I started it, it started patching 17.2 -> 17.4.1. It got up to 17.4 normally, and then exited, saying that I needed to rerun the patcher to get to the server level.
Everytime I re-ran the patcher, it created an AnarchyPatcher.err saying that the patcher file didn't match the checksum, at which point it copied it from PatchesUndo (basically replacing the patcher with the same version, over and over).
Thinking the patcher was corrupt, I renamed the copy in PatchesUndo and re-ran. This causes it to re-download the patcher at startup (just as I had hoped). Unfortunately, it complains that this version also fails the checksum. :\
If no one else is having the issue, I'll try to completely reinstall AO when I have the time. This testing is under the current .9.41 release, btw.
RE: by Kolbjørn Fredheim on
Thursday June 14th 2007, 0:41
by Mike on Sunday June 3rd 2007, 11:20
When running fullscreen, (true fullscreen...) I can't use my keyboard, but everything else works. The game runs fine in every other mode, looks good, plays well, but if I let the game itself run the window my keyboard is still active on the terminal window I used to launch it rather than the game window.
Playable, works very well
by Sss2 on Friday May 25th 2007, 19:53
I'm running wine 0.9.37 on an AMD x2 3800 and Geforce 7600GS. Everything works out fine with all visual quality options set on max. The FPS dips down to about 10 when loading areas heavy in polygons/people (ie. Borealis), but quickly hops back up to 30 after loading up.
The game is pretty suspectible to lag, which makes combat especially difficult. It can't be helped. Lag is more or less equal to windows AO, except zoning works mysteriously faster for me through wine. Console gets spammed with one message all the time while running:
I found one game-crashing bug while testing around. With right click to the main chat window and choosing "New window" the game hangs and has to be killed to get it vanish. It also appears through "Chat config" choice and trying "Clone window" from there. So creating a new in-game window seems to be the cause of this.
RE: by DarkFlasher on
Monday April 16th 2007, 15:03
RE: by Marcel Krause on
Wednesday May 2nd 2007, 12:51
low fps
by jano haluska on Sunday March 11th 2007, 14:36
Hi, I have problem with play in main Omni city, game is very slow. When I logged in the shop everything was allright, nice and fast, but when I stepped out of the door game went down to 3fps. I tried to wait few minutes to load up, but it was still very slow. (before when I tried on windows it was running fine).
Game also had some troubles with displaying in the Omni city, its kinda messed up: bin.mypage.sk/FILES/Anarchy-meessed.jpg
I'm using wine 0.9.32 on Ubuntu 6.06, with Anarchy Online 17.1.2. I have 2GHz PC with 512 ram and geForce so it should be running allrighty.
Do you have some idea how to tune wine to run better ?
RE: low fps by Lee on
Sunday January 13th 2008, 13:58
patching - graphic driver howto
by jano haluska on Sunday March 11th 2007, 14:10
Hello
I had lots of troubles when I was patching downloaded 16.something to current 17.1.2. Patch went allright, but after patching I saw that nothing was patched and I still had version 16.something.
Reason: I did not choose graphic driver properly. After selecting it patch went allright and all was good.
How to set driver: I saw some comments to edit the Main.cfg and add there name of device. This does not work for me. Alot easier it was as written in other comments - select driver when requested, then press space, then press Ok - and it works!
Random crashes with 17.0.0 series
by Seb on Friday February 16th 2007, 13:11
I can't see the output from the terminal or from wineconsole because Anarchy.exe locks up X when it freezes. Where is wine's log file?! The game runs fine visualy, but crashes with no predictability. Somtimes the game runs fine for several hours, but most of the time it crashes within 30 seconds of logging in.
Solutions tried:
-removing bink videos from Mediacache folder and "-w"ing
-ALSA module is not enabled
-disabling all options under the "Enviroment" settings ingame
Video drivers are working properly because I'm getting 20-30 FPS outdoors. As far as I can tell the crashes have nothing to do with where I am ingame at the time.
System:
Gentoo Linux
Wine 0.9.29
Xorg 7.1.1
WM: Enlightenment dr17 (also tried Gnome, and no WM at all)
opengl drivers: nvidia binary drivers.
iKernel.exe could not be launched
by AnthonyS on Monday February 12th 2007, 2:10
Anarchy Online is allowing free game play and i am really interested in trying it out.
www.anarchy-online.com/free/ad_campaigns/freecampaign After I downloadit i try to install it and I recieve the message
The installshield engine [iKernel.exe] could not be launched.
(0x80004002)
wine 0.9.30 spits out
err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface {00000131-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}
err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface {00000001-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}
err:ole:StdMarshalImpl_MarshalInterface Failed to create ifstub, hres=0x80040155
err:ole:CoMarshalInterface Failed to marshal the interface {00000001-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}, 80040155
fixme:ole:CoRegisterClassObject CoMarshalInterface failed, 80040155!
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {91814ec0-b5f0-11d2-80b9-00104b1f6cea} could be created for context 0x4
As far as I can tell this should be correct, but it still gives me the "you need to select a device first" line and when I attempt to select the device it just repeats itself. Also to be noted I have switched GfxDevice to GfxDeviceName and then back again without any change to the outcome.
I'm sad now, all that time patching the shadowlands client up to date and it fizzles when I'm so close to never having to touch that foul microsoft creation ever again.
ao 17.0.0
by sylvain on Thursday December 14th 2006, 11:32
i wanted to check the old bug at borgs on the crater, but i can't get it working with just released patches 17.0.0 on free version with gentoo and wine 0.9.22. It loads up, but just before ingame gui appearing it's freezing.
It was acting sometimes like that but now it's everytime, i'm using the configuration described in the gold mentioned here with a nvidia card and drivers 8x.
crappy poor writen-directx games (sorry). Must known: this game lags also on windows..
fixme:winsock:NtStatusToWSAError Status code c0000024 converted to DOS error code 6
err:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne underrun on sound buffer 0x1edfd58
err:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne underrun on sound buffer 0x1edfd58
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_ValidateDevice (0x16e958) : stub
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_ValidateDevice (0x16e958) : stub
*snooped*
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_ValidateDevice (0x16e958) : stub
fixme:d3d7:IDirect3DImpl_7_EvictManagedTextures (0x16e138): Stub!
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x110020 "heap.c: main process heap section" wait timed out in thread 0017, blocked by 000f, retrying (60 sec)
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7effd164 "loader.c: loader_section" wait timed out in thread 0018, blocked by 0017, retrying (60 sec)
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x110020 "heap.c: main process heap section" wait timed out in thread 0014, blocked by 000f, retrying (60 sec)
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x110020 "heap.c: main process heap section" wait timed out in thread 0012, blocked by 000f, retrying (60 sec)
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x249d250 "DSOUND_mixlock" wait timed out in thread 0013, blocked by 0012, retrying (60 sec)
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x110020 "heap.c: main process heap section" wait timed out in thread 0017, blocked by 000f, retrying (60 sec)
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x110020 "heap.c: main process heap section" wait timed out in thread 0018, blocked by 000f, retrying (60 sec)
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x110020 "heap.c: main process heap section" wait timed out in thread 0014, blocked by 000f, retrying (60 sec)
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x110020 "heap.c: main process heap section" wait timed out in thread 0012, blocked by 000f, retrying (60 sec)
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x110020 "heap.c: main process heap section" wait timed out in thread 0013, blocked by 000f, retrying (60 sec)
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000194 flags 0 addr 0x7efadec0
Runtime Error
by Dappy on Friday November 3rd 2006, 5:26
Hi, I've just installed Anarchy Online with Wine, but I can't launch the game, when I try to launche "anarchy.exe" I've got a window with a fuc*** runtime error. When I try to launch the autopatcher it show me "version_id" is missing please reinstall.
I really need to reinstall ?
And when I use "winecfg" to be able to add an application, whan I close the windows and re open it, the application I just added (Anarchy.exe for example) has disapear ...
RE: No DirectX Drivers
by Bob on Monday October 23rd 2006, 19:39
ive just run into the same problem,ive used a modified directory (/AO/) instead of /funcom/anarchy online/ and i cant find that file you mentioned,im patching as i type this and possibly it might appear when its done,ill send another reply when it is if i still cant find the file or if that trick doesnt work.
AO crashes on path select
by Bob on Sunday October 22nd 2006, 14:19
when i try to intsall this it crashes when it asks for install path,im not sure of my wine version so i put the top one so lemme know if i need a spesific version,i need some help with this fast cuz i recently got PBC through so my paid accoun t is active,my time is wasting away cuz of this.help PLEASE!
RE: No DirectX Drivers
by Oscar on Monday September 25th 2006, 15:55
Umm...
I hit the same obstacle. Only your advice doesn't seem to help :(
Sad.
Config generated by the game is below.
GfxDeviceName matches what's displayed. There is a GfxDevice whis is a silly looking string.
Any ideas? (Debian SID wine 0.9.19)
RE: binkw32.dll
by Simon Felding on Thursday April 6th 2006, 15:52
I heard that replacing the .bnk files would stop the movies from showing up. Since I dont play on my free play account (Only the paid one ;)), I am not sure if it is true.
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