-Always remember to change the winecfg Audio to use ALSA

-Run Soldat like this: WINEDEBUG=-all wine 'C:/Soldat/Soldat.exe'

-Checking "Video Compatibilty" in the Soldat Config Application (wine 'C:/Soldat/Config.exe') will make the text look great, and speed up the game a little as well. (May not be even needed in recent versions of WINE)

Config Options:

• Graphics - You may want to disable fullscreen and antialiasing, and maybe use 16 bitrate until you see that Soldat works correctly.
• Sound - Soldat may start up with an access violation. This is usually caused by a funky sound setting. First set your sound to ALSA in winecfg. You may also want to try different things under the "Sound Output Type" section in the Soldat Config, and if none of those configurations work, you can just disable sound under "Sound Driver List"
• Performance - Particles on screen can be lessened to increase framerate. Disabling "Render Smooth Polygons" seems to speed up some things as well.
• Network and More - changing settings in here had no difference on my game.

Soldat should install and run correctly using the latest version of Wine!

1. You probably wanna head on over to the Soldat site to download it.

2. Then unzip the setup into your home folder, pop into a terminal and do your "wine soldat142.exe"

3. Install it like normal.

That's it, you're done! 

Once installation is complete you may want to use the Setup to configure Soldat to work a little better.

Once you're ingame, everything should work. However, it should be noted that you can't play if you are running XGL.

AS OF WINE 0.9.35, Soldat text works!

There is 1 bug left, with changing the controls from the defaults. Just copy-pasting what was said for the 1.3 version:

"The interface for setting controls is glitchy - you click on the button and sometimes where it would normally ask you to press a key it just says 'Key OK'. However, you can edit the [CONTROLS] section of soldat.ini - you need to enter scancodes. But not actual scancodes... they must go through a level of translation through linux/wine or this section wouldn't be so complicated. There's a nice image of scancodes at barcodeman.com BUT you need to subtract 1 from those numbers, or 2 for the bottom row. Eg, I have 'e' as right, 'o' as crouch and ',' as jump, so I put 'Right=18', 'Crouch=24' and 'Jump=51' into my soldat.ini (I use a dvorak layout so that's not as retarded as it sounds)."

Also, it seems this input bug still rears its head at times. Mouse and Keyboard seem to not work at times. A reported fix for it is to type: wineprefixcreate

ALTERNATE WINE INSTALL:

Sometimes WINE doesn't seem to work right, so I've had a GIT version of it lying around for testing, but it also serves as a more rreliable backup for when something goes wrong in my current system install. To use a GIT version of WINE, please read this wiki page. The following are mainly Ubuntu instructions:

1. sudo apt-get install git git-core

2. Try getting your GIT version of WINE:

git clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git wine-git
cd wine-git

Note: You may get some error message that begins with: "git, the filemanager with GNU Interactive Tools, is now called gitfm." If you do, then you should run, as it says: "update-alternatives --config git" and there should be 2 options now, the second probably being that git-core you downloaded. If can't get git-core, there is another one called cotigo, in which case you can install, select that one, and swap the first command above for a: "cg clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git wine-git".

3. "sudo apt-get build-dep wine", that way you get all the dependencies you need to compile WINE,

4. "./configure && make clean && make depend && make", to build your GIT WINE :)

There are a lot of things you can do in GIT, like regression testing, setting WINE to specific versions, or just update to get the very latest WINE, but you'd probably want to read through the wiki linked above for more info.