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Soldat 1.x

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NameSoldat
Version1.x
License Shareware
URLhttp://www.soldat.pl/
Votes 35
RatingGold
Wine Version1.1.29
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Description
Soldat is a unique side-view multiplayer action shooter game. It takes the best from games like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike and gives you fast action. 1.4 is the newest version of Soldat.
Old test results
The test results for this version are very old, and as such they may not represent the current state of Wine. Please consider submitting a new test report.
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)

What works
Installation Singleplayer Multiplayer


What does not
Fonts disappear sometimes


What was not tested
Anticheating multiplayer/singleplayer system ingame key settings


Additional Comments

I don't why, but ingame weapons menu appears when i run soldat without Vertex Shaders and such a way like this:
wine Soldat.exe --help
Other ways (without extra options giving to soldat) may break visibitily of ingame menus
Test Results
DistributionTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?RatingSubmitter
CurrentGentoo LinuxSep 14 20091.1.29 Yes Yes Gold Saul Tarvitz 
ShowGentoo Linux AMD64Jul 06 20091.1.25 Yes Yes Bronze sado 
ShowUbuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Feb 26 20091.1.15 Yes Yes Bronze an anonymous user 
ShowDebian GNU/Linux 4.0 "Etch" x86_64Nov 03 20081.1.7 Yes Yes Platinum Vamp898 
ShowUbuntu 7.10 "Gutsy" (+ variants like Kubuntu)May 25 20081.0-rc2 Yes Yes Bronze JeffZ 


Known bugs
Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
7974 soldat: input configuration doesn't work NEW View
11994 Soldat 1.4.2: crashes and banned for cheatin NEW View
14592 Soldat Performance Spikes NEW View

 
Tweaks

-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.

 


 
HOWTO

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.



 

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lags
by affect on Tuesday June 10th 2008, 15:29
Still lags as hell in rc4. Tried everything: gdi, opengl, video compability, windowed, fullscreen, different resolutions, minimal graphics - still it lags as hell even with bots if I add ~10 or so

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  • RE: lags by affect on Saturday June 14th 2008, 9:28
Registering Sodat
by Eric on Thursday June 5th 2008, 19:39
How do I register Soldat? I have the reg file and when I double click on it it opens up in a text editor with a registry key in it.

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FPS
by Robert Ugodzinski on Wednesday June 4th 2008, 13:28
Soldat lags as hell. FPS on multiplayer is 17-20. I have P4 2,4 HT and GF 5200. Changing DLLs (installing DirectX etc.) can help?

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RE: soldat fails on start
by Tanker Jedi on Thursday January 17th 2008, 19:27
I deleted .wine folder in my profile and that solved the problem. ( I beleive that i tried to install Oblivion before, and i had to copy a directx dll, which probably caused the error.)

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lags
by affect on Thursday January 17th 2008, 11:45
multiplayer lags as hell. serverlist shows 30 ping but when i join it raises to 300 and higher and i cant even pick a weapon with a mouse because it lags so much

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Works fine, but...
by Marius Schmidt on Thursday January 3rd 2008, 18:55
Soldat works fine here with an out-of-the-box installation of wine. I noticed that activating the "Render smooth polygons" option in soldat setup can dramatically slow down the game.

When I create a game with just 1 player it is fine, but when I add more bots the FPS appears to alternate between ~150 FPS and some very low FPS (but only for a very short moment, mostly when there is a lot of action on the screen or when i press F1).

Trying to play online will result in an "External exception 80000004." message. This exception somehow has to do with the battle eye software. I guess everyone gets this when playing online.

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Setting keys
by Mikko Seppälä on Sunday December 2nd 2007, 9:20
Cant set keys in soldat. When setting key in player config it freezes and wont take input.
errors:
fixme:dinput:SysMouseAImpl_Acquire Clipping cursor to (320,272)-(960,752)
Happens in windowed mode and in fullscreen.
Setting keys via ini file is kinda annoying as it uses some other keycodes (eg. xev ones are different)
Any solution to this?

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Soldat & Wine 0.9.49
by iGama on Wednesday November 21st 2007, 9:18
Just installed Soldat 142 with wine 0.9.49 and started gaming right after.

Didn't change no config of Wine (Alsa, Graphics, nothing), using basic configuration.

All seemed to work :)

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Cant get soldat to run with wine...
by Cory on Monday October 29th 2007, 23:11
so i try to get soldat 1.4.2 running with wine, and i can get the menu screen up fine, but i have no bots,maps and i cant connect to servers..... It also freezes every time i click a button and i have to press alt+f4 to unfreeze it. But as soon as i hit another button.. IT FREEZES AGAIN!
Ultimately i get no where...
Can any1 help?
cheers

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45
by Brian on Tuesday September 18th 2007, 11:24
0.9.45 runs for me and it runs Soldat better than I've ever seen it run before, with or without Compatibility mode (although turning it on seems to smooth the text a little). Nice job WINE devs!

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  • RE: 45 by Yaggo on Wednesday September 19th 2007, 7:39
    • RE: 45 by Brian on Wednesday September 19th 2007, 8:58
      • RE: 45 by Toma on Thursday September 20th 2007, 9:55
  • RE: 45 by Cory on Monday October 29th 2007, 23:07
external exception - wine 0.9.44
by Harry on Saturday September 8th 2007, 23:30
after installing
when game is configured and running
runs perfectly in single player w/o internet

but after join a server
I get this error several times (14 to 20):
External exception 80000004
then I get a problem with wined3d.dll
Access violation at address 7E392A15 in module 'wined3d.dll'. Read of address 00000000

and cannot exit game without crashing it

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RE: Sound crashes, then a little while after, the game crashes.
by Brian on Tuesday September 4th 2007, 7:23
Is this reproducible? If so, how long does it take for the game to crash, and what settings do you have for your Audio in winecfg, and for Soldat in its own Config?

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Platinum Demotion
by Brian on Tuesday September 4th 2007, 7:21
Since there's been so many issues with newer WINE versions and 1.4.2 I'm gonna downgrade this version to Silver, so no one gets any wrong ideas. The game works, but has bad performance and apparently crashes after a certain amount of time.

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No Sound
by Elliot on Sunday September 2nd 2007, 3:51
I can't seem to get the sound to work.

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1.4.2
by Toma on Friday August 17th 2007, 11:51
Im getting some really nasty problems with soldat 1.4.2 and wine 0.9.43. Graphic problems, font problems, and even hard crashes when pressing multiple button combinations.

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  • RE: 1.4.2 by Toma on Friday August 17th 2007, 11:51
  • RE: 1.4.2 by Brian on Friday August 17th 2007, 22:26
    • RE: 1.4.2 by Toma on Thursday August 23rd 2007, 19:52
      • RE: 1.4.2 by Brian on Thursday August 23rd 2007, 20:07
Works in 0.9.43
by Karol Trojanowski on Sunday August 12th 2007, 5:37
Soldat installs and works fine in wine 0.9.43. However, with default configuration, the game's speed makes it unplayable. Check "Video Compatibility" to fix this. It will run OK, but still a lot slower than Soldat 1.3

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Perfection again.
by Andrew Liden on Saturday August 11th 2007, 18:42
#1, appearently, if you set Wine versions such as 4.39 to Windows 3.1 mode, this game still works, with no Unicode error.
#2, Wine 4.43 fixes all the major bugs. Good job, wine team!

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Never expected an upgrade to be a downgrade.
by Andrew Liden on Tuesday August 7th 2007, 16:35
This game ran beautifully, provided you're not a moron and know what "minimize" means when the dialog to download the latest version of BattlEye pops up. But ever since wine made a nice little upgrade that breaks the entire thing...not so much anymore.

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0.9.43 Perhaps.
by Brian on Monday August 6th 2007, 14:00
Running the latest GIT (August 6) the Unicode error is fixed. Looks like next release will work fine.

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