Install the game from CD, then install the 1.2 patch and the 1.21 patch. This allows the game played online as most servers require the latest patch release to be installed.
The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
Installation
Patching to the latest version
What does not
Starting the game
What was not tested
The playing of the game
Additional Comments
Before installing the patch on attempting to run the game the following errors were output from the console:
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x10d30 "?" wait timed out in thread 0016, blocked by 000f, retrying (60 sec)
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x10d30 "?" wait timed out in thread 0016, blocked by 000f, retrying (60 sec)
After patching the game doesn't launch and no information is returned to the console.
As at Wine v0.9.58 Battlefield Vietnam works well, but there are some changes that need to be made to get it working and you have two choices, they are both simple and it really depends on whether you want to play the game full screen or not. I would strongly recommend that you run BFV in a window, but the choice is yours
Option 1 Start
winecfg, go the Graphics tab and select "Emulate Virtual Desktop" and
enter a valid resolution (I used 1024x768). Once that is set you can
launch the game in a window and it seems to all work fine.
Option 2 If you need to run the game full screen you can change
"renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 1" in "C:\Program Files\EA
GAMES\Battlefield Vietnam\Mods\BfVietnam\settings\VideoDefault.con" and
that seems to work also, although when the game exist my screen
resolution is stuck at the game resolution.
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Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS
by Espryon on Thursday October 21st 2010, 21:50
The game starts but the screen goes black and i can hear music it is the same ive reinstalled wine and erased it completely and reinstalled the game 3 times. I used to play this at lans and not people are starting to play it again at a group im with.
broken in 1.1.32?
by Dean Hamstead on Saturday November 7th 2009, 3:27
dean@mele:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/EA GAMES/Battlefield Vietnam$ wine ./BfVietnam.exe
err:alsa:ALSA_CheckSetVolume Could not find 'PCM Playback Volume' element
err:alsa:ALSA_CheckSetVolume Could not find 'PCM Playback Volume' element
fixme:imm:ImmDisableIME (0): stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32e650,0x00000000), stub!
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address 0xa79a79 (thread 0009), starting debugger...
playing over hamachi
by Andy on Wednesday June 17th 2009, 7:02
Hi!
I`m trying to play a network game using hamachi, however i cannot connect to a windows machine, and it cannot connect to me (we both use the same version of hamachi). When one of us creates a LAN game, another doesn`t see the created server. Any ideas how to make it work? The game is patched to version 1.21
DVD rip
by Nick Corriveau on Wednesday October 29th 2008, 20:23
I got tired of installing games so often with xp i simply ripped the files via the dvd, and made it playable without an install. Now converted for linux, exectuing the EXE via wine works fine, as long as it is not FULL SCREEN, which is a bummer
