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HowTo tested / game / mouse patch works with:	Glitches:
wine1134,wine1135,wine1136,wine1137, wine1138,wine1139,wine1140,wine1141, wine1142,wine130,wine131	wine1136,wine1137 --> NO sound Workaround: Add: mmdevapi in libs winecfg and set it to disabled
Recommend to play with the newest working wine version!

Index

• Configure wine
• Install requirements for Borderlands to run
• Link ~.wine/borderlands/c_drive to another location (optional)
• Activate the game
  
• Install the game
• Patch it
  
• Patch wine with mouse cursor patch to run properly with   Borderlands 
• Hack registry
• Play 
• Troubleshoot
  

In order to have sound use the following options:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/borderlands wine winecfg

Audio tab:ALSA (emulation) 

Drives tab: click on Auto-detect

You don't need to install the Gecko engine.

Install requirements

You will need  "d3dx9" and "vcrun2005" and "vcrun2008" to run Borderlands

So get winetricks and install all 3 properly

wget http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/winetricks
chmod +x ./winetricks­

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/borderlands ./winetricks

mark "d3dx9" and "vcrun2005" and "vcrun2008" so it will install all 3 properly

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/borderlands wineboot

Link it (optional)

Link /.wine/borderlands/c_drive to /..../..... whatever
if you don't want to install 7 GB in your home. (copy the c_drive folder to the new dest. and link to it)

Activate the game (before install)

Do the offline activation described here http://www.2kgames.com/borderlands/activation/:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/borderlands wine Borderland-ManualReleaseDateCheck.exe

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/borderlands wineboot

Install the game:

Install the game from ISO file (quicker than DVD):

Mount ISO.

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/borderlands wine /cdrom/Setup.exe

The installer wants to install vcrun2008 (Visual C++2008)  don't allow it it will corrupt the vcrun2005 installation! Open htop or top and send sigterm to "vrcrun_x86.exe"

After that the initialising of the installer is freezing so open htop or top again and send sigterm to "dxsetup.exe" and/or "amd/ati_setup.exe"and install will continue

Be careful to terminate the process with the higher PID otherwise install will crash. Usually the path is shown in htop and it says something like "Requirements....."

Run the game:

You will notice that you can't move your mouse 360° in game but that's fine for now.

Start the binary in the directory with all the other files in it and not the one in Binaries/Binaries.

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/borderlands wine Borderlands.exe

Just check if it is running.

Patch it

Download the patch for Borderlands and install it. Change dir to the extracted patch.

Be sure that  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Gearbox Software\Borderlands\InstallFolder] is pointing to the Borderlands folder and not to Borderlands/Binaries or Borderlands/Something

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/borderlands wine Setup.exe

 Now you can install additional DLC if you want.

Patch wine with mouse cursor patch

 Install the dependencies for wine (script works for Ubuntu only). If you don't use K/Ubuntu look here for 32 bit http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages and here for 64 bit dependencies http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit

wget http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/install-wine-deps.sh
sudo sh install-wine-deps.sh

If you use Debian you can do:

apt-get build-dep wine

Download the wine source and patch it then build it new and create a .deb package. (Patch works for see top of page)

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wine/Source/wine-1.1.34.tar.bz2
tar xjvf wine*.tar.bz2
cd wine-*

For different wine  version you need different patches:

For wine  1134 to 1142 withXorg 1.7.5 or earlier you need:

wget http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=25097 -O X.patch

Unfortunatelley it seems that the above patch is broken with wine greater than 1142 and Xorg 1.7.5 or earlier and the new X2 patch does not work with Xorg 1.7.5so use an older wine version or a newer version of Xorg. (Currently only Ubuntu patches the Xorg 1.7.6 Server with patches from  Xorg 1.8 wich make the X2 patch working)

For Xorg 1.7.6 (ubuntu patched) you need the new X2 patch:

This patch should work with wine 1143 to 131 but i only tested: 130 and 131

wget http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=29313 -O X.patch

Now apply the patch:

#Download other patches you may want at this point
patch -p1 < X.patch
autoreconf
./configure
make depend
make -j 2
checkinstall -D --install=no

 install with mwine if you like.

Hack registry

 Run regedit

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/borderlands wine regedit

 Browse to: Current_user/Software/Wine/ and create "DirectInput"

Create 2 strings:
"MouseWarpOverride" value "force-box"
"BoxPixels" value "5"

Now mouse will work.

Play the game

 Have fun!!! 

Troubleshoot

Compiling

When you compile wine 34 on x64 it could happen that make stops with an error with winemp3

 make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/daten/src/wine-1.1.34/dlls/winemp3.acm'                                                                    
gcc -m32 -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include  -D__WINESRC__  -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -Wall -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wtype-limits -Wpointer-arith  -g -O2  -o mpegl3.o mpegl3.c                                      
../../tools/winegcc/winegcc -m32 -B../../tools/winebuild --sysroot=../.. -shared ./winemp3.acm.spec    mpegl3.o        -o winemp3.acm.so  -lwinmm -luser32 -lkernel32  ../../libs/port/libwine_port.a -lmpg123                                                                             
mpegl3.o: In function `MPEG3_Reset':                                                                                                         
/mnt/daten/src/wine-1.1.34/dlls/winemp3.acm/mpegl3.c:401: undefined reference to `mpg123_feedseek'                                           
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status                                                                                                          
winegcc: gcc failed                                                                                                                          
make[2]: *** [winemp3.acm.so] Error 2                                                                                                        
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/daten/src/wine-1.1.34/dlls/winemp3.acm'                                                                     
make[1]: *** [winemp3.acm] Error 2                                                                                                           
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

This can be fixed by rename "mpg123_feedseek" into "mpg123_feedseek_64" in wine-1.1.34/dlls/winemp3.acm/*.c

Game is slow

If the game is slow try:

HCU
|
+-Software
   |
   +-Wine
     |
     +-Direct3D
And create string: "DirectDrawRenderer" with "opengl"
This helps a bit to smooth the game but on my machine it is not much. 
Turn FPS smoothing off
 Try to change:
bSmoothFrameRate=True
 in WilllowEngine.ini to False
Lower Texture Detail: 

WillowEngine.ini Find:

[SystemSettings]

Change MaxLODSize of:

TEXTUREGROUP_World=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_WorldNormalMap=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_WorldSpecular=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_Character=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_CharacterNormalMap=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_CharacterSpecular=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_Weapon=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_WeaponNormalMap=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_WeaponSpecular=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_Vehicle=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_VehicleNormalMap=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_VehicleSpecular=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_Cinematic=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_Effects=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_EffectsNotFiltered=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_Skybox=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_UI=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_LightAndShadowMap=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_RenderTarget=(MinLODSize=1,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)

To any of: 2048,1024, 512 or 256 (Lower is faster)

Outline Shader is not rendered correctly.

Disable it:

WillowEngine.ini Find:

[Engine.Engine]

Change:

DefaultPostProcessName=WillowEngineMaterials.WillowScenePostProcess

 To:

DefaultPostProcessName=WillowEngineMaterials.WillowScenePostProcess_cinematic

Tweaks on the gearbox forum:

http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=79043

 or:

http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/PC_Tweaks

I seems that the patch in the tutorial does not work for wine versions greater than 42 and/or on Xserver greater than 1.7.5

It could  be that the x2 patch would make it work again but X 1.8 is not official release yet  (and not in debian unstable)

The X2 patch works with Xserver version: X.Org X Server 1.7.6
Release Date: 2010-03-17(Ubuntu version - with patches from 1.8 X.org)

also the patch works with wine 1.3.0 and 1.3.1