Official retail release of AION for US and EU market.
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What works
Installation - Works!, even the download game works
Starting game - Works!
Sound - Works!
Gameplay - Works!
Stability - Stable (as long as you don't use your mouse to move)
FPS: 45-50fps
What does not
using the mouse to move--
mouse disappears on rotating with mouse, also it is random on where it rotates too and hard to get back to default position, this is a issue that i didn't have with 1.2-rc3
What was not tested
more then two hours of game play
extended content
pvp
Additional Comments
except for the low fps
the mouse and rotating screen this is the easiest install yet
however until those issue are fixed it wont get platinum
but if those things where fixed...easy platinum rating
you can still install this on a windows machine then transfer it over, but now the download aion work i don't see why you would.
If you get Aion to work an any operating system with wine, please
submit the test and put on the additional comments how did you get the
game to work! Any operating system test it's appreciated, but please,
if there are already tests with your same operating system, same wine
version, same Aion version and same things done and doesn't work, don't
post it! We really appreciate your help and we would like to get this
game working with wine on as many OS's we can!
Regards,
Stef
Also, if you want some of the wine developers to help us get Aion to work, please VOTE!
*You will find the Vote link in the upper left corner of this page in application description.
If you are submitting test data or possible bug report/solution please submit also your hardware specification and installed closed drivers if any.
Regards,
Oskar
HOWTO
To make the game work you have to:
1. DEPRECATED IN WINE 1.2-RC2 AND UP: Temporary solution for installing/patching:
You must have separate windows os installed or using virtualization software as virtualbox (no gpu accel required) and such.
Virtual machine advise: mount linux wine directory as sharing folder to minimize virtual machine disk consumption and install there for better synergy with WINE.
Install/update in your virtual/separate windows.
1. Installing/patching:
In WINE 1.2-RC2 you can install Aion directly. For detailed instruction look here. The info above left for possible future regressions.
2. To make the game run in WINE you have to install few things by winetricks:
winetricks d3dx9 vcrun2005 dotnet20
It already should be installed if you have done the NCSoft Launcher tutorial.
3. The game opens large amount of file descriptors, therefore you must raise the security limit for your user:
On linux as root add lines to /etc/security/limits.conf:
yourusername soft nofile 8192 yourusername hard nofile 8192
And replace yourusername with your user.
On Mac OS X write into terminal:
sudo pico /etc/launchd.conf
and add there a line:
limit maxfiles 8192
Any system: Save files and reboot to make changes go in effects. Confirm if it works by writing into terminal:
ulimit -n
It should show the value which you set, in this example 8192.
Delete/Move out/Rename the aegisty.bin file in Aion/bin32 folder.
6. Change your command depending on your needs:
The command explained for your needs is:
-noauthgg <---- Disable GG authorization.
-ip:206.127.147.28 <---- IP of the server, EU or US.
-port:2106 <---- The port is always same, so leave it.
-cc:1 <---- Country Code. This determines you run US or EU client.
-lang:enu <---- Change it to match your language files.
-noweb <---- Disable visiting Aion page after quiting game. Leave it.
PS If you have the EU client and put -cc:1 (or viceversa with US client and -cc:2) the game will show in Korean!
6. How to switchbetween EU and US client:
The only difference between the EU and the US client is the folder L10N in the Aion directory!
You must zip/rar/tar.gz the current L10N folder and name the zip/rar/tar.gz file "L10N EU (or US, depending on what client you have)" to remember which L10N folder is that.
You must delete the current L10N folder (Remember to do step 1 first) and rename the AionEU or AionUS folder to Aion.
Go to the NC soft launcher (on windows or Virtualbox or whatever) and change on the settings the client fotr European to North American or viceversa and then Aion will show up saying it needs some updates, which they must be around 800-900mb, download them and close the launcher.
Now go to the Aion folder and the L10N folder must have reappeard, zip/rar/tar.gz it and name the zip/rar/tar.gz "L10N US (or EU, depending on what you switched to)".
Now, depending on what client you want to switch, unzip/rar/tar.gz the right L10N folder.
From now on you just need to change the L10N folder and and run the right launcher! (Right -cc, -ip, etc!)
Hope this worked!
WARNING
Known bugs:
The mouse bug that disappears when you rotate the screen IS NOT a wine bug! It's a client bug of the game that happens on Windows too.
Above info may be deprecated! Please submit here your vote on the problem.
The mouse glitch when you try to pan or rotate is another common bug. To fix it you have to add patch to wine source and compile it yourself.
In 'wine-source/dlls/winex11.drv/mouse.c' find (t the bottom of the SetCursorPos function) :
If you want this bug to be fixed without source hacks please vote for it.
It may be crashy on some systems (Mac OS X and Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope is confirmed). On OS X 10.6.3 using wine 1.2-rc3 from MacPorts, with mouse glitch source hack it is stable.
The pointer doesn't show properly and shows grey (Tested with Wine 1.1.31 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope)
Installing AION with Wine
Yes, let's start from scratch =)
You need the AION game client, in the version you intend to play. Please see the tests to determine which version you could run or not.
Actually, there's no found way to run the NCsoft Launcher with wine, so you must use a Windows system (sorry) to download AION, then transfer files to your Linux box. You may want to use a Virtual Machine for this purpose.
It's as simple as that =) AION should run smoothly on your system if you have a proper OpenGL layer working.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
Mouse disappear when rotating
by mb on Friday August 27th 2010, 11:56
Can someone please update this info? It isn't a wine bug neither a Client Bug, it's an engine option. You can actually change your engine configuration, system.ovr file inside Aion dir, and include the following line:
g_showPanningCursor= "1"
This will make a cursor appear when you rotate the screen
Authentication server IP change with 1.9.0.3
by Mike Grathwohl on Saturday August 7th 2010, 5:24
It seems the IP address of the authentication server changed with the 1.9.0.3 patch. After the patch I could no longer login with 206.127.153.247 in the command, I received the "cannot to connect to authentication server" or somesuch. The IP seems to have changed to 64.25.35.103. Once I swapped the new one into the command I was able to login.
Initialize RD Failed
by C Davis on Monday August 2nd 2010, 21:52
Hi all
I got the game installed and even though I get a (Initialize RD Failed) popup the game will launch and I can log in the lag is SO BAD that there is no way that I could play. I am using a Asus G50vt-X1(bestbuy) and I can run Aion in windows with no problem. Did I forget to do something or is there a fix out there for this.
Mouse rotate
by Andrey Kulakov on Sunday August 1st 2010, 2:47
I'm using wine 1.2 and have a terrible bug with mouse screen rotating. I'm downloaded sources of wine 1.2, open file mouse.c and saw, that needed string already on the right place.
What can I do to fix this bug?
This is only reason of my using Windows T______T
Failure -.-
by Teddy on Wednesday July 21st 2010, 13:34
So. I made an attempt to install Aion earlier but I ended up having a black screen after the logo with the chanter girl appeared.
I tried uninstalling Aion and Wine (I had the latest RC release) and installed the stable 1.2 version. I reinstalled Aion too and copied the Launcher folder from my Windows 7 partition.
The Launcher successfully updated the game but was totally black so I tried launching the game from the shortcut but no luck either, it didn't launch.
I tried typing "wine bin32\aion.bin -noauthgg -ncg -ip:206.127.147.28 -port:2106 -cc:2 -lang:enu -noweb" in the terminal but I got "wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\bin32aion.bin""
So... Any help? I really want it badly running on my Ubuntu. Yea I'm using Ubuntu 10.4
Aion and wine1.2-rc5 gameplay review
by isaac on Monday July 19th 2010, 16:15
So, I've been running and playing Aion all weekend. It's fun, but not quite ready for primetime.
Issues:
1) Game crashes randomly every 1-4 hours. I can usually get more than 3 hours before it crashes. I'll post debug info if I get a chance.
2) Framerate EXTREMELY slow in groups. Running solo or in crowded areas is fine. Not great, but fine. I run a 2.8GHZ i7 w/4GB RAM and a GeForce GTX 470. I can run around healing random people without any trouble but as soon as I group with them the game slows WAY down.
3) The mouse. The source hack helps quite a bit, but there are still other mouse issues.
a) Left mouse button press not always recognized. While both mouse buttons are depressed, releasing the left mouse button and then repressing it doesn't always recognize the left-mouse click.
b) Sometimes left-clicking and dragging to view doesn't work. Clicking screen or right-clicking screen usually fixes that for a bit.
c) Mouse pointer disappears. Once every four or so 4-hour periods of gameplay the mouse pointer will vanish. Completely minimizing and then maximizing the game can sometimes fix this.
Overall, playable, but not quite good enough.
It's quite sad that I'm actually considering getting my first copy of Windows in 5 years :(
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
by Keysi Demon on Saturday July 10th 2010, 18:41
When I launch Aion.bin in terminal I get this message "fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot" without splash screen "AION"
Server Problem
by Macht on Friday July 2nd 2010, 14:28
Hi!
I've did everything exactly how described above. Game runs.
I'm using a free server (aionlegend.ru). And here is the problem, when I press OK in login screen I have an ERROR! It says "No game server is available to the authorization server.(6)"
1.2rc-5
by Donald on Saturday June 26th 2010, 4:33
well after the update last night for the new r5 candidate i can no longer play aion
every time i log in im getting the
connection to authentication servers not found
i reinstalled everything, then i did it again including my system ..(not realizing that there was a update)
so now there is a mouse glitch and you cant get authenticated
am i the only one having this issue?
i don't know enough to go fiddling around on my own,
RE: 1.2rc-5 by Donald on
Monday June 28th 2010, 20:50
NCSoft Black Screen
by Justin on Thursday June 24th 2010, 20:31
after the Aion splash screen the NCSoft black screen comes up with their logo. This is where my client always crashes saying that AION encountered a problem and needs to close. Here is what I got from the terminal at the time of the crash.
wine: Unimplemented function d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXCreateSphere called at address 0x7b836842 (thread 0009), starting debugger...
fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC" (8.0.50608.0)
fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC" (8.0.50608.0)
Any Ideas? I've already gone through all the steps in the HOW TO section thus the reason why I'm posting this.
Issued when used in conjunction with Proxy Chains
by Daniel Bason on Thursday June 24th 2010, 0:27
I have an issued when trying to play the game through an ssh tunnel using proxychains.
When I run the game with proxychains, after I have entered my account details the game sits there and does not go to the EULA, meanwhile the output from wine is:
fixme:thread:NtQueryInformationThread info class 16 not supported yet
Repeating over and over.
Living in NZ connecting to the proxy is pretty much a necessity to get a reasonable ping.
I am using version 1.2rc4 of Wine, and 3.1.0 of Proxychains. The game works normally when not using proxychains
by Patrick "WaCrex" Linerudt on Wednesday June 23rd 2010, 18:32
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Problem with Launcher
by Yannick Fauconnier on Monday June 21st 2010, 1:38
Hi all,
Finally aion is working on wine, great job for the developers and for who helping writing the informations given on this page.
But I've 2 remaining question :
- First less important : Is there a way to enable the antialiasing feature ? In game the only choice available remains on "x0". Tried enabling it in xorg config but didn't change anything.
- Second and more annoying point :p
I followed the explanations given here almost exactly except I was unable to install ie6. Always complaining about corrupt mirror description. So after days of tryingn, installed ie7.
Don't know if that is the reason but I'm unable to run the launcher. It's always crashing seems when he tries to show the splash screen.
Content of the log complaining about the crash :
Exception Information Details:
======================================
Exception Type: System.AccessViolationException
Message: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
Data: System.Collections.ListDictionaryInternal
TargetSite: Void .ctor()
HelpLink: NULL
Source: _Launcher
StackTrace Information Details:
======================================
at NC.Launcher.SplashForm..ctor()
at NC.Launcher.SingleInstanceLauncherApp.CreateSplashScreen(Nullable`1 initialProgress)
at NC.Launcher.SingleInstanceLauncherApp.HandleFirstInstance(CommandLine commandLine)
at NC.Launcher.SingleInstanceApplication.Run(CommandLine commandLine, String mutexName)
at NC.Launcher.Program.Main(String[] args)
2010-06-21 08:14:02.4743 : 1 : Info : Exiting with code: 1
Mouse Jittery
by Thomas on Wednesday June 16th 2010, 19:50
What I'm experiencing after making the mouse fix change outlined in the Known Bugs section is the camera jerking around still when trying to pan. It's significantly better then before the fix (where panning the camera almost always pointed it straight up) but it's still not good enough to actually go into the world and fight.
Would you be able to confirm for me if the only modifications you made to the 1.2-rc3 code were the additional line needing to be added to the mouse.c file outlined in the Known Bugs section? I'm thinking that you might have an additional modification from the work for Aion 1.5 on here. The previous mouse fix bug appears to touch multiple files but I haven't tried it since I'm running wine 1.2-rc3 instead of 1.1x on the Aion 1.5 section.
Disappearing mouse coursor
by Oskar Gargas on Wednesday June 16th 2010, 16:55
Is this Wine bug or Aion bug?
Please everyone post her some info:
1. Have you spotten this bug in Aion on Windows? Only if you play Aion on Windows.
2. Have you spotten this bug in Aion on WINE? Which version?
3. Were you using mouse glitch source hack when mouse dissapeard?