This is the series of Open Beta versions.

What works

• Installing with wine msiexec /i PathOfExileInstaller.msi
• Patching to version 0.10.7 (and later to 0.10.7b)
• Launching the client, logging in and playing the game.
  • The frame rate is not at all offending, around 25-30 fps in the first(?) town (generally higher in the surrounding wildernesses) with all bells and whistles enabled.
  • Windowed, windowed fullscreen and fullscreen modes
  • In-game maps, both mini-map in corner and central overlay
• Getting kicked back to the login screen from mid-combat when Patch Monday happens

What does not

• Patching/downloading takes a very long time, apparently doing a lot of IO during the “Allocating Space” stage.

  Applying the patch from bug 33146, comment 1 to Wine solves this.
• Initial loading of the client takes a long time. Loading new areas is fairly snappy, though.
• There is no sound. Setting a native override for openal32 with winecfg works around this.

• Much of the text is mildly corrupted, but usually easily legible.

  Using winetricks to install d3dx9_36 and adding a builtin override for d3dx9_42 with winecfg works around this. You can remove the d3dx9_36 override if you want.

  Thanks for showing that this was fixable at all, Ferg!
• There is a slight graphic lag (much less than a second but noticeable) when un-cached assets (like mobs and sounds) are loaded.
• Anti-aliasing seems to only work partially, perhaps limited to some low level. I can’t tell if switching texture filtering mode does anyhing either.
• Switching from fullscreen to windowed mode doesn’t work properly unless the client is restarted.
• There seems to be a missing banner of some sort in the launcher.
• Running in an X server alongside kwin causes stuttering and crashes.

What was not tested

• Anything microtransaction related or launching a browser from within the client.
• The vast majority of locations, conversations, events, social interactions, classes, items and skills available
• Circumventing bug 33146 by way of libeatmydata or installing to a tmpfs.
• Using a win32 prefix
• Running without Wine-provided Mono

Additional Comments

-   For anyone with tolerance for forum threads, the [Official] Wine
    info thread (http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/8980/)
    might be of some use.
-   I have never run Path of Exile under Windows.
-   Test was done with a Nvidia GeForce 8800 video card using the
    Nvidia-provided binary-only driver version 313.30. The installation
    was done to a btrfs on a spindle drive.

	Distribution	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Rating	Submitter
Current	Gentoo Linux AMD64	Apr 29 2013	1.5.28	No, but has workaround	Yes	Gold	eroen
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Apr 18 2013	1.5.28	Yes	Yes	Platinum	Ferg
Show	Gentoo Linux AMD64	Mar 03 2013	1.5.24	Yes	Yes	Gold	Christian Becker
Show	Gentoo Linux AMD64	Feb 27 2013	1.5.24	Yes	Yes	Gold	Nussecke
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Feb 27 2013	1.5.24	Yes	Yes	Bronze	Even Kristoffer Mjøs