There are multiple known issues with running Oni on some systems (mostly with recent NVIDIA cards) and it is not officially supported on modern hardware. Major problems:
Oni tries to allocate the available OpenGL extensions in a fixed size array, that is too small for many modern implementations of OpenGL. An unofficial and unsupported patch by Ian Patterson exists and you can download it from here.
Some releases of Oni use an old and defunct copy protection (codelok). In that case you may need for a nocd (unofficial and unsupported) patch, because very likely Oni won't work. Remember that english language patch doesn't support special characters (like accented letters or umlaut) and that the russian one supports all characters (cyrillic, umlauts, accents).
If you experience sluggish controls and you are using an nvidia card, select the "Sync to VBlank" option in your nvidia control panel.
More infos can be found on oni.bungie.org and on wiki.oni2.net especially here and here.
A few more notes:
Don't set windows version to win95, win98 or winMe (there are a few issues), use winxp (default) or win2000.
If you use a wine release older than 1.1.15, overriding msadp32.acm solves sound issues. If you don't want to override it, upgrade to wine 1.1.15 or newer or use this patch
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
f1 bug
by OniFan on Tuesday February 2nd 2010, 15:32
Hello,
Oni runs fine in my Ubuntu 9.04 with lastest 1.1.37 version of wine.
However stills a bug:
When we press f1, the help menu is displayed, however if we try to close it, it simple doesn't close. Not by ESC key, not by pressing again F1, not even clicking in close button.
There's a tricky fix for this...
If we still pressing ESC key for some moments it will close (or at least disappear) after some flashings of the f1 screen.
RE: f1 bug by Stefano Guidoni on
Wednesday February 3rd 2010, 7:52
RE: f1 bug by OniFan on
Wednesday February 3rd 2010, 8:09
RE: f1 bug by Ed on
Wednesday February 3rd 2010, 13:48
RE: f1 bug by James Dominy on
Thursday October 27th 2011, 15:39
RE: f1 bug by James Dominy on
Thursday October 27th 2011, 17:14
Won't Work
by JSnider on Saturday July 5th 2008, 21:03
Keeps crashing no matter what. It plays the intro. Lets you start the training. Then crashes. Alternatively if you skip the training it crashes. It just crashes on Ubuntu.
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 59 (SPI_SETSTICKYKEYS)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 1600x1200x16 @0! (XRandR)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 1920x1080x16 @0! (XRandR)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 1600x1200x32 @0! (XRandR)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 1920x1080x32 @0! (XRandR)
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f6f4,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:adpcm:ADPCM_StreamSize misses the block header overhead
fixme:adpcm:ADPCM_StreamSize misses the block header overhead
fixme:adpcm:ADPCM_StreamSize misses the block header overhead
fixme:adpcm:ADPCM_StreamSize misses the block header overhead
fixme:adpcm:ADPCM_StreamSize misses the block header overhead
fixme:adpcm:ADPCM_StreamSize misses the block header overhead
fixme:adpcm:ADPCM_StreamSize misses the block header overhead
fixme:adpcm:ADPCM_StreamSize misses the block header overhead
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7e8d34a0 "x11drv_main.c: X11DRV_CritSection" wait timed out in thread 001c, blocked by 0009, retrying (60 sec)
Gray screen
by Vincent on Saturday November 3rd 2007, 5:24
I am using Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) and Wine 0.9.46. I am still a newbie so I don't know how to change the Wine configuration.
Oni succesfully installs. When I launch Oni (with/without the WinXP patch) I get to see the intro movie with correct sound. But when the movie is finnished or skipped my screen turns completely gray and the main menu sound keeps looping correctly. Everything else freezes. When I restart X by doing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace X restarts but the main menu sound keeps looping.
works with wine-0.9.31
by dan on Saturday February 24th 2007, 8:42
32-bit Ubuntu Edgy on Athlon64 X2
kernel version 2.6.17-11-generic (SMP)
NVIDIA GeForce 7950GT with proprietary driver version 1.0-9631
wine version 0.9.31
I had to replace Oni.exe with the patched version from here - oni.bungie.org/help/winxp.html - in order to avoid the OpenGL fixed extension buffer crash.
Sounds still get cut off at the end, and keystrokes aren't as responsive as I'd like (running, which requires quickly pressing, releasing then holding down 'w', is really hard to do).
Error running the game
by S. Black on Sunday January 22nd 2006, 20:41
Oni installs fine.
Whenever I try starting the game up, I'm able to get through the intro videos without a hitch only to have the game resize the desktop to whatever resolution it wants, and then the game dies with:
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found! (XRandR)
This is strange, as I have accessible the video modes Oni should want to use, and I can change its configuration files so that on startup it looks for the same video mode as the one that is running when I start Wine, and the problem persists. Can anyone give any suggestions? I've run into this problem elsewhere before, so I'm going to cast a wider net than just posting here.
Blam, Oni crashed
by Matt Pfingsten on Thursday March 17th 2005, 7:48
For the longest time I could play this game with only minor irrations in Wine and flawlessly in the CVS version of Cedega. After reloading (new hard drive) when I start it in either app I get the following error after the opening movie "Blam, Oni crashed."
Winver is set to Win2000 for this game, as I have been told that you can get it to work if you do that.
