Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade - Released 2006 - The second expansion pack for DoW - Demo
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What works
* Installation and shortcut placement on desktop * Starting the game demo * Playing the game demo (played Tutorial, Battle One and Battle Two from start to finish) * Options Menu * Quitting the game from the menu and in-game * Pre-game and in-game cut-scene animations
What does not
- Attempt to uninstall the game demo via ALT+F2 and "wine uninstaller" without quotes goes through the uninstaller process and it says it's uninstalled but it's not. I manually removed the files and directories created from installation as well as the desktop shortcut icons. Following a manual removal, the entry for this title still exists in the Wine Uninstaller menu.
What was not tested
+ Everything the demo offers was tested
Additional Comments
~ Using NVIDIA driver version: 1.0-9631
~ While the sound/music do work well, it skips throughout testing (may just be my system?)
~ The following information was visible at the main menu: DOW Engine 1.0 DXP2 1.0 Build 91685
There are some reports that DoW crashes in some situations when using specific version of ATI's fglrx driver.
It seems to be clear that fglrx version 9.3 and 10.12 are affected, while 10.10 seems to work fine.
Crashes occur in (at least) these situations:
DoW and WA: When a scout dies.
Building a Tau Commander.
There are several possbile work arounds:
Use another driver (10.10 seems to work) or try your luck with the free radeon driver
Disable glsl in wine's registry:
- Go to the console
- enter the following command: wine regedit
- The registry editor will open
- Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
- Go to Software
- Go to Wine
- Go to Direct3D or create it, if it does not exist: right click "Wine" and
create a new key named Direct3D
- Mark the new Folder(Key) Direct 3D, add a new "String Value" (Zeichenfolge
for german users) named UseGLSL
- DoubleClick UseGLSL and enter "disabled" at the content-field
Thanks to jost for the detailed information.
If you are affected, you may want to have a look at the bug report as well:
If you have problems with completely corrupted textures the problem might be that your systems lacks a library that is used for texture compression in Dawn of War.
Under Debian based system install the package "libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0" and try again.
Tweaking Graphics
Dawn of War's settings are quite careful chosen which means that you could improve the graphics a lot. Here is a guide on tweaking DoW's graphics which sums it up.
