Retail version of the game released by EA including booster packs and patches.
Old test results
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Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
Play with Bot's in window with 1152x864 resolution and all graphics set to high.
What does not
Playing FullScreen
What was not tested
Play Multiplayer or lan.
Additional Comments
Well, the game works fine, I copy the Battlefield CD to my wineprefix folder as i do in every game and start the installer with the WINEDEBUG="fixme-all" option, i have to set a Virtual Desktop to play the game, in fullscreen mode the game's crash after open.
My Config:
AMD Phenom II x4 2.8GHz, GeForce GTX460
Wine 1.3.11, Debian Squeeze, Nvidia Driver 260.19.29
If you are able, you should apply this
patch to your Wine setup. This will cause the mouse cursor to show up in
the main menus, which is invisible by default due to a bug in Wine. To install the patch, place it within the wine setup directory (wine-0.9.59) and run the following:
patch -p1 < cursor-patches-0.9.58.patch
Then, of course, compile and install wine.
This guide refers to ${WINEPREFIX} several times, you should
export it before continuing. Typically you would want it as
"${HOME}"/.wine, but you may wish to create a new Wine
directory just for BF2142, such as "${HOME}"/.wine.bf2142.
export WINEPREFIX="${HOME}"/.wine
Run wineprefixcreate after setting ${WINEPREFIX} if
it does not already exist.
You may need to link d: to where your CD drive is mounted if it
doesn't already exist. Be sure to replace /media/cdrom and
/dev/hdc with the correct locations for your system.
cd "${WINEPREFIX}"/dosdevices ln -s /media/cdrom d\: ln -s /dev/hdc d\:\:
You should set the Windows version to “Windows 2003” in
winecfg, the copy protection system seems to work best with this
setting.
Installation
Autorun only works if you run Wine in the disc directory
(cd "${WINEPREFIX}"/dosdevices/d\: && wine
Autorun.exe).
Don't install GameSpy Comrade, you don't want it. When the EA registration
window comes up, just close the window and the installation should continue.
Failing that, run killall EReg.exe to get rid of it.
Ignore the dialog box saying that DirectX could not be installed, it is
irrelevant.
After installation you will probably want to delete the intro movies, so you
don't have to watch them every time you start the game. Delete the following
files in "${WINEPREFIX}"/dosdevices/c:/Program\
Files/Electronic\ Arts/Battlefield\ 2142/mods/bf2142/Movies:
Intro.bik
Legal.bik
Legal_na.bik
Removing the EA logo (i.e., deleting EA.bik) is against the license, so I
won't recommend doing that. Deleting Dice.bik has been known to cause problems
on Windows, so it's probably best to play it safe and leave it as it is.
Patches
Not much to say here, they work exactly as they do on Windows. You can
download them from the EA FTP server.
Booster Packs
Installation works fine, but it does not appear to do anything after clicking
“Install” until it has finished. Bear in mind that you will have
to reinstall the patch afterwards otherwise you will be kicked with an
“unmodified content” error if you try to connect to a booster pack
server. This is the same as on Windows.
Running
You should set WINEDEBUG to "-all" otherwise all the terminal output will
significantly slow down the game. You can use the +szx and
+szy flags if you want to use a custom resolution.
Most settings seem to work ok. Lighting does not work, so just leave
lighting on low, and dynamic shadows and dynamic light on off. Anti-aliasing
also can't be raised about zero. Setting terrain above low can cause the
ground to glow in places.
Audio settings
Feel free to try the Creative X-Fi renderer if you have the card and have been
able to install the drivers. I haven't been able to do so myself so I can't
help with that.
Using a microphone for VOIP doesn't seem to work at the moment.
Playing
Starting a single player game may cause the game to crash while the map is
loading. Entering an Internet server seems to work ok. I encountered the
occasional freeze up, but it seems to work ok other than that. YMMV.
PunkBuster used to work ok in Wine 0.9.47, but in Wine 0.9.59 I keep getting
kicked within seconds on connecting. This may have just been a fluke, but I
will do some more testing to see if I can find a cause.
The game seems to lose the mouse quite a lot in fullscreen mode, moving the
just won't do anything. As a work around you can run the game in windowed mode
using +fullscreen 0 on the command line.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
Punkbuster, fullscreen
by Jim on Sunday March 24th 2013, 15:08
The demand for BF2142 is probably no longer what it once was, but I'd like to share a couple of tips.
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To get fullscreen working:
First enable the "Emulate a virtual desktop" option in the "Graphics" tab of wineconfig and set the desktop size to your resolution (ex. 1920x1080)
Now add the "+fullscreen" flag to your resolution flags when launching BF2142, like so:
Run pbsetup.exe from your BF2142 wineprefix, click "Add a Game" and select "Battlefield 2142" from the list of games, then click "Check for Updates" and BF2142's version of punkbuster will be updated.
Run regedit and add the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D\VideoMemorySize and set it to the size in megabytes of your video memory. Export the key to ~/.wine/user.reg .
I had to manually create the Direct3D key and subsequently the VideoMemorySize key. This made the game playable, however the single player does just quit on you, as mentioned in the notes.
MultiPlayer Mode, Punkbuster
by phantom_ch on Thursday November 26th 2009, 18:34
MultiPlayer Mode is a Problem, cause Punkbuster kicks your from server, because the fingerprint of the wine appi's/dll's are not from Microsoft... Have contacted EvenBalance, the Maintainer of Punkbuster.. but seams that there is no chance to get Punkbuster work in wine... ;(..
I wish people would finally get the rating system and not rate a title Platinum that needs tweaks and for which they did not even test the multiplayer mode...
RE: 1.50 patch by Josh on
Saturday September 5th 2009, 23:38
RE: 1.50 patch by Josh on
Sunday September 6th 2009, 0:03
Rating
by Lauri Niskanen on Sunday May 31st 2009, 13:40
This game has been reported to be platinum or gold, but I think the rating should be only silver, since online play isn't working thanks to punk buster.
Cannot patch game in wine 1.19
by John on Tuesday April 21st 2009, 0:53
I don't know if its just me or what, but I cannot find a way to patch this game in Wine 1.19. The game after install appears to run just fine, but no matter what patch I run I get the same error back:
"Cannot find install folder for Battlefield 2142"
I've tried patches 1.20, 1.25, 1.50. When I run patch 1.01 it looks like the game is about to launch, but then my desktop gets resized to 800x640 and everything crashes.
I love this game, and would love be be able to get back to playing it; does anyone have a solution?
RE: by Aniruddha on
Wednesday June 25th 2008, 16:09
Not working with wine-1.0-rc4?
by Alex R. on Sunday June 8th 2008, 8:22
With wine-1.0-rc4 and Kubuntu 8.04 KDE 4 Remix the game doesn't work for me anymore, even with virtual desktop. Before, it has always been possible to play. Having NVidia btw.
Out of Range error with Game
by Marc on Saturday April 26th 2008, 3:08
Ubuntu 8.04 Wine 0.9.60. Obviously Idiot at the helm of the compy.
but tried the config list to the best of my ability and i get a Out of range issue and nothing happens. 81.7kHz / 65 hz ... thats it. if anyone has any answers for me.
In Wine 0.9.59 works, but Punkbuster doesn't
by Jareel on Sunday April 13th 2008, 11:45
So, the game works in Wine 0.9.59, even full screen, and the cursors patch/hack for Wine 0.9.58 also works for Wine 0.9.59.
BUT, whenever I join a multiplayer game, Punkbuster kicks me listing no reason. This may have something to do with problems patching correctly, but there seem to be no manual installations of the patch available (if someone could make one somehow, assuming it's legal to, I would be eternally grateful).
Can this be fixed by installing the game on windows (partition or virtual machine, and including all patches) and just copying the installed directory from there? If anybody could try this out whoever has windows already co-installed and report any progress?
Explications on
by Jérémie on Monday November 5th 2007, 17:08
I've noticed there is nothing about how to install a patch so I will talk about it because it wasn't as simple as seems to be.
The patch installed is the 1.4 beta 3 patch.
1) Download the patch and put it in a special directory (~/patch-bf2142/)
2) Configure wine to create a new virtual drive, pointing to this directory.
- First, launch "winecfg" (tape this command in a terminal).
- then go to "Drives"
- click on "add" and modify the path : "~/patch-bf2142/" (the path where the patch has been download)
- remember the drive letter, for me it's "e:"
3) Lunch the patch.
- lunch a terminal and type :
$ WINEPREFIX="${HOME}"/.wine
$ cd "${WINEPREFIX}"/dosdevices/
$ cd "e\:" // modify "e\:" by the letter of your drive (ie: "f\:")
$ wine BF2142_Update_1.40-BETA3.exe // modify the name of the file if your patch is not named as mine
4) The patch is installing. It will take some time, just be patient (the same time as in Windows(R), maybe less).
