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Install
What does not
Game, it shows just black after videos
What was not tested
Nothing, i guess...
Additional Comments
Sometimes I need to wait a bit, but then it got forward. Anyway game may need to use software (for rendering, etc.), because it asked it when I tried to run the game. With Windows it didn't. I press that it will use software. With windows I need to use software too. Everything worked well untill I got to the main menu. :'(
I hope my english wasn't very bad...
Battlezone works fairly well with the old 1.4 patch, but has to be
tweaked an awful lot, especially if you want it to be full-screen and
play in multiplayer.
3) Delete or rename the 'anims' folder in the Battlezone base directory
4) Modify 'render.cfg' (in the battlezone base directory) to allow
higher resolutions, triple buffer and mipmaps..and disable zbuffer
(helps greatly with graphics performance)
5) Download dsound via winetricks (sorts out some background noise problems)
6) In Wine Config, set the main bzone.exe to Windows 98.
7a) If wanting to play in fullscreen - untick 'Emulate a virtual
desktop', 'Allow the window manager to control the windows' and 'allow
the window manager to decorate the windows' in the graphics tab..and
tick 'allow directx apps to stop the mouse leaving their window'
7b)If wanting to play in a window (safer) - *tick* 'Emulate a
virtual desktop', 'Allow the window manager to control the windows' and
'allow the window manager to decorate the windows' in the graphics tab
and set the emulated window to something 1280x1024 or under (the max
resolution for BZ 1.4) depending on your screen resolution. *Untick*
'allow directx apps to stop the mouse leaving their window'
8) You can now run the bzone executable (wine bzone.exe) to avoid
the slow splash screen and run the game in single player. If you want
to play multiplayer (well worth it)..then you will need an up-to-date
servers.dat file in the base battlezone directory..the one that is
generated will not show any servers. One can be found here: www.battlezone1.net/downloads/
9) In MP, excessive FPS causes problems with other players..so
limiting FPS by enabling 'Sync to Vblank' in Nvidia / ATI control
settings is helpful (it will just cap at your refresh rate).
For some reason, Wine doesn't seem to cope well with mixed-mode CDs so CD audio / music doesn't seem to happen..
Worth noting that Ken Miller, one of the original programmers, is at
work creating a 1.5 patch which addresses many of the current problems
and necessary tweaking.
WARNING
The anims directory needs to be removed or renamed before Battlezone will load
-- Matt Bee
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BZ 1.4/BZE 1.3
by HitchcockGreen on Sunday April 24th 2011, 11:17
There are some decent web-based installers out there for Battlezone to circumvent the whole need of the CD.
www.battlezoneclub.org has both one for BZ 1.4 (which includes many game fixes) as well as Battlezone Enhanced which now stands at version 1.3.
BZ Enhanced contains many fixes as well, support for DX9, extra maps and ships and other refinements.
I will try testing Wine with these but thought I should post here to see if anyone else is interested in testing, as well.
Things to make it work...
by Matt Bee on Sunday January 2nd 2011, 17:13
Battlezone works fairly well with the old 1.4 patch, but has to be tweaked an awful lot, especially if you want it to be full-screen and play in multiplayer.
3) Delete or rename the 'anims' folder in the Battlezone base directory
4) Modify 'render.cfg' (in the battlezone base directory) to allow higher resolutions, triple buffer and mipmaps..and disable zbuffer (helps greatly with graphics performance)
5) Download dsound via winetricks (sorts out some background noise problems)
6) In Wine Config, set the main bzone.exe to Windows 98.
7a) If wanting to play in fullscreen - untick 'Emulate a virtual desktop', 'Allow the window manager to control the windows' and 'allow the window manager to decorate the windows' in the graphics tab..and tick 'allow directx apps to stop the mouse leaving their window'
7b)If wanting to play in a window (safer) - *tick* 'Emulate a virtual desktop', 'Allow the window manager to control the windows' and 'allow the window manager to decorate the windows' in the graphics tab and set the emulated window to something 1280x1024 or under (the max resolution for BZ 1.4) depending on your screen resolution. *Untick* 'allow directx apps to stop the mouse leaving their window'
8) You can now run the bzone executable (wine bzone.exe) to avoid the slow splash screen and run the game in single player. If you want to play multiplayer (well worth it)..then you will need an up-to-date servers.dat file in the base battlezone directory..the one that is generated will not show any servers. One can be found here: www.battlezone1.net/downloads/
9) In MP, excessive FPS causes problems with other players..so limiting FPS by enabling 'Sync to Vblank' in Nvidia / ATI control settings is helpful (it will just cap at your refresh rate).
For some reason, Wine doesn't seem to cope well with mixed-mode CDs so CD audio / music doesn't seem to happen..
Worth noting that Ken Miller, one of the original programmers, is at work creating a 1.5 patch which addresses many of the current problems and necessary tweaking.
Some solutions maybe...
by Sgt.Nops on Saturday November 15th 2008, 6:05
>Graphic issues. You have to rename the anim folder to get the game to >load.
This is a common problem with Battlezone, u have to rename the anim folder even if u play on Win2000 or WinXP.
I guess there will be no solution.
>The game screen is in a box in the lower left hand corner.
The solution that worked for me, was to install the BZ 1.4 patch and set the game resolution to my screen resolution.
That way the game menu still appear in a box at the top left but the game is fullscreen.
>There are glitches in the sound.
For me it helped to go into winecfg and change the audio setting for
,i guess its Hardware-Accelleration(Sorry i got the german version.),
from full to emulation.
