This is the International version of Perfect World. Most region specific version of Perfect World has IP blocks implemented. Managed and developed by the original Perfect World company, Perfect World Entertainment.
Old test results
The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
Most things, with effort.
What does not
Installation (Client version 3 - Aug2008): Fails at 99% with an obscure error about being unable to create a folder. Had to install to a Windows VM then copy over the folder.
Game (Version 18 - Oct 14 2008):
-Graphics corrupt (random polygons) when changing window size, or game graphics options, forcing a quit. Don't change settings and you'll be fine.
-Some 2d graphics are corrupt, making the game map unusable. Can be fixed by disabling S3TC detection in Wine source (dlls/wined3d/directx.c):
-Most inventory icons are replaced with a texture of a question mark. It makes managing inventory difficult.
-Sound doesn't seem to work unless it gets it's own hardware device. (My config set to use ALSA).
-You'll need to use Alt+Mouse1 to manage inventory. Make sure that combo is not bound in your Window Manager. Disabling "Allow window manager to control the window" in winecfg is not recommended as it produces other quirks.
What was not tested
-PvP
-Territory Wars.
-Classes other than Wizard
Additional Comments
Using patched Wine 1.0 with "animated cursors" and modified to disable reporting S3TC. Wine 1.1.5 doesn't fix the mentioned issues, and introduces the gray character bug.
Since the last wine version tested with this program was 1.3.23, I would suggest you get this version, and see if that fixes any of your problems.
If you use a newer version, or one that's not listed in the Tests section, post it as a test, not a question, as most of us are not using the version you are.
Personally, I am on Debian 2.6.32-5-amd64, using wine version 1.1.42. I use Gnome as my manager (mentioned that because some other window managers do not work well for me) I have a NVidia 7300 GT with 512 memory.
I have had not much luck with running the 1.2.x or 1.3.x versions. I have not had to install any DirectX stuff. Just the basics, from the notes.
As of July 16th and before I have never needed Directx9 installed to
play perfectworld. This could just be my setup. The game runs so smoothly I don't see a
need for directx9
Most of you have noticed that minimizing and maximizing the Perfect
World game client really is not any option because it mashes the icons
inside the game to one side or the other.
A really simple solution...
Open your wine configuration, click on the graphics tab, add a check
mark in "Emulate a Virtual Desktop" set the resolution that you want.
My linux desktop is set at 1280 x 1024 res. I set my Virtual Desktop to
1280 x 975.
This was really the final bug that I have seen for the game
everything is super smooth running.
I have tested this simple solution on basically all wine versions.
I did not have to install direct x 9. Although you do need to
install specific fonts that are stated in an earlier post for the text
to show up correctly. The
chinese packs are needed no matter what because the game will be wicked
slow if you dont have them.
I am using a distro that is built upon ubuntu jaunty called Linux
Mint 7. I have tried this on the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Mint 7.
Really this should work for everyone its a simple solution that was
there the entire time :)
HOWTO
BEFORE INSTALLING PERFECT WORLD
*Note: If installing on Gentoo, please use this statement before running wine install.exe. Use 'export LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8'
Wine configuration:
Windows -> "Windows XP"
Allow Pixel Shader "enable"
Audio only ALSA
Regedit configuration:
Add "Direct3D" key to HKEY_CURRENT_USR -> Software -> Wine
Add the following String Values to the Direct3D key:
DirectDrawRenderer
"opengl"
Nonpower2Mode
"repack" OffscreenRenderingMode
"fbo"
PixelShaderMode
"enabled" RenderTargetLockMode
"auto"
UseGLSL
"disabled"
VideoMemorySize
"512"
< Edit this line to indicate
the size of your video memory
Or download a .reg file that can be imported into your
configuration, pwi.reg . You will
still need to edit the file before importing, to modify your video
memory size.
Winetricks is a script created by Dan Kegel, to download and install
various Windows packages. Some you might need to install Perfect
World. Like the chinese language fonts
You can get it from the link below. Just right click and
save it in your .wine directory.
You will have to install VCRUN6 via Winetricks. (date added: 4/7/2011)
Performance:
If your game is slow, you may need to disable the
option "Soften" within Perfect
World Setup
modified 12/15/2010
Updating (4/6/2011)
After Updating the game, Verify, the files. Updating may take 15 minutes, but further problems may be avioded if you Verify the installation afterwards.
Utility Scripts
I've made a couple of scripts to find or kill wine applications, instead of rebooting the computer by force. (which I used to do, before using these scripts. Each of these scripts should be run in a terminal window, which you should be able to get to. On Ubuntu (my system), you can find a terminal by going thru Applications-->Accessories-->Terminal. You can also run by using Alt-F2, or by logging in to another instance, by using CTRL-ALT-Fx (where x is 1-9).
Just copy these scripts to your home directory. Doesn't matter where you keep them, just be sure they are on an executable path. You will also, have to make them executable by doing this after you download them. [chmod +x (name of file)] (do not type [ or < or >).
findwine. This script will list all occurance of C: and the program wine. (added 01/03/2011)
killwine. This script will kill all occurances of C: and the program wine. (added 01/03/2011)
If you have mutltiple wine programs running, the killwine will kill it.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
Cool tricks I used to get PWI to work
by Tim on Friday December 28th 2012, 13:50
First, I recognized that a bunch of the game files are chinese. So, I setup Chinese locale on my debian box. I ran:
dpkg-reconfigure locale
And selected the zh_* locales for all the chinese.
Then, using wine 1.5.20, I ran winetricks to get the chinese fonts.
Then, i ran in my shell: export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.utf-8 && export LANG=zh_CN.utf-8
This makes a few dialogs into chinese but everything else is still english in the game.
Then, in the same shell, I ran: wine install.exe to install PWI from the latest torrent file (28-Dec-2012).
At first, it would reject saying the directory couldn't be created. But, then I put in: "C:\Pwi" instead of the long path they automatically give you by default. I figured the spaces might cause weird problems.
Then it installed. About half-way through the install, the progress bar/box disappeared but the graphic background was still there. It was actually still installing, I just had to wait it out. Eventually after about 20 minutes, it finished and it gave me a prompt to launch or verify. I unchecked it all to just quit.
Then, I ran the patcher, from C:\Pwi\patcher\patcher.exe using wine. I let it do the auto-update up to the latest version 684.
When it was done, the "Start" was highlighted yellow but before I started playing, I clicked "verify" just to make sure. It started verifying and it was very quick (much faster than before, when I didn't have the chinese setting + C:\Pwi short path). It finished in about 10-15 minutes where before it was going on for hours.
Finally, after the verify did some updates, I clicked "Start" to enter the game.
It loaded! There was no Model\pack .ecm error like before and the sound and graphics and icons were all working.
patcher and launcher won't work
by shawn on Wednesday December 5th 2012, 18:49
I have to update my copy of perfect world. Since I've installed it I've been running it from element.exe because the patcher and launcher doesn't work and now I can't play it because it is out of date.
when I run the patcher I get this:
shawn@shawn-MT6730:~$ wine '/home/shawn/.wine/drive_c/Perfect World Entertainment/Perfect World International/patcher/patcher.exe'
err:winediag:wined3d_dll_init The GLSL shader backend has been disabled. You get to keep all the pieces if it breaks.
fixme:d3d:check_fbo_compat Format WINED3DFMT_R16G16_UNORM with rendertarget flag is not supported as FBO color attachment, and no fallback specified.
fixme:d3d:check_fbo_compat Format WINED3DFMT_R16G16B16A16_UNORM with rendertarget flag is not supported as FBO color attachment, and no fallback specified.
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f8c0,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:check_fbo_compat Format WINED3DFMT_R16G16_UNORM with rendertarget flag is not supported as FBO color attachment, and no fallback specified.
fixme:d3d:check_fbo_compat Format WINED3DFMT_R16G16B16A16_UNORM with rendertarget flag is not supported as FBO color attachment, and no fallback specified.
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f7f8,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:thread:InitializeSRWLock (0xc519b4): stub
fixme:thread:InitializeSRWLock (0xc519e0): stub
fixme:thread:InitializeSRWLock (0xc51a0c): stub
fixme:thread:InitializeSRWLock (0xc51ca8): stub
fixme:thread:InitializeSRWLock (0xc51cd4): stub
fixme:thread:InitializeSRWLock (0xc51d00): stub
fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0xa913b8, 0xc52830, {b2a40f1f-a05a-4dfd-886a-4c4f18c4334c}, 1, 0x8ed3fc, (null), (null), 0xc52830,): stub
fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0xa913b8, 0xc52860, {ffdb9886-80f3-4540-aa8b-b85192217ddf}, 1, 0x8ed3fc, (null), (null), 0xc52860,): stub
fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0xa913b8, 0xc52890, {5c8bb950-959e-4309-8908-67961a1205d5}, 1, 0x8ed3fc, (null), (null), 0xc52890,): stub
fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0xa91481, 0xc512c8, {3e1fd72a-c323-4574-9917-5ce9c936f78c}, 1, 0x8ed3dc, (null), (null), 0xc512d0,): stub
fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0xa91481, 0xc512e8, {afff9c82-5be3-4205-9b3e-49e014c09a63}, 1, 0x8ed3dc, (null), (null), 0xc512f0,): stub
fixme:urlmon:CreateUri Ignoring unsupported flag(s) 2000
fixme:thread:InitializeSRWLock (0x5de6b680): stub
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fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken QueryInformationToken( ..., TokenElevationType, ...) semi-stub
fixme:thread:AcquireSRWLockShared (0x5de6cfe4): stub
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fixme:shell:DllGetClassObject failed for CLSID={871c5380-42a0-1069-a2ea-08002b30309d} (Internet Explorer)
fixme:urlmon:CreateUri Ignoring unsupported flag(s) 2000
fixme:shell:DllGetClassObject failed for CLSID={871c5380-42a0-1069-a2ea-08002b30309d} (Internet Explorer)
fixme:thread:AcquireSRWLockShared (0x5de6cfe4): stub
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fixme:shell:DllGetClassObject failed for CLSID={871c5380-42a0-1069-a2ea-08002b30309d} (Internet Explorer)
fixme:urlmon:URLMoniker_BindToObject use running object table
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fixme:urlmon:CreateUri Ignoring unsupported flag(s) 2000
fixme:urlmon:MapUriToBrowserEmulationState stub: 28068184 28078888 9334188
fixme:urlmon:MapBrowserEmulationModeToUserAgent stub: 0 9334212
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionExW Flags 00000000 ignored
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionExW Flags 00000000 ignored
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT/DATA_SEND_TIMEOUT 90000
fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do!
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x735ef8 "?" wait timed out in thread 007d, blocked by 0082, retrying (60 sec)
Working except for icons
by Brian B on Saturday September 15th 2012, 11:42
I made a new wrapper with 1.3.28 and I installed a registry fix and IE6.
The game works flawlessly except for the already-known bug wherein the icons are all different from what they should be. My problem is, I don't know how to install the patch listed in bugfix: bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30115
I am using Mac OSX 10.6.8, new Macbook pro.
How do I install the bugfix into my wrapper to fix the icons?
Crashes before loginscreen
by Joni Larsen-Haikarainen on Sunday July 29th 2012, 4:45
Wine version 1.4.1
torrent download install
and patched to latest version worked fine.
But as soon as I click start it starts a loading screen and about 15% in to it. It crashes and brings up a Bugreport window. If I attempt to submit a bug report with it, the bugreport program also crashes.
Solving missing icons problem
by Miguel Dilaj on Thursday July 12th 2012, 15:05
It seems the HTML component of wine is not reaching filenames with chinese (?) characters on them. The icons are in such files.
I solved it by installing IE8 via winetricks.
Regards,
Lag and Missing Icon
by Setiawan on Tuesday July 3rd 2012, 0:15
I'm using wine 1.4.1, the application start perfectly. the problems are:
1. it lag from the start (login window), i already try to lower the graphics setting in the game but doesn't seem to have any effect.
2. missing icon, in inventory, skill, everthing...
please help on this, i really love playing this game and would like to play it on linux
A very old Wine still required
by Pekka Paalanen on Sunday June 24th 2012, 3:30
Around 23rd June, 2012, I tested several versions of Wine for PWI. The PWI installation package contained version 639, and it updated to 645.
I always started with a clean Wine prefix, and installed the game from a torrent download. I never needed to install ANYTHING using winetricks, or any extra software. I never did any Wine registry editing. The only custom setting I used was the environment variable LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8".
With Wine versions 1.5.5 (patched), 1.5.6 (patched), 1.4.1, 1.3.28, and 1.2.3 the game worked, and especially rendering was fine. The patcher worked more or less, too.
1.2.3 was the only Wine version of the above, where everything was ok.
The problems in versions 1.5.5 (patched), 1.5.6 (patched), 1.4.1, and 1.3.28 were:
- Missing icons. Almost all icons (items, skills) in the game were replaced with the icon of a question mark. The old LC_CTYPE workaround did not work.
- Verify in patcher takes 24-30 hours to run (only 1.5.5 and 1.5.6 actually tested to the end, others seemed to be equally slow).
- Verify in patcher downloads the same files every run. Apparently verify fails due to a bug, not by corrupted data.
Additionally, 1.5.5 and 1.5.6 needed patching for the patcher to not crash at the beginning.
In 1.2.3, the patcher and Verify worked fine. Verifying took only a few minutes. Icons in the game show up right.
So, my recommendation is, use Wine 1.2.3 for PWI, and do not do any winetricks stuff or registry adjustments right away. Test first, you might not need the tweaks. Perfect World is probably modifying their game, so the requirements to Wine and 3rd party software vary over time.
One last directx problem - sorta
by Eli Wapniarski on Friday March 23rd 2012, 1:26
Hi
Even though I have directx 9.0c installled, and the game runs just fine, the patcher keeps telling me that the game needs directx 9.0c. Anybody know how to get rid of this.
Installer won't work
by Louis on Saturday March 10th 2012, 11:34
Hi guys.
I've tried everything, but I simply can't manage to get the installer working. I've tried all available versions of wine, even 1.4-rc6, without success. The closest that I got was loading the shape of the PMB window, with no colors in it, pressing Go, and then PMB telling me something was blocking it from connecting to it's servers. And no, I do not have any firewall installed, and the one that comes with ubuntu (I forgot its name) is disabled.
Here's the error I get with the default wine1.3, obtained via the software center:
err:seh:setup_exception_record stack overflow 1760 bytes in thread 0023 eip 7bc3e41f esp 00cf0c50 stack 0xcf0000-0xcf1000-0xef0000
Also I've tried the torrent download, but it gets stuck at 75% and, at this point, downloads only "corrupted" data. I tried being patient, it went to something like 15gb of corrupted data for 4gp of correct data.
I've also tried looking for clients on mirror sites, but the only ones I have found only offered the very first, 2008, non-updated PWI (which gets stuck at some point during the updating process), or the current PWI but offer no download server faster than 150kbs, which would take about a whole day (which I don't have).
Please, if you know of a particular wine version for which the installer works, or have a link to a decent client download, that would be super appreciated!
PWI - Descent
by Mark on Monday February 27th 2012, 21:34
With the new version of PWI, ie, Descent, it all started working great again. Also got multiple instances running with wine prefixes.
I am using Ubuntu 11.10, wine ver 1.3.19, used the how-to above and installed dx9 june2010 redist.
PWI Descent Update
by Sev on Saturday February 18th 2012, 7:19
I got the game to work!!!!! It shows all the characters just fine.
I am running wine 1.2.3.
Through winetricks I installed vcrun2005, vcrun2008, and d3dx9
That's all I installed. Run the game, in the login screen there is a book that pops up and brings up the window for you to log in, if you are able to see that book the game should be running smoothly.
Here we go again :(
by Eli Wapniarski on Saturday February 18th 2012, 0:20
I got the game to run, but with problems.
I'm using 1.3.10
The game runs, but like other Windows users, all characters are invisible.
1. You will need to use an older version of wine to get the Installer to work.
2. With winetricks...
a) Install All fonts
b) Install all d3dx_* dlls - game will not work without them anymore :( Do not install the redistributable
c) Install vcrun2005
d) Install vcrun2006sp1
3) With the wine configuration tool make, under the libraries tab, make sure that the mscvrt library is set to native, builtin
New Descent patch has totally broken this game
by Adam Morissun on Friday February 17th 2012, 9:33
Worked almost-platinum until the Descent patch recently. I can't get it to run now with wine-1.2.3.
Compiled the latest wine-1.4-rc3. No go.
The Perfect World Entertainment website has an ongoing tech support forum for this patch. It broke a LOT of Windows PCs too!
To install the game:
Download the client. Do a search on their site for the manual patch, 580-612. (as of Feb-17-12). Install the client, but wherever it asks, choose "Manual" NOT "AUTO" updates. Start the launcher (wine ~/drive_c/PFE*/PFE*/launcher/Launcher.exe). Select "Manual" and install the 580-612 patch. See what happens.
"Start" just changes my resolution and kicks me back to desktop, if it doesn't crash wine with a dead-lock condition or shader errors.
Please post if it works for you, as I was just playing this game with wine-1.2.3!
icon problem slackware 13.37
by Oussama Hajji on Sunday November 27th 2011, 19:13
i installed PWI successfully. yet there is still a little problem : the skills icons don't show up properly. every icon has a yellow question mark. it seems weird. Does someone here knows how to fix this please ?
Characters Won't Show Up
by Jacob on Thursday October 6th 2011, 14:00
Hello. I'm using Ubuntu 11.04. I have followed the instructions on this site very carefully. (I've downloaded the Chinese Fonts, VCRUN6, DX9, etc.) I've looked about and couldn't find an answer to my problem. None of the characters in game show up. Only the weapons, the fairies, landscape, etc. It makes the game a bit difficult when I can't see myself or my opponent. xD Any help on getting this fixed would be appreciated!
System Specs:
Ubuntu 11.04
Processor:2x AMD Turion(tm) X2 Dual-Core Mobile RM-75
Memory: 3852MB
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD3200 (128MB)
Wine Version: 1.3.29
I'm playing the game on the lowest graphics possible and in the lowest resolution possible, but that doesn't make a difference.
iocon graphic gone wierd
by chipppy on Monday September 26th 2011, 23:24
Good Afternoon
My icon graphics have gone all weird sine wine 1.3.28.
I am using Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 with the latest updated wine (1.3.29). I have all the wine tricks setup as per instruction on WineHQ page
Perfect world was working perfectly. The I upgrade as per normal 2 wine upgrades ago and the icons (skills, drops, actions, etc) all changed to strange looking things (game still works perfectly though)
After the latest upgrade (I was hoping for a fix) I still have the same problem, although the action icons only now look as per normal. The skills, drops, etc icons are still wierd.
I also play on windows 7 so I can compare to the window 7 version of the game and there is only a difference between the icon (skills, drops, etc)
I have done a verify (the game) and that didnt fix the icon issue
Anyone have any ideas what to check/change
PWi absolutly not working
by Riku on Saturday September 10th 2011, 7:31
no mater what i do this game doesnt work for me.
i tried now on 3 different forums and suff but noone could help me, i did exactly as written here to install and stuff but as soon as i start the game the game window shows up and i have a 3fps! and this doesnt apply for only this game, every single game i posess has a 3fps rate so im unable to play ANYTHING at all....can anyone please help this programmer noob?...
Downloader not working
by bobby on Wednesday August 10th 2011, 10:09
I am having trouble running the downloader for perfect world international with wine 1.3.26. my output reads that I am missing files windows/system32/c++filt.exe , addr2line.exe , and addr2name.awk. As well I tried the torrent and after 3 days of downloading found some files to be broken. Does anyone know where to get these files or what programs to install with winetricks? I have installed vcrun6 and am running wine 1.3.26 on chakra linux 2011.9ms3 Edn.
PWI Genesis does not work for me :(
by YiamiYo on Monday August 8th 2011, 3:15
Need some help here...
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 and I tried both wine 1.2 and 1.3
Also tried complete reinstall + update (which worked fine), but still nothing
When elementclient.exe starts it *almost* full loads and then it just closes (using either my new installation, or my old one in windows partition)
What I did so far is
winetricks allfonts vcrun6
using the reg file with 1024 at VideoMemorySize
winecfg: Windows XP, disabled all audio(with ALSA it's the same just with 1-2 more errors), emulate desktop 1024x768, Vertex Shader Support Hardware, Allow Pixel Shader enabled
$ wine elementclient.exe
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32e910,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32e838,0x00000000), stub!
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {5959df60-2911-11d1-b049-0020af30269a} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {5959df60-2911-11d1-b049-0020af30269a} could be created for context 0x1
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32e8b8,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:swapchain_init Add OpenGL context recreation support to context_validate_onscreen_formats
fixme:d3d8:ValidateVertexShader (0x5453648 (nil) (nil) 0 (nil)): stub
fixme:d3d8:ValidatePixelShader (0x5753380 (nil) 0 (nil)): stub
fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0x5002c, 0x19b988): stub
fixme:dbghelp:MiniDumpWriteDump NIY MiniDumpWithDataSegs
patcher.exe fatal error
by Joe on Saturday July 30th 2011, 20:43
I have been running PWI for quite awhile now. I recently had to rebuild my machine, and after installing wine 1.2, and following the directions listed here I keep getting the same error. The program patcher.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. I am running ubuntu 10.04. Any ideas? Thanks
Perfect World International freezes on loading screen.
by Tomi Turku on Sunday June 5th 2011, 6:12
I got it installed and updated but when I try to start the game it gets stuck at the end of the first loading screen. I followed the how-to to install so that should all be done and when I try to verify from the launcher it gets stuck processing one file over and over again near the end (left the verify running and after 2 days it was still on the same file).
Installation failure
by Jude Pereira on Friday May 6th 2011, 4:24
Hi, I did a fresh install of wine 1.2, and I've installed vcrun and made the necessary changes in the wine registry as described in the before installation part. However, the game does not even install, it just fails saying, "failed to create directory: C:\pwi", I've tried different folder names, also created the folder manually.
Missing Alphabets
by Abinash on Sunday April 10th 2011, 6:41
Hey guys, first of all thanks for this section, i was able to run PWI on my Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit system.
I have also installed the chinese fonts but it seems broken. I am unable to see "u" , "i" , Capital "A", maybe a few other other alphabets i haven't noticed yet.
Is there something I am missing to fix ? Or everyone having same problem ?
New update breaks PWI in Wine without msvcp60.dll
by Tylendel on Wednesday April 6th 2011, 7:30
Copied it from a windows install into ${WINEPREFIX}/drive_c/windows/system32, and the game runs again. Haven't played it extensively yet, will let you know if they broke anything else :)
graphics issue
by Nimbus Clous on Monday January 31st 2011, 1:31
alright, heres how it goes...
*opens term (f12 yakuate for me)*
wine "perfectworld.exe"
*game opens, it all looks good; select server: Harshlands; log in;
appear @ character select*
*you continue; Select character; go*
*you are in the game*
at this point you see Still no character, and now you see there is No creatures, no other Players, No NPC's, No trees, or other "virtual nature". heres a pic for that too, [i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab50/nimbus7/ingame-no-chara-npc-plr.png]
I have a debug of it, and I've been trying to make some sense out of it, and googling bits of it, but not really coming up with any solutions, it would be greatly appreciated if you could help me out.
Working? by Ken on
Saturday January 29th 2011, 9:09
Request to all testers/contributors
by Rehdon on Tuesday January 25th 2011, 1:56
Please always add a date when you update the information and/or contribute scripts etc., so that it is clear to the reader when some of that stuff might be outdated.
Can you PLEASE answer this?!
by David Mecke on Wednesday January 19th 2011, 20:17
Ive done all the installs correctly. Ive been trying to get this game to work for awhile. I have Ubuntu and the latest version of Wine. Why can i get the game working only up until the loading screen appears in which case the window closes and I get a bug report pop-up in its place? Ive seen this question asked before but never answered. Please help me?
Some glitch left
by Rehdon on Monday October 25th 2010, 4:28
Hi all, I updated my laptop (Sony Vaio VGN-FW21E with an ATI Mobility HD 3400) to Ubuntu 10.10 and Wine 1.2.1, doing a clean install. The good news is that the game is now playable, while under the previous version the graphics were horribly distorted using the proprietary ATI driver.
The bad news is that there's still a glitch left, i.e. all NPCs and some body parts of the different race players are visible only as a black silhouette; they're fully clickable etc., though, so the game can be played.
Missing Letters
by Charles Filbin on Friday October 1st 2010, 23:14
Wondering if anyone else is having a similar problem, but letters are missing at points on mine. Right before login with the news message is missing letters, in game letters from the chat box, and letters from various other points. Mainly it seems to be anything with capitals at the starts like "Perfect World International Team" will show up "erfect orld nternational". Sometimes it'll be fine, about 1 out of 10 times starting the game. Running wine 1.3.3 on Ubuntu 10.04, AMD Athlon II 435 with an ATI 3850 512meg card.
DOES NOT WORK
by aux on Wednesday September 8th 2010, 7:21
im running lucid puppy on a thumbdrive.
dont tell me its my version, or bc it's on a thumbdrive it wont work, or some crap like that.
ok so i followed the step-by-step instructions in the video.
entered all the registry keys shown.
went and downloaded the install client.
told to install to a dir on one of my hdd's that i added in wineconfig.
the installation process takes forever, as it does in windows, then when it asks me to check the integrity of the packages, the 1st time yes, then the 2nd time i tried to install i chose no.
anyway, both times, the installer says:
"failed to create folder" and "cannot install to the directory" or some gayness like that.
this is obviously not the way things are supposed to go, which is smooth. what sort of faggotry is this? and why, even though others have had the same problem, is this seemingly simple problem not been addressed? ive seen plenty of answers to other issues, but ppl who are having the same problem i am, are being ignored. this is rediculous.
RE: DOES NOT WORK by Pekka Paalanen on
Wednesday September 22nd 2010, 15:24
Crash after launcher starts
by Mike on Monday August 23rd 2010, 0:19
Ok so i installed Perfect World International and when i run the updater opens up fine but as soon as i click on a button like start or game settings my entire computer locks up. Im running ubuntu 10.4 and using wine 1.2. any ideas or suggestions are appreciated.
Install quirk: Cannot create directory! - solved
by Pekka Paalanen on Monday August 9th 2010, 13:05
Wine 1.2, fresh WINEPREFIX, on Gentoo with 2.6.35 kernel.
Downloaded a fresh PWI installer for winXP, version 350. Used the downloader application, which worked just fine.
When I started the actual installer, 'install.exe', in the beginning it says it cannot create directory C:\pelit\pwi! However, that directory already exists, and contains directories created by the installer. The only way is to abort, it did not get to installing any real files. The previous workaround does not work.
Solution: export LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8
No idea why, but it works. Set that, and then run the installer as 'wine install.exe'. Please, add this hint to the howto.
I recommend writing an alias or a script that sets LC_CTYPE every time PWI is started. In my post some months ago, I concluded LC_CTYPE can fix icons within the game.
My usual LC_CTYPE is fi_FI@euro, which is not utf8. All other locale settings are "C". Btw. the command 'wine C:\pwi_inst\install.exe' failed to run the installer properly, it exits immediately. Did not try if the LC_CTYPE trick would have fixed that, too, since 'wine install.exe' with the right working directory worked.
Launcher.exe failure
by Scarlett on Wednesday August 4th 2010, 16:23
This is the 3rd time I've tried to run PWI on this desktop, but every time I get the same issue "Launcher.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close"
I don't know if it's just this machine, PWI runs smoothly on my laptop and another PC. All 3 are running 10.4LTS Lucid Lynx with Wine 1.2
My test data
by SteamInc on Thursday July 8th 2010, 10:18
Also I further tested the game and I found out that there is a unknown glitch which caused people in the game to be naked or have invisible body parts.
crash on load after hitting start button
by Kevin Rigby on Sunday July 4th 2010, 11:07
Iv followed this several times (even completely reformatted Ubuntu 10.4) and even with the latest wine version, it always crashes on the loading screen after hitting the start button, an before getting to the log in screen. always with a tiny bit left on the load bar. Can anyone suggest anything
Works great!
by The Flying Penguin on Monday May 24th 2010, 14:51
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit with Wine 1.2-rc1 and game version 334 on my Asus ul30vt.
I did not install DX9 and not even the Chinese language pack that everyone said you need. I'm running at my laptop's native resolution of 1366x768 with the graphics settings turned all the way up and the game runs smooth. I'd say its 95% as smooth as it is under Win7 on the same machine. I didn't even have to disable compiz.
In order to be able to minimize the game without it messing up, I had to set Wine to emulate a virtual desktop. I just entered my native resolution as the virtual desktop size. Now I can use ALT+TAB to cycle between programs or ALT+TAB+D to minimize without any issues.
Missing Character
by Gerry on Wednesday May 19th 2010, 17:44
Ok i never used the Direct3D settings before and my game ran fine besides that the weapons made this weird graphic screw up. Now though i finally added the Direct3D and the game runs smoother except I can't see any of the Characters or monsters. Any ideas?
About my test data...
by Ian on Tuesday May 11th 2010, 3:39
I didn't mean that windowed nor virtual desktops didn't work; I meant that they FAILED to make the graphics any more complete. Yes, ENTIRE BACKGROUNDS AND GROUND objects were missing from the game.
freezeing and graphics problem
by dystopias on Friday May 7th 2010, 7:42
Hello everyone. I'm running a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 on a Sony Vaio Y series (vpcy115fx). wine version 1.1.42. Until recently I was dual booting with windows 7 on this machine and running PWI under windows, and everything worked fine. It was the only reason i was still using windows and so i ditched it, so now i'd love to get it running on ubuntu. here's what is happening:
game installed fine, no issues whatsoever. It updated fine and all that. everything works until I get to the login and character select screen. that is when the lag happens. the login screen will freeze for a few seconds while i'm typing in my info, but as soon as it goes to the character select screen it freezes - everything is displayed except the character and the character list. If I let it sit, approx 41 seconds later the character will appear, albeit with some graphic anomalies.
as is enter the world everything seems to go fine, but in game it will be fine for a few seconds and then freeze for 6-10 seconds. fine for a few seconds and then freeze. over and over. and the graphic problem stays with me, i've uploaded a screenshot here:
i3.photobucket.com/albums/y96/dystopias/Screenshot-2.png
no changes in the settings of the game seem to make a difference to either of these problems. anyone have any advice?
Graphics not showing up correctly >.
by victor on Thursday April 29th 2010, 4:26
I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 with wine 1.1.42
I've edited windows registry, installed winetricks dxd9, but weird graphics on the terrain make it impossible to play. some screenshots:
Weird Graphics
by James on Tuesday March 23rd 2010, 23:41
Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit
Newest Wine version.
I installed Wine no problems, Winetricks and dx9 no issues. I added in the Registry keys like in my 32 bit. Everything I think is the same. But when I sign in my skills are all blurred out and my graphics aren't quite right.
Maybe I'm missing something, can anyone help out? Thanks guys.
Hey guys. I installed PWI on Wine in Ubuntu 9.10 with no problems. It all runs great actually. The only complaint I have is that sometimes it seems a bit choppy. Is there a setting people tend to have issues with while it's turned on? I have everything enabled right now, but sometimes it seems a little choppy. Anything would be great. Thanks guys :)
RE: Choppy by Saieno on
Tuesday March 30th 2010, 21:49
No winetricks needed?
by Pekka Paalanen on Monday February 22nd 2010, 13:16
Winetricks should not be needed anymore. Does anyone have a different opinion?
When I started playing with Wine 1.1.34, I never installed winetricks. For a few months I played fine, ignoring the few hiccups I've mentioned here earlier.
It seems that the PWI client update 281 introduced a pile of bugs affecting also Windows users. One workaround is said to be "reinstall audio drivers". I've no idea what they are talking about, but apparently it somehow circumvents one of the nastiest crashes, that completely prevents gameplay. Does winetricks do anything even remotely related?
I have the game installed and and I can start the game but after the initial loading screen, it exits the game and wine closes(no error message). Can anyone help?
Graphics Issue
by James on Tuesday January 26th 2010, 16:48
I have a strange look to my launcher. Some buttons are not showing, just the text. Also, some blacksmiths appear white, and when I'm flying the mountains and things in the far distance kind of distort. Everything else seems fine. It seems to lag just a little bit. I have a 9800GT Nvidia. Any ideas on this?
Inventory icons are question marks, otherwise good
by Pekka Paalanen on Sunday January 10th 2010, 9:21
PWI works just fine, except almost all inventory, skill and other similar draggable icons are an image of a question mark. Luckily, mouse-over popups tell what they are. Not *all* icons are like this, e.g. I've seen some weapon icons that have a real picture instead of a question mark. Has anyone else seen this, or maybe even fixed it somehow?
I installed PWI with wine 1.1.34 IIRC, the installer (version 166 for XP) did not complete but failed just like in several comments here. Before clicking ok to abort the failed installation, I killed the installer, and installed the file pack provided by "BitCasst on Monday November 16th 2009, 1:22". This let the patcher start up, it found the servers and took 4 hours to install the Rising Tide expansion pack (and maybe other files, I cannot tell). After that, the game has been quite perfect, except for the icons.
Currently I'm running wine 1.1.35, on a Core 2 Duo laptop, Gentoo, 64/32-bit user space, and an nvidia nv50 class gpu with the proprietary drivers.
Oh, sounds. Sometimes sounds work, sometimes the game is silent. I do not know why and it seems random. Restarting PWI may fix or break it.
I have tried to fix the icon issue by getting a copy of my friend's Windows installation of PWI, and copying all the .pck files over. It did not help. I did not try to run the full Windows copy yet.
Graphics do not update if window not active
by PolitikerNEU on Saturday December 12th 2009, 7:21
Hello everyone, I got the problem that if the perfect world window is not active, the window doesn't update any more (even if it is in the foreground), the sound plays fine though.
Another note: The werebeast-bug seems to be much more worse on ATI-Chips than on Nvidia-Chips, I don't know why.
weird symbols in launcher
by Steven on Saturday December 5th 2009, 2:54
i recently followed this howto and everything installed fine i copied my directory over from windows but i have found 2 noticeable bugs badly rendered water and symbols in the launcher here are the links to a few screen shots
Can't Load the Game
by A J LeBach on Saturday November 28th 2009, 18:15
I'm running 1.1.33 (the package provided on kronenberg.org) on Mac OS X 10.4.11. I'm able to install Perfect World fine, but when I open the "Launcher.exe" file, it doesn't work. A stylized window containing the game logo, two blue bars, and the text "Connecting to server" appears. It sits there for a little while, then disappears, and nothing else is launched up.
So, is there a way to fix this, or will I have to fork over 40 bucks for Crossover?
dual monitors
by sheep on Saturday October 10th 2009, 23:50
I finally got Perfect world running, but I want it to display on both my monitors, the total resolution is 2720x1024, but when I try to launch wine emulating a virtual desktop for some reason it thinks my right monitor is my left monitor. Any ideas about this?
Patcher bug
by Andrew on Saturday September 5th 2009, 5:06
Hey all,
i used to run PWI on an older version of wine (i forget which one) which i manually patched with the no s3tc patch etc. I have now upgraded to 1.1.27, but the patcher doesnt work properly, I've set up the 1.1.27 configuration (from a fresh config), according to the settings outlined in the above howto, but alas, still no luck. My screenshot is attached in a reply, as well as the output from the CLI, is anyone else experiencing this issue?
RE: Patcher bug by Andrew on
Saturday September 5th 2009, 23:32
RE: Patcher bug by Andrew on
Saturday September 5th 2009, 23:34
RE: Patcher bug by Claudio on
Sunday September 6th 2009, 2:15
Freezes Somewhat Randomly
by Gregory Edmonds on Tuesday August 25th 2009, 12:11
I am running the Windows XP version of PWI in OpenSUSE 11.1, on a stock HP Pavilion a1350n, with Wine 1.1.28. I have been able to install and run the game without too much trouble. I have altered the regedit as per the video tutorial, enabled pixel shading, and disabled vertex shading (as this was causing a graphical distortion). I have been able to install, update, create a character, and explore the basic functions of the game. The problem I am having is that the game freezes my machine during random activities (talking to NPCs, picking up loot, changing directions, closing windows, etc...) at roughly 5-15 min intervals. I can get in and run around for a while with everything functioning normally, but I can't STAY in the game without freezing my comp. If anyone has any suggestions, I would seriously appreciate it.
problem installing
by bobby on Sunday August 23rd 2009, 10:05
installation goes through up until 99%, where a window comes up with a "Failed to create C:\Program Files\Perfect World Entertainment\Perfect World International" message and when i click OK on that window, the whole progress regresses and the game is uninstalled. someone else had this problem earlier but i saw no solution. please help
Several issues with ATI graphic card
by Rehdon on Sunday June 14th 2009, 4:05
Hi all,
I have installed PWI on my desktop box and on my laptop: both run Ubuntu 9.04, but while PW runs great on the desktop it currently fails to work on the laptop. Since the main difference is the graphic card I suspect that's the issue: the laptop is a Sony Vaio VGN-FW21E with an ATI Mobility HD 3400 using the latest (9.5) Catalyst driver; the desktop box has a nVidia 7300 card.
PW ran under Ubuntu 8.10 on the laptop with the following problems:
- couldn't resize window or the game would hang
- couldn't change virtual desktop or the game would hang
- only worked up to Wine 1.1.22, no joy with Wine 1.1.23 (start window hanged)
- only worked with very low graphic details
Under 9.04 on the laptop:
- had to revert from Wine 1.1.23 to the previous version (start window hanged)
- after pressing the "Start" button the game arrives to the character selection window, but after I make a selection it hangs.
Problems common to both desktop and (still under 8.10) laptop:
- no rotating cursor
- difficult to send/receive buddy requests
- other characters become "invisible" (only the name is showed) when an area is crowded
Any ideas? Should I file bugs? I didn't re-install DirectX 9 because I assumed it would be preserved from my 8.10 installation, same for the language packs.
Friends List
by VoidGeek on Thursday June 11th 2009, 12:36
I noticed something just now (shows how much I add friends), with Ubuntu and Wine 1.1.20 it is difficult to add someone as a friend (the buttons are clickable but it does not seem to go through).
Also, on the launcher, the links are unclickable and the cursor does not spin. Not sure if anyone else experienced this problem or if it was mainly on my end, or if the problem was fixed with a later version (didn't specifically see anything from Perfect World in there).
I had no need to install Dx9
by Leonardo on Friday May 22nd 2009, 8:44
I just installed Perfect World with wine 1.1.21 yesterday at night. First i download it from the web using the download manager (through wine), decompress and install, then used regedit to modify/create the values listed and then i run the client to update.
After that i entered the game because i didnt want to install DX9 (i have other games that runs just fine with my config as it is), so i wanted to try the game w/o installing the M$ Dx9 and the game run perfectly fine for me (all graphics maxed out without corruption or lag).
I have OpenSuse 11.1 using KDE 4.2.2 (no compiz, just KDE effects). Core2 Quad, 4GB RAM Geforce 8800 GT.
Fierce Lag
by Marlon on Saturday May 9th 2009, 16:07
Heya, I'm able to get past the launcher and get into the log in screen, but the lag is so bad I'm having trouble logging in. I have the settings as low as they can and even tried setting the resolution on lowest in windowed mode. I have not seen any change in the amount of lag when messing with these settings. The launcher works fine, and the loading window up to the log in loads quickly. I've used this computer to play this game before on xp and it worked pretty well, but in wine it is unbearable. I'm using a laptop, with an gma accelerator graphics card. Help would be very much appreciated in getting this game working on linux.
RE: Fierce Lag by Matthew Stanton on
Wednesday May 27th 2009, 15:03
RE: Fierce Lag by Michael on
Tuesday June 23rd 2009, 19:07
DirectX & Perfect World Problem
by _Jp_ on Sunday May 3rd 2009, 20:16
Hi, to start out with, I installed wine 1.1.20 on Ubuntu 9.04 (GNOME 2.26.1). ATI graphics driver seemed have already been installed with Ubuntu seeing as compiz and everything else works perfectly. I got Perfect World International to install and update just fine, then I tried to run it. At first it got to the login screen just fine with a few graphic bugs, but in the character creation section it was all "cubic grid style" (wasn't smooth and round but every corner of the character was of a polygon shape). I thought it to be a directX problem (I used to play on Windows and that was usually the problem) so did some research, discovered this thread and followed the instructions. Now, whenever I click the START button an error message with what appears to be poorly translated ASCII output with "DirectX" in the message appears, and after I click "OK" the game terminates. Any help would be appreciated, I miss playing this game (T__T. ).
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# Also, sometimes (after messing with wine config settings a bit) after I press the START button my Ubuntu relogs (X-Server crash I think).
That, plus it takes like 2 - 3 tries sometimes to get the PWI Launcher started (It keeps crashing). When it does start usually terminates after a few seconds (I think it's another crash).
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Game wont install
by Sasa Milovanovic on Wednesday April 22nd 2009, 8:09
Hi, im trying to install this game, but i have no luck. I type "wine install.exe", then accept licence agreement, installer starts to copy files, and on 99% of installation i get message "Cannot create directory c:\Program Files\Perfect World .....".I try to change directory name, to create directory in whitch will the game be installed, but nothing works.Pls Help.
a way to tab out
by Jinx Wolf on Thursday March 12th 2009, 10:51
Actually I've been using this little trick for a long time...
In the launcher, set your screen resolution to the resolution you're using. Start the game and log in. Once you're in the game go into the settings and change it to Window mode from within the game. It'll run full screen the first time, but after you quit and log back in, it'll be in window mode, but it'll still take up most of the screen.
Make sure you do any window resizing before you log in, otherwise you'll end up making everything look really odd...
It's not really a fix, just a workaround to play the game in the biggest window possible, but still be able to do other things without crashing the game.
So close...
by Jinx Wolf on Wednesday March 11th 2009, 12:03
Well, after applying the S3TC patch, I nearly got the game working perfectly.
Right now the only problems I'm having, is that it flickers whenever I'm walking. (by flickers I mean the terrain disappears and everything is blue. (also a few things disappear from time to time, but reappear right away)
and the FPS seems really low.
Other than that, everything is perfectly playable! (so far)
Game won't launch
by Amaroq on Friday January 23rd 2009, 4:40
It installed okay, but the launcher won't launch it. When I click Start, I get an error box with gibberish in it. The Start button remains grayed out on the launcher.
Ubuntu 8.10, 64 bit, ATI Radeon HD 3870 with fglrx driver. Wine version 1.1.13
No internet
by Andrew on Tuesday December 16th 2008, 14:37
wine v.1.1.10
Install worked *ok* except i got an error it couldnt create the directory to install the files, after it was already installed, and would roll back the install at that point, so i just killed the install, and kept the files.
However, when i start Launcher.exe, it cant connect to the internet:
Works after jumping through hoops.
by Antony Riley on Tuesday December 9th 2008, 23:41
3 bugs affected me:
1) No animated cursor support (half fixed in 1.1.10)
2) s3cd texture compression bug (messed up icons)
3) Grey characters / monsters. (regression in 1.1.3)
I found no work-around for (3) so I used 1.1.2 as my base wine version, unfortunately this is missing the half-fixed animated cursors.
I applied an animated cursor patch I found on another application in winedb, which gave me fully working cursors (the one posted on this application seems to be missing the ability to change the cursor once it is set). The patch was found here:
www.thehandofagony.com/alex/wine/patches/cursor-patches-1.1.2.patch
I applied the s3tc hack (patch would be too generous) found against this application to fix the icons.
Now, everything (that I've thought to test at least) works.
I have an Intel GMA 950. Activating "Pixel Shader" makes the game crash after the loading screen. Direct rendering is activated, but game runs only with 1 frame per second.
The crad support pixel shader (2.0), but either Wine or the video driver doesn't.
I'm using Wine 1.1.8 and have graphic bugs:
- armor/clothes, weapons not displayed correct or not displayed at all
- hair, eyes, skin, clothes -> everything is white
This is a atom netbook with an intel graphics chip and Ubuntu Netbook Remix 1.0.1 (Ubuntu 8.04), but I had exactly the same problem with a much older version of Wine on my PC with OpenSuse 10.3 and ATI 9600 Pro.
To run the game I have to disabled "Pixel Shader", else it crashes after loading screen. I read about setting "fbo", ..., where do I set that? I added those options in regedit.exe at HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Wine>Direct3D but PW didn't start anymore after that.
RE: Graphic bugs by Matthew Stanton on
Wednesday May 27th 2009, 16:07
workaround for animated cursors
by pat on Tuesday October 28th 2008, 13:08
symlink another cursor for the animated cursors, for example hand.cur
dig.ani -> hand.cur
normal.ani -> hand.cur
problems remaining:
- 'grey' characters: mine are not grey but blue, which is the world background color
- damaged inventory icons: they look like someone pushed some pixels to the side, the height of these areas is always the same. same with some dialog borders
Need Full Install Help Plz!!!
by Beck on Friday October 24th 2008, 19:38
If ne1 could possibly email or post a step by step how to that starts from scratch not haven the game-wine-or nething installed but ubuntu hardy 8.04 installed i would be extremly gratefull and if possible help u with something of urs.
I ask because ive seen many how-to forum posts but since im a long time windows user and have just recently got on ubuntu i have messed up several times in attempting to install Perfect World International to the point where i could play but id have a big black blob on the screen so i have gone all the way back to step 1 and install ubuntu 8.04
Does not install properly
by Jareel on Thursday October 16th 2008, 8:06
Slackware 12.1, wine-1.1.5, using PerfectWorld_Downloader_v3.exe, October 16 2008. Everything works up until wine install.exe. I accept the license agreement, it asks to verify (yes or no doesn't change outcome), then it installs everything. At 100% a pop-up says: "Failed to create C:\Program Files\Perfect World Entertainment\Perfect World International!" Then it uninstalls and says the installation failed.
I tried to create the directory Perfect World International before installation, but same result.
I even tried copying the Perfect World International directory right after installer reached 100%, but the Launcher can't connect to any servers.
Everyones invisible.
by Josh on Tuesday September 23rd 2008, 8:48
I can't see players, npcs or monsters, they are all invisible.. I can see their names, but can't see them directly for some reason. Anyone else have this problem or have a solution? Running Ubuntu 8.04 x86, wine 1.1.3 w/cursor patch. (Which also doesnt work.)
I have found the graphics can be made better by turning on fbo, multisampling, and using texdraw or textex.
With these set I can turn on everything except bloom ( fully glitter )including the hires textures.
while twist and the sun/moon options don't seem to do anything ( maybe I'm just not noticing it.) the water effect looks nice though it does drop the frame rate.
RE: by 16777216 on
Tuesday August 12th 2008, 10:03
This program works really good.
by Strontium Dog on Sunday April 13th 2008, 11:39
First, problems I still have are some corrupt textures. It looks like a span problem the textures are sheared. But I am stuffed if I can find it. It is not generating any errors or fixme's or warnings. If anyone can point me at something to look at for this bug I will try and fix it.
Now, I can get everything to work (execept for the above) Follow these instructions:
Use wine Version wine-0.9.59. Not earlier. Download the source, because you are going to need to patch it.
Apply the following patch (at the end) which will enable animated cursors.
Build it with:
./configure --prefix=/opt/wine
make depend
make
(as root or sudo)make install
This will make a special version of wine you can execute by using /opt/wine/bin/wine
Make sure your registry has the following settings:
[Software\\Wine\\Direct3D] 1207485574
"DirectDrawRenderer"="opengl"
"OffScreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
"PixelShaderMode"="enabled"
"RenderTargetLockMode"="textex"
Especially the OffScreenRenderingMode, this is what stops it crashing.
I have run it windowed and at 1920x1200 full screen. Do not set VSync, cause it crashes it. (Its not necessary anyway). But I could set all visual options to their maximum settings and it played and looked great. (Speed isn't the best with max options, but it doesn't crash for me).
I recommend setting
export WINEDEBUG=fixme-all
before executing wine, because dropping the spurious fixme's positively effects performance. And some of the fixme's look scary (like the vertex shader errors) but they are not errors, I have checked them out.
Anyway, here is the patch (inline), just copy and paste it to a new file. Apply as usual. eg: Patch -p1
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