Soldat is a unique side-view multiplayer action shooter game. It takes the best from games like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike and gives you fast action gameplay with tons of blood and flesh. Soldiers fight against each other on 2D battle arenas using a deadly military arsenal.
Free to download, or you can register for $9 to get a couple extras.
Application Details:
Version: | 1.3.x |
License: | Shareware |
URL: | http://www.soldat.pl/ |
Votes: | Marked as obsolete |
Latest Rating: | Silver |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 0.9.44. |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
It runs normally as if it was in Windows if you set it up correctly.
What does not
There was a BattleEye violation after a short amount of time.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Many different settings variations, singleplayer mode. hosing servers.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Current | openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 | Aug 31 2007 | 0.9.44. | Yes | Yes | Silver | an anonymous user | ||
Show | Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 26 2007 | 0.9.35. | Yes | Yes | Platinum | an anonymous user | ||
Show | Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 16 2007 | 0.9.35. | Yes | Yes | Platinum | Brian | ||
Show | Debian GNU/Linux Unstable "Sid" | Apr 06 2007 | 0.9.34. | Yes | Yes | Gold | an anonymous user | ||
Show | Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 03 2007 | 0.9.33. | Yes | Yes | Silver | an anonymous user |
Soldat should install and run correctly using the latest version of Wine (which, at the time of writing, is 0.9.19).
1. You probably wanna head on over to the Soldat site to download it.
2. Then unzip the setup into your home folder, pop into a terminal and do your "wine soldat131.exe"
3. Install it like normal.
That's it, you're done!
Once installation is complete you may want to use the Setup to configure Soldat to work a little better.
Tips:
Soldat should be started with the following command, as without it, Soldat will spit many FIXME errors:
WINEDBUG=-all wine 'C:\Soldat\Soldat.exe'
Once you're ingame, everything should work. However, it should be noted that you can't play if you are running XGL.
AS OF WINE 0.9.35, Soldat text works! Now rated Platinum!
However, using an older version of Wine, you may noticed that text is garbled. There are 3 known workaround for this:
(1). Run "regedit" in a terminal, go into the HKEY_CURRENT_USER ->
Software -> Wine -> X11 Driver section. If there isn't an "X11
Driver" section, just create a new key on the "Wine" folder. After you
are in the "X11 Driver" key, you need to create 4 strings values, with
names:
ClientSideAntiAliasWithCore
ClientSideAntiAliasWithRender
ClientSideWithCore
ClientSideWithRender
and
have them all set to N. This will make Soldat render the fonts
differently or something, and can look really ugly, but they are all
readable.
(2) Replace the fonts in the Soldat directory:
cd [gamedir]
cp /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/FreeSans.ttf lucon.ttf
cp /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/FreeSans.ttf bgothl.ttf
Or find whatever font you want, instead of the FreeSans used here.
(3). Use this little hack here...
(4). Deleting the 2 fonts (lucon and bgothl.ttf) were reported to work as well.
There is 1 bug left, with changing the controls from the defaults. Just copy-pasting what was said for the 1.3 version:
"The interface for setting controls is glitchy - you click on the button and sometimes where it would normally ask you to press a key it just says 'Key OK'. However, you can edit the [CONTROLS] section of soldat.ini - you need to enter scancodes. But not actual scancodes... they must go through a level of translation through linux/wine or this section wouldn't be so complicated. There's a nice image of scancodes at barcodeman.com BUT you need to subtract 1 from those numbers, or 2 for the bottom row. Eg, I have 'e' as right, 'o' as crouch and ',' as jump, so I put 'Right=18', 'Crouch=24' and 'Jump=51' into my soldat.ini (I use a dvorak layout so that's not as retarded as it sounds)."
Also, it seems this input bug still rears its head at times. Mouse and Keyboard seem to not work at times. A reported fix for it is to type: wineprefixcreate
ALTERNATE WINE INSTALL:
Sometimes WINE doesn't seem to work right, so I've had a GIT version of it lying around for testing, but it also serves as a more rreliable backup for when something goes wrong in my current system install. To use a GIT version of WINE, please read this wiki page. The following are mainly Ubuntu instructions:
1. sudo apt-get install git git-core
2. Try getting your GIT version of WINE:
git clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git wine-git
cd wine-git
Note: You may get some error message that begins with: "git, the filemanager with GNU Interactive Tools, is now called gitfm." If you do, then you should run, as it says: "update-alternatives --config git" and there should be 2 options now, the second probably being that git-core you downloaded. If can't get git-core, there is another one called cotigo, in which case you can install, select that one, and swap the first command above for a: "cg clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git wine-git".
3. "sudo apt-get build-dep wine", that way you get all the dependencies you need to compile WINE,
4. "./configure && make clean && make depend && make", to build your GIT WINE :)
There are a lot of things you can do in GIT, like regression testing, setting WINE to specific versions, or just update to get the very latest WINE, but you'd probably want to read through the wiki linked above for more info.
Something to mention, is that the 4869 bug only seems to occur in versions of Wine 0.9.1 through 0.9.17. 0.9.18 does NOT work with Soldat, and 0.9.19 has fixed the bug, but had a new input bug when installed on Dapper. Bug was marked invalid, but be wary incase it does come up.
Soldat does NOT startup in Wine 0.9.18.
Soldat MIGHT NOT function properly if running XGL. I currently run Ubuntu Edgy with Beryl (using built-in AIGLX, not XGL) and it DOES work. Your results may vary.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
by saltcushy on Thursday February 7th 2013, 14:56
by Falcon on Thursday February 7th 2013, 15:02
You can set all your keys by editing soldat.ini config file directly, they're in [CONTROLS] section. Best if you just edit your keys on windows and copy the soldat.ini config file over.
by Vladimir Bychkoff on Tuesday January 15th 2008, 6:53
Soldat 1.4.2; Ubutu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon i386; wine 0.9.46; GeForce4 MX440 64 mb; nvidia driver: 96.43.01
by Brian on Tuesday January 15th 2008, 8:08
by Vladimir Bychkoff on Wednesday January 16th 2008, 7:41
www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html
well, something like this: When I start game with no bots it runs rather playable but some lags with menu. When joining server with 2 players - playable (but when any menu (weapons, exit etc.) opens - it lags very much). When joining server with 5 players - the game lags.
In Windows 2003 Soldat runs perfectly, so my video card couldn't be old fot this game.
by Brian on Tuesday January 1st 2008, 7:09
by hytham on Thursday May 17th 2007, 18:07
jigglemaster7@jigglemaster7-laptop:~$ wine /home/jigglemaster7/soldatsetup.exefixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x34fea0) using GetSystemInfo()
fixme:process:IsWow64Process (0xffffffff 0x34fe9c) stub!
fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0x16e1c8 0x34fe1c) stub!
wine: Call from 0x7b842690 to unimplemented function shell32.dll.SHPathPrepareForWriteA, aborting
by Brian on Thursday May 17th 2007, 18:13
by hytham on Thursday May 17th 2007, 18:31
by hytham on Friday May 18th 2007, 17:20
jigglemaster7@jigglemaster7-laptop:~$ WINEDBUG=-all wine 'C:\Soldat\Soldat.exe'
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateAdditionalSwapChain The app requests more than one back buffer, this can't be supported properly. Please configure the application to use double buffering(=1 back buffer) if possible
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_GetAvailableTextureMem (0x1b2148) : stub, simulating 64MB for now, returning 64MB left
err:wave:DSDB_MapBuffer Could not map sound device for direct access (Input/output error)
err:wave:DSDB_MapBuffer Please run winecfg, open "Audio" page and set
"Hardware Acceleration" to "Emulation".
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateAdditionalSwapChain The app requests more than one back buffer, this can't be supported properly. Please configure the application to use double buffering(=1 back buffer) if possible
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateAdditionalSwapChain The app requests more than one back buffer, this can't be supported properly. Please configure the application to use double buffering(=1 back buffer) if possible
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateAdditionalSwapChain The app requests more than one back buffer, this can't be supported properly. Please configure the application to use double buffering(=1 back buffer) if possible
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateAdditionalSwapChain The app requests more than one back buffer, this can't be supported properly. Please configure the application to use double buffering(=1 back buffer) if possible
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateAdditionalSwapChain The app requests more than one back buffer, this can't be supported properly. Please configure the application to use double buffering(=1 back buffer) if possible
jigglemaster7@jigglemaster7-laptop:~$
Is it maybe because i have a 32mb gfx card
by Brian on Saturday May 19th 2007, 13:51
by skoruppa on Tuesday January 30th 2007, 15:49
why i must do that stupid file? i just run soldat that
wine soldat.exe && xrandr -s 0 and resolution are changing automatical without that bin/sh launcher ;)
by Hugh Li on Thursday January 25th 2007, 0:36
(BTW, I'm running Ubuntu Dapper, with Wine 0.9.29)
1. Right click on desktop > create document > empty file
2. Open it with a text editor, and paste this in:
(don't include the dotted lines before and after the text)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
#First change the resolution to fit Soldat (do not change line):
xrandr -s 640x480
#Then start the program (change this line):
wine "/path/to/soldat/folder/soldat.exe"
#Wait until after the program exits to finish the script:
wait
#After the program exits it should fire off this code to reset
#your screen resolution (change the resolution if you need to):
xrandr -s 1280x1024
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The path to "soldat.exe" (since one of the folders on the path had a space in it, I had to put quotes around the path) should be changed accordingly, and you might want to change the last screen resolution too, if you don't usually use a resolution of 1280x1024.
3. Save the file with a easy, simple to remember filename ending in ".sh" (I named mine 'soldat.sh" and you migth want to as well, you'll know why)
4. Move the file to your "Home" folder - Usually "/home/*username*"
Now you're finished! If you want to run Soldat now, just open up your terminal, and run "sh soldat.sh" (or whatever you named your script file earlier). Your screen resolution should change to 640x480, and start Soldat. After you exit Soldat, the resolution should automatically set to whatever you set it as in the script file.
I also recommend you change wine's settings (winecfg) by going to the graphics tab and unchecking the box labelled 'emulate a virtual desktop', as the window kinda messed things for me.
by Hugh Li on Friday January 26th 2007, 0:46