Stronghold Legends

What works

installation and online activation

changing various graphical options in the launcher

playing @1024x768 resolution on high details

sound, music (ALSA default settings)

saving and loading

rendering is glitch-free

multiplayer (internet) game (can connect or host a game)

What does not

nothing I'm aware of

Workarounds

What was not tested

LAN

Internetplay was not tested extensively

anti-aliasing

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Obtained via Gamersgate, already patched to 1.2. Contains Securom online activation (works). The game requires the d3dx9 libraries (installed through winetricks). !!!Crashes when you start a new game or the tutorial unless you raise the limits of the max. opened files in Linux (ulimit -n). This is not a Wine bug. Stable and good performance overall. Nvidia 7600 GT / driver 256.44

This should work for any app, if you have Intel + AMD or AMD + AMD with open source drivers. 

If you have laptop with hybrid graphics cards. You can launch game with command:

env DRI_PRIME=1 vblank_mode=0 wine ~/path/to/your/exe/file

In case of using command, you get swich to powerful graphics card and disable vsync for more FPS.

If you have Mesa drivers 17.x.x or more, you can use this command:

env DRI_PRIME=1 mesa_glthread=true vblank_mode=0 wine ~/path/to/your/exe/file

Last command is most best in performance that you can get in this moment, you can use it for any wine application that you need. But argument mesa_glthread=true may not always work, so if your app crash, remove it.

For Steam users, you can set environment variable of any applications in properties. 

DRI_PRIME=1 mesa_glthread=true vblank_mode=0 %command%

(It will work only with native Steam for Linux) For Wine, you have to start Steam or game with those arguments