Culpa Innata

What works

The game plays through normally in terms of event scripting, dialogue and such.

What does not

The segment where the in-game PDA crashes in the Metro car is still a significant problem, causing total loss of input control to the game.

The new slowness is still a problem, and seems to be related to audio. I will investigate further and post a bug report.

EDIT: Further investigation based on a +wave trace has led me to an audio bug which has been under investigation for several months. It is now linked to.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Nothing.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

The Metro PDA crash bug can still be worked around by emulating a virtual desktop, and bringing up some sort of desktop environment dialogue box. When the mouse is within this dialogue box, the game will receive input. With some luck you can click the in-game messages this way.

If you have problems with a black, monotone or blank display of the game, without any lockup or crash, this is due to problems with the pixel shader implementation of Wine and the requirements of Culpa Innata. These problems do not occur for everyone.

If they do occur for you, the way I fixed it was to configure Wine with Pixel Shaders enabled, but with no support.

To do this using GUI follow these steps:

1: Open Wine Config, and select Add Application. Nagivate to your Culpa Innata install directory and select Game.exe (Culpa Innata's main executable), then press Open to add it.

2: With Game.exe highlighted in the Application list, go to the Graphics tab. This will ensure that these settings only affect Game.exe.

3: In the Direct3D section, change the "Vertex Shader Support:" selection to "None", but leave "Allow Pixel Shaders (if supported by hardware)" checked.


Please let me know if this procedure does not solve this problem for you, so that I can debug it further.