Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

What works

Stock Multiplayer.

What does not

Mods.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Everything other than specified.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Did not install from CD as I have digital copy. Ran from my Windows partition under wine. I have noticed wine has issues with closing and relanching an application, such as cod4 when selecting mods.

Ubuntu HOWTO, by Levo

Wine must be patched in order to make Punkbuster work.

Patches for wine

For wine 1.1.5

http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=14001

http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=14002

http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=14004
 

Download the Wine Source and patch it

# cd (source folder)

# patch -p1 < (diff-file)

# ./configure

# make depend && make

# sudo su -c "make install"

# sudo checkinstall

(also install all the other required packages e.g.: checkinstall)

 

If you are lucky enough, it may work!

Ubuntu HOWTO, by Levo

Wine must be patched in order to play CoD4 (up to version 1.1.1) 

Patches for wine

For wine < 0.9.59 (0.9.58 and earlier):

http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=10811

For wine 0.9.58-1.0.0:

http://www.bennyp.org/wine/wine-0.9.59-3dmark.patch

For Wine 1.1.0:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5286516&postcount=255

For Wine 1.1.1 & 1.1.2:

*UNKNOWN STATE* Testers needed

For Wine > 1.1.3:

No Patch Is Required

Download the Wine Source and patch it (for Wine up to version 1.1.1)

# cd (source folder)

# patch -p1 < (diff-file)

# ./configure

# make depend && make

# sudo su -c "make install"

# sudo checkinstall

(also install all the other required packages e.g.: checkinstall)

I play cod4 with the most graphic settings set to high with a minimum of fps of 30 and maximum reached 70. I hope this can help you.

 

 

My Hardware:

- MOBO: Asus P5KSE/EPU

- CPU: Intel Core 2 duo E6600 Conroe

- RAM: 4GB Kingston DDR2 PC2-8500 CAT 5-5-5-15

- GPU: NVIDIA GTX 260 896MB

My Graphic Game settings ingame: all set at maximum except for:

- Synceveryframe: no

- Dual Video Cards: no

- depth of field: no

- soften smoke edges: no

OS: Ubuntu intrepid 8.10 64 bit

Kernel 2.6.27-14.30

My Wine version: 1.1.18

My graphic drivers: Nvidia 180.44 beta (also working with stable 180.29 drivers)

My audio drivers:  alsa drivers 1.0.19 (this version improves a lot fps rate)

 

1. Install the last version of wine (use the repos you find in the official site www.winehq.org)

2. Download Winetricks (from console type “wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks”)

3. Install with Winetricks the DirectX9 (from console go in the directory where you have downloaded winetricks and then type “sh winetricks directx9”)

4. Install COD4 and patches until 1.7

5. run winecfg and set:

   - OS version: Windows XP

   - In 3D settings Vertex Shader Support: Hardware and set Allow Pixel Shader

          - In Audio settings set alsa drivers; Hardware acceleration full; sample rate 44100; bit per sample 16;

            unset driver emulation

6. on console run “wine regedit” and then:

   - in HKEY_CURRENT_USER-Software-Wine create, if it's doesn't already exists, a new key named Direct3D

   - in Direct3D create the following strings with teh following values:

   string: DirectDrawRenderer          value: opengl

   string: Nonpower2Mode               value: repack

   string: OffscreenRenderingMode   value: fbo

   string: RenderTargetLockMode     value: auto

   string: UseGLSL                           value: readtex

   string: VideoMemorySize              value: (memory size of your graphic card)

Stefano Petullà

Warning!!! To make it work on Ubuntu 64 bit 9.04 I had to install the latest alsa 1.0.19 drivers