Titan Quest

What works

Upgraded from Wine 1.2.3 to 1.3.21. Everything seems to be working correctly after an edit to the registry, and a few edits to the game's options.txt. Some jagged textures along roads. No weird "staticy" effects, though. Running in window mode. I have now tested multiplayer on 1.3.21, and I can confirm this works fine. It builds the server list, and I can also host my own game. You still need a valid CD Key, though. If you don't have one it will kick you from a game. Please see additional comments for more info.

What does not

Some black/missing textures.

Workarounds

What was not tested

N/A

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

options.txt ("Home"/My Games/Titan Quest/Settings) networkSpeed = medium networkMTU = 1400 displayDamage = false quickBuy = true itemComparison = true extraRollovers = true showMonsterLevelOnRollover = false dayNightCycle = true textureQuality = high shadowQuality = low shadows = false reflectionQuality = low detailLevel = low resolution = 1400 1050 antiAliasing = false fullscreen = false syncToRefresh = false tripleBuffer = false masterVolume = 0.99 musicVolume = 0.99 effectsVolume = 0.99 dialogVolume = 0.99 ambientFrequency = medium rockOn = false device = Direct3D language = English forceSingleProcessorMode = false skipCompatibilityChecks = false useArchives = true Registry Edits: OffscreenRenderingMode=fbo Newest Directx9 Redist.

Copied this from the Titan Quest: Immortal Throne howto, I (LordHavoc) believe it is accurate for Titan Quest itself, but I do not play without Immortal Throne so I can not be sure.

These specific steps are needed to fully enjoy the game:

1. Set OffscreenRenderingMode to fbo in the registry (see http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys  ) or the game crashes immediately.
   
2. On multi-core machines you need a special bash script to launch the game with a cpu affinity (keeping it on one core) so it doesn't corrupt itself (or crash) after about 30 minutes.
3. In the TitanQuest directory rename the Videos directory to something like Videos-dontplay, this avoids the lengthy and (at least in wine) unskippable intro videos on every launch (note: the videos are unskippable for some people on Windows as well).
   
4. Texture Quality must be set to low or you get missing parts of decorative models (seems to be missing mipmap uploads, since alpha test is on for everything in this game the missing mipmaps simply result in invisible geometry where the mipmap transitions occur near the camera).

The game with Immortal Throne runs about half the speed it does on my equivalent windows gaming machine (Athlon 64 X2 2.2ghz and GF8800GT), but is playable.

Multiplayer does not seem to work (a major disappointment as the multiplayer is possibly the best part of the game.

Here is proposed contents of ~/bin/TitanQuest for convenient starting:

I'd just like to thank Everyone for there work in Providing Quality feedback for,
Titan Quest and the Expansion, Without you this AppDB whuld be useless.