Call of Duty 5: World at War

What works

• Alt-Tab
• Changing graphical settings
• Playing the campaign

What does not

• If you change the brightness, it won't reset to default after exiting the game.

Workarounds

What was not tested

• Multiplayer

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Final verdict: Runs even better than on Windows 10. I originally installed it on the Windows partition but I had issues running it, especially because it crashed whenever I alt-tabbed. In WINE it works completely fine - so I'm gonna keep playing it this way from now on. The brightness setting is the only problematic one. The brightness doesn't reset after exiting the game - so better leave it untouched, or reset it manually (or through a script) when exiting the game. On Windows 10 this setting does not work at all so there's that... == My system == PC | Custom-built desktop CPU | Intel i7 6700K (4.0 GHz, 4 cores) RAM | 16Gb DDR4 3000MHz GPU | ASUS STRIX GTX 1080 O8G OS | Arch Linux 64bit (Linux kernel 4.10.13) DE | GNOME Shell 3.24.1 Wine | 2.6 Didn't do any benchmark or FPS measuring, however I didn't experience any slow-downs, but I wouldn't expect any from my GPU.

2015-10-07 Admin note: the instructions below are extremely old and may not apply to current Wine.

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HowTo for Call of Duty 5: WaW - for testers only

(Tested with wine 1.1.13, 1.1.12 and 1.1.11)

1. sh winetricks directx9 (http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks)
2. regedit sound.reg (sound.reg being this file: http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=18560)
3. patch your wine sources with this patch and compile: http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=18559
4. copy the XAudio2_0.dll into the ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 directory.
5. game should work at this moment (it is only workaround - without in-game sounds)