Defense Grid: The Awakening

Available for purchase from Steam.

Application Details:

Version:	Steam
License:	Retail
URL:	http://defensegrid.hiddenpath....
Votes:	12
Latest Rating:	Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested:	2.9-staging

Maintainers: About Maintainership

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Test Results

Old test results

The test results for this version are very old, and as such they may not represent the current state of Wine. Please consider submitting a new test report.

Selected Test Results

What works

Installation

Gameplay

What does not

Gameplay right out of the box - needed a tweak

Workarounds

What was not tested

n/a

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU:
Driver:

Additional Comments

Installs fine. Runs, but in Ubuntu at least it messes up the resolution. Therefore Before Running go to: steamapps/common/DefenceGridTheAwakening and edit: config.ini Change full screen to false Change the resolution to something suitable for your desktop. ( save the changes of course ) My monitor is 1920x1080 so I chose 1680x1050 which works well for windowed apps on my setup After this the game runs flawlessly and I give it a solid GOLD I am running Wine Staging 2.9 in winecfg CSMT was turned on already in regedit MaxVersionGL was already set to 40005 ( OpenGL4.5 ) https://wiki.winehq.org/Useful_Registry_Keys

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Current	Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jun 10 2017	2.9-staging	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	Ruth Moreton
Show	Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jul 08 2012	1.5.8	Yes	Yes	No	Bronze	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jul 31 2011	1.3.25	Yes	Yes	No	Bronze	an anonymous user
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Jun 25 2011	1.3.23	Yes	Yes	No	Bronze	CB
Show	Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jun 14 2011	1.3.18	Yes	Yes	No	Bronze	an anonymous user

Known Bugs

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HowTo / Notes

Howto

With Wine Version 1.3.29 and higher winetricks are not needed any longer to get the sound working. Just set Wine Windows version to "Windows 7"

Before install get following winetricks:

* To get sound flawlessly working: directmusic dsound
* Working graphics (except turret and alien textures): d3dx9

For a wine gaming-pc setup read this guide (you can skip the praphics part if you dont own a nvidia card:
[klick] http://linux-software-news-tutorials.blogspot.com/2011/04/install-wine-and-configure-maximum.html

For wine sound setup read this guide:
[klick] http://www.carpefulgur.com/forum/index.php?topic=178.0

1. Install Steam (use AppDB Steam Guide)
2. get yourself a copy of Defense Grid
3. Install the game via Steam
4. winecfg: Set Windows version to "7" and Audio to "emulation"
5. Enjoy!

Starting problems on older wine versions/ wine 1.2 stable

To get the game to load you need to edit the ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/steamapps/common/defensegridtheawakenine/config.ini

Change "Quality 2" to "Quality 0" or "Quality 1" and the game will load.

With wine version 1.3.20 and later this shouldn't be necessary anymore.

Textures and shaders

Delete these shaders:

Shaders/Common/LastStandLowEndSkinnedLightingShader-V.hlsl
Shaders/Common/LastStandMidEndSkinnedLightingShader-V.hlsl
Shaders/Common/LastStandSkinnedLightingShader-V.hlsl

And you will have at least black mobs and towers.

Thanks to lubosz
For further info refer to bugreport 21076

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