Defense Grid: The Awakening

What works

Almost everything. Works out-of-the-box.
Sound working nice
Good performance

but...

What does not

... while the levels and GUI are perfectly fine and the game works, the textures seem to be completely missing/are invisible

Workarounds

What was not tested

everything beyond a few seconds of gameplay

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

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!

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.

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