Runes of Magic

What works

Most of the gameplay works, though you can never be sure you're seeing everything.

What does not

It seems that the other players will commonly (but not always) be invisible.

The game crashes a lot, particularly after using the transport feature or entering your house, but it can happen at any other time as well.  This can be quite painful when it happens just as you're entering combat.  :(

The crashes seem to be much fewer if you play in first player mode, but since I can't recreate them at will via repeatable in-game actions, it's hard to say if that's a scientific certainty.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Voice chat. (which others say does not work)

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

System: Kubuntu 10.10 (2.6.35-22-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP), Intel X58 w/6GB DDR3-1600 + Intel Core i7 980X + nVidia GTX 465 w/1GB RAM using 256.53-0ubuntu2 drivers. The crashes can at times be so frequent (depending on what you're doing) that this game cannot currently be rated any higher than bronze. If you were a serious player who didn't mind randomly dieing due to crashes or needed to be depended upon in a party, Wine would not be an acceptable solution for playing this game.

1. Download winetricks.
2. Run sh winetricks vcrun2005 ie7 wininet dotnet20. 
3. Download the client files from the "Multiple File Download" section.
   
4. Run the first file to start the installation process.
   
5. Launch Runes of Magic.

1. Runes of Magic will not work with WINE 1.1.17 and lower.
2. Performance will most likely be slower than on Windows.

Install Wine (tested with 1.5.1 32 bits Debian sid)& winetricks (for Debian sid 32bits need to patch wineserver patch from /usr/lib32/wine-unstale to /usr/lib/wine-unstable or make sln)
Install .net 2.0 or mono
Install DirectX 9
Install corefonts
vc2005, 2008, 2010 (Have 3 installed for cross compile, no idea what one is working)
All IE family (needed by updater/launcher), what one is working, I don't know because have all installed

Install the game (tested with slim installer), with shortcut created on desktop
Edit shortcut ... end of command shall looking like: 
                          Runes of Magic.exe" -game -opengl
Call regedit and now be careful because error of typo & ....


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Add the following to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D (create if it doesnt exist)

Add New String
Name = Multisampling
Data = enabled

Add New String
Name = UseGLSL
Data = disabled

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In case of error "err:module:import_dll Library DNSAPI.dll (which is needed by..."  (Voice chat), copy dnsapi.dll from existing zindoze installation and set to native

Vivox pre-builds are known to been only 32 bits then voice chat may acting strange on 64 systems

Choose right resolution once game working because wrong one may make fps falling to 4-5...

Thanks to all people helping me with linux on my vm...

Note to all potential players:

A recent update to the item shop being web based has broken it for our fellow Linux users, and the GM's have stated that fixing it will not be of any priority, so I would not expect a fix at all.

The item shop will fail to open on any WINE version. The screen will simply be black or white and will not load. This is due to the publisher (at the time of this writing, Gameforge) forcing a change to the item shop interface to make it easier for them to manage outside of Runewaker (the developer's) involvement.

As of yet, the game is still playable on all current WINE versions and OS's, but the item shop is unable to be used.

A good way around this is to sell your diamonds for gold, then ask a diamond seller in game to buy stuff with the gold. If you get an even trade, you should come out even. Unfortunately trading of diamonds directly is not supported.