Parkan: The Imperial Chronicles

What works

Everything except movies and installer. Movies works with external codecs - see HOWTO Movies.

What does not

• Installer (pinst.exe) crashes - this is bug of the game itself, installer don't work in windows above 98. See howto for workaround.
• Sometimes it plays wrong track from CDROM, not related to the current system

Workarounds

What was not tested

Nothing

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Movies requires external codecs, but they do this in windows too, so this isn't problem of wine. Kernel: 2.6.29-gentoo-r1 CPU: AMD Athlon X2 64 4200+ GPU: ASUS NVidia 7600GT 256Mb, nvidia-drivers-180.51

1. Add you cdrom mount as CD-ROM into winecfg->Drives. Remember the letter you've assigned
2. Create gamedir:

   $ mkdir ~/.wine/drive_c/PARKAN
   		

3. Copy all, but *.nav, files from cdrom mount into gamedir:

   $ find /mnt/cdrom/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -not -name '*.nav' -exec cp '{}' ~/.wine/drive_c/PARKAN \;
   		

4. Adjust correct permissions on files (not read-only):

   $ cd ~/.wine/drive_c/PARKAN
   $ chmod 664 *
   		

5. Create new file cd_rom.cfg inside gamedir, with cdrom letter from step 1 and colon:

   $ echo 'D:' > cd_rom.cfg
   		

6. Turn off "3d" engine, by replacing 1 with 0 inside nik3d.cfg:

   $ echo 0 > nik3d.cfg
   		

7. Create parkan.reg file and apply it to registry, to mark Parkan as installed:

   $ cat <<'EOF' > parkan.reg
   REGEDIT4
   
   [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\PARKAN Release]
   "DisplayName"="PARKAN Release"
   "UninstallString"="D:\\uninst.exe"
   
   [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Nikita\PARKAN Release]
   @="C:\\PARKAN\\"
   EOF
   $ wine regedit parkan.reg
   		

• You probably want to switch on Virtual Desktop inside winecfg->Graphics, because game works only at 640x480
• You can configure controls by starting setup.exe, there is no in-game configuration
• It's best to switch of any debug messages, unless you're catching any bug, this make performance better:

  $ WINEDEBUG="-all" wine parkan.exe
  		

• To watch movies you have to install external codecs (not listed into winetrics). They called Ligos Indeo Codec - see HOWTO Movies for details

If you are using legal CD, with music on non-data tracks, please, be sure, that your cdrom device is /dev/hd* or /dev/scd* or, at least, it have such symlink.

Otherwise wine won't find CD - you can check it by launching winecfg->Drives, and looking into assigned CDROM serial number - if it is 0, check your system configuration.

Thanks to Dmitry Timoshkov from bugzilla for pointing me on missing codecs and fast reply.

Movies for 'Parkan: IC' contained into .nav files on your CD - this is compressed IV32 (Intel Indeo) AVI files. So you need Intel Indeo codecs, but codecs which installed by various codecs packages from winetricks are too new. That it - you need 3.2 version from Ligos Indeo Codec.

1. Download Ligos Indeo Codecs package (from here, for example) - it mustn't be too new - in newer codecs Indeo 3.2 codec not availible, 5.11 version just ok.
2. When installing - choose Custom, and be sure to switch off everything except Indeo Video 3.2 Codec (especially any Help components - they failing installation)
3. After installation you will able to watch videos