America's Army 3 (Steam)

What works

Movies, menu, offline exploring of maps, sounds

What does not

HUD, Punkbuster...

Workarounds

What was not tested

MP on nonPB servers, but i think that it should work, because issues are only on servers where PB is enabled

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I've tested Steam version of the game: 3.0.8.2. And as you all can see, nothing has changed.

A large number of errors such as the following may be seen when launched from a terminal:

 err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP80.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\america's army 3\\Binaries\\wxmsw28u_vc_custom.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR80.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\america's army 3\\Binaries\\wxmsw28u_vc_custom.dll") not found

This suggests that the Visual Studio 2005 runtime is not installed. The easiest way to work around this is 'winetricks vcrun2005'.

If a similar error for d3dx10_35.dll is seen, the DirectX installer (in steamapps/common/america's army 3/DirectX) should be rerun. (In my case it hung during the Steam-started install and had to be rerun manually after Steam had finished its setup procedure). This does not seem to be needed with wine-1.2rc7.

http://www.leenukes.co.uk/?p=109

Similar problem has been discussed:
appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=5444

A patch may be downloaded at fxlegrand.free.fr/index.php?page=patches. Decompress and copy to /usr/lib/wine/ or /usr/lib32/wine (on amd64 installs). It is crucial that you make a copy of the original dinput.dll.so before replacing it.

Unfortunately, this patch also prevents use of the menus. The best option I have seen to date is to play training missions unpatched. To play online, open the game unpatched, open the server browser, and find a server you like. Write down the IP address, then close AA and apply the patch. Open AA, then pull up the console using the tilde (~) key and run "open (ip address)". You will not be able to use the in-game menus for class selection but keyboard shortcuts (tab/space/arrow keys, etc) provide most functionality. Restore the original dinput.dll.so  when done playing.