Drakan: Order of the Flame

What works

- Single player game

What does not

- Disable sound, otherwise the app will segfault on displaying the main menu

- Health indicater. It seems that the red fill is behind the object that surrounds the health level. You will see that some transparent objects of that object correspond to the health color and turn pale whenever it goes below that level. This is new. 

Workarounds

What was not tested

- Multiplayer

- Extended gameplay 

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I used an old installation which I copied out of the Program Files directory to a dedicated directory for easier testing. Patch 445 was applied. I disabled MIT-SHM in Xorg since I run it as nobody. mesa 10.1.0-4 xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.10-2 (yes, OSS nVidia drivers) linux 3.14.0-rc7-01157-g774868c

Installation

Change to the CD-ROM mount directory and run the Autorun.exe from that location. Trying to run it otherwise will result in an error.

cd /media/cdrom/

wine Autorun.exe

Due to a bug in the shortcut creation you may need to terminate the install process before continuing with installing any patches. (Should be fixed as of 0.9.61)

killall winemenubuilder.exe

Note that the menu's may not appear properly because of this until the menus are reloaded i.e. at next login.

Patching

You should use patch 445 which includes multi-player support and removes the CD check. Once the contents are extracted, run it like any other exe. Currently the CD check used does not work in wine, so to play the game you will need to use this.

wine SETUP.EXE

Configuring Graphics

The is an in game bug that prevents access of the graphics menu, selecting it will crash the game immediately. Instead, configure the graphics with the menu "Drakan Engine Options" or by running the Drakan executable as follows.

wine "C:\\Program Files\\Psygnosis\\Drakan\\Drakan.exe" -setup

Configuring Controls

Attempts to redefine the keyboard controls may result in the game hanging. If this occurs, you can work around it by editing the configuration file directly.

vi ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Psygnosis/Drakan/Drakan.cfg