Drakan: Order of the Flame

What works

- Installing main game

- Installing patch 455 from arokhslair.net

- Configuring settings

- Initial cutscene's

- Initial level / ork ;) 

What does not

Graphic glitches, however I'm using nouveau. Which is makes this 'not work' actually pretty good news. The game loads and I can see random artifacts all over which makes the game annoying to play. But since nouveau has come a *really* long way, this is good news.

Workarounds

What was not tested

- Multiplayer

- Advanced gameplay 

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Basically this is an barebone Ubuntu installation (XFCE) + many apps. Single sign on. And it contains two influential PPA's: - xorg-edgers - ubuntu-wine Package versions involved: - xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1.0.1+git20120716 - libdrm-nouveau2 2.4.37+git20120713 - libdrm-nouveau1a 2.4.37+git20120713 - xserver-xorg-core 1.12.3+git20120709 - kernel 3.4.2 32bit UP i686 (vanilla) - AMD Athlon XP - wine 1.5.9-0ubuntu2~pulse19+build1

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