X3: Reunion

What works

Everything (with a bit of tweaking)

At first try : Neither sound nor videos, Trading crashed the game. (as I've seen many other comments saying the same).

What does not

Especially on the current computer, sound tends to vanish after a variable time, but this problem seems to be recurrent with all wine applications on this computer.

 First solution : reducing sound quality in "Audio", with WineConfig. (Ex : 22000 Khz, 8bits, acceleration "basic")

Workarounds

What was not tested

Playing a long time (I will update in a few days ^^)

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I put a Bronze because it DOES need fixing in order to get everything to work. What did I do to get the game to work properly ? 1. installed the game from the DvD. 2. Patched to 2.5 and I added the extra bonus content. (No more DRM) 3. Downloaded an amstream.dll file from the net (type "download amstream.dll" in google and you'll get it easily) 3. bis. Put this "amstream.dll" in "C:\windows\system32\" (the wine one (/home/regis/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system32) 3. Ter. Configured Wine to override Wine Dll and use "amstream.dll" in native. 4. Installed "WINETRICKS" according to the how-to from forum-ubuntu.org : http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/wine_trucs_et_astuces#winetricks 5. Then I installed DirectX 9 via Winetricks (Command : winetricks directx9) Then I launched X3 reunion and for the first time I was able to watch the intro, listen to the music and hear the stations' announcements. AND I WAS ABLE TO TRADE !!!! Yes ! unbelievable :D PS : Wine is configured to emulate WinXP, with ALSA sound, and use a virtual desktop.

There is a native Linux version of this game released by Linux Game Publishing.