Strawberry
Minimal Assets (no player pictures, club logos, competition logos, sounds, etc).
In-game Languages: English language only.
Quickstarts: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland.
Gold
Full Assets (player pictures, club logos, competition logos. Full pitch textures, stadiums and sounds).
In-game languages: English, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish.
Quickstarts: England, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia.
Application Details:
| Version: | demo |
| License: | Demo |
| URL: | http://www.footballmanager.net |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.1.31 |
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What works
Installer appears to work fully (!) with no tweaks Requires file d3dx9_36.dll from windows installation to be copied to drive_c/windows/system32/ and set to override in winecfg. Real pictures Single player game 3D match engine
What does not
Generated pictures are disabled.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Network game
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Admin note: rating changed to conform to the rating definitions.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Current | Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Oct 14 2009 | 1.1.31 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Stuart Jordan | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Oct 20 2009 | 1.1.26 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Guillaume | |
| Show | Mandriva 2009.1 'Spring' | Oct 25 2009 | 1.0.1 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | an anonymous user |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 23995 | Football Manager 2010 fails to start | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 27138 | Football Manager 2010 Demo: crash when cancelling installation (check for ATL thunk triggers unexpected guard page fault in Shrinker 3.5 protected 'remove.exe') | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
This bit of the instructions creates a new wine directory setup called ".wine.fm2010" in your user directory ($HOME/.wine.fm2010/
1. Open a new terminal window
2. Type
env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine.fm2010/ /usr/bin/winecfg
3. Set the "windows version" to "Windows XP"
4. Copy the file d3dx9_36.dll from c:\windows\system32 from a windows XP (32-bit) install
5. Click on the "Libraries" tab in winecfg
6. From the drop-down menu select d3dx9_36.dll and click on Add
7. Click OK
To install the game.
1. Download the demo using the link
2. Open a terminal window and type:
env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine.fm2010/ /usr/bin/wine path_to_demo_file/fm2010_gold_demo-pc.exe
3. The install should proceed as normal. Choose the "Advanced/custom" option and not to install directx9.
Once installed you can run the game using:
env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine.fm2010/ /usr/bin/wine "$HOME/.wine.fm2010/drive_c/Program Files/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2010 Demo/fm.exe"
If you wish you can create a launcher/shortcut and add this line to that.
Some things to try if the game doesn't run:
Disable Pixel Shading
1. Open a terminal window and run
env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine.fm2010/ /usr/bin/winecfg
2. Click on the "Graphics" tab and untick "Allow pixel shaders if supported"
3. Try and run the game again
Change OffScreenRenderingMode from fbo to pbuffer
1. Open a terminal and run the command
env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine.fm2010/ regedit
2. Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine
3. Open the Direct3D key and change the value of OffScreenRenderingMode from "fbo" to "pbuffer" (without the quotes)
4. If the Direct3D key doesn't exist:
Right click on the "Wine" key and select New -> Key. Name it Direct3D.
Inside the Direct3D key right click and select New -> String Value. Name it OffScreenRenderingMode and edit its contents to "pbuffer" (without the quotes)
There's more info about the registry keys for wine here:
http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys
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