Football Manager 2010

What works

Installation works like a charm.

What does not

To get past the intro to start playing the game.

I got this message when running:

wine fm.exe | tee Output.log

in Terminal/Console:

fixme:powrprof:GetActivePwrScheme (0x33fb20) stub!
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} could be created for context 0x1
fixme:wtsapi:WTSRegisterSessionNotification Stub 0x10032 0x00000000
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x2ffe3b4,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:wtsapi:WTSRegisterSessionNotification Stub 0x20034 0x00000000
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to SetDepthStencilSurface
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to SetDepthStencilSurface
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to SetDepthStencilSurface
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to SetDepthStencilSurface
fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity ((nil),-1,(nil),(nil),0,3,(nil),0,(nil)) - stub!
fixme:wbemprox:wbem_locator_ConnectServer 0x1f7958, L"ROOT\\CIMV2", (null), (null), (null), 0x00000000, (null), (nil), 0x2504698)
fixme:wbemprox:DllCanUnloadNow
fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl unsupported ioctl 41018
fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl unsupported ioctl 4d004
fixme:wbemprox:wbem_locator_ConnectServer 0x1f76d8, L"\\\\.\\root\\cimv2", (null), (null), (null), 0x00000000, (null), (nil), 0x2504660)
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0xd1ce2b0,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),1,0xd1ce2b0,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:wbemprox:wbem_locator_ConnectServer 0x1f7670, L"\\\\.\\root\\wmi", (null), (null), (null), 0x00000000, (null), (nil), 0x2504660)
fixme:wbemprox:DllCanUnloadNow

Workarounds

What was not tested

Playing it.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I couldn't get past the intro to see the menu of the game to play it. My screen just got blank.

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