Final Fantasy VIII

What works

• Installation (the pictures in the background are changing slowly)
  
• Movieclips
• Ingame with software mode
  
• FF8 Config (video, sound, keyboard settings)
  
• Saving / Loading
  
• Sound with background sound (you have to install directmusic with winetricks)
• Triple Triad (card game) -  (you have to install directmusic with winetricks)
• Battlemode / fighting (you have to install directmusic with winetricks)

What does not

• Ingame with hardware mode (screen is broken like this... http://appdb.winehq.org/appimage.php?iId=1323) (HD4330 with fglrx 12.4) (Bug 9261)

Workarounds

What was not tested

• patching to 1.2 (This patch should only be used by owners of Nvidia GeForce cards)
  
• playing the whole game
• change the play disk
  

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

- The minigame Triple Triad (cardgame) will freeze the game without directmusic (winetricks) - When a fight is coming up the game will freeze without directmusic (winetricks) - for starting ff8config.exe or ff8.exe you have to insert the cdrom (there are no errors if the cdrom is missing) - played for several hours - used a wine32 environment - german version - ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4300 using fglrx 12.4

Official Version 1.2 patch can be found here.

To enable background music:
winetricks directmusic