S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call Of Pripyat

What works

Using the STEAM version:

Everything now works with a vanilla wine 1.1.37 + a few Direct3D settings through regedit.exe (this might not even be required)

The important part is to run the game in full screen and NOT through a virtual desktop.
At least for me, the mouse pointer problem disappears completely and the game then runs perfectly.

What does not

Nothing

Workarounds

What was not tested

Multiplayer

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Please ignore the previous test result from 21/02/2010 (could not find how to edit/delete it)

Note that users running this game in older WINE versions have experienced mouse issues among other problems. It is strongly advised that you use either the latest stable version of WINE (Currently 1.4.0) or the latest development release.

Also note that to running the game must be done in the following fashion:

wine ./bin/xrEngine.exe

The game will fail to launch if you use WINE to run executable from within the bin folder.

Getting WINE ready:

Just install WINE from your distribution's package manager, be it apt-get, yum, pacman or something else. The newer the WINE version, the better.

If your distribution does not offer a newer version of WINE, simply download the latest version from winehq, or use PlayOnLinux to manage your wine versions/prefixes for you.

Winetricks is another immensely helpful tool when working with wineprefixes, if your distribution doesn't package it, you can get it here.

 Once that's out of the way, continue on to installing the game.

Installation: Steam Version

 Right now, you don't need any dll overrides, just run:

 winetricks --no-isolate steam

and after updating Steam, you can install Call of Pripyat just fine. If you're using a wineprefix other than the default "~/.wine", then you need to add your wineprefix to the command:

WINEPREFIX=~/.path/to/wineprefix winetricks --no-isolate steam

Installation: Retail/Physical Version

 Set up a fresh wineprefix and run the DVD installer. Right now, it is unknown exactly which dll overrides are needed (if any) due to lack of recent test data. If you are having trouble, use winetricks to install d3dx9 and ffdshow.

If your game is crashing on startup, disable the d3dx11 dlls. Change directory to your 'windows/system32' folder within your wine prefix and run:

mv -v d3d11.dll d3d11.dll.DISABLED
mv -v d3dx11_42.dll d3dx11_42.dll.DISABLED

Running the Game

 Launch the game (NOT from the bin folder, run command one level above).

wine ./bin/xrEngine.exe