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

What works

Audio, videos, menus, gameplay seem to work well.  So far quests have gone smoothly and I'm exploring the world.  Applied the FALLOUT.INI settings and the graphics are smooth.  Tested on a Macbook Pro Model A1398 ("retina" display) with OS X Maverics (10.9.5).

Settings:

• 1280x800 resolution fullscreen
• vsync enabled
  
• Maximum graphics settings with maximum viewing ranges

See extra comments for install instructions on Mavericks.

What does not

Nothing so far.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I built wine 1.7.53 from source (65d699eb5f7fc151197f3dc9f36499ee3e43f8e7). Here's how I set up wine with homebrew and winetricks. brew install wine --HEAD brew install winetricks winetricks corefonts winetricks dlls msasn1 for x in d3dx9_43 d3dx10 d3dx11_43;do winetricks $x; done for x in vcrun6sp6 vcrun2003 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010 vcrun2012 vcrun2013;do winetricks $x;done for x in dotnet30sp1 quartz msxml3 dxdiag physx;do winetricks $x;done Configured wine settings. winetricks winxp winecfg Once inside of winecfg, configure the Graphics tab and enable "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows". Installed Steam: winetricks steam Installed S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. Game works well. Open steam and run the game. wine 'C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\Steam.exe'

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