James Cameron's Avatar: The Game

What works

The game is playable and all it's features seem to work.

Despite of it's graphical errors it seems to be stable.

What does not

There are a lot of graphical artifact, flickering/disappearing objects. Also shading effect and shadows don't seem to work correctly.

FPS is very low, even on the lowest settings I couldn't get a playable framerate (about 5-10) on an Ati 3850 in the more dense areas.

The game menu tends to be slow too regardless of the graphical settings.

Hardware accelerated sound does not work. Emulation has to enabled for the sound to work.

Workarounds

What was not tested

The whole demo, only some parts of it.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Higher settings seem to cause more graphical artifacts than lower settings. D3dx9 was not installed (clean wine prefix). The debug console printed an enormous amount of vertex shader errors, about 2000 errors in 15 min.