New Star Soccer 2010

What works

Installation works fine: in case it chokes about a dll it can't find in /tmp just copy a mfc42.dll in the installer path (or use a WINEDLLOVERRIDE) and try again.

Menu and music work fine. Quick match works flawlessly, and I was able to experiment with every aspect of the game engine itself (dynamic camera switching, weather effects, single player/full team, calling the ball, playing, ecc.). So the graphics part of the game works fine.

The resolution/language screen now works fine as well (didn't work as of 1.1.32)

What does not

Starting a career: the selection menus work fine and you can customize your new player, but as soon as you create a new database, halfway in the process wine crashes:

wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x454c4597 at address 0x40422f (thread 0009), starting debugger... Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x454c4597 in 32-bit code (0x0040422f).

Enabling debug in the game shows that the last action that is performed (or the action that is being performed at the crash) is a 'DoLeagueElimination'

Workarounds

What was not tested

Replays, internet-related stuff (Goal of the Month, etc)

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

The game crashing when creating a career is a real dealbreaker, considering the game focuses on a single player career, but I'm giving it a bronze anyway since, as in 1.1.32, quick match works fine. I'm sure that no huge fix is needed to get it working properly (the black resolution screen works now), considering it crashes on some data manipulation and not anything related to graphics or sound.

There's a thread you can follow ob the New Star Games forum related to this game and linux: www.newstargames.com/newstarforum/showthread.php?t=10589