Entropia Universe

What works

Client loader and updater work

What does not

Client cannot be started. A single NTloader error window with no message is the only response.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Gameplay

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

The lack of an informative error message is a bad move on MA's part. Previous versions could be gotten to work by analyzing the error messages, but there's very little information now. Rumor has it regressing to wine version 0.96 allows Entropia to run.

Progress so far to get Entropia working

Tested on:

Ubuntu 10.10 32 bits

AMD 5600

3 GB ram

GeForce GTS 250 1024Memory

Wine 1.1.17

sound ALSA

game play in wine (by Davvvve):

http://www.youtube.com/user/davvvvve#p/a/u/0/WFACia748Vw

 

related forum threads:

http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=9964

what works:

sweating system

quest system

deposit system

ranged/mellee weapons

what doesnt work:

Steps to installing and running Entropia 11.x:

install wine 1.1.17

copy entropia folder from a Windows machine to wine directory

copy d3dx9_34.dll to entropia/bin32 folder

Regedit

Multisampling : Enable

orm : fbo

rendertargetlockmode : auto

Useglsl : enable

ingame = all safemod

Qualityshading high

 

The information below was taken from a user comment left on 2012-08-26; it may or may not be relevant to current Wine.

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As many guides suggest it is possible to avoid the artefacts by setting shaders to high. However, if your machine can not run the game with good performance with them set that high there is a easy fix.

1. Set the shaders to High then apply and exit the game.
2. Navigate to "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Entropia Universe/public_users_data/public_users_data", or wherever you installed the game.
3. Edit settings-ce.cfg with a text editor, for example gedit.
4. Find the following lines and change them to 0, or whatever is most appropriate for your system:
q_ShaderFX = 2
q_ShaderGeneral = 2
q_ShaderGlass = 2
q_ShaderHDR = 2
q_ShaderIce = 2
q_ShaderMetal = 2
q_ShaderPostProcess = 2
q_ShaderQualityDummy = 2
q_ShaderShadow = 2
q_ShaderSky = 2
q_ShaderTerrain = 2
q_ShaderVegetation = 2
q_ShaderWater = 2

You will now have artefact free graphics and much better performance, you can set all the other settings however you like in game.

This method works because setting shaders to high in game changes a few other settings, I have not nailed down which exactly causes the artefacting, but until someone does more testing this should help.