Elven Legacy

What works

the single player part works (almost) flawlessly:

• installation of the main game and the expansions
• playing the game @1440x900 resolution; both fullscreen and virtual desktop mode works
• sound, music, voices (using ALSA with default settings)
• rendering, visuals are glitch-free (with shadowmaps disabled)
• changing various in-game options
• keyboard & mouse control
• anti-aliasing
• hot-seat mode

What does not

shadowmaps (the game becomes unplayable/unresponsive due to low framerates)

a warning dialog on startup indicating that the Windows WMI infrastructure is not implemented in Wine

the game doesn't detect the amount of video memory correctly (maybe the consequence of the lacking WMI implementation)

Workarounds

What was not tested

finishing the main game and the expansions

multiplayer (the server list was always empty when I tried to connect)

map editor (needs .Net 2.0)

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Digital distribution version of the game, obtained via Gamersgate. Doesn't contain copy-protection. The game needs MS VC++2005 and DirectX9 libraries to start up properly, the installer will take care of both component. The only problem I encountered that the shadowmap function is not working properly. Apart from that the game is really well playable (at least in single player mode). Performance was great even when details were set to high (but anti-aliasing turned off). AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Nvidia 7600 GT (256 Mb) / driver 195.36.31 Admin note: rating changed to conform to the rating definitions.