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Mirror's Edge

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The version sold on Steam

Application Details:

Version: Steam
License: Retail
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Votes: 0
Latest Rating: Silver
Latest Wine Version Tested: 3.10

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Test Results

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Selected Test Results

What works

Complete game walk-through, full graphic details (including PhysX if applying the relevant patches), gamepad with rumbling, EA login, leaderboards

What does not

Workarounds

What was not tested

Playing with mouse/keyboard

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU: Nvidia
  • Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

During one the the first levels, the game may slow down to below 5 fps. If this is the case, turn off PhysX in the graphics settings. You probably have no GPU PhysX support or missing the relevant patches in Wine (which are not yet in mainline as of wine-3.4).

There's some solutions which may also apply to native Windows:

Remove the PhysX dlls bundled within the game install directories: They may be incompatible with modern graphics drivers. This will enable the game to use the system-provided PhysX dlls.

Install both PhysX and PhysX Legacy from NVIDIA, the former can be installed with "winetricks physx". The legacy version may be needed for older games like this.

Install and activate CUDA in Linux, add nvcuda wine patches. You need the proprietary Nvidia linux driver for this to work.

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?		RatingSubmitter
ShowUbuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu)Jun 14 20183.10Yes Yes NoSilverCarlos Rodriguez 
CurrentGentoo Linux x86_64Mar 25 20183.4Yes Yes NoPlatinumKai Krakow 
ShowManjaro LinuxSep 02 20172.15Yes Yes YesGoldJeff V 
ShowUbuntu 16.10 "Yakkety" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jul 03 20172.11-stagingYes Yes PlatinumBananeMan 
ShowManjaro LinuxApr 14 20172.4Yes Yes GoldNorbert Papp 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
25723 PhysX causes major lag in Mirror's Edge. REOPENED View

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Comments

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Sound not workin in-game
by Johan on Wednesday June 3rd 2015, 9:52
Sound works fine when in the spashscreen, but as soon as i get into the menu or in-game it gets quiet. Watching the trailers in the "extras" section in the menu works fine, but listening to the music there doesn't work.

I also tried removing the OpenAL32.dll file in the game to use the system ones instead, but no luck there.
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Unplug your gamepad.
by stqn on Sunday March 29th 2015, 9:08
After posting the review with a bronze rating because the game was running very slowly and trying everything without any success, I started reading all the old reviews here and found the solution: I had to unplug my gamepad, and now the game is running smoothly (even with physx on, but I have an nvidia GPU).
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RE: Unplug your gamepad.
by stqn on Sunday March 29th 2015, 9:53
Hm actually I had to disable PhysX or some sequences are very slow.
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Set it to Windows XP
by Yajo on Friday August 29th 2014, 6:45
The game was lagging a lot on action scenes, and I fixed it simply by setting it to Windows XP.
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Works with Wine 1.7.6
by Carlos Rodriguez on Wednesday December 18th 2013, 11:41
Tested on:

Wine 1.7.6 (compilado)
Nvidia Drivers 331.20 (.run package)
Linux Mint 15 KDE 32Bit - Kernel 3.8.0.26 PAE
CPU: INTEL Pentium G3220 (Nucleo Haswell a 22nm) 3.0Ghz (Dual-Core) Stock Clock
MEM: 8GB DDR3 1333 (2x4) Patriot value (128 bit dual channel: 21.3 gb/s)
GPU: Zotac Nvidia Geforce GT630 (GK208 28nm: 384 Shaders / 8 ROPS) Zone Edition Passive Cooling 2GB DDR3 1800Mhz a 64Bit (14.4Gb/s)
MAINBOARD: MSI H81M E33

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA7-qN8lGc8
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Freezing on loading screen
by Johan on Saturday November 30th 2013, 9:50
My game freezes at the start of the loading screen at startup. The splash screen before works fine though.
Htop also shows me that Mirrors Edge runs in two processes, and when killing one of them both dies.
Does anyone else have this issue?

Using xmonad on manjaro with wine version 1.7.7.
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RE: Freezing on loading screen
by dsads on Friday April 3rd 2015, 18:43
Same problem.

wine-1.7.39, os x 10.10
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RE: Freezing on loading screen
by Johan on Saturday April 4th 2015, 4:39
This doesn't happen for me anymore actually. Since my last report i have switched from Ubuntu to Arch Linux, switched from xmonad to bspwm and switched from a ATI 4870 on open source drivers to NVidia 750ti proprietary, so my setup is totally different now.

I have no idea what did it, good luck trying to figure it out though.
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sound issues related to OpenAL
by sdog on Friday August 23rd 2013, 16:32
The OpenAL version shipped with mirrors edge is outdated and appears to have a known bug. Removing or renaming /Binaries/openal32.dll will cause mirrors edge to use wine's default. Having installed a 32 bit openal library on my Arch 64 bit system fixes my sound problems. (that was no sound at all)
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RE: sound issues related to OpenAL
by Carlos Rodriguez on Tuesday August 27th 2013, 20:20
Good Tip :)
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Runs flawlessly on high settings
by Booman on Tuesday August 20th 2013, 15:59
I was able to run Mirror's Edge with all settings on high
Physx had to be turned off, but otherwise, runs absolutely GREAT!
I even made a step-by-step guide on how to install, configure and run Mirror's Edge:
www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/mirrors-edge-guide.254/
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"Everything is bright" bug
by David Deutsch on Monday January 10th 2011, 9:03
To get rid of the "everything is bright" bug (where all textures are white and you cannot make out anything at all), I had to switch to Windows XP or Vista mode. In Windows Vista or Windows 7 mode, it always failed.

Now I just need to make it work beyond the training mission...
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RE:
by Tobu on Wednesday December 26th 2012, 16:30
Hmm. As a follow-up to my report above, I've been able to run the training mission by using a video reference to the game menus to switch resolutions ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Ky40VCg7M ) but the rest of the game fails with a large black and white shape blocking the view. Did you use sandy bridge graphics as well?
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PhysX
by H3g3m0n ☢☣☠⚛ on Wednesday December 29th 2010, 6:16
I have noticed that the game seems to lag with PhysX enabled when the physics stuff is happening (such as when you are being shot at by the chopper and the glass is breaking).

PhysX can be disabled in the options menu and only seems to be used to make the glass leave behind shards when it shatters (maybe some other minor visual effects).

The Anti-aliasing option is disabled (I think I have the same thing in other games).

Alt+Tabbing sometimes causes the graphics to freeze (although input and sound keeps going). Although if you die or manage to quit to the main menu it resumes.
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