Mirror's Edge

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.

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).

Hm actually I had to disable PhysX or some sequences are very slow.

The game was lagging a lot on action scenes, and I fixed it simply by setting it to Windows XP.

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

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.

Same problem.

wine-1.7.39, os x 10.10

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.

The OpenAL version shipped with mirrors edge is outdated and appears to have a known bug.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)

Good Tip :)

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/

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...

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?

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.