Ancient Trader

What works

the game is fully playable provided the required native components are installed.

• installation (I opted to *not* install DotNetFX35 during the setup) 
• playing the game @1440x900 resolution
• audio using ALSA with emulation mode
• mouse input
• rendering, visuals are okay
  

What does not

• no audio unless you set ALSA to 'emulation' and the sample rate to 44.1 kHz
  

Workarounds

What was not tested

• completing the game 
• installing DotNetFX35 which comes bundled with the game (I preferred the winetricks method)
  

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

The game requires the following components: - Xact audio libraries and the XNA framework (the installer takes care of them) - DotNet Framework 3.5: you will need the latest winetricks-alpha for that: http://winetricks.org/winetricks-alpha. You can ignore the error message during the installation for now. I had to set Alsa to 'emulation' mode and the sample rate to 44100 Hz to get sounds. The game is fully playable after DotNetfx35 is installed. Nvidia GeForce 250 GTS / driver 260.19.36