Mass Effect 2

What works

Install via Steam

Launcher and configuration application.

What does not

When launched, a transparent window covers the desktop and hides the mouse (animated desktop elements still move!) and 100% CPU is used.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Everything

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

wine output: err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd (nil) err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x1012a fixme:gameux:GameExplorerImpl_VerifyAccess (0x131de8, L"E:\\Jeux\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\mass effect 2\\Binaries\\MassEffect2.exe", 0x194e314) fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x194d02c,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x194cee0,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x194e4fc,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x194e3b0,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x194e1d0,0x00000000), stub! fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 59 (SPI_SETSTICKYKEYS) fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 53 (SPI_SETTOGGLEKEYS) fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 51 (SPI_SETFILTERKEYS) fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 0x34324644 (as fourcc: DF24) WINED3DFORMAT! fixme:d3d:wined3d_get_format Can't find format unrecognized (0x34324644) in the format lookup table fixme:d3d:swapchain_init Add OpenGL context recreation support to context_validate_onscreen_formats fixme:dbghelp:validate_addr64 Unsupported address fffffffff7470000 fixme:dbghelp:validate_addr64 Unsupported address fffffffff5d20000 fixme:dbghelp:validate_addr64 Unsupported address fffffffff5810000 fixme:dbghelp:validate_addr64 Unsupported address fffffffff5d00000 fixme:dbghelp:validate_addr64 Unsupported address fffffffff5700000 fixme:dbghelp:validate_addr64 Unsupported address fffffffff57f0000 fixme:faultrep:ReportFault 0x191ce454 0x0 stub

DLC for Mass Effect 2 seems to work okay. You need an EA account & Bioware account. You have to link your bioware account to your EA master account.

When done, you can login to http://social.bioware.com/user_entitlements.php  and download the  content manually.

I have tested the Inferno Armor, Blood Dragon Armor, Zaeed - The Price of Revenge (Cerberus Network), Normandy Crash Site (Cerberus Network).

Launch the installer in the wineprefix you have Mass Effect 2 installed, the installer will fail (for me) at cleaning up the install. It is safe to kill the install process.

Once you have started Mass Effect 2, login to the Cerberus Network with your EA account and the DLC will be authorised (you may get a warning the first time)

Please purge your previously wine installation before using that HowTo!

For patching and installing wine on Ubuntu:

apt-get build-dep wine
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.5.9.tar.bz2
(This wine version is given as an example)
tar xjpf wine-1.5.9.tar.bz2
cd wine-1.5.9
wget dl.dropbox.com/u/6901628/raw3.patch
patch -p1 < raw3.patch
tools/./make_requests
tools/./wineinstall

For patching and installing wine on Gentoo:

mkdir -p /etc/portage/patches/app-emulation/wine-1.5.9
wget -O /etc/portage/patches/app-emulation/wine-1.5.9/raw_input.patch 'dl.dropbox.com/u/6901628/raw3.patch'
emerge =app-emulation/wine-1.5.9

Thanks to t800 for the tip ;-)

Increasing in-game performance

If you have experienced performance degradation please deactivate dynamic shadows and antialiasing from game graphic menu. Also set proprietary driver image settings to Maximum Performance. This helps for weak graphic cards like NVIDIA Geforce 120 GT.