Dead Space 2

What works

Installer. The game runs fine. Video Settings (change resolution, etc..) works.

Videos in game, and sounds too. I tested through chapter 8 and the game all playable 100%. With great FPS. No freezes anytime.

My test is done on the virtual desktop (no full screen).

What does not

All works fine.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Login into EA.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Packages what I have installed using winetricks (Maybe not many of them are necessary to run the game). - amstream.dll - comctl32 & comctl32ocx - devenum - dinput8 - dirac - directmusic - directplay - dsound - ffdshow - physx - vcrun (all) - xact & xact2010 I use a patched executable to remove security protections. In winecfg (libraries) the box are empty. No DLL overrides. in the previous version of wine, required dinput8 in native mode for the cursor to work well. And various DLL more. It's fixed. The game is 100% playable.

In general, game inherits most of bugs from Dead Space 1 (engine is almost the same).

1. Install the game from DVD (if you have digital version - download DVD-version from somewhere, as EADM version misses all videos, including videochats and loading movies)
2. Find and replace main executable deadspace2.exe with SecuROM-removed version.
3. Activate the game via wine activation.exe
4. Run wine regedit and set HKCU/Software/Wine/Direct3D/VideoMemorySize to your actual video memory size.
5. Start the game with wine deadspace2.exe. Go to "Settings" -> "Visuals". Set "Quality" to "Custom". Enter sub-menu "custom settings" and set "Decals" to "Off"

Use wine-1.3.6 or revert commit f0b0c1b1dddf606177651deb45c0afd6259076aa as described in RegressionTesting wiki page

Requirement for winetricks d3dx9_36 was reported at least twice. fglrx users don't need it due to, probably, some effect not working

• Crash when cutting some part of enemy:

  Switch off "Decals". See Generic instructions, part 5

• Mouse cursor in menu isn't visible:

  To navigate in menu use arrows to control selection, Enter on non-submenu option is "accept", ESC - "cancel". Or you may try to guess mouse position watching at highlights.

• Valid EA Account used, but Shop says, that there is no connection to EA servers:

  Connection to EA is quite fragile - few glitches and it goes down (and no reconnect was ever seen). Just restart game, load near shop and enter it instantly - it will work.