Crysis

What works

Installation

Video settings

Audio

Account/User creation

Gameplay

What does not

See Workarounds section.

Workarounds

 - Winetricks to install needful Windows components and DLLs (Precise DDL/Component to make Crysis Wars working is unknown due to current Wineprefix being shared for other applications. See Extra Information for current list of installed items)

 - Custom installer (Due to fact that Crysis Wars in its Retail format is no longer sold or available for general public, the community-backed and provided installation/version was used. See https://crysiswarsmp.com/)

What was not tested

Nothing that would affect gameplay, as far as I am aware.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: AMD
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

$ sudo lshw -short | egrep -v '(volume|disk|bus)'

H/W path                   Device      Class          Description
=================================================================
                                       system         System Product Name (SKU)
/0/0                                   memory         64KiB BIOS
/0/4                                   processor      Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770S CPU @ 3.10GHz
/0/4/5                                 memory         256KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6                                 memory         1MiB L2 cache
/0/4/7                                 memory         8MiB L3 cache
/0/5e                                  memory         16GiB System Memory
/0/5e/0                                memory         4GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/5e/1                                memory         4GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/5e/2                                memory         4GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/5e/3                                memory         4GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/100                                 bridge         Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller
/0/100/1                               bridge         Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port
/0/100/1/0                             display        Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
/0/100/1/0.1                           multimedia     Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590]
/0/100/16                              communication  6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1
/0/100/19                  eno1        network        82579V Gigabit Network Connection
/0/100/1a/1/1/2            scsi10      storage        Mass Storage Device
/0/100/1a/1/1/3            scsi11      storage        LaCie DVDRW USB
/0/100/1a/1/1/5                        input          Logitech Illuminated Keyboard
/0/100/1a/1/1/6            scsi12      storage        USB Mass Storage Device
/0/100/1b                              multimedia     6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller
/0/100/1c                              bridge         6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1
/0/100/1c.1                            bridge         6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2
/0/100/1c.3                            bridge         6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4
/0/100/1c.3/0                          storage        JMB362 SATA Controller
/0/100/1c.4                            bridge         6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5
/0/100/1c.6                            bridge         82801 PCI Bridge
/0/100/1c.6/0                          bridge         ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge
/0/100/1c.6/0/0                        multimedia     CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]
/0/100/1c.7                            bridge         6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 8
/0/100/1c.7/0                          storage        88SE9172 SATA 6Gb/s Controller
/0/100/1d/1/1/1                        generic        EMV Smartcard Reader
/0/100/1d/1/1/2                        input          Positive Gaming Impact USB pad
/0/100/1d/1/1/4/1                      input          VoIP USB Dual RF Receiver
/0/100/1d/1/1/4/2                      multimedia     Logitech EasyCall Speakerphone
/0/100/1d/1/1/8                        input          Corsair M65 Gaming Mouse
/0/100/1f                              bridge         P67 Express Chipset LPC Controller
/0/100/1f.2                scsi1       storage        6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port Desktop SATA AHCI Controller
/0/1                                   system         PnP device PNP0c01
/0/2                                   system         PnP device PNP0c02
/0/3                                   system         PnP device PNP0b00
/0/5                                   generic        PnP device INT3f0d
/0/6                                   system         PnP device PNP0c02
/0/7                                   system         PnP device PNP0c02
/0/8                                   communication  PnP device PNP0501
/0/9                                   system         PnP device PNP0c02
/1                                     power          To Be Filled By O.E.M.
/2                                     power          To Be Filled By O.E.M.

$ inxi -Gxxx
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] 
  vendor: XFX Pine driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: Fedora Project X.org 1.20.11 compositor: gnome-shell 
  v: 3.38.4 driver: loaded: ati,modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  alternate: amdgpu resolution: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 
  OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.40.0 
  5.11.17-200.fc33.x86_64 LLVM 11.0.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 

$ wine --version
wine-6.7 (Staging)

$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 33 (Thirty Three)

$ sh winetricks list-installed
Executing mkdir -p /home/linards
------------------------------------------------------
warning: You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Note that many verbs only install 32-bit versions of packages. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug.
------------------------------------------------------
Using winetricks 20210206-next - sha256sum: a964a7cfccaf7b2ac5b4da908ea54a1eae1312f6f3eb15046a251677fdd97a54 with wine-6.7 (Staging) and WINEARCH=win64
cabinet
andale
arial
comicsans
courier
georgia
impact
times
trebuchet
verdana
webdings
corefonts
binkw32
d3dcompiler_42
w_workaround_wine_bug-24013
d3dcompiler_43
d3dcompiler_47
d3dx10_43
d3dx11_42
d3dx11_43
d3dx9_42
d3dx9_43
d3dx9
d9vk
vcrun2010
vcrun2012
dxvk181
vcrun2003
vcrun6

What do you need ?

• A fast CPU. We suggest minimally quad cores.
• A fast graphic card. Something like nVidia GTX2xx/4xx/5xx. The game will probably not work with AMD card
• A fast Linux distro. Something like Gentoo or Arch Linux. You can run it on some slower user friendly distro like Ubuntu, Fedora... but you will have low fps and it will be hard to play it.
• Some free time

How to install it ?

1.) You have to install the latest Wine with this patch: http://bugs2.winehq.org/attach...

2.) You have to install these winetricks:
d3dx9 d3dx9_26 d3dx9_28 d3dx9_31 d3dx9_35 d3dx9_36 d3dx9_42 d3dx10 d3dxof devenum dinput8 directmusic directplay directx9 dmsynth fontsmooth-rgb quertz nocrashdialog

3.) You have to install the game and patch it with Wars patch 1.5 for better performance.