Battlefield 3

What works

Please note i'am running through q4wine & also straight wine command line ,with optirun to start the q4wine or wine .

Optirun and primusrun are the switching binaries of bumblebee that enables the optimus mux head of the dGPU or Nvidia GPU in thise case,without using this the applications will not load opengl and will complain in the log console.

eg ; (1) optirun q4wine or (2) primusrun q4wine or (3) optirun wine,with optirun being the preferred in this case.

The links top the opengl libraries ( symbolic) are also requried in each wine apps directory ,you will see errors concerning opengl if these are not placed in the Battlefield 3 directory .

 Under the drive_c of your wine drive with Battlefield on it,in a console ( not wine) cd to that directory ,cd cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Origin\ Games/Battlefield\ 3/

ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGLU.so.1

ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGLU.so.1.3.1

You will see two sym links like below .

lrwxrwxrwx  libGLU.so.1 -> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGLU.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx  libGLU.so.1.3.1 -> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGLU.so.1.3.1

These links can be copied to other game directories such as BF4 or COD4 which also required these symlinks.

Bumblebee Install with Nvidia on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy & this works on my system very well;

 http://bumblebee-project.org/

1 ;

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
sudo apt-get update

You can take out the ppa for xorg-edgers after the install of the nvidia pkg's as updates done in auto could break the symlinks and ruin all the fun.

2;

Remove old nvidia drivers

sudo apt-get purge nvidia-yourversion nvidia-settings-yourversion

3;

Then install bumblebee and nvidia-331

purge nvidia-yourversion nvidia-settings

4;

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install primus && apt-get install primus-libs
sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia primus nvidia-331 nvidia-settings-331
sudo apt-get install bumblebee-config-gtk
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualgl-libs libgl1-mesa-glx
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx
sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386
sudo apt-get install libc6
sudo apt-get install mesa-utils
sudo apt-get install mesa-utils-extra
sudo apt-get install zlib1g
sudo apt-get install libjpeg62

4;

Cinebench results are well above normal results in windows,using this to check that wine is utilising opengl.

Cinebench32 results are at approx 54.52. points ,as per the results they have been at 59? on the 1.7 wine version i think.

http://i.imgur.com/XSlgip1.jpg

5;

The executable is loading in the system for approx 1 minute before stopping with the previous errors.

err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4590f811-1d3a-11d0-891f-00aa004b2e24} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {4590f811-1d3a-11d0-891f-00aa004b2e24} could be created for context 0x1
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4590f811-1d3a-11d0-891f-00aa004b2e24} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {4590f811-1d3a-11d0-891f-00aa004b2e24} could be created for context 0x1
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4590f811-1d3a-11d0-891f-00aa004b2e24} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {4590f811-1d3a-11d0-891f-00aa004b2e24} could be created for context 0x1
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4590f811-1d3a-11d0-891f-00aa004b2e24} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {4590f811-1d3a-11d0-891f-00aa004b2e24} could be created for context 0x1
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4590f811-1d3a-11d0-891f-00aa004b2e24} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {4590f811-1d3a-11d0-891f-00aa004b2e24} could be created for context 0x1
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4590f811-1d3a-11d0-891f-00aa004b2e24} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {4590f811-1d3a-11d0-891f-00aa004b2e24} could be created for context 0x1
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4590f811-1d3a-11d0-891f-00aa004b2e24} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {4590f811-1d3a-11d0-891f-00aa004b2e24} could be created for context 0x1
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33dc38,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!

The above errors occur with or without application configuration to disable or native /inbuilt etc,with mshtml,mmdevvapi or directx.

The PCI and Vendor Code have been added to two extra DWORDS in the registry under Direct3D ,VideoDeviceID & VideoVendorID,these can found by lspci -n in xterm or the console,although no noticable difference was made with these inclusions.

Video Configuration is still under testing but it works with COD and the other apps is as per below ;

http://i.imgur.com/h85H2ii.png

What does not

Does not work without the dGPU ( nvidia gtx) without bumblebee & your dGPU .

Workarounds

What was not tested

Directx10 or Directx 9,or directwrite.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Keep in mind that before you can install Origin you have accept an EULA that entitles the software to crawl through your wineprefix logging everything. I highly recommend both removing the "Z" link to your / in winecfg and installing BF3 in it's own prefix.