Alan Wake

What works

Installing
Launching
Changing resolution in-game
Changing Graphics settings in-game
Gameplay:  Lighting, movement, interactions, cut-scenes 

What does not

Turning Vsync on will crash the game
GLSL will create major lighting artifacts - unplayable....
Solution:  Disable GLSL 

Workarounds

What was not tested

Full game

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Frame rates never exceeded 20 frames per second Tested with high and low resolutions Tested with high and low graphical settings Tested in virtual desktop, but no boost in frame rates. Alan Wake is still playable, but needs a few tweaks: 1. add -noblur to launch commmand 2. turn down mouse sensitivity Libraries needed: xact d3dcompiler_43 d3dx9 vcrun2005

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 ;-)