Application Details:
| Version: | GOG |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.alanwake.com/ |
| Votes: | 1 |
| Latest Rating: | Bronze |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 2.0.1 |
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What works
Gameplay*
changing resolutions
Settings*
AA
FXAA
Shadow Quality
Godray Quality
Backdrop Quality
Distance settings + FOV
SSAO Quality
etc.. all except for one setting Volumetric Light
What does not
Volumetric light, keep it on low
Gameplay works but for me is around 35ish-60+
* I have an AMD card running with Mesa Gallium. no matter my settings in Alan Wake my frames stay the same. I do not know if NVIDIA users migth have the same issues as I.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Extended Gameplay, I only tested it till the part where i have escaped the 1st taken, and have gotten out of the cabin.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
I used PlayOnLinux so i can have better management of my installations, the version of wine was 1.9.3-staging. The dll overrides I have for my virtual gaming drive are the following: * All Dxds + d3d * Quartz (Native,builtin) I have also gotten installed Directx9 Jun2010 + vcrun 2005 + 2010 Dotnet20 30 and 40.. that's it. My settings in the game were; AA 2x shadows low godray high backdrop high Anistrophic filtering 4x fxaa off all my distances +FOV were at half (10/20) volumetric light is on low SSAO is off running at 1080p My specs are as follows: AMD Phenom II 965 BE x3 @ 3.4ghz 8gb ddr2 800mhz ram 1tb hdd (72000rpm) AMD Saphire hd7850 2gb OC DDR5 Manjaro x64 - xfce
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 16 2017 | 2.0.1 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Cláudio Sampaio (Patola) | ||
| Current | Manjaro Linux | Feb 26 2016 | 1.9.3 | Yes | Yes | Gold | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux 7.x "Wheezy" x86_64 | Jan 09 2014 | 1.7.10 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Roland Häder | ||
| Show | Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" | Jul 12 2013 | 1.6-rc4 | Yes | Yes | Silver | Booman | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 24 2012 | 1.5.9 | Yes | No | Garbage | Scott Ritchie |
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 ;-)
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