Mount & Blade

What works

• Installation.
• The launch window which appears when the application is executed.
• The logo movies (Bink) which appear after the option for "play" is selected from the above-mentioned window.
• Running the game in "DirectX 7" mode.
• Sounds.
• Music.
• Saving and loading game.

What does not

• Running it in "DirectX 9" mode causes the game to crash: RGL Error.
• Shadows: They appear polygonal.
• Flags/banners: Some of them are blank (white).
• Anti-aliasing cannot be altered.
• In Wine's full-screen mode, the game window automatically minimizes when the workspace in the WM is changed.

Workarounds

• The crash (DirectX 9 mode) can be avoided by setting `MaxShaderModelVS' to 0 in the registry:

$ wine reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D" /v 
MaxShaderModelVS /t REG_DWORD /d 0

• The problem of polygonal shadows (seen when traveling on the world map)
  and blank flags can be solved by dropping `d3dx9_42.dll' in the game directory. The DLL also seems to solve the problem of blank (white) flags/banners.
• To prevent the game window from auto-minimizing, the game needs to be run in Wine's virtual-desktop mode.

What was not tested

• Playing the game for more than 30 minutes.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Intel
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

• I avoided installing the bundled DirectX (and it is not really needed)!
• Sometimes, I find the environments too dark. Then, disabling dynamic
  lighting solves the problem. I also find it better to change the gamma
  (from the configuration file).

If you're getting low FPS with Warband, try the following: Enable single threading. Open the "~/.wine/drive_c/users/your_user_name/My Documents/Mount&Blade Warband/rgl_config.txt" (change the path to reflect your Warband installation) configuration file and set "force_single_threading" attribute to 1.