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.
• Starting the game or tutorial (if you know which item to select from the menu, as the text is illegible).
• Sounds.
• Music.

What does not

• Reading the on-screen text in menus.
• Playing the game: In-game objects appear out-of-shape and colour. (Shader problem?).

Workarounds

What was not tested

• Multiplayer.
• Saving games.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

DirectX was not installed. The game was run in "DirectX 7" mode. Running it in "DirectX 9" mode causes the game to crash. Bug #25433 was found to exist and the application had to be terminated. To prevent the application from crashing/hanging after launch (following the logo movies), Uncheck "Load Textures On Demand" from the "Video" tab in the configuration window. Alternatively, either set `use_ondemand_textures = 0' or `use_ondemand_textures_mt = 0' in the configuration file (`rgl_config.txt'). To prevent the problem of illegible characters and in-game objects, `d3dx9_42.dll' had to be dropped in the game directory, and set to "native". It is disturbing to know that the game had worked well in Wine v. 1.7.13, without using the above DLL. Also, somewhere after Wine v. 1.7.30, as the application automatically minimizes when the workspace in the WM is changed, it is no longer possible to click-and-select a single item from the inventory (and hold it on the cursor). The same applies to the selling/transferring of a single prisoner/soldier.

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.