Evil Genius

Installing the Game via CD

1. Make sure use are using version 1.1. If you aren't then install the version 1.1 patch.
2. Install a no cd crack. These cracks often contain viruses, be very careful.
If you find a "nocd" that works and does not contain malware, please post a link.

3. Below are instructions from the previous maintainer:

   Install native quartz.dll and msvcrt.dll. You can get these online.

   Once downloaded place these under: /home/$USER/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32

   Perhaps you don't need to do the following step but I did it anyway which is to rename the existing quartz.dll and msvcrt.dll in the same directory for backup and just to be sure that wine picks up the native copies.

   With the files placed in the system32 directory run wine configuration usually accessible from the ubuntu applications menu. You can always type winecfg at the terminal to run it.

   Next step is to tell wine to use native dls. Go to the libraries tab and from the drop down menu select quartz and cick add. Do the same for msvcrt. Once these are added you need to select each file in the list (i-e: quartz and msvcrt) and click Edit from the options given select "Native (Windows)" for both of them.

Bugs

• Sometimes the game hangs while launching. Before re-launching the game, end the hung launch by running

  wineboot --kill; wineboot --shutdown

• If you see only your minion‘s hat, or the minion‘s appear dark or move by rigidly gliding instead of walking, try this:
  1. Run the Wine Configuration utility winecfg In Ubuntu this can be done graphically via Applications ← Wine ← Configure Wine
  2. Click the “Graphics” tab.
  3. In the “Direct3D” section set “Vertex Shader Support” to “Hardware”, and then to enable “Allow Pixel Shader (if supported by hardware)”
  4. Click “OK”
• Only stereo works. While in stereo, rare (about once an hour) and brief (less than a second) sound glitches occur.

Customizing Your Installation

Increase Default Zoom Out

1. Edit

   /home/$USER/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/evil genius/DynamicResources/Config/Concept.cfg

2. In the [GameCamera] section change the value to MaxHeight=120.0
3. In the [Dialog3DCamera] section change the value to MaxHeight=120.0
4. Note: these changes seem to make the game crash on startup about 5 out of every 6 startup attempts. Once the game is running, it's stable. To quickly retry starting the game I suggest using the command line below to start the game. This ends any previous Wine programs, then by-passing Steam directly launches the game:

   (wineboot --kill; cd ~/".wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/evil genius" && wine ./EvilGeniusLauncher.exe; echo RC $?)

If within the game the moving around while zoomed out this far is slow or choppy, then your video card isn't fast enough to handle this. If this happens, change the 120.0 to number low enough for your video card to handle. You won't zoom out as far, but the movement will get smoother.

Faster Loading

MainGameFadeInTime=0.333
LoadingScreenWipeTime=0.333
CopyrightScreenDuration=0.1

To access resolutions not offered within the game setup options

1. Downloaded version 1, not version 2, of Racer_S ureschanger hack. If you use version 2 then the minion icons in the World Domination screen will be far too large to read.
2. Edit resolution.ini to use the resolution you want.
3. Place the d3d9.dll and resolution.ini files in /home/$USER/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/evil genius/ReleaseExe/ where $USER is your login user name.
4. Run the program winecfg. You can to this via Applications → Wine → Configure Wine
5. Select the Libraries tab.
6. In the New overrides for library drop down list select d3d9.
7. Click the Add button. This will add the override d3d9 (native, builtin).
8. Click OK.
9. Launch the game normally (via Steam). The first time you set this up and run the game it may crash during launch. The second and future times you launch the game it should work.

Note: Trying to switch the game to windowed mode via Alt+Enter will cause the game crash in full screen mode. If you do this, you'll have to:

1. Use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to the text console.
2. Login, then end the wine session via the command wineboot --kill
3. Return to the graphical desktop via Alt+F7