DayZ

What works

• installation from steam

What does not

• BattlEye installation fails with message: "Failed to initialize BattlEye Service: Driver Init Error (2)."
• BattlEye does not start, message: "Starting BattlEye Service..."

  
  

  • Workaround: start Steam, then start BattlEye service using the TaskManager -> new Task -> C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\DayZ\BattlEye\BEService.exe
• Game does not start, message: 

                     Error creating enfusion engine, some of possible errors:

                     * GPU not supported

                     * GPU drivers not up to date

                     * DirectX not up to date

                     * other kind of error

Workarounds

What was not tested

• the whole game beyond installation

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I created a wine-drive with wine 2.3-staging (win7 default?), installed corefonts, vcrun2013, d3dx11_42, d3dx11_43 and steam. To test things out I installed dxdiag which always show DX Version 9.0 c I think DX11 support is missing.

2015-02-11 Admin note: the following tips were extracted from a user comment made in 2014 and may not be relevant to current Wine.

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- I eliminated most of the graphical flickering by setting Anti-aliasing to the lowest mode above 'disabled'.

- Setting 'mouseSmoothing=0;' int the user.DayZProfile file helps a lot!

- If you wonder why your torch is pointing slightly to the left of you r char, press 'space' ;-).

2017-01-04 Admin note: BattleEye fails to start. See bug list. One can get around this by renaming DayZ.exe as DayZ_BE.exe. However, the the game will crash shortly after loading. If it doesn't crash, then one may not find a non-BattleEye server on which to play.