Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

What works

Installer

Singleplayer freeroam

Early story missions I played so far

Mod fixes such as silent patch

ASI modding

What does not

Intro videos

Mouse click stops working if the game is paused. Sometimes both mouse click and mouse movement stop working if the game is paused. Sometimes mouse click and/or mouse movement randomly stop working during gameplay

Workarounds

What was not tested

Complete playthrough (currently on early game)

Modloader and heavy modding

32-bit wineprefix

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Mouse issues can be fixed by ticking "emulate a virtual desktop" on winecfg. Intro videos are broken but can be skipped, you can also remove them. Game works best when Wine is set to windows xp mode on winecfg as it is known for having issues with windows vista and above. CPU-bound performance is better than windows when using a multicore CPU and enabling CSMT on winecfg, although the game does run heavier on the GPU.

Admin note: the instructions below are extremely old and may not apply to current Wine. Follow at your own risk. 

Install the game ­

1. Mount the install CD (this is distribution and configuration-dependent)
   
2. Using the terminal, browse into the mounted CD directory and type "wine setup.exe" (without quotes)
3. When Setup menu appears, select your preferred options (selecting radio station requires the second CD)
4. When the installer asks for second CD, type in another terminal "wine eject" and mount the second CD (or image). (For me worked too without wine eject, I simply unmounted and Re mounted second image)
5. When installation finishes you must disable the CD check by using a crack . Backup the original EXE before applying the crack.

Configuring Wine for GTA:VC

1. Run wine configuration (or type winecfg in terminal)
2. Add an application and select your "GTA VC exe"
3. In graphical options enable all first 4 options (from Directx .... to Enable virtual desktop) and set Virtual desktop to 800x600.
4. Now you can start GTA VC (be sure "Vice City Play" is mounted or inserted, My crack tries to find CD, but will accept both the original or the image).
   

Make sure the option "Allow the window manager to control the windows" in winecfg (tab "Graphics") is activated.

To kill off a running, but not responding, GTA (and any other programs/processes that Wine is running), run "wineserver -k". You may need to log in to a text-only terminal by hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1 (on most distributions).