Shadows of the Empire

What works

Launch, cut scenes, audio.

What does not

Game.

- Runs way too fast, limiting with cpulimit does not help.

- Huge input lag, up to several seconds.

The first level is impossible to play: the game runs so fast that the player's glider flies out of the map within a second, forcibly returns, and repeats. As a result, the game is unplayable.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Anything beyond the first level of the game. 

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

The following was extracted from a user comment made on 2016-10-09 and may not be relevant to current Wine:

There is a free windows program that adds another layer of compatibility to old games, called DXWnd. It works on wine v. 1.9.19 and is available on Sourceforge.

I have got the game running well with just minimal configuration:

-Created a profile for Shadows of the Empire

-Added "Shadows.exe" (resides in the Sdata folder in the game folder) to "Path" and "Launch" of the profile configuration in DXWind

-Launched the game through DXWnd → Success.

For a more detailed article on how to use DXWnd, visit the following link:

www.play-old-pc-games.com/compatibility-tools/using-dxwnd/

++ Make sure to use the "Shadows.exe" binary in the Sdata folder, not the SOTE.EXE binary in the root folder.