The Secret World, a popular MMORG produced by Funcom has become a Free2Play title as "Secret World Legends". The original game "The Secret World" will still be maintained but this entry is for the Free2Play edition where you would need to start a new character from scratch.
Application Details:
| Version: | Internet Play |
| License: | Free to use |
| URL: | https://secretworldlegends.com... |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Platinum |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 6.16-staging |
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What works
- Installation works as it should.
- Game starts to login screen
- Login works as it should
- Character selection works as it should
What does not
- Character select screen displays with rendering anomalies and very low frame rate
- Game settings menus are useless as they are not displayed correctly
- After login the game has very poor performance and severe graphical glitches
Workarounds
What was not tested
Everything not listed in the working / not working sections.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Secret World Legends installs without a hitch with WINE-Staging 2.13. I did not install through Steam, I used the installer from the official website. Using the nVidia binary drivers I had to enable CMST in winecfg to keep the user interface from flickering. I also use winetricks to install d3dcompiler_43 and corefonts. I set the game to use DirectX 9 as using 11 hung at startup. Gameplay is pretty much impossible due to rendering issues and poor performance. Tested using a Geforce 980Ti on an i7 4790K with 32GB memory.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Oct 06 2021 | 6.16-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | nartalopec | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Apr 18 2020 | 5.5-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Chris | |
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux 9.x "Stretch" x86_64 | Nov 09 2019 | 4.18 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Kovacs Istvan | |
| Show | Slackware64 14.2 multilib | Oct 22 2017 | 2.19-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Claudio | |
| Show | Linux Mint 18.2 "Sonya" x86_64 | Sep 16 2017 | 2.17 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Garbage | kyle |
This game needs an additional package to start the installation called d3dcompiler_43 which can be installed by issuing the command.
$ winetricks -q d3dcompiler_43
Winetricks can usually be installed using your distribution's package manager but should be updated to make sure you are using the latest version of the winetricks script using:
# winetricks --self-update
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by Chris on Saturday April 18th 2020, 3:40
It appears to be related to DirectX 9 being used by the patcher. Setting the environment variable WINEDLLOVERRIDES=d3d9=b when starting wine/the game will fix this issue.
An alternative and permanent way of setting this is opening winecfg, going to libraries, scrolling down to d3d9 and setting it to builtin.
by Jen on Tuesday May 1st 2018, 9:48
by DJ Dunn on Wednesday June 20th 2018, 18:26
by knuxyl on Friday August 3rd 2018, 3:06