Installed from Steam (the game is also available on GoG, I don't know if there are any version differences)r22151 (04/15/18) (
Application Details:
Version: | Steam |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://stars-in-shadow.com/ |
Votes: | 0 |
Latest Rating: | Silver |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 3.0.2 |
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What works
What does not
I could resolve all the issues listed here by applying the workarounds listed below (in the workarounds section), which resulted in a fully functional game without any noticable problems.
Workarounds
At first, I wasn't able to install the game (any game) from Steam with the "Content servers unreachable" error message, until I applied the workaround described in the comments for bug #45329:
Open drive_c/Program Files/Steam/config/config.vdf, and under
"InstallConfigStore"
{
"Software"
{
"Valve"
{
"Steam"
{
add the following entry (for me it's directy under "cip" and "CM"):
"CS"
"valve511.steamcontent.com;valve501.steamcontent.com;valve517.steamcontent.com;valve557.steamcontent.com;valve513.steamcontent.com;valve535.steamcontent.com;valve546.steamcontent.com;valve538.steamcontent.com;valve536.steamcontent.com;valve530.steamcontent.com;valve559.steamcontent.com;valve545.steamcontent.com;valve518.steamcontent.com;valve548.steamcontent.com;valve555.steamcontent.com;valve556.steamcontent.com;valve506.steamcontent.com;valve544.steamcontent.com;valve525.steamcontent.com;valve567.steamcontent.com;valve521.steamcontent.com;valve510.steamcontent.com;valve542.steamcontent.com;valve519.steamcontent.com;valve526.steamcontent.com;valve504.steamcontent.com;valve500.steamcontent.com;valve554.steamcontent.com;valve562.steamcontent.com;valve524.steamcontent.com;valve502.steamcontent.com;valve505.steamcontent.com;valve547.steamcontent.com;valve560.steamcontent.com;valve503.steamcontent.com;valve507.steamcontent.com;valve553.steamcontent.com;valve520.steamcontent.com;valve550.steamcontent.com;valve531.steamcontent.com;valve558.steamcontent.com;valve552.steamcontent.com;valve563.steamcontent.com;valve540.steamcontent.com;valve541.steamcontent.com;valve537.steamcontent.com;valve528.steamcontent.com;valve523.steamcontent.com;valve512.steamcontent.com;valve532.steamcontent.com;valve561.steamcontent.com;valve549.steamcontent.com;valve522.steamcontent.com;valve514.steamcontent.com;valve551.steamcontent.com;valve564.steamcontent.com;valve543.steamcontent.com;valve565.steamcontent.com;valve529.steamcontent.com;valve539.steamcontent.com;valve566.steamcontent.com;valve165.steamcontent.com;valve959.steamcontent.com;valve164.steamcontent.com;valve1611.steamcontent.com;valve1601.steamcontent.com;valve1617.steamcontent.com;valve1603.steamcontent.com;valve1602.steamcontent.com;valve1610.steamcontent.com;valve1615.steamcontent.com;valve909.steamcontent.com;valve900.steamcontent.com;valve905.steamcontent.com;valve954.steamcontent.com;valve955.steamcontent.com;valve1612.steamcontent.com;valve1607.steamcontent.com;valve1608.steamcontent.com;valve1618.steamcontent.com;valve1619.steamcontent.com;valve1606.steamcontent.com;valve1605.steamcontent.com;valve1609.steamcontent.com;valve907.steamcontent.com;valve901.steamcontent.com;valve902.steamcontent.com;valve1604.steamcontent.com;valve908.steamcontent.com;valve950.steamcontent.com;valve957.steamcontent.com;valve903.steamcontent.com;valve1614.steamcontent.com;valve904.steamcontent.com;valve952.steamcontent.com;valve1616.steamcontent.com;valve1613.steamcontent.com;valve958.steamcontent.com;valve956.steamcontent.com;valve906.steamcontent.com"
Also, in Steam a lot of images are simply missing/not loading, the Store and other pages are full black, but the Library can be selected and the game launched.
For the mouse cursor flickering, I found out that if I edit the .ani files in the game's "cursors" folder (drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Stars in Shadow/cursors) and resize them to e.g. 32x32 from 72x72 (with any free .ani editor from the internet e.g. ArtCursors (via Wine :))), the problem goes away (changing animation duration settings didn't help)
To fix the incorrectly appearing tanks and other images, open the Wine configuration tool (winecfg), go to the Libraries tab and add an override for "vcomp140". If the game has already been launched before doing this, you will also need to delete the ArtCache folder inside of the game's main folder to remove the cached broken image files.
What was not tested
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
r22151 (04/15/18)
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Current | Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Aug 01 2018 | 3.0.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Krisztián Nagy |
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