Application Details:
Version: | 1.01 |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://www.beyondgoodevil.com/ |
Votes: | 1 |
Latest Rating: | Gold |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 4.0-rc2-staging |
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What works
- Installing the game from the DVD (DVD version has no copy protection), running it, playing it for a few hours on full details.
What does not
- Apart from the audio/video out of sync-bug when the CPU is throttled the game runs fine. This will likely never be fixed, the game has this problem on Windows, too.
Workarounds
What was not tested
- Controller support.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
I did not encounter any bugs with looping sounds, so I rated this Platinum. I know that this game seems to have problems when your CPU is in powersave mode. Look into the HowTo below to fix this.
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Debian GNU/Linux 10.x "Buster" x86_64 | Dec 23 2018 | 4.0-rc2-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Gero | |
Show | Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 22 2015 | 1.7.34 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | an anonymous user | |
Current | Slackware64 -current | Jun 11 2014 | 1.7.19 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Danny Schmarsel | |
Show | Slackware64 -current | Jan 16 2014 | 1.7.10 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Danny Schmarsel | |
Show | Slackware 13.1 | Apr 11 2011 | 1.3.16 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Danny Schmarsel |
Fix 1: Audio and Video out of Sync
When playing cutscenes, audio and video are getting out of sync. This isn't a fault of wine, the game has this issue also on Windows because of CPU power management.
There are two possible solutions to get around this issue:
-If you've got the CD/DVD-version, you can use the following Loader from the ubi.com-Forums: Link. Place the "Full Processing.exe" into the folder, where you installed BG&E and run it with wine.
-If you're owner of the STEAM-version, this Loader won't work, because it can't start the BGE.exe directly (blame copy protection!). So you'll have to use another way to let your CPU work at max speed all the time. Type the following into a terminal:
su root echo "performance" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
If you're not using cpufreq, you can try out Slowdown.exe :)
Fix 2: Resolutions and DirectX error
The settings application of the game is unable to detect proper resolutions and refresh rates if you don't run Wine in a virtual desktop. Even if you try to run the game with a resolution that doesn't look weird, it may crash with a DirectX error.
To fix this, update to Wine 1.7.19 or open up
winecfg
and set a virtual desktop. Now you can run the settings application of the game, choose your resolution and save these configuration. This will work even if you disable the virtual desktop again.
Fix 3: Rendering problems
If you've got some weird graphical glitches, that render the game almost unplayable, you can try these fixes:
1. Disable the triple buffer in the BG&E settings application.
2. Open up
wine regedit
and create a new registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D\OffscreenRenderingMode
Value: fbo
Note: On Wine 1.7.19 I did not encounter any glitches anymore.
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