Battlefield 2

What works

Tested in a Wineprefix with current Wine defaults: 64-bit WINEPREFIX, Windows 7 version

• Installation of most of the installer components (apart from those listed below)
• Singleplayer
• Intro videos
• In-game menus: Audio & Video background
• In-game menus: Microphone test
• In-game menus: Keyboard controls re-mapping
• In-game menus: EAX support in Audio settings
• In-game graphical options (apart from those listed below)
• In-game audio

What does not

• Audio Microphone tool (when installing) crashes
• Multiplayer - but this is common with running the demo on native Windows (due to the closing down of the Gamespy Master Servers)
• Terrain texture mesh issues are present when Terrain Textures are set to Medium or High (flickering black hexagons in terrain textures)
• AA Video Setting has no effect

Workarounds

• Must start the game in Virtual Desktop - due to the hard requirement to switch to 800x600 @85Hz resolution.
• Cancel running Audio Microphone Configuration tool - during installation (to avoid installer crash)

What was not tested

Extensive gameplay.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

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1. Ensure you are using a 32-bit Wineprefix on a 64-bit OS (see Wine FAQ if unsure how to do this).
2. Open a Terminal and launch the battlefield2demo.exe setup executable. e.g.

   wine ~/Downloads/battlefield2demo.exe

These notes were last updated: 04 September 2019

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sudo lshw -short | egrep -v '(volume|disk|bus)'

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glxinfo -B

cd "${WINEPREFIX}/drive_c/Program Files/EA GAMES/Battlefield 2 Demo/"
wine BF2.exe

err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 800x600x32 @85! (XRandR 1.2)

1. Run winecfg utility for current Wineprefix.
2. Under Graphics tab enable Emulate a virtual desktop. Set the Desktop size to your desired resolution <x-resolution> x <y-resolution>

Also ensure that your Battlefield 2 Video.con profile file has the correct resolution set in it (command updates all profiles):

export resolution="<x-resolution>x<y-resolution>@<frequency>Hz"
find "${WINEPREFIX}/drive_c/users/${USER}/My Documents/Battlefield 2/Profiles" -type f -name "Video.con" -printf "'%p'\n" | xargs sed -i -e 's/setResolution [1-9][0-9]*x[1-9][0-9]*@[1-9][0-9]*Hz/setResolution '${resolution}'/g'

... replace <x-resolution> , <y-resolution> & <frequency> with your native screen resolution and frequency (respectively).

cd "${WINEPREFIX}/drive_c/Program Files/EA GAMES/Battlefield 2 Demo/"
wine BF2.exe +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx <x-resolution> +szy <y-resolution>

Note: for older AMD (<5xxx)/Nvidia GPU's (<8xxx) and Intel GPU's it is recommended to set:

• LIGHTING Low
• DYNAMIC SHADOWS Off
  
• DYNAMIC LIGHT Off
  

• Setting TERRAIN quality to Medium or High may lead to black hexagonal texture glitching in ground textures - this bug appears to mainly affect Nvidia GPUs.
  It has been reported that issue does not affect newer AMD radeon drivers. So setting the TERRAIN quality to High is worth testing on AMD cards.
• ANTI-ALIASING set to 2x ... 16x (on). Will simply be ignored in-game.

The currently supported maximum in-game Video Settings (without the Shader mesh fix - detailed on this page) are:

Last updated 26.11.2018 Wine-Staging 3.21, Nvidia Geforce GTX 970M, Nvidia Driver 396.54.09 (Gentoo GNU/Linux)

BF2 Commandline Options

Refer to Battlefield 2 Tweak Guide: Command Line Options for a comprehensive list of command line switches to use when launching the Battlefield 2 executable.

• For example you can also set you client to automatically login to Revive account:

  wine start 'BF2.exe' ... +playerName "name" +password "âš«âš«âš«âš«"

• Specify a custom resolution to launch the BF2 client with, e.g. for running the game on a full HD monitor:

  wine start 'BF2.exe' ... +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1920 +szy 1080

• Specify a BF2 Mod to launch, with the BF2 client, e.g. for running the BF2 SPX Singleplayer Mod:

  wine start 'BF2.exe' ... +modPath mods/BF2_SPX +ignoreAsserts 1

How you append these options will depend on whether you are using the Steam Client or if you have used a retail (DVD) copy of Battlefield 2.