Sudden Strike 3

What works

Almost everything

What does not

game won't go past the loading screen unless some built-in DLLs were replaced by the GOG versions.

The game works fine after (natively) using the DLLs GoG provided [I use q4wine to easily override the built-ins]

Workarounds

These 7 dlls are:
d3dx9_28.dll, d3dx9_31.dll, d3dx9_32.dll, OpenAL32.dll. mfc71u.dll, msvcp71.dll, msvcr71.dll
Without these last 3 substitutions the game won't go past the loading screen. (installs fine though, regardless)
Note that their WineTricks versions (in vcrun2003) didn't work! (I don't know why)

- My prefix already uses dotNet4.0 & directx_feb2010, vcrun6
- My laptop isn't built for gaming, so I'm assuming that the slowing down
that happens with big battles and high resolutions isn't the game's
fault.

The game isn't very popular and the community is very small in
English speaking countries, so I was ready to give up after the frozen
loading screen, especially with the result of the *only* test on WineHQ
saying "Garbage. Doesn't Work"! I'm happy I didn't.

What was not tested

I didn't finish the 1st campaign yet.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Intel
• Driver: proprietary

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