Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun

The expansion pack.

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What works

Installer from the C&C first decade

What does not

Game does not launch, Game.exe runs, but does nothing. Waiting doesn't help

Workarounds

What was not tested

Most of the game

Hardware tested

Graphics:

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selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Manjaro Linux 18.0.0	May 01 2019	4.6	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	Bob Niemöller
Show	Manjaro Linux 18.0.0	May 01 2019	4.6	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	Bob Niemöller
Show	Mac OS X 10.10 "Yosemite"	Sep 30 2015	1.7.51	Yes	Yes		Platinum	an anonymous user
Show	Gentoo Linux x86_64	Apr 08 2014	1.6.1	Yes	Yes		Platinum	Manuel
Show	Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Feb 25 2012	1.4-rc5	N/A	Yes		Platinum	an anonymous user

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
2784	Mouse movement slows down game	CLOSED	FIXED	View
6921	C&C Tiberian Sun menu disappears after save	CLOSED	FIXED	View
7806	Tiberian Sun crashes with OpenGL renderer in DirectDraw	CLOSED	FIXED	View
9826	OpenGL rendering in C&C TS not working for newer GeForce cards	CLOSED	FIXED	View
13305	OpenGL DirectDrawRenderer renders black screen only	CLOSED	FIXED	View
16624	Movies are slow in Tiberian Sun	CLOSED	INVALID	View

HOWTO

ÂImproving performance

Run 'wine regedit', browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine. If there is no key (the stuff with folder icons) called AppDefaults, then create it
Right-click on that key and create a new key game.exe
Create a new subkey Direct3D. In that key create two string variables:
DirectDrawRenderer with value opengl
RenderTargetLockMode with value readtex

General instructions, with or without opengl

Press cancel when the installer wants to update system files
To avoid copy protection issues (in my experience it did not work even on Windows 98SE, just 95), upgrade to the latest version
If you are not using the opengl mode as described above, after saving a game, the menu becomes invisible, but it appears for a second or so first, so it is easy to find the resume mission button. the menu appears again if you ALT+TAB out of the game and back
In order to play network games, IPX will have to be enabled in the kernel, and you need some userspace utilities, usually called ipx-utils; and IPX must be started (there should be an initscript). Also note that Tiberian Sun's network support is only available when it is run as root

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Performance Improves when VSync is turned off
by art ivanov on Saturday April 18th 2020, 23:46

For anyone trying to get this to run smooth on OSX: Setting "AllowVerticalSync" to N fixes all lag issues