Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun

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:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

• 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
  

• 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