Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun

What works

Everything

What does not

No problems found

Workarounds

What was not tested

I just started the game and played the begining of the first nod mission.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

In Wine 1.4-rc5 I have had no problems what so ever to run the game. I used the official download of the game (since it is free to download now). I just had to extract the archive and copy the 'EA Games' folder to ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/ Afterwards I just ran the Game.exe in the subfolder 'Command & Conquer The First Decade/Command & Conquer(tm) Tiberian Sun(tm)/SUN'. The Game runs flawlessly and also plays the sound and all videosequences. I did not experience any of the previous problems such as the mouse cursor being stuck or the game hanging.

• 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