Dark Age Of Camelot

What works

Installed without error.

When i tried to run "login.dll" directly, (skipping the patcher) the login screen came up and accepted my login. Then crashed with a renderer creation failed error.

What does not

When attempting to patch, I get the error message:

A large number of key files are missing or corrupted

The console spams the message:

wine client error:9: write: Bad file descriptor

Workarounds

What was not tested

Everything else.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

2013-05-04 Admin note: the instructions below are old and may not apply to current Wine. They are being left here for the benefit of anyone who may wish to test and/or update them. 

System Setup

• ~10GB free hard disk space.
• 1GB RAM or more recommended Graphics card that supports pixel shaders >= 1.4
• glxinfo | grep direct # should say yes.
• If not, check your distro's docs for setting up accelerated video drivers.
• Disable Compiz (GL Desktop, Desktop-effects) for better performance.
• Fairly clean system. At least 50% free CPU resources (run top and check).
• Fullscreen mode may crash if your modes (or metamodes) are not set up properly in xorg.conf (run xrandr to see if your X server can swtch to e.g. 800x600, 1024x768 or whatever you run the game in). "If the X server can't switch, the game may bitch."
• If you have no mouse cursor, apply the hack below to use the X cursor instead.
• Run winecfg. Turn off pixel shaders.

wine-X-cursor-hack.patch

--- dlls/winex11.drv/mouse.c.orig	2008-04-22 03:42:10.000000000 -0800
+++ dlls/winex11.drv/mouse.c	2008-04-22 03:40:29.000000000 -0800
@@ -924,6 +924,7 @@
               lpCursor->nWidth, lpCursor->nHeight, lpCursor->bPlanes, lpCursor->bBitsPerPixel);
     else
         TRACE("NULL\n");
+	return;
 
     /* set the same cursor for all top-level windows of the current thread */			

Applying The Patch:

cd $HOME/Download/wine
patch -p0 < wine-X-cursor-hack.patch
# If you have already installed from source, just re-run make
make -s > /dev/null && sudo make install							

Alternately, you can run make from within the $HOME/Download/wine/dlls/winex11.drv folder and copy winex11.drv.so to wherever wine was installed, probably /usr/local/lib/wine.

If you are worried about the cursor hack messing up other programs you can run wine directly from the source tree without installing:

$HOME/Download/wine/wine camelot