Dark Age Of Camelot

What works

Game play works as expected with only minor audo glitches. (known problems and workarounds with wine audio priority)

What does not

Mouse cursor is hard to see.

Patcher errors, running wine login.dll works if you clean your .wine tree.

If it weren't for these and other minor problems it would get a gold rating

Workarounds

What was not tested

Large battles

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