Dark Age Of Camelot

What works

Everything mostly works in this wine version.

What does not

Cursor still flashes, which is annoying. I made a hack patch for it which has been incorporated into the howto.

Game crashes if copied from windows until you can successfully get into the options screen and reset the graphics.  Choose windowed mode and turn off extra options.

I had the biggest problems getting it to work on Fedora Core 6. It would not work with composite until I ran the command:

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

This obscure setting disables the extra visual flags passed to wine, making it act like nothing is wrong. Seems like once I ran it like that I no longer needed to export it with future sessions.  Oddness.

Workarounds

What was not tested

I haven't yet tried participating in busy areas, with lots of other models. Might be some issues there. I also suspect there may be some issues with certain Midguard dungeons, like I experienced while using Cedega. Will see...

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