Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

What works

• Installer
• Game (only with mods installed)
• Seems to be working fine, video and gameplay all ok

What does not

DVD Protection system messes up Wine with some errors, Has to have no CD patch to work.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Finishing the game to check that there was no errors.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Installed from the DVD with no problems at first. Had to download a patch from the website about 150mb Had to install a No CD patch as the protection system messed things up. Note: after installing the protection system from the DVD it messed up Wine. giving me 3 errors of internal errors which I am trying to find out what its done. Even though these errors came up its all working fine.

These are the tips and tricks you must do in order to fully play the game at a way that is desirable.

1st - Install the game :)

2nd - Find and download the file 'd3dx9_27.dll' and copy that to your ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Funcom/Dreamfall Folder via terminal or File Manager.

3rd - Open up your terminal and execute this command - 'wine regedit' That should bring up a window. Follow these instruction as '+' means to expand that folder.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER +
               Software +
                      Wine +
                         Direct3D

I may be wrong, but you may have to create a new key for Direct3D , but that's easy. Right click and go to new key and than fill in the supplied area with 'Direct3D'

Now finally go into the right part of the regedit where it says name and just under that right click and create another key name USEGLSL. When you're done doing that double click the file you just created and type disabled when prompted for a dialog box.
Don't close regedit for now you'll need it for the next step.

4th (OPTIONAL) - I've heard this from a few forums I've entered and it seems to do an interesting thing on the games I've encountered so I might as well share this information. It supposedly increases fps in games by bypassing the errors which are usually running in the background of a game. Inquiry into this matter hasn't been verified by me, but as soon as I run some tests I'll be sure to update ASAP.

Anyways This is how you acquire the effect.

Find a folder somewhere on your drive where you'd like to run a script for running a game each time you play it, preferably the desktop in most cases. Now that you've done that create a new document name 'Dreamfall.sh' and continue on to edit that file.

The contents of this file should be as follows

WINEDEBUG=fixme-all wine C:/Program\ Files/Funcom/Dreamfall/dreamfall.exe

Alright now save that file and now right click on it and go to Properties - Permissions - Click - Alow Executing of this file.

And that's all, if you follow these options effectively you should be able to play the game perfect or close to it.

Have fun!