Silkroad Online

What works

If Wine is run as Windows 98: Installation, patching, GameGuard updating, playing.

If not: Installation, patching

What does not

- Guild logos are not shown

- Game runs significantly slower than in Windows (maybe due to crappy ATi drivers for my ATi X700?)

- from some camera angles, the animations of skills like "Grass-Walk Flow" or "Flow-Piercing Force" are shown, from most angles they are not

- same with the glow of the special "Seal of Star", "Seal of Moon" or "Seal of Sun" weapons

- some graphic glitches on the characters

- the character's own face, which should be shown in a circle in the upper left corner of the screen is shown as a white circle

- some color errors (especially when leaving Hotan via South Gate a lot of colorful garbage can be noticed on the bridge)

- when zooming out on the character its clothes are shown in strange colors; when zooming in again it gets better, however there still is some garbage even if one zooms in as much as possible (especially on the character's face and chest)

- graphics get messed up when changing the graphics quality via the options menu; on "Low" it works pretty well, on "Medium" the glitches get worse and on "High" even worse.

- enabling water reflections causes graphic errors.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Everything except running around, fighting, forming a party, chatting, using skills and opening a shop.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Although there are still many issues, wine has improved a lot recently with this game. It is absolutely playable even if it might be annoying that often skills are not shown.

1. Make sure that your computer meets the recommended requirements for Silkroad (Pentium 4 or higher, 512MB RAM, 3D and DirectX 9.0b compatible video card, and 3GB of free HDD space) and that you have the necessary drivers for your graphics card.
2. Follow the instructions at http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb to add the wine repository, then follow the directions to use Synaptic or Terminal to download and install the package.
3. Run "winecfg" in terminal (without the quotes) and set compatibility to Windows 98.
4. Download the Silkroad client and unzip it if you need to. Then run "wine executable.exe" (without quotes and replace executable.exe with the silkroad installer exe)
5. Run the client either from Applications>Wine>Programs>Joymax>Silkroad or from your Desktop.
6. Wait for patching to complete.
7. Hit play.
8. Vote for Silkroad on the Appdb!

• Make sure you've followed all of the previous instructions correctly and carefully.
• Some users can't get silkroad to work unless they remove xdg-utils and msttcorefonts (sudo apt-get remove msttcorefonts xdg-utils).

• If the game runs very slowly or there are graphics issues, try these steps:
  • Match your in-game video resolution with your X resolution so it becomes full screen.
  • Install the latest drivers for your graphics card or switch to the closed-source 3rd party binary drivers (example: nVidia drivers at nvidia.com).
  • Tweak the xorg.conf (/etc/X11/) file and input your monitor's horizontal/vertical frequencies, size, etc.
  • Launch winecfg and in the graphics tab check the box to emulate a virtual desktop and enter a resolution so that Windows applications will run in a window controlled by your windows manager.
  • Disable "bloom effect" and "water reflection" through the in-game graphics option dialog.
    
• As of wine 0.9.49 and Silkroad v1.131, guild emblems and character buffs should appear.
  
• In-game audio and video settings may not be saved after Silkroad is restarted.
• If you cannot get Silkroad to work at all, you can copy over the Silkroad folder Windows into ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Silkroad. Make sure that the file names are the same when you copy the files over or rename the files so that you only have one of each file, as Linux is case-sensitive while Windows is not.
• If Silkroad is launched from Terminal, many errors will be displayed onscreen. Those are normal and can be ignored. Running Silkroad from a desktop launcher or from the launch in the Applications>Wine menu will not show the terminal.
• The launcher may need to be restarted multiple times till the "Start" button appears or the update starts. This may be solved by doing "hosts gwgt1.joymax.com" before starting the launcher.
• Fullscreen mode doesn't work properly and changing between fullscreen and windowed mode via alt+enter will result in great graphic glitches.
  

If you intend to submit a screenshot, please make sure that it does not have your character details by pressing F12 beforehand. Also make sure you are only taking a screenshot of the Silkroad window, and not the Desktop.