Planetside

What works

• Launcher downloading (with wine TLS)
  
• Game launching
• Direct3D (rendering)
• Sound
  
• Character Selection
• World loading
• Controls
• DLL Injection in to the PlanetSide process
  

What does not

• Possibly anything not [stress] tested
  

Workarounds

What was not tested

• Keyboard/mouse/joystick mappings
• Advanced, long-term gameplay
• Large battles
  

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Experienced an issue involving system libraries for Mesa. Resolved by the below HOWTO (libtxc_dxtn.so). Not classifying this as a problem with PlanetSide, therefore the platinum rating.

On Gentoo systems, PlanetSide will not work out of the box due to a missing Mesa library (note: if you are using proprietary AMD or NVIDIA graphics drivers, you probably won't need to worry about this) . Here are the steps and triage I used to debug the issues I was having.

Upon start, the PlanetSide window would launch, sound would be heard, but nothing would get drawn. The console was being spammed with messages similar to:

err:d3d_surface:surface_upload_data >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_ENUM (0x500) from glTexSubImage2D @ surface.c / 2369

This search led me to this bug which says that libtxc_dxtn.so is required for PlanetSide to load textures. To verify that this was in fact the missing library, I ran: MESA_DEBUG=1 wine LaunchPad.exe and looked for the error: Mesa warning: couldn't open libtxc_dxtn.so, software DXTn compression/decompression unavailable. This appeared and I resolved the problem by running emerge -va media-libs/libtxc_dxtn (for Debian/Ubuntu run apt-get install libtxc-dxtn-s2tc). I hope this resolves most people's problems with this specific issue.