Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45

What works

Almost everything even the mods Darkest Hour, and Mare Nostrum work correctly. With the exception of anti-aliasing, I played the game on otherwise maxed-out settings.

What does not

Anti-aliasing, enabling anti-aliasing blacks the screen in-game

Workarounds

What was not tested

There may be a work around to enabling anti-aliasing by setting your graphic card settings to force it, but I didn't try it. 

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

You'll have to use the mouse fix (which is really just swapping out a dll in your prefix) in the how to, otherwise the mouse will escape the game's window. I also recommend playing the game on a virtual desktop. Almost worthy of a platinum rating. Appdb admin reply text: Based on your report of needing to patch Wine, your rating has been changed to bronze to conform with the rating definitions: has issues for normal use. Platinum should only be given to apps that perform flawlessly without tweaks.

2013-05-17 Admin note: the instructions below are old and may not apply to current Wine.

It settled properly through Steam, however, there are two or three things to do:
Adjustment File redorchestra.ini:
Path:

 "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/red orchestra/System/RedOrchestra.ini"

";RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice"

";RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice" 

"RenderDevice=D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice" 

StartupFullscreen=True

sudo cp -p /usr/lib/wine/dinput.dll.so /usr/lib/wine/dinput.dll.so.old

sudo cp dinput.dll.so /usr/lib/wine/

Red Orchestra takes a long time loading maps
That tip come from FAQ RedO very interesting of the official site. Most of common errors are described.:
We are looking into the over all cause of this however you may do the following to attempt to improve your load times.

Fix1:
1) Find your Redorchestra.ini file located in the steam/steamapps/yournamehere/redorchestra/system folder (hint it looks like a notpad icon with a cog)
2) Change the cache size to better match your ram size
Listed under [Engine.GameEngine].

256 Megabytes of RAM or less
CacheSizeMegs=32

512 Megabytes of RAM
CacheSizeMegs=64

768 Megabytes of RAM
CacheSizeMegs=128

1 Gigabyte of RAM or more
CacheSizeMegs=256

Fix2: Turn of PreCaching
For those who have more than 1 giga amout of RAM
Also in your redorchestra.ini under [ALAudio.ALAudioSubsystem]
Change UsePrecache=True to UsePrecache=False
and under [Engine.LevelInfo]
Change bNeverPrecache=false to bNeverPrecache=true
and under [Engine.NullRenderDevice]
Change UsePrecaching=True to UsePrecaching=False
and under [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]
Change UsePrecaching=True to UsePrecaching=False
and under [D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice]
Change UsePrecaching=True to UsePrecaching=False
and under [OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice]
Change UsePrecaching=True to UsePrecaching=False
and under [PixoDrv.PixoRenderDevice]
Change UsePrecaching=True to UsePrecaching=False

kill -9 `ps -edf|grep RedOrchestra|grep -v grep|awk '{print $2}'`