Application Details:
| Version: | Dark Crusade: Demo |
| License: | Demo |
| URL: | http://www.dawnofwargame.com/ |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.3.8 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
* Installation and shortcut placement on desktop
* Starting the game demo
* Playing the game demo (played Tutorial, Battle One and Battle Two from start to finish)
* Options Menu
* Quitting the game from the menu and in-game
* Pre-game and in-game cut-scene animations
What does not
- Attempt to uninstall the game demo via ALT+F2 and "wine uninstaller" without quotes goes through
the uninstaller process and it says it's uninstalled but it's not. I manually removed the files and
directories created from installation as well as the desktop shortcut icons. Following a manual removal,
the entry for this title still exists in the Wine Uninstaller menu.
Workarounds
What was not tested
+ Everything the demo offers was tested
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
~ Using NVIDIA driver version: 1.0-9631 ~ While the sound/music do work well, it skips throughout testing (may just be my system?) ~ The following information was visible at the main menu: DOW Engine 1.0 DXP2 1.0 Build 91685
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 27 2010 | 1.3.8 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Ken Sharp | |
| Show | Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 07 2009 | 1.1.18 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | Ken Sharp | |
| Show | Gentoo Linux | Oct 29 2007 | 0.9.48. | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes | |
| Show | Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Oct 17 2007 | 0.9.47. | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | an anonymous user | |
| Current | Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 15 2007 | 0.9.35. | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Gerry Cherry |
After you installed the game you may get a performance boost if you use the latest version of DirectX 9.
The easiest way to do so, is using winetricks:
winetricks directx9
Read more about winetricks, here:
Assuming everything is installed to default directories, following install run the following command:
mkdir ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/THQ/Dawn\ of\ War\ -\ Dark\ Crusade\ Demo/Profiles ; mkdir ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/THQ/Dawn\ of\ War\ -\ Dark\ Crusade\ Demo/GraphicsOptions/Data ; mkdir ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/THQ/Dawn\ of\ War\ -\ Dark\ Crusade\ Demo/Engine/Data ; cd /home/test/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/THQ/Dawn\ of\ War\ -\ Dark\ Crusade\ Demo/ ; wine DarkCrusade.exe
This is fixed in Wine 1.3.8.
If you have problems with completely corrupted textures the problem might be that your systems lacks a library that is used for texture compression in Dawn of War.
Under Debian based system install the package "libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0" and try again.
