Application Details:
Version: | Release |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://www.vanguardsoh.com/ |
Votes: | 12 |
Latest Rating: | Garbage |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.2-rc3 |
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What works
Everything I tested, including all graphical options such as AF, bloom, etc and group play with the default UI.
What does not
Nothing that I was able to find. However, there are some minor issues noted below.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Raiding and custom UIs.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Performance seems very comparable to Windows 7 64 bit. It should be noted, however, that in Windows I had 16x AA forced on in the nvidia driver. This functionality exist in Linux, but does not work with Wine so I was not able to test it. There seem to be minor keyboard/mouse issues as well. You can only turn about 180 degrees with the mouse before it reaches the screen edge and stops. The chat box does not always correctly grab the keyboard, which means keyboard shortcuts (WASD, etc) are sometimes grabbed when trying to type. Loading/chunking seems faster/smoother/less noticeable in Linux as well.
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Debian GNU/Linux 6.x "Squeeze" | Jun 15 2010 | 1.2-rc3 | Yes | Yes | No | Garbage | Colin Wetherbee | |
Current | Fedora 11 | Nov 06 2009 | 1.1.32 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | an anonymous user | |
Show | openSUSE 11.1 | Jan 26 2009 | 1.1.13 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | an anonymous user | |
Show | Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Dec 24 2008 | 1.1.10 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Kelly Mendenhall | |
Show | Sabayon Linux 3.5 | Nov 24 2008 | 1.1.9 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | Samuel Nelson |
Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
System Requirements:
Mouse Cursor Hacks
Mouse cursor should work fine now, so skip this section.
If for some reason you can't see your mouse cursor and you are familiar with git, you can get many of the latest wine hacks and fixes that are reported to work, including cursor hacks:
git fetch repo.or.cz/wine/hacks.git master:hacks
git checkout hacks
The following hack should no longer be necessary. It is included for posterity. If nothing else works, this will prevent wine from hiding the standard X cursor so you will at least have some kind of cursor to see where your mouse is. It won't be all fancy and it won't morph during mouse-overs but at least you will be able to see it!
File to change: wine-source/dlls/winex11.drv/mouse.c
void X11DRV_SetCursor( CURSORICONINFO *lpCursor )
{
if (!lpCursor) return; /* quick hack, until .ani cursors are supported */Run "make" from within the wine-source/dlls/winex11.drv/ and it will build a new winex11.drv.so which you can copy to where you installed wine (usually /usr/lib/wine or /usr/local/lib/wine)
Wine >= 0.9.61 automatically runs wineprefixcreate so just omit this step. Otherwise, open a terminal as a user, preferably not sudo or root account as this would give wine unnecessary priviliges on your system. (If you accidentally ran "sudo wineprefixcreate" you may have to restore your user permissions to the hidden .wine folder: chown user:user -R .wine)
Configuration
$ winecfg
install wine_gecko component by browsing to a web site:
$ wine iexplore http://winehq.org # any web site will do. click yes to install wine_gecko
Game crashes: Wine's built-in d3dx9_36.dll does not yet include code for D3DXCompileShader and D3DXGetShaderConstantTable so copy d3dx9_36.dll from dllfiles.com or from the game DVD into the game folder and wine will use that instead.
Now you can run the patcher. Prepare for a long download and patch session:
$ wine explorer /desktop=foo,1024x768 wine Vanguard
Perforamnce tweaks: Use regedit and add these keys under HKCU//Software//Wine//Direct3D:
For more information, check the appdb for other Sony games, such as EverQuest II http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=358
Be sure to check http://www.station.sony.com/support/ for KNOWN ISSUES that affect Windows™ (and possibly Linux™)
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