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Asheron's Call

Asheron's Call classic 3D Online Role Playing Adventure.

Free download and 14 day trial CD Key URL: http://trial.ac.turbine.com/

Application Details:

Version: Free trial
License: Retail
URL: http://ac.turbine.com/
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Latest Rating: Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested: 1.6

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What works

Game works after forwarding UDP ports 2300-2400, 9000-9002 and 47624 in your firewall (and also opening those ports on your box). Packet sniffer complained about port 41929 not being available but enabling it did not seem to help, or I forgot to forward it. Either way, it works perfectly!

What does not

Game crashed on visiting Tusker Island. Turned out to be a sound glitch caused by having improper mix of binary alsa drivers installed from different Fedora repos, not a wine problem and was easily fixed by removing alsa RPMs and installing them fresh.

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What was not tested

Thoroughly tested, I'd say. Played a mage type character to level 40.

Hardware tested

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ShowMac OS X 10.7 "Lion"Feb 12 20151.6Yes Yes NoGoldan anonymous user 
ShowFuntoo Linux AMD64Aug 09 20121.5.10Yes Yes NoBronzeMarc Grondin 
ShowUbuntu 11.10 "Oneiric" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Dec 16 20111.3.30Yes No NoGarbageOotmann 
ShowUbuntu 10.10 "Maverick" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Nov 06 20101.3.5Yes Yes NoGoldan anonymous user 
ShowFedora 12 x86_64Mar 30 20101.1.41Yes Yes NoPlatinumHenry Kroll 

Known Bugs

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HowTo / Notes

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System requirements

  • Hardware accelerated opengl (test with glxinfo | grep direct)
  • At least 256MB RAM (free -m) with swap, more without it.
  • Min. 1GB available disk space plus another 1.5G for download, extraction (df -h)
  • To use on pulseaudio distros like Fedora, install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio (64 bit computers will need the i686 version of this as well).
Recommended Setup
  • export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.games
  • mkdir -p $HOME/.games/docs
  • winecfg (sound defaults to ALSA) (try others if it doesn't work)
Firewall setup: Forward UDP port 9000
Asheron's Call came out before the era when Plug 'n Play routers were commonplace. I have heard that some routers work out of the box, but mine had to be set up manually.
  • If the network is behind a firewall or router, use Firefox to browse to the gateway router's configuration page. (Use the route command to learn the address of the router's default gateway.)
  • Look around for something like Virtual Server, Port Forwarding or NAT where traffic can be forwarded.
  • Forward inbound UDP traffic on port 9000 to the game computer's IP address, as reported by ifconfig.
  • If installing more than 1 client on a LAN:
    • Copy the .games folder to each client.
    • Edit the $HOME/.games/docs/Asheron's\ Call/UserPreferences.ini
    • Change UserSpecifiedPort to (example, 9000 for first client, 9001 for second client, etc.)
    • Open the above port on the firewall of each computer (iptables).
    • Go to your router's configuration page.
    • Forward traffic on that port to the computer you just set up.
Installation
  1. Starting with the above wine configuration:
  2. Download installer from http://trial.ac.turbine.com/
  3. Install game, or copy from Windows partition.
  4. Run winecfg and change My Documents folder (recommended).
    1. Click on Desktop Integration tab
    2. Under Folder, click on My Documents
    3. Change link to $HOME/.games/docs
  5. Full screen mode update: Proprietary video drivers like nVidia still need matching modes in xorg.conf (e.g. put in a line for 1024x768 and 800x600) because they use the old way of doing things and do not support the new kernel mode switching (KMS) that all the free video drivers use these days to switch fullscreen modes. "If xorg.conf has the mode, the game might even load."
  6. If editing xorg.conf is out of the question, just launch the game in a window:
    1. wine explorer /desktop=ac,1024x768 aclauncher.exe
    2. or edit $HOME/.games/docs/Asheron's\ Call/UserPreferences.ini and set FullScreen=False
  7. Some wine versions may encounter an encryption error during patch. Run it again.
Known bugs (not wine-specific):
  1. When you map any of the keys UIOJK using custom keybindings the game will fail to load your custom keymap after that. You'll have to delete $HOME/.games/docs/Asheron's\ Call/acclient.keymap and start over re-defining your keys.
  2. Sometimes when you perform two actions at once (i.e. turning and casting) you will get stuck performing the action, (you will get stuck spinning around). To fix this, cast a spell, drink a potion or perform some other action.

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