Independence War 2: Edge Of Chaos

What works

Movies, audio, music, speech, menus, flying & shooting. Almost done ACT 1.

What does not

Current workaround which disables gstreamer & adds native quartz makes game almost unplayable.

It feels like alternating slower or faster gametime, not frame freezes.

Clean wine with PCM-converted speech does way better, but the alternating gametime speed sometimes still occurs. Depends on the load I guess.

Have no windows machine to compare.

Workarounds

Create CDROM device from winecfg pointing to the game directory.

Install gstreamer plugins good.

Instead of adding quartz just convert speech wavs from proprietary format to plainest possible PCM using sox:

<br></p><p>cd streams/audio</p><p>for i in *.wav; do sox $i -e signed-integer converted/$i; done</p><p>mv converted/* .</p><p>

This will sometime lead to cut off speech at the end, maybe that is solvable by experimenting with PCM formats.

It is hard to compile gstreamer plugins bad in Arch, dunno about other distros. Original speech requires this codec https://gstreamer.freedesktop....

What was not tested

Whole singleplayer, multiplayer

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: AMD
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

Cursor stuck in the window
- Run winetricks mwo=disabled

"Insert play CD" error message
- Create a virtual CD drive in winecfg, pointing to the game directory.
- This is also needed for the GOG version.

Textures missing
- Update to a recent version of wine.
If that's not an option, open flux.ini to [fcGraphicsDeviceD3D] and change the texture_quality to 0.

Crash during world load
- Remove the mods section in flux.ini. If you have non-existant mods in there, it may crash the game.

Screen not properly updating
- Update to wine-1.3.18. Alternatively, try disabling your window compositor (Compiz/KWin Effects).

The game freezes when someone talks
- Run winetricks quartz
- If that didn't work, also run winetricks devenum

The game freezes in main menu
- Disable the winegstreamer library:
- Run winecfg, got to the "Libraries" tab - Add a new override for "winegstreamer" and set it to disabled.

Game randomly crashes during loading
- Rename/Delete the file loading.mp3 from streams/audio/music in the game's directory.

I can't connect to a Multiplayer match
- Run winetricks directplay

My game behaves weird, I can't shoot and things explode all the time
- This is a bug of the game which occurs on systems with European language settings.
Europe uses a "," as a thousands delimiter, but the game needs a "." for that (USA style). Otherwise, it will corrupt the flux.ini.
Make sure you have a non-corrupted flux.ini and start the game like this:
LC_ALL="c" wine ./bin/release/loader.exe