Independence War 2: Edge Of Chaos

The CD version of the game, patched to F14.6.

Application Details:

Version:	Retail CD - F14.6
License:	Retail
URL:
Votes:	1
Latest Rating:	Silver
Latest Wine Version Tested:	7.0-rc2-staging

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Test Results

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Selected Test Results

What works

Installing the game from the CD
Using the latest patch F14.6
Multiplayer (with workaround)
Sounds, Music (with workaround)

What does not

Game needs quartz.dll override to start
winegstreamer has to be disabled to prevent crashes
directplay has to be installed to play Multiplayer

Workarounds

What was not tested

Playing through the whole game

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU:
Driver:

Additional Comments

What works Installing the game from the CD Using the latest patch F14.6 Multiplayer (with workaround) Sounds, Music (with workaround) SideWinder Joystick What does not Game needs quartz.dll override to start winegstreamer has to be disabled to prevent crashes directplay has to be installed to play Multiplayer What was not tested Playing through the whole game Additional Comments I've patched the game to the latest patch, disabled winegstreamer and ran "winetricks quartz directplay". Perfectly playable. On European systems, export LC_ALL="c" before starting the game to prevent a bug that corrupts the flux.ini.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Arch Linux	Dec 19 2021	7.0-rc2-staging	Yes	Yes	Yes	Silver	Non
Current	Slackware64 -current	Jan 11 2016	1.9.1	Yes	Yes		Gold	Danny Schmarsel
Show	Slackware64 -current	May 13 2015	1.7.42	Yes	Yes		Gold	Danny Schmarsel
Show	Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Apr 20 2011	1.3.18	Yes	Yes		Bronze	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Sep 02 2010	1.3.1	N/A	Yes		Bronze	Jerome Leclanche

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
34302	Edge of Chaos crashes when someone speaks	NEW		View

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HowTo / Notes

Currently needed to get Edge of Chaos running

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

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