Application Details:
| Version: | 1.x |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.commandandconquer.c... |
| Votes: | 64 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 4.0 |
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Additional Comments
Used the Retail version to install and I also installed the latest patch (1.9) from here: https://www.cnclabs.com/downlo...
Some problems from the Windows version also directly migrated to Wine. CD must be inserted to play unless you use a patch to fix that.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Current | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Jan 25 2019 | 4.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Eonfge | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | May 19 2017 | 2.8 | Yes | Yes | Silver | Conor | ||
| Show | macOS 10.12 "Sierra" | Mar 11 2017 | 2.2 | Yes | No | Garbage | Mark Cassidy | ||
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Feb 24 2014 | 1.7.13 | Yes | Yes | Platinum | AgustÃn Atahides | ||
| Show | Fedora 17 | Jan 18 2013 | 1.5.18 | Yes | Yes | Platinum | an anonymous user |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 1631 | Sound underruns occur in directsound | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 7902 | C&C 3 setup fails to detect selected components | NEW | View | |
| 7929 | C&C 3 network does not work | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 8237 | C&C 3 out of memory crashes | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 8365 | C&C 3 looses keyboard focus if tabbed out of | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 8410 | C&C 3 and moh:pa don't find dx8.1 capable hardware (ti4200) | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
| 9662 | C&C3 crash | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 10483 | FlatOut 2 post-processing + FBOs = black screen | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 12199 | C&C3 too dark | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 12508 | C&C 3 screen divided into dark and bright part | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 16571 | Add support for more than one back buffer | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 21193 | cannot run update to level 1.09 of CNC3, which is selfunpacking zipfile | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 21194 | Cannot run legal version of Command & Conguer 3 - Tiberian Wars 1.09 | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
Animated cursors is in wine 1.2.2/1.3.5+. the special broadcast networking support is wine 1.5.15+.
You need to have Mac OS X 10.6+, Solaris or linux kernel 3.4rc4 or higher.
And you should be fine. No need to use special version of wine anymore.
Cursor and Multiplayer Support
You need to use a special version of wine to get proper in-game cursors and network support.
You can acquire this by either patching and compiling wine yourself, or using a provided package.
Goto http://www.compholio.com/wine-kane/ to obtain these (DEBS and RPMS).
Internet play
You have to make sure that your "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/users/profiles/yourhomefolder/Application Data/C&C 3/Profiles/your_gameaccount/Options.ini" 'GameSpyIPAddress' fieldagrees with your online ip (for example GameSpyIPAddress = 84.171.46.121) and make sure that file is read-only.
Admin notes: Do NOT submit test results for patched versions of Wine. This is not a true representation of what Wine can achieve.
Do NOT submit test results for PlayOnLinux or anything else that is not Wine.
Do NOT submit test results where Multiplayer has not been tested. Full tests are need to correctly rate an application.
Tests that do not comply will be deleted without warning.
Installation
The installer says installation was aborted, even before starting to install files
If you are installing from a CD/DVD, try copying the game disc to your home directory and run it from there.
I chose custom installation and it tells me to select a language pack, even though I have
Use the standard installation mode.
Starting the game
It hangs at the splash screen
Try running winecfg and disable all audio drivers. Of course that is not an acceptable solution, but it will help us to determine where the problem lies.
In-game issues
Some effect settings result in corruption or improperly displayed rendering
Try setting the VFX or Shader quality to a lower setting. Your graphics driver and/or wine may have bugs which result in visual defects at present.
The cursor animation does not play
Apply the relevant patches to wine or use a version with the functionality as described in the howto.
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by Twain on Monday July 27th 2015, 11:22
using wine version 1.7.44.
I did install tiberium wars and patched it to version 1.09, no problem at all.
patching kanes returns:
Patch not available
(german: "Patch nicht verfügbar")
starting kane works just fine though.
From kanes menu i choose online play -> kane normally downloads the patch itself and installs it.
This does not happen, it simply freezes :(
Anyone with an idea on how to handle this?
by Twain on Tuesday July 28th 2015, 5:11
As i dont have time to retry this atm. this is what i did:
As i said, the downloaded patch did not work, nor did auto download via tiberium wars kane mainmenu.
Solution (for me) was to emulate a virtual window (using wine configuration tool), start Kane, click on multiplayer -> internet play.
It says there is an update to download, ends Kane, downloads the patch, patches the game and is done.
After that, you are free to deactivate the virtual desktop.
This helped me, perhaps it helps some out there too :P
Twain
by hynner on Monday January 5th 2015, 16:51
BTW: To be clear, I'm not asking for support with playonlinux here, I'm just asking if someone get it working and how and I'll then try to repeat those steps with my setup.
by hynner on Friday January 2nd 2015, 10:13
If anyone managed to get it working could you please post how you did it? thanks.
by Jarkko Korpi on Monday January 5th 2015, 16:41