Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

What works

- Installation

- 1.60 Patch

- In Game (LAN-Multi player, but alone)

- In Game server

- dedicated server

What does not

Mission planning

copy protection

Workarounds

What was not tested

punkbuster
singeplayer (campaing and own maps)
multiplayer with more players
joining a server

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I applied the patch mentioned in the how-to to get the the mouse working properly in the menu. A bit odd: The game was too fast! The caracters move with about twice speed, shooting is really hard (recoil). DonÄt know what happens if somebody joins your server.

In recent enough Wine (>=1.1.3) Vitaliy Margolen has imported the mouse warp workaround. To use it add this registry key:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\RavenShield.exe\DirectInput]

MouseWarpOverride = force

Note: if your mouse sensitivity is high enough the cursor might jump out of the game window if you move your mouse fast, you could prevent this by using slower speed in X and higher sensitivity in game but you'll lose some accuracy

Intro movies cannot be skipped. Only way to do it is to remove the intro movies permanently or to replace them with empty files (might produce better results). The correspondig files are Videos/Logos.bik and Videos/int/RS_Intro.bik. If you happen to have crashing problems with the intro videos, this also gets you into the menu.

Multiplayer works flawlessly.

Known problems:

• Intro movies are not skippable or might crash the game (workaround exists)
• Mission planning menu may be garbage. You might be able to start the mission by blindly clicking at the lower right corner with the default plan. Some users report they do not have this issue or it works most of the time.
  
• Some artifacts of the player models might appear in your hud, particulary at bottom left, not affecting the gameplay
  

Fixed problems:

• Some snow textures are drawn black or can be seen trough (fixed in >= 1.1.3)
• Mouse can't be used in the menu (workaround in >= 1.1.3)
• When completing a mission Raven Shield crashes (fixed in >= 1.1.3)
• Mission planning menu is garbage after finishing a mission (partially fixed in >= 1.1.3)
  

Everything above was tested with Wine 1.1.3.

Punkbuster might or might not work. You will be kicked out of Punkbuster enabled servers without patching and can be marked as a cheater, so be careful!

 See bug 9685 for more details and patches.

If the framerate is not smooth, try both of these:

1. wine reg add 'HKCU\Software\Wine\Direct3D' /v UseGLSL /d disabled
2. In system/RavenShield.ini, set: