Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

What works

• Installing Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (US)
  
• Installing expansion: Athena Sword (US)
  
• Installing expansion: Iron Wrath (US)
  
• Updating Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield to 1.60 (US)
• Updating Athena Sword expansion to 1.10 (US)
• Running the game
• Watching movies
  
• Playing campaign
• Playing network game (multiplayer) via Internet and LAN
  

What does not

• Planning is extremely slow
  

Workarounds

What was not tested

• I think nothing
  

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Of course you need some tricks with DLLs override, winecfg (for your native resolution) and registry (MouseWarpOverride=force) described below, but afterthat the game runs just flawlessly. When installing expansions, you need to move sounds into Raven Shield 'sounds' dir to make them work. It's not a Wine bug, but UBI's one (described here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=763750). My screenies start with [RS].

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: