UFO: Afterlight

everything is working fine other then during the missions i cant see the ground, until I get on the top level of the map and i can see the metal catwalks but nothing on the mars floor.

Tested on Macbook Pro Late 2007 and Macbook Pro Mid 2013, both with same issue. However, tested with Intel Core Duo Mac Mini and worked fine after setting shader to "Low".

Difference seems to be Graphics Chip, Nvidia vs. Intel, but I can only verify with the machines I have.

There is a newer patch 1.7 here:
www.ufo-afterlight.com/others/ufo_afterlight_patch_1_7.zip

Along with other patch changes, there is also a small one for wine users: game's animated cursors are actually shown, if patches from bug 12248 are applied.

The game's code was made available to fans for modification - there's now a 1.6 patch that removes the copy protection and fixes some bugs. Good news!

1. Make sure that wine's version higher than 0.9.43. For older versions see closed bug 8037 for details.
2. Make sure wine is configured to use GLSL. See wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys for details.
3. Search the game's readme for the list of supported video cards. If yours is not there - it is VERY likely that you'll see only game's main menu.
4. In-game shaders should be set to 'low'. 'Scenery backgrounds' should be disabled.

I found out how to view the x cursor since the in game cursor won't show. type winecfg in a terminal and under the Graphics tab, deselect the second box that allows the window manager to control the windows. try running it again, if you see a cursor but its the one to resize windows, move your cursor off the top of the window and back in. From here I was able to set up the options, but when i tried to start a new game i got an error. I uninstalled it in frustration and forgot to record what it was. I am using Fiesty with wine installed from the automatix repos.

This game installs fine, but when you run it, there is no cursor. In the above section it says that while you run it in a window the x cursor should be visible, but in my case its not. I'm running ubuntu Fiesty, if that helps anyone.

"What does not

Mouse cursor in game menu is still invisible. If game runs in window, X cursor is visible, though. "

I have the same problem , haven't found a workaround yet, though there should be one.

Switching the game itself to windowed mode helps.
In game settings, graphics set Mode to windowed.
Also set wine to emulate virtual desktop. Then X cursor is visible.
Works fine for me.

I have been able to play the game, but the mouse cursor not being visible in either fullscreen nor windowed mode is extremely annoying. any suggested fixes?

Installs fine in 0.9.37.