The Operative: No One Lives Forever

Game of the Year edition

This is not just an update.

There is an additional singleplayer mission.

The multiplayer is compatible with NOLF v1.004.

Application Details:

Version:	GOTY (1.004)
License:	Retail
URL:	http://www.noonelivesforever.c...
Votes:	0
Latest Rating:	Platinum
Latest Wine Version Tested:	4.9

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Alan Richter

Test Results

Old test results

The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.

Selected Test Results

What works

Game fully playable
Sound/Music
Main Menu
Dialogues

What does not

Sometimes the game crashes
Dialogues are skipping without wrapping though DxWnd
Full playthrough

Workarounds

On modern systems dialogues are skipping without limiting framerate. As there is no possiblity in Linux though the graphics cards drivers,

I found as a workaround to use the software DxWnd. This usually is used to force DirectX fullscreen only games to run in a window, but also allows for an working fullscreen mode.

I installed several workarounds via winetricks, some of them might not be necessary, as I finally only got the game fully running by using DxWnd:

devenum
directmusic
dmsynth
dsound
dxdiagn
dxdiag
quartz

What was not tested

New installation with DxWnd and mimimum of Winetricks workarounds necessary

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU: Intel
Driver: open source

Additional Comments

Only works in combination with framerate limiter or DxWnd.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Mageia 7	Jun 01 2019	4.9	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	Alan Richter
Show	Manjaro Linux 18.0.0	Mar 23 2019	4.2	Yes	Yes	Yes	Gold	Paul-Emile Veuve
Current	Linux Mint 18.2 "Sonya" x86_64	Sep 11 2017	2.14-staging	Yes	Yes	Yes	Gold	Peter
Show	Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jun 10 2017	2.0.1	Yes	Yes		Bronze	Manuel Grießmayr
Show	Slackware64 -current	Jan 10 2016	1.9.1	Yes	Yes		Gold	Danny Schmarsel

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
17638	NOLF GotY: Sluggish mouse reaction when in zoom mode	UNCONFIRMED		View
30969	Tron 2.0 - No music while playing game and in menu	UNCONFIRMED		View
31562	crash in mmdevapi/MMDevCol_GetCount() using lithtech game engine.	UNCONFIRMED		View

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO

To get NOLF running on newer versions than Wine 1.5.1, run:
```
winetricks dsound directmusic
```
Afterwards, open up winecfg, go to the "Libraries" tab and set dsound to Builtin.
You can also disable the music if you really want to play without it.

If you are stuck on the loading screen, disable animated loading screens in the launcher, too.

If the launcher fails to find your CD, start the game with lithtech.exe and all rez-files as parameters.
```
$ wine lithtech.exe -rez rezfile1.rez -rez rezfile2.rez ...
```
This script should work with all version of NOLF:
```
$ wine lithtech.exe $(for f in $(ls|grep -i rez$); do echo "-rez $f"; done)
```
For widescreen, you can pass more options to the command line:
```
++screenwidth "1920" ++screenheight "1080" ++screendepth "32"
```
However, this stretches the game. A better widescreen fix is available here, but you can't play online with it.

To be able to play online, edit your /etc/hosts.

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