Resident Evil 4

What works

Installation, Patching, Game

What does not

Movies (Cutscenes do!) I've tried the mouse-aim mod also, but it doesn't work.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Game wasn't finished.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Performance with the new beta NVIDIA (169.04) drivers is greatly improved (even on a 6600GT), it's finally playable now. This might be because of the new wine version also, but i still find disabling GLSL a better choice, because of the graphics. Enabled, there is no sky, also the whole picture is very dark. Disabled, it is as it's supposed to be.

game require d3dx9_36.dll from native environment. can be automatically installed via winetricks:

winetricks d3dx9

if your game says:
"fixme:d3d_surface:fb_copy_to_texture_direct Doing a pixel by pixel copy from the framebuffer to a texture, expect major performance issues".
then you will need add this to wine registry:
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
"UseGLSL"="enabled"
"VertexShaderMode"="hardware"
"PixelShaderMode"="enabled"
"DirectDrawRenderer"="opengl"

if you experience some graphical corruption or your game hangs up in particular places, try to set

OffscreenRenderingMode

to fbo, pbuffer or backbuffer in

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]

registry branch with

regedit

more details

please, check game with all the different options, post screenshots, write test data and bug reports

while bug in quartz don't let us play games with our quartz.dll, it is possible, however, to use quartz.dll from game's,well... native environment. then:

1) set loading order of that dll to "native, buit-in" via

winecfg

 2) install ffdshow via winetricks:

winetricks ffdshow

3) when game starts and trying to show first video, window may pop-up and ask if you want to use ffdshow:

• answer "yes, always" and you will get videos with sound and no more annoying windows
• answer "no" and, probably, there will be no sound in videos

 

game may hang-up unexpectedly. please, test it with ffdshow, wmp, both and without (maybe with k-lite codec pack too)