Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

What works

Game works pretty well on my set up. Graphics appear to run perfectly, solo missions playable so far.

Controls which rely on menus presented as on-screen overlays don't seem to work as intended, but you can workaround that. This seems to affect the Quick Inventory and Activate menus.

For example, when you press and hold the key for either of these, you should be able to select items from the menu overlay (Quick Inventory lets you choose weapons, Activate lets you choose different actions for objects in the game eg open door, use optiwand, etc). If you just press the key and release it, you select the first item. At least I think that's how it should work (I've never played this under Windows) but in Wine it seems not to recognise when you press and hold. The workaround is to press and hold the key, and immediately after press another key such as back (S by default). The menu then stays on screen for as long as you hold down the first key and you can select items normally.

At first I didn't think the Map worked correctly but now I think it's supposed to look like an undecipherable mess of overlapping rectangles.

In Wine 1.1.44, the Wine system cursor remains on screen throughout the game, locked in the centre of the screen. The game cursor appears separately and is quite usable.The problem can be fixed by checking 'Emulate a virtual desktop' on the Graphics tab of winecfg.

In Wine 1.1.43 and previous, the cursor problem wasn't present and the game did not need to be played inside a virtual desktop.

What does not

Additional mouse keys such as back / forward can't be used. While these keys can be assigned to a command in the keyboard setup, where they appear as Mouse 4 or Mouse 5, there is no effect when those keys are used in-game.

I have found some graphical glitches when using Shader Model 3, but this can be changed in the Advanced Graphics settings to Shader Model 1.1 which seems to work perfectly.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Multiplayer.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

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