Application Details:
| Version: | 1.60 |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.pterodon.com/ |
| Votes: | 3 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 7.2 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
setup and install
What does not
Crash at start
Workarounds
What was not tested
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Mar 12 2022 | 7.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Jan Havran | |
| Show | Antergos x86_64 | May 03 2019 | 4.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Jan Havran | |
| Show | Antergos x86_64 | Dec 23 2018 | 4.0-rc3-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Garbage | Jan Havran | |
| Show | Antergos x86_64 | Jul 18 2018 | 3.12 | N/A | Yes | Yes | Silver | Jan Havran | |
| Show | Antergos x86_64 | Jan 14 2018 | 3.0-rc6 | N/A | Yes | Yes | Silver | Jan Havran |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 9337 | Vietcong game crashes after start | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 33292 | Vietcong: Disc can't be authenticated (SecuROM v4.84) | CLOSED | WORKSFORME | View |
| 33295 | Vietcong: Connecting to a multiplayer server does not work | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 39057 | Support for Indexed Vertex Blending | STAGED | View | |
| 42588 | Vietcong - graphics glitches since Wine 2.1 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 43567 | Vietcong - game crashes during radiocalls ('kernel32.GetTickCount' clobbers ECX) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 44712 | Vietcong: object textures overlaps whole screen | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 45278 | Vietcong: invisible objects (staging 3.9) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 45623 | Audio cracking since 3.13 | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 46359 | Vietcong: shooting from weapon causes game crash | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 46375 | Vietcong: game save thumbnails (screenshots) have corrupted colors | NEW | View | |
| 46403 | Vietcong: crash caused by loading map/other events | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 46849 | Vietcong: taking handmap causes crash (ProcessVertices) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 49228 | Mouse movements are reversed/erratic for multiple games (Gothic 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim SE; Oblivion, Machinarium) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
You can install VCStarter v1.7 BETA (more info at vietcong.info ), apply patch from 39057 or use Wine-Staging. See the corresponding bug report ( 9337 ) for more details.
Check your maps folder for number of downloaded maps. Game usually won't start when the maps folder contains more than about 500 maps (1000 files, since every map consists of two files).
Moving some of the maps into another folder (or deleting them) is the only working solution.
No it is not, but GameSpy support has ended. Vietcong now uses new master server: Qtracker. Add this line into your /etc/hosts (on your Unix system, not your Wine virtual disc):
65.112.87.186 master.gamespy.com
You can also use online server list at vietcong1.eu.
Install directplay using winetricks:
winetricks directplay
See the corresponding bug report ( 33295 ) for more details. With that the (lib32-)gnutls library might be required to run the game.
