Dark Age Of Camelot

What works

The game

What does not

Sound was distorted, pixel shaders must be turned off.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Worked perfectly under normal play under all conditions I experienced.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

This is how my setup was before upgrading to Ubuntu 7.10. As soon as I upgraded to 7.10, I couldn't even get to the login screen.

• ~10GB free hard disk space.
• 1GB RAM or more recommended Graphics card that supports pixel shaders >= 1.4
• glxinfo | grep direct # should say yes.
• If not, check your distro's docs for setting up accelerated video drivers.
• Disable Compiz (GL Desktop, Desktop-effects) for better performance.
• Fairly clean system. At least 50% free CPU resources (run top and check).
• Fullscreen mode may crash if your modes (or metamodes) are not set up properly in xorg.conf (run xrandr to see if your X server can swtch to e.g. 800x600, 1024x768 or whatever you run the game in). "If the X server can't switch, the game may bitch."
• If you have no mouse cursor, apply the hack below to use the X cursor instead.
• Run winecfg. Turn off pixel shaders.

wine-X-cursor-hack.patch

--- dlls/winex11.drv/mouse.c.orig	2008-04-22 03:42:10.000000000 -0800
+++ dlls/winex11.drv/mouse.c	2008-04-22 03:40:29.000000000 -0800
@@ -924,6 +924,7 @@
               lpCursor->nWidth, lpCursor->nHeight, lpCursor->bPlanes, lpCursor->bBitsPerPixel);
     else
         TRACE("NULL\n");
+	return;
 
     /* set the same cursor for all top-level windows of the current thread */			

Applying The Patch:

cd $HOME/Download/wine
patch -p0 < wine-X-cursor-hack.patch
# If you have already installed from source, just re-run make
make -s > /dev/null && sudo make install							

Alternately, you can run make from within the $HOME/Download/wine/dlls/winex11.drv folder and copy winex11.drv.so to wherever wine was installed, probably /usr/local/lib/wine.

If you are worried about the cursor hack messing up other programs you can run wine directly from the source tree without installing:

$HOME/Download/wine/wine camelot