Sword of the New World: Granado Espada

What works

Installation, Running the game, Updating

Must install IEs4Linux to get around Flash error

What does not

Starting the actual game. If I click "Start", I get the following error. This may only be because of my setup:

 

Client closing due to the sound driver error. Install or reinstall the sound driver. [errorCode: 3]

This output also shows up in the terminal:

err:wave:DSDB_MapBuffer Could not map sound device for direct access (Input/output error)
err:wave:DSDB_MapBuffer Please run winecfg, open "Audio" page and set
"Hardware Acceleration" to "Emulation".

Workarounds

What was not tested

Actual Gameplay

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

The error I'm getting could only be related to my sound card. I'm trying to see if I can get around this at the moment. If someone could help with the errors I'm getting, that would be great.

First, you must follow this guide to install IEs4Linux so that the game patcher will work, provided by Vividd of Sword of the New World forums:

You can get past the problem with the patcher/starter by installing IEs4Linux: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
(Make sure to install the Flash Player during installation as well)

And then launching the app with:
WINEPREFIX="/install/path/to/.ies4linux/ie6" wine ge.exe
Except '/install/path/to' should be where you've installed IEs4Linux (defaults to the home directory).

Note though that under these conditions Wine will be using the configuration set up by IEs4Linux, my advice would be to use it purely for the patcher, and then once it's patched up and you've configured, close the app and launch the actual game manually as followed:

Move into the 'release' directory in the main SNW directory, then use wine to launch the game with:
wine ge.exe -SERVICE -WINDOWMODE

You can of course drop -WINDOWMODE if you want to try it in fullscreen.
This will allow you to use your regular Wine configuration for the actual game.

Now run the installer. Extract the zip archive you downloaded of the game, move to the directory and run the installation file:

wine SNW_2.1.18_CBT.exe

Continue through the installer using all default options. Once finished, navigate to the Sword of the New World directory, and run Sword of the New World (not from the installer)

WINEPREFIX="/home/YOUR_USERNAME/.ies4linux/ie6" wine ge.exe

The patcher should load. Let the game download and install its patches. Then, you can click "Start" to start the game.