Application Details:
| Version: | FA 1.x.3xxx |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://supremecommander.com/ |
| Votes: | 16 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 3.20 |
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What works
Playing
What does not
Patch (I used VirtualBox)
Workarounds
What was not tested
Multiplayer
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
How-to is needed.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Unstable "Sid" | Nov 10 2018 | 3.20 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Sheppy | |
| Show | Debian 9 (Stretch) | Nov 10 2018 | 3.20 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Sheppy | |
| Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 21 2018 | 3.0 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | tatsu | |
| Show | Gentoo Linux x86_64 | Aug 19 2017 | 2.13 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | L29Ah | |
| Show | Fedora 25 x86_64 | Apr 15 2017 | 2.4 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | smellymoo |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 7411 | GLSL shaders work badly with fglrx | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
| 7544 | ReplaceFileW not implemented | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 9447 | Supreme Commander's FMVs do not skip frames | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 11726 | Merge Supreme Commander addon with original game | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 12182 | Multiple games need X3DAudio1_1.dll (Supreme Commander) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 12192 | SupCom Addon: No units visible | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 13507 | GPGNet starts but crashes after Login. | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 13891 | start.exe http://someurl/ does not work (affects any app that invokes external browser, e.g. Google Sketchup) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 13917 | Supreme Commander won't let me select high fidelity | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 13918 | Supreme Commander addon: Ground decals only display properly after switching to med fidelity and back | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 18749 | Certain Applications can't be resized larger than screen resolution | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 18955 | SupremeCommander: GPGNet fails to install | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 20286 | minimap problem in Supreme Commander Forged Alliance | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 20386 | Supreme commander: sound echo problem during game briefing | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 20602 | thread/cpu affinity not correct with multi core enabled source engine games | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 27512 | GPGNet installer create only folders without files | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 41468 | Supreme Commander Forged Alliance needs CLSID '{343e68e6-8f82-4a8d-a2da-6e9a944b378c}' xactengine2_9.dll | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 49970 | Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance has no sound (needs XACT < 3.0 support) | NEW | View |
FAF COMMUNITY
The Forged Alliance Forever Community has some great ressources about running SC:FA and the multiplayer client under linux.
Wiki: https://wiki.faforever.com/ind...
Forum Megathread: http://forums.faforever.com/vi...
LINUX TRY FIRST
$ winetricks d3dx9
- replace the resolution with the resolution of your screen and execute
$ wine explorer /desktop=FA,1920x1080 ForgedAlliance.exe
LINUX EXTENDED
- you may need wine32 bit and winetricks:
$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt-get update && apt-get install wine32 winetricks
- you may also need vcrun2010, dotnet40, corefonts, d3dx9, d3dx9_36
$ export WINE=wine32
$ winetricks vcrun2010 dotnet40 corefonts d3dx9 d3dx9_36
- on older wine versions, X3DAudio1_2.dll in wine/system32 is missing/empty using the one from windows does work
- set your vram size in winetricks if you are on integrated graphics (use 512 if in doubt)
$ winetricks videomemorysize=$YOURVRAM
Summary of Common Errors on Linux
- AudioDLL blablabla is missing -> wine for WHATEVER reasonsometimes creates an empty version of that dll in .wine/dosdevices/ if you try to start the game without that dll, you have to replace it with the correct dll and start again
- videomemorysize might default to 256, that will cause the game hang during intro sequence or lead to blackscreen as soon as the game started see Linux-Extended Section on how to fix that
- cant compile carthographic.fx/cant load it -> you forgot to install d3dx9_36
- wine asking for some XML microsoft parser -> just follow wine instructions
- wine saying that .wine is a 64 bit installation -> delete .wine, move it or select different director (I suppose there is an option for that)
- general displaying problems -> try to emulate a virtual desktop, this will fix it for many windowmangers: $ winecfg
- i recommend you set the resolution ingame,
Performance
If you know what you are doing you can try this to imrpove CPU-wise performance:
$ taskset -cp 0 (pgrep ForgedAlliance); sudo renice -2 -p (pgrep ForgedAlliance)
Dual Screens
Depends on driver/card. If SupCom doesn't show you a second adapter, short and long answer is no.
Can I play online with linux?
Yes, but it might be a little tricky to get the FAForever-Client to run on linux.
An easy solution could be to use the inofficial java client:
http://faforever.github.io/dow...
Check the main Linux Thread on FAF Forums for usefull information:
http://forums.faforever.com/vi...
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