Supreme Commander

What works

Sound ok

Campaign ok (the advisors video and sound is not in sync)

Skirmish ok

LAN Hosting (didn't if someone can join or not)

Replays (it took an awful lot of time to load them, and caused a system freeze once)

Patching to 3599 ok

Adding mods and maps were also ok.

What does not

Some effects are not rendered correcly:

nuke explosions were not correct

glow effect on projectiles were missing, so some of them were almost invisible

water didn't looks as it should be

range circles are all grey so you cannot decide which one is which

some dynamic lightning issues with the forests

decals were flickering sometimes (and they were not shown from all camera angles)

shileds were also missing the glow effect

all in all: the game didn't looks as it should be

 Changing resolution is causing the game to crash.

 Secondary display, antialiasing, were not selectable (gray in the menu) , and high fidelity settings were missing. (I could set resolution, high fidelity and AA through game.prefs.)

The game has some performance issues. It was slower than on windows. Maybe it's not using the second core, or maybe compiz was the problem.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Network play
100+ units
GPGNet

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Ubuntu 8.04.1, Restrictred Nvidia Drivers: 169.12 The game needs tweaking! Registry keys, extra dlls for sound and .NET 2.0 for patching. I had to remove xserver-xgl package from my system to have DirectRendering. Hardware: Intel E8400@3.6GHz, 2GB RAM, nVidia 8800GT 512MB, ASUS P5K-E mainboard.

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...