Operation Flashpoint

What works

everything at high frame-rate, i'm very happy with this :D

considering my old set-up..

What does not

[bugs]

-had to use 'wine eject -a' when asked to insert next CD during install process, also had to add the drive to my winecfg, see below.

-had to add my CDROM drive under 'Drives' tab in 'winecfg';

i.e.

add D: Drive,

under Advanced button;

'/media/dvd'

'CDROM'

-Some textures when using 'Direct3D HW T&L' flicker..
i.e. roads and guns on AI

-Desktop cursor is visible in top left corner of screen after the cursor has been locked to the game one

[notes]
-'Direct3D HW T&L' is much much faster then 'Direct3D', although does contain the above bugs.

-'Glide' was not tested due to 'glide3x.dll' error.

-Mods work perfectly, no crashes, no slow down

-Starting with a very simple script, works well;

 ['OPF.sh' file]

 **

cd ~/games/OFP
export WINEPREFIX=~/games/OFP/.wine
WINEDEBUG=-all wine FLASHPOINTRESISTANCE.EXE -nomap -nosplash

**

'FLASHPOINTRESISTANCE.EXE' works well without needing the CD mounted or in CDROM drive. Using 'FlashpointPreferences.exe' instead works too, good for tweaking and CPU benchmarks.

Workarounds

What was not tested

-completed 100% all CWC & RES
-multiplayer only tested for a very short period

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

tested on AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 1GB RAM Nvidia GForce 6200 256MB AGP- 180.51 Kernel - 2.6.29.4

Install graphic card drivers, with native OpenGL. Do not enable TwinView, or dual screen.

On 64-bit systems, the 32-bit graphic driver libs need to be installed too, other wise the game wont start, complaining about missing DirectX.

Copy all files from a windows installation, as they are, to the wine drive.
(Contents of C:\Program Files\Codemasters\OperationFlashpoint)

Save your ID from a windows registry in a .reg file, with these two keys:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Codemasters\Operation Flashpoint]
"MAIN"="C:\\Program Files\\Codemasters\\OperationFlashpoint"
"KEY"=hex:aa,ab,ac,ad,ae,af,ba,bc,bd,be,bf,ca,cb,cd,ce

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Codemasters\Operation Flashpoint]
"Player Name"="Your Name"

Apply these registry settings in your Wine instance. Verify them, as you may need to set these manually within the regedit of wine.