Subject: Heads up on v1.13 on + wine Posted by grodrigues on Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:12:43 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message This may interest some people, so I have decided to post my findings on ja2 v1.13 on linux.

In Kubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx with the latest wine (1.2rc2), 2 (gold version) plus the v1.13 (latest - by early june 2010 - single-click installer) essentially works. Here are some more details:

1. The installation of ja2 went OK. I have *not* tested the game.

2. I made no alterations to wine's default config options neither did I used winetricks.

3. The installation of v1.13 also went OK. Since wine's file dialog cannot "see" hidden directories, I had to extract the files to some temp dir and then copy everything to the ja2 folder (overwriting everything, etc.).

4. Starting ja2 from the icon did not work. I also got a runtime error of the form

Function vfs::COpenReadFile::COpenReadFile could not open Ja2_Settings.INI

The indicated file does not exist, so this *may* be a problem with the mod itself.

5. Starting ja2 from the command line did work. At first, the screen was all fuzzy and then the Sirtech logo appeared, but in a clunky way with frequent hiccups in the music. As soon as the main screen appears all is fine.

6. The line command cursor from the Konsole just froze over ja2. Solution: just drag the cursor to the bottom, before starting the game.

7. If I tampered with the INI settings and choose the 1024x768 resolution all I got was a black screen. Solution: don't, just stick to 800x600.

8. Starting the game, the image was uncentered. Solution: I had to hack directly with the monitor buttons to "recenter" the image. Somewhat misteriously, in subsequent plays this problem disappeared.

After all this, you may well wonder why do I say ja2 works. Well, the game is *perfectly playable* with no significant problems, only the occasional crash (but very rare and not reproducible), the occasional UI glitch, etc. Most likely, this is due to the mod itself that is still being actively developed. Just save often and you will be OK.

In the one game I played, the coolness factor is at 6 or 7 (can't quite remember) with Drassen, Cambria and Chitzena occupied, as well as 3 SAM sites. Visited Estoni, San Mona (but have not dealt with Kingpin yet), etc.

Page 1 of 5 ---- Generated from The Bears Pit Have not tested multiplayer neither any of the editors. Both the ini and xml editors need the .NET framework to work. Presumedly any standard text editor will be able to edit these files.

Note: forgot the most important thing. Thanks to everyone that works on this mod, as it really breathes new life in ja2.

Regards, G. Rodrigues

Subject: Re: Heads up on v1.13 on Linux + wine Posted by Nemem9aa on Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:18:23 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message Gentoo linux, wine 1.1.43. Ja2-1.13 and Ja2-1.13-wildfire are working just fine. I don`t even have problems with 1024*768 resolution.

There are occasionally crashes, but i think that just game, not wine. I finished playing at least 2 times, so it is perfectly playable.

Subject: Re: Heads up on v1.13 on Linux + wine Posted by Wil473 on Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:38:00 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message Has the severe lag with the mouse and firing in my own experience (Ubuntu 9.10, Wine from six months ago) been resolved? I believe the lag was noted on WineHQ's compatiblity list entry for Jagged Alliance 2.

Subject: Re: Heads up on v1.13 on Linux + wine Posted by grodrigues on Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:03:04 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message wil473Has the severe lag with the mouse and firing in my own experience (Ubuntu 9.10, Wine from six months ago) been resolved? I believe the lag was noted on WineHQ's compatiblity list entry for Jagged Alliance 2.

No cursor problems for me besides the one noted in 6. My machine is relatively old (AMD 1.5 Ghz, 1.5G ram, 128M radeon 9200 PRO), but the game is also very old with very low specs (by today's standards), so I have the impression that it should run "faster". But this is just an impression, and the game is perfectly playable as it is anyway.

Regards. G. Rodrigues

Page 2 of 5 ---- Generated from The Bears Pit Subject: Re: Heads up on v1.13 on Linux + wine Posted by Fozzie on Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:30:59 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message I did a somewhat unusual test - I simply copied my install of ja2 from my windows to the linux partition (Ubuntu 10.04) and the game works as far as I can tell (haven't really played much yet). The cursor lag and the sometimes occuring issue with the GTK-pointer showing in the game could be prevented by not allowing the window manager to control the application in winecfg.

The only downside is that the graphics are a little bit fuzzy, at least outside the tactical sector view. But it's tolerable.

Subject: Re: Heads up on v1.13 on Linux + wine Posted by kunderez on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:02:22 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message I didn't have luck running ja2 on wine... here is what I did and experienced...

1) I installed Jagged Alliance 2 Gold in wine -> installation was OK

2) I tried running ja2.exe and screen update just stopped and mouse cursor disappeared... I managed to restore screen update by switching workspace to another and back ( by using keyboard shortcuts ) and that revealed hidden "Jagged Alliance 2" application in task list and also revealed "Program error" titled window that says the following...

Quote:The program ja2.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. This can be caused by a problem in the program or a deficiency in Wine. You may want to check http://appdb.winehq.org for tips about running this application. If this problem is not present under Windows and has not been reported yet, you can report it at http://bugs.winehq.org.

I also noticed some crash report files appearing in Jagged Alliance installation folder ( 'Crash Report_[day]_[month]_[year]___[hour]_[min].txt' ) and I uploaded contents of one of those files to http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=ye0etaHn ( I hope that helps resolving the problem ).

I also uploaded Wine output and it can be found from http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=cMSJTAP9

After few hours of depressive googling and seeing "segmentation fault" message on glxinfo output, I figured out that this might be radeon driver/configuration error... and may have something to do with some bs-crap called "DRI" ( direct rendering ). Latest xorg log can be found from from http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=N6SxSMqg

3) I applied Jagged Alliance 2 1.13 update ( 'JA2 1.13 3356 exe SVN@1227 Full' downloaded from http://ja2v113.pbworks.com/w/page/4218334/Downloads )

4) I tried running ja2.exe and same thing occurs...

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Subject: Re: Heads up on v1.13 on Linux + wine Posted by kunderez on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:40:36 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message Update: After reading 50+ pages of people trying to resolve ati graphics card issues and trying numerous different solutions, my mind just snapped and I tried uninstalling everything related to graphics( fglrx refused to be removed )... I dont remember what I removed, I didnt touch any configuration files, every driver installation failed with some random errors that nobody else had.... I was full of frustration and murder thoughts and when I got back to X after reboot... suddenly it all worked, WTF!

Only error I got after running ja2.exe was that it couldnt find "Ja2_Settings.INI"-file... I just renamed "ja2.ini" to "Ja2_Settings.INI" and it runs happily.... with all colors f*cked - quickly fixed by setting ja2 to run in windowed mode...

Subject: Re: Heads up on v1.13 on Linux + wine Posted by pyg on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:30:27 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message I've been having trouble getting the mouse scroll wheel to work under wine (v1.3.9 clean) and based on the searches I've done so far I'm the only one. Aimed burst/auto-fire is an option I'd like to try!

Subject: Re: Heads up on v1.13 on Linux + wine Posted by virus_found on Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:40:57 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message I, for one, haven't found any wine-specific bugs yet. There are some miserable almost unnoticeable visual glitches here and there, but the rest seems just fine. I build exe from svn in windows VS2010, then play it in wine

Subject: Re: Heads up on v1.13 on Linux + wine Posted by LootFragg on Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:43:14 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message

Page 4 of 5 ---- Generated from The Bears Pit pygAimed burst/auto-fire is an option I'd like to try!It's far less convenient, but pressing [Alt] changes your right-click behaviour from number of rounds per burst to number of aim clicks or vice versa. I think. Try it! =D [Edit: Nah fuck, doesn't work, I was mistaken.] By the way, I'm playing on Win with mouse wheel enabled, so I can't say anything about how it works on my Ubuntu system.

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What I can say is that you should never try to play JA2 under Wine under Ubuntu under VirtualBox under Windows. Yes I did that. Installed a VM and set it up with Ubuntu Lucid, installed the latest Wine Beta and then 1.13 Beta.

Funny thing is: It works and I can play it on 1024x768 without any more problems than on 800x600, but the sound cuts off after several seconds, the game is horribly slow (on any resolution) and controls don't work flawlessly (mouse wheel issue). VirtualBox is amazing, but never use it with Wine if you want to keep your sanity.

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