[LinuxPlaying] X : Beyond the Frontier ( Wine )
5Playing windows games on Linux using Wine:
X : Beyond the Frontier
X: Beyond The Frontier is the first game in the X series - A space trading and combat simulator from the late 1999.
In this game, you're playing as a test pilot of the X-shuttle, an experimental spacecraft to test a "jump" drive to travel to another part of the universe. Now lost in an unexplored part of the universe after the first jump test, the player is now fighting for survival in a free environement.
The most important aspect of the game is probably exploration ! And trading of course... But the most brutal aspect of this game is the feeling of behing totally free, and I mean, whoa, the only advice when the game really starts : "Go make some money and repay me later", you need to figure out yourself where to go, wich items to trade, where to find a weapon and upgrade for your ship. Don't get me wrong, it's pretty cool, but this free movement and immersive feeling can be troubling for most today's gamer.
My best advice : do read the handbook of the game (En_Walkthrough.txt) as many important things are explained; for exemple: there's no "savegame" button in a menu or anything, you have to dock in a space station and purchase a flight "insurance" for 10 credits ( yes, savegame do cost money).
~~~ HOW TO and troubleshooting ~~~
This game can basicaly run on wine straight on in a fresh wineprefix, but you won't get any voices nor ingame video; to fix this, you'll need to use winetricks to install some windows components :
a) Get winetricks :
wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
b) Sound and voices fix :
WINEPREFIX=/_path_toyour_wineprefix ./winetricks amstream
WINEPREFIX=/_path_toyour_wineprefix ./winetricks quartz
WINEPREFIX=/_path_toyour_wineprefix wine regsvr32 "c:\windows\system32\amstream.dll"
c) Video fix :
You'll need an (old) internet explorer component known as active movie for internet explorer ( amov4ie ). You may search for a copy of this installer in a search engine, or here :
http://howto.landure.fr/gnu-linux/installer-directx-9-0c-avec-wine/amov4ie.exe
And now install active movie:
WINEPREFIX=/_path_toyour_wineprefix wine Amov4ie.exe
~~~ Last bug remaining ~~~
As of writing, there's still a bug with in game lights: resulting in a dark and dull video game.
Probably related to :
fixme:d3d:state_flushbatch Render state WINED3D_RS_FLUSHBATCH not implemented yet.
fixme:d3d:state_subpixel Render state WINED3D_RS_SUBPIXEL not implemented yet.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/2840/
OS : Archlinux rolling release ( http://www.archlinux.org )
Wine : Wine 1.7.39 ( https://www.winehq.org )
Capture : Open Broadcaster Software 0.8.3-174 ( https://obsproject.com/ )