Strit Plays On Linux #12: Wildstar Beta

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Dan Johansen (Strit)

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Published on April 27, 2014 2:00:12 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3wrT42cWns

Game:

WildStar (2014)

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Let's Play

Duration: 18:11

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Strit Plays On Linux is a series of videos, where I play different games. It's a Let's Play series of native linux games, aswell as games running through Wine. Be aware that I am not a native english speaker, so my english is not that great. If you have any suggestions to games I should play in the future, please post them in a comment and I will consider them.

Today's Game:
Title: Wildstar (Beta)
Developer: NC Soft
Price: No word yet, but probably a monthly fee.
Linux Native: No. Played through Wine.
Special Guest: None.
Link for WineHQ game page: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=30246

Notes: This is how I got it to play.

1: Create a fresh Wildstar prefix with WINEARCH=win32 by typing "WINEPREFIX=~/prefix/wildstar/ WINEARCH=win32 winecfg". Please edit to suit your own folder structure.

2: Install the following via winetricks in the prefix created: ie8, gdiplus, winhttp, msxml6, vcrun2008 and d3dx9. Command would be something like "WINEPREFIX=~/prefix/wildstar/ winetricks ie8 gdiplus winhttp msxml6 vcrun2008 d3dx9". But I split it up, so I installed them seperately. I have heard that it will work without gdiplus, msxml6 and vcrun2008, but I just got it all installed as a precaution.

3: Run the Wildstar installer from the prefix, and afterwards run the wildstar.exe from the game path within the prefix. So for me that was "WINEPREFIX=~/prefix/wildstar/ wine Downloads/Wildstar.exe" to launch the installer and install the game. And "WINEPREFIX=~/prefix/wildstar/ wine Games/Wildstar/Wildstar.exe" to launch the game and play. Edit those to fit your own folder structure aswell.

4: If your game crashes some minutes in, it might be because your VRAM setting in wine is wrong for your video card. To fix this run "WINEPREFIX=~/prefix/wildstar/ wine regedit" and do the following change. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER - Software - Wine - Direct3D (if it's not there, create it) - VideoMemorySize (if the string is not there, create it). Create this string or edit it to match your video card's RAM amount in MegaBytes. Mine was 2048. This fixed the crashing issue for me.

PS: I know, that the wineHQ database has a dll override in it. That was in, because a forum user on the Wildstar forum thought it was needed to prevent a crash, but it disabled all the sound ingame, which I didn't test out before making that test. That's why it is excluded from this description, as it does not crash the game anymore to not have that override.

System Specs:
CPU: i7 3,4 GH'z x8
RAM: 16 GB
Harddrive: 128 SSD (for OS), 2 TB HDD (for files)
GFX: Geforce GTX 760, 2 GB
GFX driver: 331.38 from Nvidia
OS: Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit)

Programs used:
Recording: SimpleScreenRecorder
Editing: OpenShot
Encoding: Handbrake

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