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[Mr. Postman]

I've been using Linux a lot more recently, next to my BSD install, especially to try out the new Ubuntu versions, 10.04 and 10.10.

I noticed a lot of people had the same crash: you install SoF2 under WINE, you attempt to run it, and you get stuck with a 640x480 desktop and SoF2 crashing immediately.

So, I decided to see where the problem would lay and so far I'm not sure whether it's my Nvidia Graphics Card, the Ubuntu 10.x install in general or the version of WINE, and I can honestly say I don't really care as I fixed it, I do know it happens to a lot of people.

Other people might be interested in what exactly fixed my crashing SoF2, so here it goes.

For Demo users:

1) Download the Installer executable and run that under WINE. It should install flawlessly. WINE should put a shortcut on your desktop immediately, even if you answer no to the shortcut question (pressing yes will give you an extra (useless) one.
2) You'll need to set the File Permissions right of your SoF2MP-Test.exe. Navigate to your C: drive of WINE (should be in the menu), navigate to the installation directory which you specified during installation and right click the SoF2MP-Test.exe -> Properties.
3) Go to the permissions tab and make sure "Allow executing file as program" is checked and the access of all users is set to Read and Write (to avoid future conflicts if you start messing with other users):

4) Right click your SoF2MP-Test desktop shortcut and click Properties.
The shortcut will look a bit like this, with your own user names and installation directory of course:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/ajay/.wine" wine C:\\PROG\~FBU\\SOLD\~33V\\SoF2MP-Test.exe

Make sure this string comes in front of the actual wine command: __GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700 Set fullscreen off (for now) to avoid a messed up desktop when it does crash, which I doubt.
E.g.:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/ajay/.wine" __GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700 wine C:\\PROG\~FBU\\SOLD\~33V\\SoF2MP-Test.exe +set r_fullscreen 0

Done and working!



For Full/Gold users:

1) Install SoF2 Full/Gold by downloading the ZIP archive from caserun.com/games and extract the archive to somewhere in your C: drive (WINE directory), preferably in Program Files to follow this tutorial easier.
2) You'll need to set the File Permissions right of your SoF2MP (or the SP) executable. Go into your extracted folder and find the SoF2MP.exe executable and rightclick -> Properties.
3) Go to the permissions tab and make sure "Allow executing file as program" is checked and the access of all users is set to Read and Write (to avoid future conflicts if you start messing with other users):

4) Now it'll get clear why I said to extract it on your WINE C: drive. Rightclick your desktop and create a new launcher. It should be relevant to this one except with your own path, directory name etc. Set fullscreen off (for now) to avoid a messed up desktop when it does crash, which I doubt.

env WINEPREFIX="/home/ajay/.wine" __GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700 wine 'C:\Program Files\SOF2 - Copy\SoF2MP.exe' +set fs_homepath "C:\Program Files\SOF2 - Copy" +set r_fullscreen 0

5) OPTIONAL: Set the icon right on your desktop. Because you created a new launcher your current one will be rather lame. Simply go to properties again and click the icon to set a custom one (or your SoF2 one).

Done and working!



Cheers!

[Source]

Nice Boe!Man!

[Luigiz]

Shame this was too late for me.
Had ubuntu like a month ago for a while but since couldn't run sof with it , nor play my .wma files which are secured , had to change back to windows : ((

But anyways, good job =)

Edited by Luigiz, 17 October 2010 - 07:26 PM.

[XILLAX]

nicely done, have pinned this topic

[s2hko]

now it's time to hack fairplay boeman

[Mr. Postman]

Shame this was too late for me.
Had ubuntu like a month ago for a while but since couldn't run sof with it , nor play my .wma files which are secured , had to change back to windows : ((

But anyways, good job =)

I already talked to you in-game, I'll PM you some instructions for WMP if you want to go through with it.

Source, XILLAX, thanks, also thanks XILLAX for pinning this.

I've been playing SoF2 Full/Gold for an hour now in Ubuntu, everything else seems alright, except for a few things:
- PunkBuster doesn't work in Gold, but this is has been an issue with Gold since ever in Linux/WINE.
- When you Alt-TAB to another window (or Ctrl-Alt to another workspace) and switch back your mouse 'doesn't get sucked in'. Normally in Windows your mouse would've been immediately focussed again in the game. When you drag your mouse to the window it does get sucked in again and doesn't leave the window unless you quit/alt tab again. This is an issue with WINE and not with SoF2/Ubuntu in general and really not a huge one.
- Connecting takes like 2 seconds longer (on the Awaiting Gamestate screen). Pings seem unaffected and FPS/everything else is as normal (in Windows).
- Fairplay doesn't work! I'll try to make it work in the near future and post my progress. (And please don't go all "you're hacking, get FP" on my ass )
- [Unconfirmed] I think Minimizer doesn't work for those Fullscreening, it might work when you've got a virtual desktop emulated, but that'd be rather useless. If someone could check it'd be great, if there are issues I'll make my own or fix it.

Some minor issues that don't really matter (to me) but it's good people know as much as they can, especially when you're switching to Ubuntu you want to be sure how things run on your new OS.

Edited by Mr. Postman, 17 October 2010 - 09:01 PM.

[Mr. Postman]

*** Big Update ***

Mercy had the same problem, and this fix didn't solve anything. He has an AMD/ATI Graphics card. So that leads me to believe that this fix is only suitable for Intel/Nvidia graphics cards. Thanks to Mercy I was able to play with his system for a few hours and managed to get it working properly.

You can follow the tutorial as a whole, but when adding the shortcut instead of:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/ajay/.wine" __GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700 wine 'C:\Program Files\SOF2 - Copy\SoF2MP.exe' +set fs_homepath "C:\Program Files\SOF2 - Copy" +set r_fullscreen 0

Make it like this:

wine 'C:\Program Files\SOF2 - Copy\SoF2MP.exe' +set fs_homepath "C:\Program Files\SOF2 - Copy" +set r_fullscreen 0

... with your own paths of course. You also need a fixed binary which you can grab from here: SoF2MP - ati fix.exe. Just rename it to SoF2MP.exe delete the original. All should be fine then.

His system was an AMD Six core with an AMD ATI Radeon 5770, Ubuntu 11.04 i386 installed.

Do note: this only works for SoF2 1.00 at the moment (I haven't patched any other binary yet). If people want me to write a patch for Demo or Gold, let me know.

Edited by Mr. Postman, 28 January 2012 - 06:12 PM.