Call of Duty 4 on Linux

jimmy512 · 11-19-2007, 12:30 PM

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jimmy512 do you have the proprietary drivers installed? You need to have dri enabled, at least that's what iv'e found, for games( HL2,COD,FarCry), to function properly. The proprietary drivers are easy on some systems hard on others.

DRI is enabled. glxinfo | grep direct returns:

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direct rendering: Yes

and glxgears runs very smoothly. Also flightgear returns a frame rate of ~60fps. This seems to be quite an annoying problem, and may be the only one stopping me from playing the game.

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Played it all last night on Windows XP, and overall, it works great. It didn't give me the COD feel for a while, but maybe that was just me.

Same. Wait till you get into it though!

JBailey742 · 11-19-2007, 04:56 PM

towards the end it started to, but for some reason; throughout most of the game, I was like "Okay, I'll just follow you guys. I'm new here."
Towards the last chapter or two, I was like, okay, this is COD. Step aside, I'm trigger happy.

snares · 11-19-2007, 07:57 PM

I was searching for a tutorial on installing HL2, over at linux-gamers.net, and came across a HowTo for COD4. Don't have the game yet so I can't test it out but figured I'd give people the link so they can try it.

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/...DEX+Wine+Games

hope this helps someone.

releana · 11-20-2007, 03:28 PM

Cool! Thanks for the heads up

jimmy512 · 11-21-2007, 12:03 PM

The patch in that guide did help. I am now recieving no errors from the game. However, I am still getting errors:

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err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code 80000101 flags 1 addr 0xb7f9d410

This causes a change in resolution on the screen, but then wine crashes.

Here is the whole output:

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ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
err:wave:ALSA_ComputeCaps failed: Invalid argument(-22)
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f91c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_CheckDeviceMultiSampleType Quality levels unsupported at present
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DVolumeImpl_LockBox (0x21ab58) : pBox=(nil) stub
fixme:d3d9:IDirect3DDevice9Impl_CreateSurface (0x1b2eb8) call to IWineD3DDevice_CreateSurface failed
fixme:d3d9:D3D9CB_CreateSurface (0x1b2eb8) IDirect3DDevice9_CreateSurface failed
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateTexture Failed to create surface  0x21d200
fixme:d3d9:IDirect3DDevice9Impl_CreateTexture (0x1b2eb8) call to IWineD3DDevice_CreateTexture failed
mixer.c:297: DSOUND_BufPtrDiff: Assertion `ptr1 < buflen' failed.
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code 80000101 flags 1 addr 0xb7fff410

fakie_flip · 11-21-2007, 08:37 PM

Would anyone like to play COD4 on a hamachi virtual private network?

snares · 11-22-2007, 12:01 AM

jimmy512 not too good at debugging but looks like something with the sound. From what I know about wine it runs game better using OSS instead of wine. From you output it looks that you're using ALSA. Try going into the config wizard and switching to the OSS.(Couldn't hurt) Also I have read some people are getting some better results, w/games not just COD4, by changeing driver emu off. Try it on and off see if it works. Perhaps someone better at debugging can give use a hand here. Or someone with more proficient knowledge of wine.

Hope you get it.
snares

jimmy512 · 11-25-2007, 11:28 AM

Managed to get some more output on this, after fixing the problems with ALSA. The resolution changes, and gives these errors:

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fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f91c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_CheckDeviceMultiSampleType Quality levels unsupported at present
fixme:d3d9:IDirect3DDevice9Impl_CreateSurface (0x1a2ae0) call to IWineD3DDevice_CreateSurface failed
fixme:d3d9:D3D9CB_CreateSurface (0x1a2ae0) IDirect3DDevice9_CreateSurface failedfixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateTexture Failed to create surface  0x1b1318
fixme:d3d9:IDirect3DDevice9Impl_CreateTexture (0x1a2ae0) call to IWineD3DDevice_CreateTexture failed

Looks like a bug in wine. Don't really know where to go from here.

JBailey742 · 11-27-2007, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by snares

I was searching for a tutorial on installing HL2, over at linux-gamers.net, and came across a HowTo for COD4. Don't have the game yet so I can't test it out but figured I'd give people the link so they can try it.

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/...DEX+Wine+Games

hope this helps someone.

that howto has me so confused. first of all, what is "patch"? a wine patch? the COD4 no-cd patch? and are those codes the same for mandriva? doesn't seem like that's how I use wine.

Example:

# cd /media/cdrom/
# wine ./setup.exe

first one is the same, but wine ./setup.exe?

I type in 'wine setup.exe'

works the same? I'm understanding linux more but I guess not completely.

fakie_flip · 11-27-2007, 06:13 PM

Have any of you got COD4 working in Linux yet?

jimmy512 · 11-28-2007, 12:31 PM

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that howto has me so confused. first of all, what is "patch"? a wine patch? the COD4 no-cd patch? and are those codes the same for mandriva? doesn't seem like that's how I use wine.

That is a patch for the wine source code. ie, you patch the source code with that file before compiling the sources, and it adds extra capabilities or fixes bugs in wine, in this case something to do with rendering rendering 3d stuff that cod4 needs.

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Have any of you got COD4 working in Linux yet?

If you check out the wine app-db, here, it seems that some have got it working, and some have not. Seems a bit hit and miss at the moment. I have not got it working yet on by debian box.

fakie_flip · 11-28-2007, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by jimmy512

If you check out the wine app-db, here, it seems that some have got it working, and some have not. Seems a bit hit and miss at the moment. I have not got it working yet on by debian box.

Why would a game work in Wine on one distribution, but not another?

snares · 11-28-2007, 06:30 PM

I had the day off today and decided go through that howto I posted to see if it worked. Got it! I'll post some screens on my server to show you guys. I am running Ubuntu Gusty 32-bit. I needed to download the git version of wine the CVS version and the regular version didn't work only the git version. Don't know why that is but I got it working so don't really care. If you follow the howto to the letter you need to name the patch diff-file and put is in teh wine-git folder once you download the git version of wine. One other thing. you need to start teh game from the terminal. just clicking on the icon returned a weird error. Something about not being able to load default.cfg. DOn't know what that's about. Hope you guys get it running too. Just thought you would like to know the howto really does work.

snares · 11-28-2007, 10:37 PM

here are some screenshots

URL Doesn't work anymore.

JBailey742 · 12-02-2007, 02:05 PM

no COD4 here. got cod2 to work though.