Ethan
11.05.04, 10:43
Hier die releasenotes:
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WineX 3.3.2
-----------
Release Notes, May 11, 2004.
Overview
========
TransGaming is pleased to announce the release of WineX 3.3.2, dubbed
"Marvin", giving our users access to Windows games in Linux,
with greater ease. TransGamers can now download WineX in RPM, Debian
and TGZ formats from the downloads section of TransGaming's
website: http://www.transgaming.com/
WineX 3.3.2 is a minor bug fix release with the inclusion of support
for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
Enjoy!
New Features
============
WineX 3.3.2
-----------
* TransGamers can now enjoy playing
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
* CD-ROM autodetection will now work correctly on on SUSE 9.1
which uses the subfs filesystem.
* Battlefield 1942 will no longer ask you to "Please insert either
Battlefield 1942 CD"
* Steam will no longer close windows on certain mouse button
combinations.
System Requirements
===================
Operating System
----------------
Core requirements are:
- Linux Kernel 2.2 or higher. Stock Kernels recommended over RedHat
7.x/8.x/9.x kernels. 2.6 kernels are not recommended due to stability
issues.
- XFree86 4.0 or higher (4.2 and above recommended)
- glibc 2.2 or higher
- working hardware accelerated OpenGL video card
CPU Type and Speed
------------------
Recommended minimum hardware is
- 500 MHz or faster Pentium or Athlon CPU
- 64MB of memory; 128 MB or higher recommended
- 1 to 2 GB free hard disk space for games
- Linux-supported 3D graphics card with 16MB of video RAM is required.
nVidia GeForce-class GPU recommended. ATI Radeon 8500 or higher with
working ATI FireGL drivers should work, but will not perform as well
for the moment.
Please note individual requirements may be higher for certain games.
Prelink and Exec-Shield
-----------------------
Prelink is a new set of functionality, available in newer glibc versions
and distributions such as Fedora Core 1, designed to reduce the startup
time for applications which use dynamic libraries. The loading speed
improvements are achieved by preassigning the addresses various dynamic
linked libraries will be placed in memory. Thus relocations will not have
to be performed by the dynamic loader when loading the application.
Unfortunately, more often than not, libraries are prelinked into addresses
which are incompatible with Windows programs.
Windows executables programs generally use a trick, similar to prelink,
to reduce the size of the executable and improve start times. This trick
assumes, quite rightly for a Windows program, that the address 0x400000
is always available. Thus when WineX attempts to load the Windows
executable into the starting address, and it's not available, WineX will
fail to start the program with an error message mentioning
"stripped relocation records" and "address 0x400000 not available".
Exec-shield is a kernel level solution
(http://people.redhat.com/mingo/exec-shield/ANNOUNCE-exec-shield)
which remaps executable code to a lower memory address with the
intention of eliminating ASCII based code overflow attacks. The
new location of the executable has the potential of conflicting
with the required windows range which will result in the same error
message as with prelink.
The solution to the problems these two new technologies create is to
disable them so they don't affect any WineX libraries or executable
code.
To disable automatic prelinking in the future edit /etc/sysconfig/prelink
and set PRELINKING to no by making sure the following line is present:
PRELINKING=no
Then execute the cron job, most likely /etc/cron.daily/prelink, to
reverse the prelink all of your libraries or manually run:
$ prelink -ua
To disable exec-shield you can either use the boot time option
"exec-shield=0" or it may be changed, before running WineX, by typing
either:
$ echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield
or
$ sysctl -w kernel.exec-shield=0
Known Issues and Comments
=========================
ATI FireGL drivers
------------------
TransGaming has seen some instability with ATI cards using FireGL
and/or DRI running WineX. Games of note with issues are Battlefield
1942, Grand Theft Auto - Vice City and Sacrifice. TransGaming is
continuing to improve support and we welcome all reports and your
votes in the polls.
Baldur's Gate 2
---------------
* The "Software Mirror BLT" option under the "2D 16 bit Color Depth"
should be enabled if the character sprites appear garbled.
* During the opening scene in the dungeon, occasionally the game will
not advance after the sewer gollum has talked. Simply restart.
Battlefield 1942
----------------
* The game must be patched to at least version 1.3 in order to fix problems
that will prevent it from starting the game engine properly.
* The [d3dgl] 'ClipSpaceFix' option needs to be disabled to run the game.
This has been configured by default in the config file.
* We recommend the use of 22 kHz sound for best performance, especially with
the movies and cutscenes. 44 kHz sound is known to cause performance degradation.
* Use of 24-bit color is recommended if shadow effects are enabled.
* The animated background of the main menu does not work.
* Alt-tab will crash the application.
* Using Punkbuster enabled servers may cause problems.
Black & White
-------------
* Playing in low texture mode will lead to crashing. You may not
be able to get back to the configuration screen to return to
normal detail.
Call of Duty
------------
* Copyprotection for this title does not presently work.
* The installer for this game will fail when trying to switch to the
second CD-ROM. To work around this problem select cancel when it asks
for the second CD-ROM and say NO to the question concerning reversing
the changes. Once stopped, insert and mount the second cd and copy
the files in Setup/Data/Main to the main directory inside the installed
Call of Duty. Additionally some registry entries will not be automatically
added. If you wish to play multiplayer then you will need to add the
following to your system.reg file in order to be able to upgrade your version:
[SOFTWARE\\Activision\\Call of Duty]
"InstallDrive"="D:"
"InstallPath"="C:\\Program Files\\Call Of Duty"
"Language"="1"
"Version"="1.1"
* Often the game will hang upon quitting.
Civilization III
----------------
* There are several sound problems with this application.
* Occasionally the game will crash when building the first city.
* Earlier patch levels will not pass copyprotection. v1.29f is
recommended.
Command and Conquer: Generals
-----------------------------
* The installer does not allow switching to the 2nd CD-ROM.
* Some versions of the installer do not even start.
* Game play is slow.
Counter Strike: Condition Zero
------------------------------
* Pushing the tab key may crash the game in single player mode.
Dark Age of Camelot
-------------------
* Users whose graphics cards only have 2 texture units (GF2MX,GF2 & GF4MX)
will notice graphical incorrectness such as a non textured floor.
* The sound in the installer and login screens is not good.
Dungeon Siege
-------------
* DS will lock up as soon as you move the mouse when using nVidia 4496
and later drivers. Downgrading drivers is the only reliable way
to solve the problem. Newer drivers appear to not have this problem
on NPTL systems.
* Even with older nVidia drivers, game may not work on some systems.
* Do not hit the 'ESC' key during game play, as it will cause the
game to freeze.
* Some setups may experience deadlocks before the main menu. Running with
any debug channels on generally works as a remedy.
* The water does not flow in the game.
* Multiplayer support is not yet available due to the use of
DirectPlay 8 in the game.
Grand Theft Auto 3
------------------
* The opening videos for Grand Theft Auto 3 work quite slowly under
WineX. The movies may be skipped by pressing the space bar twice.
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
--------------------------
* Occasionally textures may display incorrectly.
* The opening videos for Grand Theft Auto Vice City work quite slowly under
WineX. The movies may be skipped by pressing the space bar twice.
Homeworld 2
-----------
* Multiplayer support is not yet available due to the use of
DirectPlay 8 in the game.
Max Payne 2
-----------
* Pixel Shaders do not work, as they are not implemented by WineX. You
should make sure they are disabled in the games option screen.
Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault
------------------------------
* A defect in the game software, which should be fixed in the latest
Spearhead expansion patch, causes the game to crash under WineX. The
WineX team has provided a workaround. Both Point2Play and the winex3
start script are set up so that this game will work out of the box.
Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault Spearhead and Breakthrough
---------------------------------------------------------
* Copyprotection for these titles do not presently work.
Morrowind: Elder Scrolls III
----------------------------
* Pixel Shaders, used for water effects, are not yet available.
* The intro videos can freeze if they fall behind the play frame
rate due to a coding problem with the application.
Need For Speed: Underground
---------------------------
* The installer presently does not work due to its use of flash.
This can be worked around by killing the EReg.exe process when
the installation appears to hang. Additionally you need to use
the --use-dos-cwd option pointing to your CD-ROM drive.
* Copyprotection for this title does not presently work.
* The auto patcher for earlier versions of this title will not work
and you will have to manually download and patch.
* To play multiplayer online, you will need to manually register the
game on EA's website.
Sim City 4
----------
* To install the game, you must insert and mount the CD-ROM, and
use the following command line:
$ winex3 -use-dos-cwd f:/ -- f:/autorun.exe
If the installer asks you to install a new version of DCOM, say 'no'.
* The game has small graphical glitches when scrolling with the
hardware renderer. Use of the software renderer is recommended and
is automatic as of WineX 3.2.
* Use of the "?" to get information can cause graphical corruption.
Scrolling the window will clear this up.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
--------------------------------------
* The game will crash on exit.
* The online patcher does not fully work. Follow the patcher instructions
for downloading the manual patch.
* The game will crash if X is not in 24 bpp mode.
* Unless upgraded to at least 1.03 you may experience double cursors.
* The mouse is slightly "jittery". This may cause problems at the Ebon Hawk
gunner station - use the keyboard Luke.
* The game may not go fullscreen automatically unless upgraded to 1.03.
* The mouse will not be usable unless you disable "Hardware Mouse"
from the launcher configure screen.
Star Wars: Jedi Academy
-----------------------
* The installer cannot install the second CD-ROM. To work around this
copy the 2nd CD-ROM to the hard drive and point it to this drive
when you need to switch discs.
Steam
-----
* Window manager decorations are visible in several managers when they
should not be.
Warcraft III The Frozen Throne
------------------------------
* The desktop icon (shortcut) for Warcraft III will not function correctly
if installed with WineX 3.1, or earlier, due to the way the previous
WineX versions changed the command line. Either edit the shortcut to start
"Warcraft III.exe", rather than "War3.exe", add the -classic parameter,
or reinstall both Warcraft III and Frozen Throne.
Let the Games Begin
-----------
WineX 3.3.2
-----------
Release Notes, May 11, 2004.
Overview
========
TransGaming is pleased to announce the release of WineX 3.3.2, dubbed
"Marvin", giving our users access to Windows games in Linux,
with greater ease. TransGamers can now download WineX in RPM, Debian
and TGZ formats from the downloads section of TransGaming's
website: http://www.transgaming.com/
WineX 3.3.2 is a minor bug fix release with the inclusion of support
for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
Enjoy!
New Features
============
WineX 3.3.2
-----------
* TransGamers can now enjoy playing
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
* CD-ROM autodetection will now work correctly on on SUSE 9.1
which uses the subfs filesystem.
* Battlefield 1942 will no longer ask you to "Please insert either
Battlefield 1942 CD"
* Steam will no longer close windows on certain mouse button
combinations.
System Requirements
===================
Operating System
----------------
Core requirements are:
- Linux Kernel 2.2 or higher. Stock Kernels recommended over RedHat
7.x/8.x/9.x kernels. 2.6 kernels are not recommended due to stability
issues.
- XFree86 4.0 or higher (4.2 and above recommended)
- glibc 2.2 or higher
- working hardware accelerated OpenGL video card
CPU Type and Speed
------------------
Recommended minimum hardware is
- 500 MHz or faster Pentium or Athlon CPU
- 64MB of memory; 128 MB or higher recommended
- 1 to 2 GB free hard disk space for games
- Linux-supported 3D graphics card with 16MB of video RAM is required.
nVidia GeForce-class GPU recommended. ATI Radeon 8500 or higher with
working ATI FireGL drivers should work, but will not perform as well
for the moment.
Please note individual requirements may be higher for certain games.
Prelink and Exec-Shield
-----------------------
Prelink is a new set of functionality, available in newer glibc versions
and distributions such as Fedora Core 1, designed to reduce the startup
time for applications which use dynamic libraries. The loading speed
improvements are achieved by preassigning the addresses various dynamic
linked libraries will be placed in memory. Thus relocations will not have
to be performed by the dynamic loader when loading the application.
Unfortunately, more often than not, libraries are prelinked into addresses
which are incompatible with Windows programs.
Windows executables programs generally use a trick, similar to prelink,
to reduce the size of the executable and improve start times. This trick
assumes, quite rightly for a Windows program, that the address 0x400000
is always available. Thus when WineX attempts to load the Windows
executable into the starting address, and it's not available, WineX will
fail to start the program with an error message mentioning
"stripped relocation records" and "address 0x400000 not available".
Exec-shield is a kernel level solution
(http://people.redhat.com/mingo/exec-shield/ANNOUNCE-exec-shield)
which remaps executable code to a lower memory address with the
intention of eliminating ASCII based code overflow attacks. The
new location of the executable has the potential of conflicting
with the required windows range which will result in the same error
message as with prelink.
The solution to the problems these two new technologies create is to
disable them so they don't affect any WineX libraries or executable
code.
To disable automatic prelinking in the future edit /etc/sysconfig/prelink
and set PRELINKING to no by making sure the following line is present:
PRELINKING=no
Then execute the cron job, most likely /etc/cron.daily/prelink, to
reverse the prelink all of your libraries or manually run:
$ prelink -ua
To disable exec-shield you can either use the boot time option
"exec-shield=0" or it may be changed, before running WineX, by typing
either:
$ echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield
or
$ sysctl -w kernel.exec-shield=0
Known Issues and Comments
=========================
ATI FireGL drivers
------------------
TransGaming has seen some instability with ATI cards using FireGL
and/or DRI running WineX. Games of note with issues are Battlefield
1942, Grand Theft Auto - Vice City and Sacrifice. TransGaming is
continuing to improve support and we welcome all reports and your
votes in the polls.
Baldur's Gate 2
---------------
* The "Software Mirror BLT" option under the "2D 16 bit Color Depth"
should be enabled if the character sprites appear garbled.
* During the opening scene in the dungeon, occasionally the game will
not advance after the sewer gollum has talked. Simply restart.
Battlefield 1942
----------------
* The game must be patched to at least version 1.3 in order to fix problems
that will prevent it from starting the game engine properly.
* The [d3dgl] 'ClipSpaceFix' option needs to be disabled to run the game.
This has been configured by default in the config file.
* We recommend the use of 22 kHz sound for best performance, especially with
the movies and cutscenes. 44 kHz sound is known to cause performance degradation.
* Use of 24-bit color is recommended if shadow effects are enabled.
* The animated background of the main menu does not work.
* Alt-tab will crash the application.
* Using Punkbuster enabled servers may cause problems.
Black & White
-------------
* Playing in low texture mode will lead to crashing. You may not
be able to get back to the configuration screen to return to
normal detail.
Call of Duty
------------
* Copyprotection for this title does not presently work.
* The installer for this game will fail when trying to switch to the
second CD-ROM. To work around this problem select cancel when it asks
for the second CD-ROM and say NO to the question concerning reversing
the changes. Once stopped, insert and mount the second cd and copy
the files in Setup/Data/Main to the main directory inside the installed
Call of Duty. Additionally some registry entries will not be automatically
added. If you wish to play multiplayer then you will need to add the
following to your system.reg file in order to be able to upgrade your version:
[SOFTWARE\\Activision\\Call of Duty]
"InstallDrive"="D:"
"InstallPath"="C:\\Program Files\\Call Of Duty"
"Language"="1"
"Version"="1.1"
* Often the game will hang upon quitting.
Civilization III
----------------
* There are several sound problems with this application.
* Occasionally the game will crash when building the first city.
* Earlier patch levels will not pass copyprotection. v1.29f is
recommended.
Command and Conquer: Generals
-----------------------------
* The installer does not allow switching to the 2nd CD-ROM.
* Some versions of the installer do not even start.
* Game play is slow.
Counter Strike: Condition Zero
------------------------------
* Pushing the tab key may crash the game in single player mode.
Dark Age of Camelot
-------------------
* Users whose graphics cards only have 2 texture units (GF2MX,GF2 & GF4MX)
will notice graphical incorrectness such as a non textured floor.
* The sound in the installer and login screens is not good.
Dungeon Siege
-------------
* DS will lock up as soon as you move the mouse when using nVidia 4496
and later drivers. Downgrading drivers is the only reliable way
to solve the problem. Newer drivers appear to not have this problem
on NPTL systems.
* Even with older nVidia drivers, game may not work on some systems.
* Do not hit the 'ESC' key during game play, as it will cause the
game to freeze.
* Some setups may experience deadlocks before the main menu. Running with
any debug channels on generally works as a remedy.
* The water does not flow in the game.
* Multiplayer support is not yet available due to the use of
DirectPlay 8 in the game.
Grand Theft Auto 3
------------------
* The opening videos for Grand Theft Auto 3 work quite slowly under
WineX. The movies may be skipped by pressing the space bar twice.
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
--------------------------
* Occasionally textures may display incorrectly.
* The opening videos for Grand Theft Auto Vice City work quite slowly under
WineX. The movies may be skipped by pressing the space bar twice.
Homeworld 2
-----------
* Multiplayer support is not yet available due to the use of
DirectPlay 8 in the game.
Max Payne 2
-----------
* Pixel Shaders do not work, as they are not implemented by WineX. You
should make sure they are disabled in the games option screen.
Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault
------------------------------
* A defect in the game software, which should be fixed in the latest
Spearhead expansion patch, causes the game to crash under WineX. The
WineX team has provided a workaround. Both Point2Play and the winex3
start script are set up so that this game will work out of the box.
Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault Spearhead and Breakthrough
---------------------------------------------------------
* Copyprotection for these titles do not presently work.
Morrowind: Elder Scrolls III
----------------------------
* Pixel Shaders, used for water effects, are not yet available.
* The intro videos can freeze if they fall behind the play frame
rate due to a coding problem with the application.
Need For Speed: Underground
---------------------------
* The installer presently does not work due to its use of flash.
This can be worked around by killing the EReg.exe process when
the installation appears to hang. Additionally you need to use
the --use-dos-cwd option pointing to your CD-ROM drive.
* Copyprotection for this title does not presently work.
* The auto patcher for earlier versions of this title will not work
and you will have to manually download and patch.
* To play multiplayer online, you will need to manually register the
game on EA's website.
Sim City 4
----------
* To install the game, you must insert and mount the CD-ROM, and
use the following command line:
$ winex3 -use-dos-cwd f:/ -- f:/autorun.exe
If the installer asks you to install a new version of DCOM, say 'no'.
* The game has small graphical glitches when scrolling with the
hardware renderer. Use of the software renderer is recommended and
is automatic as of WineX 3.2.
* Use of the "?" to get information can cause graphical corruption.
Scrolling the window will clear this up.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
--------------------------------------
* The game will crash on exit.
* The online patcher does not fully work. Follow the patcher instructions
for downloading the manual patch.
* The game will crash if X is not in 24 bpp mode.
* Unless upgraded to at least 1.03 you may experience double cursors.
* The mouse is slightly "jittery". This may cause problems at the Ebon Hawk
gunner station - use the keyboard Luke.
* The game may not go fullscreen automatically unless upgraded to 1.03.
* The mouse will not be usable unless you disable "Hardware Mouse"
from the launcher configure screen.
Star Wars: Jedi Academy
-----------------------
* The installer cannot install the second CD-ROM. To work around this
copy the 2nd CD-ROM to the hard drive and point it to this drive
when you need to switch discs.
Steam
-----
* Window manager decorations are visible in several managers when they
should not be.
Warcraft III The Frozen Throne
------------------------------
* The desktop icon (shortcut) for Warcraft III will not function correctly
if installed with WineX 3.1, or earlier, due to the way the previous
WineX versions changed the command line. Either edit the shortcut to start
"Warcraft III.exe", rather than "War3.exe", add the -classic parameter,
or reinstall both Warcraft III and Frozen Throne.
Let the Games Begin