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War in the Pacific: AE running in Linux - 2/8/2012 2:24:59 AM

temagic

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Hi there, tried to post this on the Tech Support sub-forum, but it got deleted without any notification to me, so I suppose I posted it on the wrong forum then. So I'm trying to repost it now.

Anyway, War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition is running beautiful on my Ubuntu Linux (actually runs better than in Windows 7, seeing as though I cannot get widescreen support to work in Windows 7, while in Ubuntu it works!)

Anyway, for you Linux users, this is how I got the game up and running:

Using Ubuntu 11.10 x64 and PlayOnLinux with Wine version 1.3.37(x86)
In PlayOnLinux install the following packages:

wmp9
wmpcodecs
directmusic
dsound
devenum
quartz
msxml4
mfc42
msasn1
ffdshow
vcrun2008

To get fullscreen support, edit the Witp:AE shortcut-file in

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/shortcuts/ and add the -px -py parameters after "War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe"

so that it reads (as in my case):
POL_Wine "War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -px1280 -py800 $@

That's it. I've submitted a report to WineApp database to rerate the game to 'gold' and I'm submitting a report to PlayOnLinux to have the game in their database.

EDIT3: All right, after having played around a bit, I've found one error in the game running on Linux, and that is that the 'esc' key will not close database, ops report or combat reprts, so you have to click on 'exit' with your mouse instead.

Also, game loading is slow, after clicking on the desktop icon, it takes a while before the game launches and then the loading stalls for quite some time at around ~80%. Once the game has started though, I've seen no major speed difference from Windows, with the exception that manual saving is sluggish and laggish. Auto saving is fast though

< Message edited by temagic -- 2/8/2012 7:47:48 AM >

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RE: War in the Pacific: AE running in Linux - 2/8/2012 7:30:18 AM

sanderz

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thankyou for posting this

will try this on my linux box

cheers

sanderz

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RE: War in the Pacific: AE running in Linux - 2/8/2012 7:39:49 AM

temagic

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I failed miserably with getting either Staff or Tracker working. Do not have the knowledge to reprogram the java code itself, and, without it, it cannot run in Linux, unfortunately.

Anyway, at least we've got the game running now. That's a start:)

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RE: War in the Pacific: AE running in Linux - 2/8/2012 8:58:17 AM

EUBanana

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Thank you very much.

Surprised Tracker doesn't work, what non-portable Java fu is it using? I can't see what it would need which would be tied to Windows.

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RE: War in the Pacific: AE running in Linux - 2/8/2012 1:17:40 PM

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I'm surprised too ... Linux can deal with Java and that is what tracker is programmed in. The only thing is the pwsdll.dll file which talks to the savefile and tracker which is written in C/C++

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RE: War in the Pacific: AE running in Linux - 2/8/2012 4:33:23 PM

temagic

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Would love it if some of you guys would have a look at making Tracker and Staff run under Linux. I made no success running it. Ended up with some obscure error message after like more than an hour of fiddling with the program. Installed sun java 6 update 17 (which is the last known version to work with Tracker) visual c++ runtime environment and set pwsdll as a new entry in the library on wine. This was pretty much as far as I got. After that, I could no longer make anything out of the error message:)

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RE: War in the Pacific: AE running in Linux - 2/8/2012 10:18:29 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: temagic

Would love it if some of you guys would have a look at making Tracker and Staff run under Linux. I made no success running it. Ended up with some obscure error message after like more than an hour of fiddling with the program. Installed sun java 6 update 17 (which is the last known version to work with Tracker) visual c++ runtime environment and set pwsdll as a new entry in the library on wine. This was pretty much as far as I got. After that, I could no longer make anything out of the error message:)

Any chance to look at those error messages ?

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