[arch-general] How do I get Battlefield 2 with Steam running under Wine?

[Dan Vratil]

On Monday 14 June 2010 12:00:46 Jordan Windsor wrote:
> Thanks for your help,
> I was able to get the game running and play a single player game but I
> was unable to play any multiplayers matches.
> I was kicked by PunkBuster (Anti-Cheating service) any known solution?
> 


Check WineHQ App repository, there's some guide how to make multiplayer 
running [1].

Dan

[1] http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2424


> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Dan Vratil <vratil at progdansoft.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 14 June 2010 10:04:46 Jordan Windsor wrote:
> >> I've tried: bin32-wine(AUR), bin32-wine-suse(AUR) & bin32-wine(Arch
> >> Gaming Repo)
> >> 
> >> Here's the output of running Steam under Wine and selecting to run
> >> Battlefield 2 through Steam http://pastebin.com/Aea4takn
> >> 
> >> Thanks.
> > 
> > From the output it seems that you are missing 32bit graphics drivers -
> > bin32- nvidia-utils for nvidia or lib32-catalyst-utils for ATI graphics.
> > 
> > Then you are missing lib32-libxml2 and lib32-libjpeg and optionally you
> > can install lib32-mpg123 too.
> > 
> > Then make sure you have DirectX, MSXML3, MSXML4 installed in Wine (you
> > can use winetricks to properly install it) and set them all as native.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
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