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

[Jordan Windsor]

Thanks for your help, but unfortunately it appears that PunkBuster
will never work in Wine. (Literally)
Thanks!

2010/6/14 Dan Vratil <vratil at progdansoft.com>:
> 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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