Absolute Force Online on Linux

Jean David TECHER

Table of Contents

1. Settings
2. Instructions

Note

Test was done on a virtual machine running on Xen 4.3 unstable. VGA passthrough feature is used so the domU has acces to the graphic card.

1. Settings

Linux OS = Ubuntu 12.04 32-Bit
Wine version = 1.5.29
Wine has to be patched = YES
Winetricks is required = YES
CPU = Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz
RAM = 8GB
Graphic Card = Sapphire HD 7970 3GB
Graphic Driver = AMD/ATI 13.4

2. Instructions

Download wine sources (http://www.winehq.org) for 1.5.29 and decompress
```
tar xvjf wine-1.5.29.tar.bz2
```

Wine has to be patched using the patch http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6901628/disable-dynamic-vertex-buffers.patch

cd wine-1.5.29
wget -q "http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6901628/disable-dynamic-vertex-buffers.patch" -O - | patch -p1

Build Wine in a new folder (so you can keep safe your current wine installation)

./configure --prefix=/opt/wine/apps/Absolute_Force_Online/ && make -j4 && sudo make install

Generate a fresh WINEPREFIX

sudo mkdir pv /opt/wine/datas/

# Replace david in the command line below by your current user
sudo chown david:david /opt/wine/datas/

export PATH=/opt/wine/apps/Absolute_Force_Online/bin/:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/wine/apps/Absolute_Force_Online/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export WINEPREFIX="/opt/wine/datas/Absolute_Force_Online"

winecfg

TIme to use winetricks
```
winetricks vcrun2008 xact_jun2010 
```

For DirectD3D I use

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"AlwaysOffScreen"="enabled"
"Multisampling"="disabled"
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
"RenderTargetLockMode"="readdraw"
"StrictDrawOrdering"="disabled"
"UseGLSL"="enabled"
"VideoMemorySize"="3072"
"VideoPciDeviceID"="0x6798"
"VideoPciVendorID"="0x1002"

Note

Don't forget that values for VideoMemorySize, VideoPciDeviceID, VideoPciVendorID depend on your graphic card.

Go to afo.91.com and register and download the installer for AFO
Install the installer using wine
```
wine AFO_V1017.exe
```
Each tme you play and in order to boost performance use
```
WINEDEBUG=-all wine Play.exe
```
Note
IMPORTANT DON'T LET THE WINDOW LAUNCHED BY THE PLAYER BE MINIMIZED OR ELSE YOU WILL LOST YOUR RESOLTUTION SCREEN.