Age Of Wushu Guide

mrdeathjr28 · Aug 8, 2014

Good guide as always and have very nice to see (especially water shader)

Romulo Neves · Jul 28, 2015

Hi, Thanks for the guide. But I'm having problems

I get "error in main, age of wushu blocked" just when I run from playonlinux. Then the left panel (news, I'm guessing) is blank. When I hit Play, a window in game pops up: "SGP initialize failed".
Any ideas?
Thanks

booman · Jul 28, 2015

Welcome to the forum!
I can't believe someone is playing Age of Wushu... this is GREAT!

Can you give me a bit more information?

Distro
Video card/chip
PlayOnLinux version
Wine version

Are you able to run any other games in Linux?

Romulo Neves · Jul 28, 2015

Hi booman, thanks for replying.
Yes, I've played the game for a day before (on windows), and for a complete newbie like me the community there was REALLY welcoming.

I'm running mint 17 64bits.
Graphic card is Nvidia GTS 250
Playonlinux version 4.2.5
Wine version 1.5.19 as ordered in tut.

Yes, I can run Lineage 2 and WoW already.

booman · Jul 28, 2015

SGP is an anti-cheat process installed by Age Of Wushu: Snail Game Protect
I wonder if this is new? I didn't originally have any problems with it.
Definitely try using the Wine Manager in PlayOnLinux, download Wine 1.7.47 and Wine 1.7.47staging
Then go to Configure and change from Wine 1.5.19 to 1.7.47 and launch again.

Dimebag · Oct 25, 2015

Hi, @booman! I just tried to install Age of Wulin (the Wushu in Europe) and I run across an error: please check the display equipment, confirmed open 3d acceleration!

Can you please help me make it work? I a beginner in linux and don't know where to start.

I am running Ubuntu 64bits
on an ASUS UX32VD with nVidia 620M
Wine version 1.6.19
Playonlinux 4.2.2

Dimebag · Oct 25, 2015

Wine 1.5.19* won't let me edit

booman · Oct 26, 2015

Sounds like you don't have proper video drivers installed.
What distro are you using and what video card/chip do you have?

Dimebag · Oct 26, 2015

booman said:
Sounds like you don't have proper video drivers installed.
What distro are you using and what video card/chip do you have?

Ubuntu 15.04 LTS / nVidia 620M (dedicated card in laptop)

I did manage to get a few steps further by re-following carefully the steps in this guide. I now managed to get past the "start game" button but the client freezes/crashes in the screen before login.

Any idea? If it's possible to talk in private, it should be more efficient.

booman · Oct 26, 2015

Are you able to play any other games in Ubuntu 15.04?

Lets keep this public so others can read about your experience.
I haven't tested Age of Wushu in a long time, but you may want to download a newer version of Wine like: 1.7.53 or even 1.7.53-staging
Then test again

Dimebag · Oct 26, 2015

booman said:
Are you able to play any other games in Ubuntu 15.04?

Lets keep this public so others can read about your experience.
I haven't tested Age of Wushu in a long time, but you may want to download a newer version of Wine like: 1.7.53 or even 1.7.53-staging
Then test again

I have tried with 1.7.53 and it still gets stuck in the same place. I do have two ideas of where it might go wrong:
- is maybe the EU version a bit different?
- the nvidia driver may not be well configured. I have followed this guide: http://xmodulo.com/install-configure-nvidia-optimus-driver-ubuntu.html
Do you know of any way to verify once and for all if the nvidia is installed correctly?

Dimebag · Oct 26, 2015

Oh and no, haven't played any other game. It's actually a fresh install of ubuntu

booman · Oct 27, 2015

You might be right about the EU version, but I'm not sure because I can't test it myself. I also don't have an Intel/Nvidia graphics chips.
I suggest trying some free-to-play Steam games first to make sure the Nvidia proprietary drivers are installed correctly. There has to be a way to switch between the Intel and Nvidia chips.

Did all of the commands for the Optimus driver work?
Were you able to switch to Nvidia with

Code:

prime-switch nvidia

Or can you use the Prime Indicator Package?

Dimebag · Oct 27, 2015

booman said:
You might be right about the EU version, but I'm not sure because I can't test it myself. I also don't have an Intel/Nvidia graphics chips.
I suggest trying some free-to-play Steam games first to make sure the Nvidia proprietary drivers are installed correctly. There has to be a way to switch between the Intel and Nvidia chips.

Did all of the commands for the Optimus driver work?
Were you able to switch to Nvidia with

Code:

prime-switch nvidia

Or can you use the Prime Indicator Package?

I don't know what else to try. Tried all sorts of things found on google, nothing worked. Finally purged everything nvidia related and did fresh install of nvidia-current. Nothing changed. Atm:

Using nvidia-settings I can't see the graphics card and the command line output is:
** Message: PRIME: Requires offloading
** Message: PRIME: is it supported? no

Doing lspci | grep VGA I only see the intel.
prime-switch nvidia doesn't work

booman · Oct 27, 2015

Sounds like the Optimus drivers are not working then.
Are you sure your Nvidia chip is supported?
Looks like we know what the problem is, but I'm no help in this area because I don't have dual GPU hardware. Maybe try posting on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/

There is a post here about re-installing the drivers:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/450154/nvidia-331-nvidia-settings-prime-profile-switching-error

Dimebag · Oct 28, 2015

booman said:
Sounds like the Optimus drivers are not working then.
Are you sure your Nvidia chip is supported?
Looks like we know what the problem is, but I'm no help in this area because I don't have dual GPU hardware. Maybe try posting on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/

There is a post here about re-installing the drivers:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/450154/nvidia-331-nvidia-settings-prime-profile-switching-error

I can't seem to make prime/optimus or bumblebee work. I see some post saying optimus is not supported by nvidia on ubuntu, and another one saying the exact opposite. I have found several different ways to reinstall the drivers. All this hassle makes me switch back to windows and just run ubuntu in a VM if needed.

Though I do have to ask: do I NEED nvidia to make the game work? I remember using ASUS power4gear on windows (which i assume is the same thing as optimus) and it worked fine; could feel how the powersaving option was making the system slower BUT the game still worked.

booman · Oct 28, 2015

Yup, this is one of the downsides to Linux. Its not even Linux's fault, instead its driver support by Nvidia, Intel and AMD.

There are two more things we can try.
Since you want to play games in Linux video drivers are VERY imporant and once they are working everything should play happily as long as your GPU is fast enough for most games. At least you don't have an AMD video card. Those drivers are even worse.
One unfortunate thing about 64-bit Distros is that they don't automatically install the 32-bit libraries so you can play games. The computer world is turning in a 64-bit world, but there are still 100 thousand programs that can only run in 32-bit.
So you will need to install the 32-bit libraries manually in the Terminal

Ubuntu 14 32-bit libraries:

Code:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Press Enter

Code:

sudo apt-get update

Press Enter

Code:

sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386

Press Enter

That still may not be enough libraries, so if you still have problems here is how to install ALL of them.

Ubuntu 32-bit Instructions:

Code:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386; sudo apt-get update

Press Enter

Code:

sudo apt-get install libasound2:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386 libfontconfig1:i386 lib32nss-mdns libgnutls26:i386 libxslt1.1:i386 libxcursor1:i386 libxcomposite1:i386 libosmesa6:i386 libopenal1:i386 libmpg123-0:i386 libldap-2.4-2:i386 liblcms2-2:i386 libgstreamer0.10-0:i386 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:i386 libgsm1:i386 libxinerama1:i386 libxi6:i386 libv4l-0:i386 libsane:i386 libudev1:i386 libxml2:i386 libcups2:i386 libxrandr2:i386 libice6:i386 libsm6:i386

Press Enter

I honestly recommend Linux Mint 17 instead of Ubuntu. Its more like Windows and includes stable driver installation (at least for my single Graphics Card).
And you can easily install 32-bit libraries through the software installer.

Dimebag · Nov 15, 2015

Hi. Been a long time because I kinda gave up on the idea. The i386 drivers were already installed and still doesn't work. I give up on trying to make it work on ubuntu. I will give Mint a try later, when I will have more time to mess around.

I have talked with other people that made it work with your guide so there's no doubt it's spot-on. Thank you for the help and will try again in a few months probably.

Cheers!

booman · Nov 16, 2015

No problem
Feel free to post your experience and solutions.