Medal Of Honor 2010 Guide

In Medal Of Honor 2010 you will step into the boots of a Tier 1 Operator in the most unforgiving and hostile battlefield conditions of present day Afghanistan.

Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Medal Of Honor in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Origin version of Medal Of Honor. Other versions may require additional steps.

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Mint 17.2 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.9
Wine: 1.8

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

Look for the Wine Version: 1.8
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Click Next

Downloading Wine

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 1.8 is installed and you can close this window

Download OriginSetup.exe

Go to: [url]https://www.dm.origin.com/download/legacy[/URL]
Navigate to your desktop
Click Save

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install

Click "Install a non-listed program"

Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next

Name your virtual drive: Medal Of Honor
Click Next

Check all three options:

• Use another version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next

Select "1.8"
Click Next

Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next

Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows XP
Click Apply

Note: Ignore the windows version in the screenshot

Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Click OK

Installing Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)

Check the following packages:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2008
• POL_Install_vcrun2010
• POL_Install_vcrun2012

Click Next

Click Browse

Installing Origin Client

Navigate to your Desktop
Select OriginSetup.exe
Click Open

Click Next Again

Uncheck all options:
Click Install

Installing...

Check "I have read and accept..."
Click OK

At this point the client will try to launch, but nothing will happen...
Origin will lock-down the Origin folder and is waiting
We can fix that, just leave Wine where its at for now

Origin Directory Permissions

Go to the Origin Directory
Path: /home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Origin/Drive_C/Program Files/
Right click
Select Properties

Click Folder Access Dropdown under "Owner"
Select "Create and delete files"
Click the File Access Dropdown under "Owner"
Select "Read and Write"
Click "Apply Permissions to Enclosed Files"
Click Close

Open the Origin directory
Delete these files:
igoproxy.exe
igoproxy64.exe

Origin Login will now appear
Login to Origin
Check "Remember Me"

Disable Overlay

Click Origin
Click Application Settings

Click "Origin In Game"
Uncheck "Enable Origin In Game"

Download Medal Of Honor

Click My Games
Select Medal Of Honor
Click Download

Check "I Agree"
Click Continue

Check "I Agree" again
Click Continue

Check "I Agree" one more time
Click "Start Download"

Installing Punkbuster
Click Next

Click "I Agree"

Click Next

Click Finish

When Medal Of Honor is finished downloading, Origin may crash
Click Exit Origin

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select Medal Of Honor.exe
Click Next

Name the shortcut: Medal Of Honor
Click Next

Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next

PlayOnLinux Configure

Select Medal Of Honor
Click Configure

General Tab
Wine version: 1.8

Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down arrow to select other versions of Wine

Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses

Close Configure

Launching Medal Of Honor

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Medal Of Honor
Click Run

Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Click Options
Click Video

Set the resolution to match your Linux Desktop
Adjust Quality, Texture, World, Shadows, Anti-Aliasing
Click Save

Gameplay Video:

Conclusion:
Medal of Honor plays very well in PlayOnLinux on my GeForce 550 Ti. Only a few frame stutters when areas load, but the fighting is very fluid. No tricks or work-arounds for this one, just get Origin setup, download the game and play!

Screenshots:

 

Good game, i test some time ago but i have steam version, origin dont have same features like steam (backup creation and others)

 

Pretty dang fun so far!
I'm stuck with the Origin version because I got it in a EA bundle

 

Excellent!

 

Medal of Honor is pretty amazing!
I almost purchased Bad Company 2 as well, but no co-op with bots

 

I'm trying to find the single player config file. The in game settings only show 1024x768 for me. I want to set it to 1366x768. Edit: Found it. It's the MOHAEngine.ini located (for me) under /home/user/Documents/EA Games/Medal of Honor. [SystemSettings]
ResX=
ResY=




Here is a list of groovy improvements, hope it is useful.
Works for me.

http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Medal_of_Honor_(2010)
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4976580&postcount=2649

 

That is strange, I was able to set the resolution in-game. Are you using the virtual desktop?

 

yes, everything is working now. It could have been because I installed it with staging to test, but I changed it to 1.8

 

Great! I love Wine 1.8

 

Great! I love Wine 1.8

I did notice however while in the settings that the MAHOEngine.ini contains an entry which is default AllowD3D10=False however I don't think D3D10 has been implemented yet however the entry does exist hoping that once they do this will be useful. I could be wrong however..

 

I did notice however while in the settings that the MAHOEngine.ini contains an entry which is default AllowD3D10=False however I don't think D3D10 has been implemented yet however the entry does exist hoping that once they do this will be useful. I could be wrong however..

DX10 and upper dont stay implement for now

However unreal engine 3 config files can allow change many things (very usefull): poolsize, dynamic shadows, light enviroment shadows, motion blur, motion blur pause, motion blur skinning, depth of field, ambient occlusion, bloom, high quality bloom, lens flares, fog volumes, radial blur and other options

 

In time, be patient and one day we will be able to play Direct X 10 & 11 games.
Until then, there are plenty of Direct X 9 games that work wonderfully in Wine

 

Updated the Origin Legacy Installer for Windows XP

 

Updated the Origin Legacy Installer for Windows XP

Thanks to ea legacy client origin works without issues in my case too

Shamefully uplay dont have legacy client as origin

 

Awesome! Thank you for confirming. I didn't test Medal Of Honor with legacy Origin, but I noticed while testing Bulltestorm that the new Origin doesn't run at all. So legacy was the only way

 

Brian, do you know which ports have to be open to play the 'Tier 1' bit? I have the single player working, but can't connect to the servers while trying to play Tier 1. If I disable the firewall, it connects, but I don't want to do that.

 

I do not. I only tested the singleplayer campaign. I'm sure you can find something online for Windows multi-player.

Honestly I avoid multi-player games like these because a lot of time Wine isn't compatible with punkbuster and anti-cheat implementations. And I suck at them

 

The Tier 1 games aren't multi-player; they are different types of challenge games that are played single. But there needs to be a connection, because you qualify on leaderboards that are online.

Some holes have to be punched in the firewall to do this. I've got some of the ports figured out, but I'm not done yet. When I have a full list of ports needed to open I'll report back.

 

Really? I've never heard of this!
Please detail your findings once you get it working.

 

Ok, I think I've got it by trial and error. The executable needs the following ports OPEN:

TCP out on ports 80, 443, 2828, 9946, 14611, 17502, and 42100

UDP out on ports 1900 and 17499-17501

This allows access to the leaderboards, and enables the 'TIER 1' challenges. I've tried this on both my Cloud Core Router and on a software firewall in both Linux and Windows. Of course, YMMV, but it works here.