Hi,

First thank you for your tutorial. I discovered this website searching for info concerning ARC software (to install STO), and then I discovered this page.

I installed Path of exile, using POL, but the game suffers of font glitches. It's a known bug, apparently, regarding the wine appdb page :

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=25078&iTestingId=78043

The guy on wine appdb seems to have found a workaround, but I don't understand it...

On your screenshots you don't seem to have these font glitches, did you find a solution (or understood the wine appdb workaround solution...lol) ?


thank you !

Hi,

I installed POE with POL automatic installer. It's using wine 1.5.28. I guess all libraries are installed with it. I also installed POE with wine 1.6, without POL.

I also disable gsgl because it caused big frame drops. Compared to the windows version, the performance is playable but not as good, I'd say about 15-20fps less. But I feel that processor speed is important in Wine, and mine is not that good (amd athlon 64x2 dual core 2.2ghz, I'll upgrade to 3ghz version asap).

I tried to copy/paste the game files in diferent ways (creating a new POL disk, or with bare version of wine), with no succes. I'm a bit lost concerning this workaround. I understand I should copu/paste the game folder somewhere, but I don't see how it will fix the problem.

I think I will first try to reinstall the game following your tutorial perfectly, and see if it fixes the problem. I'll come back then. It will be very long, since the installer take ages to install the game (even if I'v got a decent 1.5mo dl speed).


Thank you

Thank you for your help. Now I see how I can copy/paste the game. I didn't understood how I could do that.

I'll try this tommorow. off topic, Tonight I played Psychonauts so I didn't made any progress on POE font problem. Really great native game, especially with xbox360 controller.

Concerning Path of exile performance, it's really playable on my system (nvidia gtx650 ti), about 30-50fps (depanding the zone), with graphics almost maxed. A really good canditate for linux gaming, definitly. Just this annoying font bug I have.

Concerning GSGL, if enabled it drops the framerate when a new monster appears (or any interactive item).


I'll keep you informed.

Hi,


Yes pyschonauts is one of the best modern plateform games I played for ages. The last one I had so much fun is Rayman, I believe.

Concerning POE, I don't have lighting problems in the game. The only problems are :

- GSGL (once disabled, problem is fixed), wich is a known problem, according to wine appdb.
- fonts : apparently, a known problem too.

I don't know how to create a debug output ?


By the way, I'm currently trying to reinstall the game, following your last advises. But POL asks me something not presented in the guide : "wich type of virtual drive do you want to create" (I translate from french) and I can choose :

32 bit windows installation
64 bit windows installation


What should I choose ?

Then I 'll try to reinstall the game using your trick :

thanks

I'll do that tonight, and come back with results. Then, I'll try to reinstall the game following your tips.


thanks

Hi,

I reinstalled the game (I broke it trying to fix my font problem...Still not fixed, by the way), with wine 1.7.1, and same guide settings (+gsgl disabled as always on my hardware).

The game freeze at the lobby (the 1st village where your character appears).


I tried to change the settings (disabling opengl, enabling GSGL), still freezing.


edit : OUPS probably nothing related to wine 1.7.1...I changed it to 1.6.4 (the same the guide advised) and the game stills freeze when the game starts (in the room where you can trade items or weapons with NPC, etc...)

I don't know what I did wrong, but the game cannot work anymore. It even crashed my whole system (at least, as far as I know).

Strange. I'm not brave enough to reinstall it again. It took the whole afternoon and a part of the evening.

I posted on POL forum concerning this font problem. No new answers comparing what I readed on wine appdb concerning this problem.

The game can be played even with this glitches, but 20fps less + font glitches + install I missed 3 straight times, I believe next time I'll play it will be probably on the secondary windows drive...

No big deal since I've got plenty of native games to play on linux

Mine plays also quite well, and perfectly playable, but still be slower (verified with showfps graph ingame function). But when I made the tests, I didn't change the processor already, so maybe it is diferent now.

But first I have to make the game working to verify.

No problem, I'll try it. I just have to find enough motivation

Just in case it helps anyone else trying to install this game.....

I was getting "failed resetting direct3d device" just before login screen and then it would close.
I had to change my production_Config.ini file to full screen and set it to match my screen resolution. That file is located in the virtual drive at /home/user/My Games/Path of Exile
Mine looks like this
[DISPLAY]
adapter_name=Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile
antialias_mode=0
borderless_windowed_fullscreen=false
fullscreen=true
post_processing=false
resolution_height=768
resolution_width=1366
screen_shake=true
shadow_type=hardware_3_samples
texture_filtering=2
texture_quality=1
vsync=true

Runs great now.