Age Of Wushu Guide

Everything you want from Anime in a single game! Age of Wushu is a massive online multiplayer RPG with loads of character development, massive environments and classic Kung Fu moves all in Ancient China. Spend hours building up skills, exploring or socializing with NCP's and PVP characters.

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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Age of Wushu in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Snail Games version of Age of Wushu. Other versions may require additional steps.

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int 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.4
Wine: 1.5.19

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Look for the Wine Version: 1.5.19
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
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Click Next

Downloading Wine
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Downloading Gecko
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Installed
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Wine 1.5.19 is installed and you can close this window

Age of Wushu Downloader

Go to: www.ageofwushu.com
Click Download
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Download full game by clicking "Click here to download"
Or Download separate .cab files to a folder on your desktop
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Save Ageofwushu_download.exe to your desktop
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PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "Install a non-listed program"
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Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name your virtual drive: ageofwushu
Click Next
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Select all three options:
  • Use another version of Wine
  • Configure Wine
  • Install some libraries

Click Next
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Select Wine 1.5.19
Click Next

Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply
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Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop Size: Set to match the resolution of your Linux desktop
Click OK
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Installing Components (Libraries/Packages/DLL's)

Check the following:
  • POL_Install_corefonts
  • POL_Install_d3dx9
  • POL_Install_gdiplus
  • POL_Install_physx
  • POL_Install_registered_fonts
  • POL_Install_tahoma
  • POL_Install_wininet
  • POL_Install_xact
Click Next
Note: All libraries will automatically download and install

Installing Age Of Wushu

Click Browse
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Navigate to your desktop
Select "AgeofWushu_download.exe"
Click Open
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Click Next

Age of Wushu launcher will run
Click Start to begin downloading (10 GB)
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Downloading...
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Installing Age of Wushu

Click Next

Select "I accept the terms..."
Click Next

click Next

Click Install

Installing

Uncheck "Launch Now"
Click Finish
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "fxlaunch.exe"
Click Next
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Name your shortcut: Age Of Wushu
Click Next
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PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Age Of Wushu"
Click Configure
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General Tab
Wine Version: 1.5.19
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Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine.

Display Tab
Video Memory size: Select the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
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Close Configure

Launching Age of Wushu

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Age of Wushu
Click Run
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Note: Click Debug to see console errors and bugs

Click Confirm
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Select a server
Click Confirm
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Updating/Settings

After selecting a server Age of Wushu will probably download an update
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Click Settings
  • Uncheck Windowed Mode for fullscreen
  • Adjust Resolution
  • Adjust volumes
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Click Play
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Loading...
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Login
Click Enter Game
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Select Character
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Optimization

Press Esc in-game
Click Video Options
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Use presets on the left
Or
Adjust settings manually
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Rule of Thumb:
High settings = More detail, lower frame rates
Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rates

The Video Options has a great Frame Counter.
As you increase the settings watch the frame rate.
Anything below 20 will stutter a lot.

Conclusion:
I originally tested Age of Wushu with Wine 1.6.2 and newer version, but kept getting a pop-up error "Speed Up" and it was very annoying. Luckily I found Wine 1.5.19 runs perfectly!
Also, the game refuses to do high resolutions unless you set the virtual desktop first. So I set mine for 1680x1050 and it played fullscreen just fine. What a beautiful game! I was able to crank the depth of view really high on my GeForce 550 Ti and see mountains and buildings really far away.

Gameplay Video

Screenshots:
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Zergling_man
CTD = crash to desktop. It's caused by an array index out of bounds error, but I have no idea what array.
By "clients open" I mean I run the game multiple times. For some reason Snail won't let you have it open more than three times (as opposed to once, like every sensible game), and if it crashes it will still be considered active. I never did work out exactly what it uses to track itself, but killing the wine server and restarting it will reset the count.

I'm currently using wine-staging-nine, which is at 2.12-1. I suppose I could try a newer version, but that would likely take me back to square 1 since it wouldn't have gal9 features.

EDIT: Oh, and I forgot to include another error above. About 20 seconds after the launcher starts, it will slow your system to a crawl - or at least, it'll take xorg down. I don't know if it affects other terminals too.
 
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booman
Ok, I have a feeling this is the problem with your crashing. I've never run multiple clients of a single game at the same time. I've never needed to. I'm sure that Wineserver is getting overwhelmed.

Does it crash with a single client running?

Oh and you are running gallium 9 too... good, I didn't realize newer versions of Wine do not implement the gallium 9 features.
 
Zergling_man
It does crash with a single client. See my report earlier; it takes considerably longer than with multiple.

Using gal9 is the only way I can get the game to run. :p We spoke about this ages back; see about 8 comments ago.
And ah, my problem isn't that newer versions lack the features, it's that the features only exist in the -nine branches; being wine-gaming-nine and wine-staging-nine. staging is supposedly the better of the two, but... gaming seems to be the more current/unstable version, at 2.14 already.
So I suppose I could install wine-gaming-nine but it takes about 2 hours to compile (from AUR), and tends to update three days after I bother to spend that time.
I need to learn how to install branches of wine in PoL...

EDIT from previous post: 2.12-1, not 1.12-1.
 
booman
Sorry Zergling_Man, I have a lot of conversations with a lot of gamers, so sometimes its hard to remember our previous conversations.
I can re-test Age of Wushu on my GeForce cards in Mint, but it is really a different environment. so there is a chance it might work just fine for me, but have issue with your distro, drivers and wine version.
For example: Daerandin has tested Warhammer 40K Space Marine recently because it has failed in the past. It happened to launch just fine but when he shoots an enemy it crashes the game. So I gave it a try as well and low-and-behold the game runs GREAT on my hardware. So far we have no idea why???
 
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