Renegade X Guide

Renegade X is inspired by Command and Conquer but now you are playing as a sole unit in a first person shooter perspective. Choose to play as GDI or Brotherhood of Nod and battle in huge multi-player arena's in vehicular combat.

Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Renegade X in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the UDK version of Renegade X. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs.:

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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.5
Wine: 1.6.2

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

Look for the Wine Version: 1.6.2
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Click Next

Downloading Wine

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 1.6.2 is installed and you can close this window

Download Renegade X
Download from a local mirror here: http://renegade-x.com/download.php
or
Here: https://renegade-x.com/files/file/1-renegade-x/

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: renegadex
Click Next

Check all three options:

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

Click Next

Select Wine 1.6.2
Click Next

Select "32-bits windows installation"
Click Next

Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: windows 7
Click Apply

Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1920x1080 (match your Linux desktop)
Click Ok

PlayOnLinux Packages (DLL's, Libraries, Components"

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_dxfullsetup
• POL_Install_dotnet40
• POL_Install_msxml3
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2005
• POL_Install_vcrun2008
• POL_Install_vcrun2010
• POL_Install_xact_jun2010

Click Next

Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Installing Renegade X

Click Browse

Select "RenegadeX-OpenBeta3a.exe"
Click Open

Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Check "Don't create a Start Menu folder"
Click Next

Uncheck "Create a desktop icon"
Click Next

Click Install

Uncheck "Launch Renegade X"
Click Finish

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "UDK.exe"
Click Next

Name your shortcut: Renegade X
Click Next

Click Next

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Renegade X"
Click Configure

General Tab
Wine Version: 1.6.2
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

Close Configure

Renegade X Crash

Renegade X will crash at the UDK screen every time unless you make this fullscreen change.
Navigate to:

/home/booman/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/renegadex/drive_c/Program Files/Renegade

Note: username is where you put your Linux login

Open UDKSystemSettings.ini in TextEditor
Type "False" where Fullscreen is at the top of the file
Click Save
Close UDKSystemSettings.ini

Right-click UDKSystemSettings.ini
Click Permissions Tab
Make sure all permissions are "Read-only"
Click Close

Note: UDK will reset the "False" to "True" if you don't make the file "Read-only"

Launching Renegade X

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Renegade X
Click Run

Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

UDK should launch windowed
Click "I accept"

.NET errors
You will see pop-up errors like this
Click OK or press Spacebar

Optimization

Click Settings

!IMPORTANT!
Do not change the windowed/full-screen setting!
Use Alt+Enter later when the map loads
Otherwise you might get some crazy artifacts

Adjust the resolution to match your Linux desktop

Adjust presets or manually adjust:

• Anti-Aliasing
• Texture filters
• Motion Blur
• Dynamic Lights
• Dynamic Shadows
• Textures
• Detail level
• Mesh LOD
• Effects LOD
• Shadows

Click Apply

Rule of Thumb:
High settings = More detail, lower frame rates
Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rates

Fullscreen:
Load a single-player level
When it has fully loaded and you are in-game
Press Alt+Enter to go fullscreen

Conclusion:
To play online, the server browser won't list any active servers, but you can enter an IP address to a hosting server by the Renegade X developers:
http://renegadexgs.appspot.com/servers.jsp

The full-screen bug is annoying, but once you get in-game and go full-screen, it runs very nicely. Just make sure to set your "virtual desktop" to match your Linux desktop resolution.

I don't know why .NET errors every time you launch the game because it still works just fine. I had smooth frame rates with my GeForce 550 Ti in Wine 1.6.2. I tried other newer versions of wine and it still ran fine, but the full-screen bug was still there. I would set "windowed" to "full-screen" and got a huge amount of graphical artifacts.
renegadex39.png

The only other bug is when you Exit the game it crashes

When this happens just Alt+Tab to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
Click Wine Tab
Click "Kill Processes"

When dotnet 4.5 is compatible with Wine, I hope these bugs disappear

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:

 

Oops, I forgot about that... Thanks!
I removed the links all together. Honestly I have already uninstalled Renegade X from my machine and moved on to testing other games. So I haven't tried online play yet.

So will the servers in the external link work if I enter an IP address into the server browser in-game?
That would be the easiest way for most gamers.
I'm trying to avoid too much terminal use because these guides really cater to gamers coming from Windows.

 

I'm sad to hear you're not actually playing the game. There's at least 1 full server (50 ppl) every day, and online is so different from offline bots.

Yes, there is an "Enter IP" option in the in-game server listing, and only the actual IP is required (port, password, etc. are optional).

You can avoid terminal use as much as you like, but sooner or later you will realize the terminal is your home and your friend in every way. It will always be there for you, literally, lol. When anything or everything goes wrong, the terminal can not only tell you what's wrong, but also easily fix it all. You may not realize it, but that is one of the worst things about Windows: hiding all the essential info (hiding its terminals/consoles), and giving you useless non-informative error pop-ups. Personally, it's very scary for me whenever I have to use Windows again ... I have no idea what's going on, and no way to do any thing about it.
If you don't like the look of the terminal, make it something likable: Many terminal programs offer customization, with text and background colors/images for the terminal. You can easily make it Matrix-like.

 

I post a new guide every week, so I don't have a lot of time to play games. But I did spends a few hours playing different levels. Now that I know it runs online, I wish I had kept it installed.

I have nothing against the terminal. It definitely has its uses! I'm just trying to keep all of the guides very "beginner sensitive" for those moving from Windows to Linux.
They will get overwhelmed quickly if I have all these Terminal instructions.
It will turn them off right at the beginning.

So I'm trying to make it as easy as possible for them to run Windows games in PlayOnLinux.
Its bad enough that a lot of Win games require extra steps just in PlayOnLinux.
Wine alone requires even more.

 

Yeah, I suppose. I do remember really getting annoyed at seeing so much terminal stuff at first, and I wish I had a much less steep learning curve (Windows one day, Linux terminal the next T_T).

Now that I look around, you do seem very busy with guides. Nice Job! I haven't seen many of the games before and they look so incredible, especially with the great screenshots (Wine AppDB likes to hide all the spectacular screenshots).

A quick heads-up: I managed to get MechWarrior Online downloading and working well (unlike previously). Check WineAppDB if you want to try it out.

It's so satisfying and fulfilling, getting something to work, and work right, especially when it wasn't really possible before.

 

Exactly! Some games work perfectly out-of-the-box, but other games are stubborn and require some trial-n-error.
I'm basically saving everyone else from dealing with the hours of trial-n-error.
When I started doing game testing in Linux, my goal was to see if my Window$ games would run or not. I found that the majority of my games DO run! Some perfectly, others not so much.
So I figured I might as well share it with the world!

If you are interested in doing some guides for us, let me know. We would love to have more game guides posted on our site!
Specially games like MechWarrior and the whole series.

 

Well, I already do write VERY detailed guides and tips on how to get games working through Wine. I really don't use PlayOnLinux and have already found some significant discrepancies from normal Wine, including in winetricks oddly enough. I work and know to work on the lower level, or the more direct workings of Wine. In essence, if you have problems with something running through Wine, I might know how to fix it or work around it. Even I'm surprised how much I managed to get working just in the past 3-4 months (I wish I had the time to play them all!), although I think that's more on the part of better and better Wine versions recently.

As for the MechWarriorOnline part, although I do own many many old MechWarrior games, "MechWarriorOnline" is a NEW Free-To-Play Multiplayer game recently released, using the CryEngine 3:

https://mwomercs.com/landingpad
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=14495
http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/115147-mwo-repair-tool-public-release/

 

I'm experiencing the exact same thing. In the last two years I've been able to test over 100 games and almost all of them are working.
I'm sending you a Private Message

 

Zachary Knight beat me to making the server browser for Renegade X:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=31286 (Installation Instructions section)
https://github.com/knightzac19/RenX-Server-Browser/tree/master/dist