Guide: Installing Rift on Linux Ubuntu 10.10 with Winetricks

[TheGrinnz]

I followed the instructions in the opening post, but whenever I click play, it comes up with "Error communicating with the patching process. (Error #1026). Last message: 0000006D" anyone else get this? and any ideas on fixing it?

Old, but this is from an issue with multiple cores. See http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26018 and http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17195

As a temporary workaround I prepended "taskset -c 0" to the beginning of my Rift launcher, which isolates the game to the first cpu core. Obviously this is not ideal, and in the second bug I linked it appears a fix for the overall issue is being worked on. Wine 1.4 was just released so hopefully it will be fixed soon.

Additionally, d3dx9_43 from winetricks (d3dx9 didn't install this for me) is now required. After installing I did not need to change any native/builtin settings.

[Utopi]

Anyone playing on gentoo? I chose that distro after my windows crashed and burned. Almost done with the install.

Gentoo user here, only game in Linux with Winehq. I avg around 30-40 FPS but I have a beast of a machine. 2700k + 570 Gtx.

[Felenaa]

Currently running best with the following reg tweaks inside the bottle.

HKEYCU -> Software -> Wine -> Direct3D
DirectDrawRenderer: opengl
Multisampling: enabled
OffscreenRenderingMode: fbo
AlwaysOffscreen: enabled
UseGLSL: enabled
VertexShaderMode: hardware
VideoMemorySize: 1024
StrictDrawOrdering: enabled
VideoPciDeviceID: (DWORD Hex) e22
VideoPciVendorID: (DWORD Hex) 10de

I'm running a 32-bit bottle on x64 ArchLinux.

Overrides are:
*msvcr90 (native)
d3dx9_43 (builtin, native)

I originally installed just the DirectX9_43 file as the only override I used was that, but actually I found that installing the entire DX9 and removing all overrides except the _43 works best for me.

Video card: nVidia gForce GTX 460 1GB Card.

Running with WINE set to Emulate Virtual Desktop at a size of 1680x1050, Rift set to Full Screen mode in it's settings.

Game set to around medium graphics, works great. Slight slow down on huge invasions on EI.

[Machinista]

I'm running Ubuntu 11.10, NVidia 560 and Intel E8400 Core-Duo and average 20 - 30 fps after reg tweaks. Rift is fully functional and plays well enough

I really appreciate this title working well with Wine. I've a 12 month sub, but hardly used it as I couldn't be bothered with booting back and forwards between XP and Ubuntu (family PC that's almost always running Ubuntu).

Now I'm up and running with Wine, I'll be in Telara much more often. Just registered to post this.

[Machiko_Naguchi]

Has anyone tried with with Ubuntu 12.04 yet?

[hopo]

Has anyone tried with with Ubuntu 12.04 yet?

I've just tried installing this on my new ubuntu box. At first I was having problems with everything being black. Updated my graphics drivers seemed to fix it.

Edited the registry to match Felenaa's post. Character screen loads well with no flashing during initial loading screen, nor black textures. However, whenever I hit play it just freezes up, locking up my desktop as well.

[mercymizery]

Has anyone tried with with Ubuntu 12.04 yet?

works fine on ubuntu 12.04 lts

wine 1.5.15

No dll overides.

have to use strict draw mode to get the graphics to render properly.

still have to use low or medium settings to get playable frame rates tho.

[Cruros]

I got Rift running on 12.04 as well today using win 1.5.15 - I did as the original psoter said and installed Dx3d_9 and vcrun2008. I also installed Dx3d_43 because other post said it was required.

I ran the patcher and it installed an update but then it would not launch the game after hitting "play".

Running "echo 0|sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope" without the ""s fixed the issue.

I average around 25-30fps with an i7 2700k OC'd to 4.4GHz, 8GB DDR3, Radeon 5870 OC'd on mostly low and some medium settings. I hit 11fps on all ultra which W7 ran @ 65fps. So a big fps hit going to Ubuntu 12.04.

Is there another Linux/Unix OS anyone would recommend to run Rift at better fps?

To the person/people looking for a good driver install guide for the 5XXX series, follow the link. I started at step 1 and went down to step 8 under "Installing Via the Command Line".

To get Catalyst Controll Center to come up, I used the terminal command "gksudo amdcccle" without the ''s.

Thanks for the help, and hopefully my post helps someone else as well.

[mercymizery]

I got Rift running on 12.04 as well today using win 1.5.15 - I did as the original psoter said and installed Dx3d_9 and vcrun2008. I also installed Dx3d_43 because other post said it was required.

I ran the patcher and it installed an update but then it would not launch the game after hitting "play".

Running "echo 0|sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope" without the ""s fixed the issue.

I average around 25-30fps with an i7 2700k OC'd to 4.4GHz, 8GB DDR3, Radeon 5870 OC'd on mostly low and some medium settings. I hit 11fps on all ultra which W7 ran @ 65fps. So a big fps hit going to Ubuntu 12.04.

Is there another Linux/Unix OS anyone would recommend to run Rift at better fps?

To the person/people looking for a good driver install guide for the 5XXX series, follow the link. I started at step 1 and went down to step 8 under "Installing Via the Command Line".

To get Catalyst Controll Center to come up, I used the terminal command "gksudo amdcccle" without the ''s.

Thanks for the help, and hopefully my post helps someone else as well.

nope there all going to average about the same fps under wine. JUst the way gamebro works with wine is highly unoptomized.

remember with wine your pc has to do 2x the work. Seance it has to translate dx code to open gl / open al and back again.

if it supported just open gl for video rendering it would cut down alot of overhead by 80-90 percent sence only the back end would need to be translated.