Assassin's Creed Director's Cut and Wine

I've been pleased that this GOG.com release of Assassin's Creed works out of the box on Wine.  However, a recent update, Wine 1.7.30 on Ubuntu via launchpad, has a regression in that the sunlight in this game is way too bright. It's making the world bleached white. I used POL and downloaded an older version of Wine to fix this issue.  I downloaded Wine 1.7.27 which didn't seem to exhibit this issue.  Word of warning to those using Wine to play.

GOG with Wine

I'll keep this brief.  I tried installing the Witcher Card game beta some time back and had to use the /verysilent parameter to get through.  Had some error messages but the game worked.  It looks like the update facilities do not work on Wine so I may have to re-download the installer and get a new version.

Currently, I'm trying to install Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut.  Ran into some install issues so looking over at WineHQ, I found some list of components to install.

$ winetricks d3dx10 d3dx9_26 d3dx9_28 d3dx9_31 d3dx9_35 d3dx9_36 d3dx9_39 d3dx9_42 d3dx9_43 d3dx9 directx9 physx vcrun2003 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010 vcrun6sp6 vcrun6 wmp10 xact_jun2010 xact xinput

Ran into the same empty message window again, so I'm running the setup with the /verysilent parameter.

Update: I think that the additional packages may have broken x360ce on Wine.  My previously configured ini file seems to work though so I just copied it into the folder.  There seems to be no added benefit to the libraries.  Direct3D 10 doesn't work so you have to run Assassin's Creed using the Direct3D 9 binary.

Also, the Witcher Adventure Multiplayer Beta no longer works, it seems.  It doesn't recognize the account as part of the closed beta.

Fighting games and Wine

I have 2 fighting games that I have gotten working on Wine.  First is Guilty Gears Isuka from the Gamers Gate release.  The controller support is a bit wonky when you start the game, but pressing any arrow key stops that.  You can also reconfigure the game though I don't quite remember anymore what I setup.

Second game is Street Fighter Alpha 2 from GOG release which is reported as garbage on WineHQ but actually works.  The shortcut the game creates is to the GOGLauncher.exe which doesn't work.  You have to run ALPHA2.EXE directly from the install folder.  The game will then run fine.

Yes!!! Witcher 2 Keys!

After staring through days of the download of Witcher 2 Steam, hoping to fire it up and get a CD key, I was getting desperate that I wouldn't be able to avail of the GOG.com Witcher 2 backup promo.  After going through CD Projekt RED's website for a replacement key, I was told to wait for 72 hours.

I'm always skeptical about these things, but apparently after just 48 hours, they've responded with my new key.  Thank you very much CD Projekt RED and thank you GOG.com! You guys rock!

A few thoughts...

I'll keep this short.  Figured out that deleting Sims on Sims FreePlay is a matter of customizing the Sim for their clothes and hairdo.  There's a red icon on the upper left corner.

Been getting some sweet stuff out of GOG lately.  I'm plan to play Fallout and (finally finish) Witcher Enhanced Edition.

GOG Broken Sword: Shadows of the Templars Director's Cut Promo

If you haven't checked it out and play a ton of point and click adventure games, this is your chance to check out this cool promo courtesy of GOG. The site is celebrating 6 million unique game downloads as a special milestone. The prize, as you may have guessed it, is that you'll be able to get Broken Swmrd: Shadows of the Templar Director's Cut for free. The special offer is valid until October 1, 2011 (11:59 am GMT), so head over and grab it now!

Milestone achieved! Free Broken Sword for everyone!

Now is an interesting time to compare Broken Sword: Director's Cut on the PC, Wii and the DS. The Wii and the DS versions I finished some time back!