the white wizard
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5.8-GE-2-MF GloriousEggroll
Opened up a Wine configuration inside of the games prefix, enabled virtual desktop and set resolution to 1920x1080.
Alt+Tabbing will cause the camera to go top left without input. Virtual desktop fixes this.
Execute these to be able to play Multiplayer:
cd /home/$USER/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/813780/pfx/drive_c/windows/system32/
wget "https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe"
cabextract vc_redist.x64.exe
cabextract a10
Proton-GE-7-ST (preview) GloriousEggroll
Enable V-Sync or you will have drops to 15 FPS every 5-10 seconds.
install 'mfc42 winxp l3codecx' with protontricks, music won't work with 5.x-x
Proton-GE-5-ST
You have to run the game both with and without Venice first. You'll be stuck in a black screen. Edit an INI file to make it work. I used Micro, but you can use whatever.
Changed DirectX version to 9 from 0 in the file.
The files are:
~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/1281630/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Application\ Data/Ubisoft/Anno1404/Config/Engine.ini
And
~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/1281630/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Application\ Data/Ubisoft/Anno1404Addon/Config/Engine.ini
The game fails to launch due to CEG DRM.
Here is a tutorial to run Black Ops II through Lutris. (Was too long for writing it here.)
https://gist.github.com/tpurde/f6e9d3f9d96da33e2151d1678b768f57
You'll have to search for Proton Experimental on your library, click properties, select the bleeding-edge beta.
Glorious Egroll recently reported this game to Valve, and finally, Multiplayer and Zombies both work without crashing. This fix happened just today (25th of June for me), so you have to enable the bleeding-edge beta. Glorious Egroll told me that he will implement this fix in Proton-GE soon.
Works perfectly out of the box.
It runs fine, native version offers a superior experience.
Enabling anti-aliasing causes all textures to disappear.
Proton is required for multiplayer. My recommendation is to install Steam Wine through Lutris, install Empire and use that for Multiplayer while keeping the native version of the game on Steam for Linux.
The game only works with Proton 4.11-13 and the native version, Proton 5.x-x fails to launch.
Campaign map performance is terrible, but in-game is pretty fine. Native version offers superior performance.
Multiplayer doesn't work in the native port. Unless you want multiplayer, there is no point in playing the Proton version. My recommendation is to install Steam Wine on Lutris, install Medieval 2 there and use that for Multiplayer.
Although mouse was laggy, lowering graphics did kinda make it better. Playable, but could improve.
Highering the graphics to Extreme (Shadows on Very High, Grass on Ultra, AA off and AF 16x) ruined my mouse input. Mouse was skipping and for a game like Total War, It was hard to play.
