[Bug 12492] Farcry on steam does not start

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12492





--- Comment #6 from Robert M. Muncrief <rmuncrief at comcast.net>  2008-12-14 04:01:42 ---
Created an attachment (id=17913)
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launch-hammer - Special launch program for FarCry under wine

There have been many complaints about FarCry not starting under wine, and many
solutions proposed. None ever really worked for me, at least not reliably
(especially when wine or distributions changed) so after a week of trying to
get it to start under wine with Steam again I discovered something amazing - I
was frustrated and just started clicking the launcher over and over again and
wallah! to my amazement it would eventually always start after less than ten
clicks.

Of course, this would leave multiple instances of FarCry sleeping in the
background so the game wouldn't run well, but it gave me the idea for the
attached launch-hammer program and it works perfectly for me.

It automatically repeatedly launches FarCry until it starts and then kills any
leftover sleeping instances and FarCry runs first time-every time I click the
launcher now, and it runs fantastic!

I set "r_Driver" to "OpenGL" in "~/.wine/drive_c/Program\
Files/Steam/steamapps/common/farcry/system.cfg" and "~/.wine/drive_c/Program\
Files/Steam/steamapps/common/farcry/Profiles/player/default_system.cfg" and it
runs much better than the default Direct3D9 setting. I also use the opengl
renderer and turn off glsl.

On my old 7800GT I get 50 to 60 FPS on average at 1280x1024, and the same on my
HDTV! Pretty cool ...

So try the program if you're having problems. If you don't want any message
output (for instance if running from a launcher) start with something like:

launch-hammer "wine 'C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe' -applaunch 13520"
"FarCry.exe" -la 10 -lt 12 -rt 1 -st 4 -ct "2s" -fs "SL" -km 0 -vm 0

If you want to see minimal output in a shell set "-vm 1", if you want full
debugging output to see everything set "-vm 2".

With the settings above it may take about 24 seconds before you see much
happening other than the Steam dialog box asking if you want to launch (of
course press launch) but then you should see lot's of activity and FarCry
should start within the next 20 seconds or so.

Of course, the program should also work with non-Steam FarCry also. Just change
the launch command argument. I don't know the exact path but it would be
something like this:

launch-hammer "wine 'C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\FarCry\FarCry.exe'" "FarCry.exe"
-la 10 -lt 12 -rt 1 -st 4 -ct "2s" -fs "SL" -km 0 -vm 0

The parameters are fully explained in the program, and for advanced users you
can even renice a program after launch!.

Hopefully the program will also help developers figure out why FarCry has been
so difficult to start under wine for so long. It's really very odd.

But in any case, for the first time I can finally reliably launch FarCry with
one click!


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