RO on Linux

[Hexaea]

Anyone had any luck getting it to work?
Running Ubuntu 9.04, trying to run RO under wine, but alas, this is as far as I get:

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After the V-Shield thing goes down, the RO window never appears.



I don't do much gaemen any more, aside from CS:S(which works under wine np), so I'd rather not have to boot into Win7 if I don't have to. ~_~

[Tanis]

I loveee  Ubuntu =D. Cant you partition your PC? Run part of it on Linux and part on windows. Install Ro on the windows part \o.o/

[Hexaea]

I loveee  Ubuntu =D. Cant you partition your PC? Run part of it on Linux and part on windows. Install Ro on the windows part \o.o/

I don't quite know what you mean...
I have my hdd partitioned 3 ways already:
Ubuntu 9.04
Windows 7
[Empty, 2gigs]

RO is installed on the Windows partition, and I'm attempting to run it under Wine from the Linux partition.

[Hard Weapon]

The best suggestion would be to run the Windows OS.  Even mac users have to use a program that simulates windows to be able to run RO (or something like that).

Windows 7 works well with Anthem now.

[Hexaea]

The best suggestion would be to run the Windows OS.  Even mac users have to use a program that simulates windows to be able to run RO (or something like that).

Windows 7 works well with Anthem now.

Never had a problem running in Win7.


And I believe you're refering to virtual machines for OSX.
I can set one up and run it, if it comes to that... but RO doesn't seem like all that complex of a game, that it shouldn't be able to run fine in Linux.
A good number of apps/games run fine in Linux w/ Wine, as in, just double click and it starts np;
RO is just one of those odd programs, that for whatever reason require some effort to get them to work.


Just looking to see if anyone has already figured out how to get it running.

[light aura]

Most linux problems with RO come from display issues.  RO is fairly old no matter how you look at it, and for some reason is a pain to run on Linux when I can run other games fine.

[Drake Karstin]

I used to run RO with Cedega on Fedora 8 but i'm pretty sure it works with Ubuntu too.
Either buy cedega or good luck with running RO on wine

[Mal]

I used to run RO on Ubuntu, about a year+ ago.  But I got a Vista laptop, and now I run it over there. 
I can't even get Vshield to show up on Ubuntu.  I just get an error message any more, so I've given up.

[Drake Karstin]

I used to run RO on Ubuntu, about a year+ ago.  But I got a Vista laptop, and now I run it over there. 
I can't even get Vshield to show up on Ubuntu.  I just get an error message any more, so I've given up.

Forgot about Vshield. So yeah, even with cedega you won't run AnthemRO

[YAOMTC]

Thought I'd post this here. This past summer I was able to run the iRO client using Wine on openSUSE with no problem -- well, it required the use of the virtual desktop and OSS sound, but apart from that it ran fine. But I can't get AnthemRO to even come close to working. (I'm using Ubuntu right now, but the problems here are too significant to be due to whatever small version difference there may be.) The patcher first says it needs MFC42.DLL, which I found online and put in its proper place (is it system or system32? Either way, one of them is right, I put it in both to be safe). Then I got this error:

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$ wine '/home/chris/.wine/drive_c/Games/Gravity/AnthemRO/AnthemPatch.exe'
wine: Call from 0x402052 to unimplemented function MFC42.DLL.6478, aborting
wine: Unimplemented function MFC42.DLL.6478 called at address 0x402052 (thread 001a), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: unimplemented function MFC42.DLL.6478 called in 32-bit code (0x7bc46f80).
Register dump:
 CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b
 EIP:7bc46f80 ESP:0032e6a4 EBP:0032e708 EFLAGS:00000202(   - 00      - - I1)
 EAX:0000194e EBX:7bc8aff4 ECX:00135d28 EDX:0011004c
 ESI:0032e6b0 EDI:00000001
Stack dump:
0x0032e6a4:  00020030 00000000 00000000 80000100
0x0032e6b4:  00000001 00000000 00402052 00000002
0x0032e6c4:  0041c8aa 0000194e 00000002 7ed751c0
0x0032e6d4:  84000040 00000000 00110014 7e975ff4
0x0032e6e4:  ffffffff 00000001 0032e70c 7e955ab7
0x0032e6f4:  00110000 00000000 000004c8 7ec4b5b0
Backtrace:
=>1 0x7bc46f80 in ntdll (+0x36f80) (0x0032e708)
  2 0x00402052 in anthempatch (+0x2052) (0x00000370)
  3 0x00000000 (0x00000000)
0x7bc46f80: subl $4,%esp
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (68 modules)
PE   400000-  424000 Export          anthempatch
PE 5f400000-5f4ed000 Deferred        mfc42
PE 780c0000-78121000 Deferred        msvcp60
ELF 7b800000-7b93d000 Deferred        kernel32<elf>
  \-PE 7b820000-7b93d000 \               kernel32
ELF 7bc00000-7bca7000 Export          ntdll<elf>
  \-PE 7bc10000-7bca7000 \               ntdll
ELF 7bf00000-7bf04000 Deferred        <wine-loader>
ELF 7e3e4000-7e3fa000 Deferred        libresolv.so.2
ELF 7e40e000-7e42d000 Deferred        iphlpapi<elf>
  \-PE 7e410000-7e42d000 \               iphlpapi
ELF 7e42d000-7e490000 Deferred        rpcrt4<elf>
  \-PE 7e440000-7e490000 \               rpcrt4
ELF 7e490000-7e536000 Deferred        ole32<elf>
  \-PE 7e4a0000-7e536000 \               ole32
ELF 7e55e000-7e591000 Deferred        uxtheme<elf>
  \-PE 7e560000-7e591000 \               uxtheme
ELF 7e591000-7e59a000 Deferred        libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7e59a000-7e59f000 Deferred        libxfixes.so.3
ELF 7e59f000-7e5a3000 Deferred        libxcomposite.so.1
ELF 7e5a3000-7e5ab000 Deferred        libxrandr.so.2
ELF 7e5ab000-7e5b5000 Deferred        libxrender.so.1
ELF 7e5b5000-7e5b8000 Deferred        libxinerama.so.1
ELF 7e5b8000-7e5d9000 Deferred        imm32<elf>
  \-PE 7e5c0000-7e5d9000 \               imm32
ELF 7e5d9000-7e5de000 Deferred        libxdmcp.so.6
ELF 7e5de000-7e5f8000 Deferred        libxcb.so.1
ELF 7e5f8000-7e5fc000 Deferred        libxau.so.6
ELF 7e5fc000-7e601000 Deferred        libuuid.so.1
ELF 7e601000-7e6f0000 Deferred        libx11.so.6
ELF 7e6f0000-7e700000 Deferred        libxext.so.6
ELF 7e700000-7e706000 Deferred        libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 7e706000-7e71e000 Deferred        libice.so.6
ELF 7e71e000-7e727000 Deferred        libsm.so.6
ELF 7e73b000-7e7d6000 Deferred        winex11<elf>
  \-PE 7e750000-7e7d6000 \               winex11
ELF 7e81c000-7e843000 Deferred        libexpat.so.1
ELF 7e843000-7e870000 Deferred        libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7e884000-7e89a000 Deferred        libz.so.1
ELF 7e89a000-7e911000 Deferred        libfreetype.so.6
ELF 7e925000-7e991000 Deferred        msvcrt<elf>
  \-PE 7e940000-7e991000 \               msvcrt
ELF 7e991000-7ea56000 Deferred        comctl32<elf>
  \-PE 7e9a0000-7ea56000 \               comctl32
ELF 7ea56000-7eb6a000 Deferred        shell32<elf>
  \-PE 7ea70000-7eb6a000 \               shell32
ELF 7eb6a000-7ebc5000 Deferred        shlwapi<elf>
  \-PE 7eb80000-7ebc5000 \               shlwapi
ELF 7ebc5000-7ec18000 Deferred        advapi32<elf>
  \-PE 7ebd0000-7ec18000 \               advapi32
ELF 7ec18000-7ecb8000 Deferred        gdi32<elf>
  \-PE 7ec30000-7ecb8000 \               gdi32
ELF 7ecb8000-7ee04000 Deferred        user32<elf>
  \-PE 7ecd0000-7ee04000 \               user32
ELF 7ee04000-7ee27000 Deferred        mpr<elf>
  \-PE 7ee10000-7ee27000 \               mpr
ELF 7ee27000-7ee77000 Deferred        wininet<elf>
  \-PE 7ee30000-7ee77000 \               wininet
ELF 7efa1000-7efad000 Deferred        libnss_files.so.2
ELF 7efad000-7efc6000 Deferred        libnsl.so.1
ELF 7efc6000-7efec000 Deferred        libm.so.6
ELF 7efec000-7eff7000 Deferred        libnss_nis.so.2
ELF 7eff7000-7f000000 Deferred        libnss_compat.so.2
ELF b7d92000-b7d96000 Deferred        libdl.so.2
ELF b7d96000-b7ef9000 Deferred        libc.so.6
ELF b7efa000-b7f13000 Deferred        libpthread.so.0
ELF b7f27000-b805e000 Deferred        libwine.so.1
ELF b8060000-b807e000 Deferred        ld-linux.so.2
Threads:
process  tid      prio (all id:s are in hex)
0000000c
00000016    0
00000013    0
00000012    0
0000000e    0
0000000d    0
0000000f
00000015    0
00000014    0
00000011    0
00000010    0
00000019 (D) C:\Games\Gravity\AnthemRO\AnthemPatch.exe
0000001a    0 <==
0000001b
0000001c    0
Backtrace:
=>1 0x7bc46f80 in ntdll (+0x36f80) (0x0032e708)
  2 0x00402052 in anthempatch (+0x2052) (0x00000370)
  3 0x00000000 (0x00000000)
wine: Call from 0x402052 to unimplemented function MFC42.DLL.6478, aborting
wine: Call from 0x402052 to unimplemented function MFC42.DLL.6478, aborting

Then when I try to run the client itself, I get the VShield splash or whatever, then an error (in a dialogue box, not in the terminal): "No ClientInfo File !!" then after clicking OK, another: "Load MapInfoTable Failed!" After clicking OK again, the program becomes unresponsive and Wine prompts for terminate/wait.

No information is returned to the terminal at this point, and I'm not sure how to set the debugging environment variable thing mentioned on the man page.

Maybe I should post this to the Wine AppDB page for kRO instead? Though this is a modified client, so... I'm not sure.

[Gwenwyfar]

Did you check you had the client info file on RO folder? I only got that error when it wasn't there for whathever reason.

[YAOMTC]

Did you check you had the client info file on RO folder? I only got that error when it wasn't there for whathever reason.

Where would I get that? I found some things on Google but I'm not sure if they're what I need.

[Gwenwyfar]

Client file is the Anthem file, just download anthem client and install it.

[YAOMTC]

I downloaded the full program and installed it already... There's the AnthemClient file, Anthem.exe, AnthemExe.exe, Sakexe.exe, sakray.exe, sakup.exe... Even a Anthem_Win7.exe. That's for compatibility, I assume?

Anyway, it looks like I have everything...

[Gwenwyfar]

You have any file named DATA? From the times I had problems it was with that file, specifically. If I'm not wrong thats the file with client info, if you change just that file it won't log to anthem but another server. (Thats what I was doing) and if you have none, give clientinfo error

But if you do have that file, then its probably problem with running it on linux? I hate windows myself, but I have way too many games to try playing on linux, some of them being almost impossible, so I don't bother trying to install there :<