Freelancer on Ubuntu

[darkshadow]

I play Freelancer in Ubuntu Intrepid,Wine and it works very well.100% Windows free(no dual boot/virtual machines).

Here's how I did it:
First,backup your account ID.
Start Freelancer from terminal and see the error messages.It says it needs MSVCRT.dll and D3D8.dll.
1.Download MSVCRT.dll and D3D8.dll and copy them to Wine's system32 folder.
2.Install DirectX 9 and 8 (you can download DX8.1 from http://www.oldapps.com/ and DX9c from MS site).
3.Deactivate all overrides in winecfg.
4.Run Freelancer.

Here's how-to for renderer:
1.Go to Applications/Wine/regedit.
2. Expand the tree for HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D. You may need to create the Direct3D folder. You can do that by clicking the Wine folder, then clicking "Edit" and selecting New/Key. Then name the key Direct3D.
3. Click on the Direct3D folder.
4. Click "Edit" then select New/String Value.
5. Name that new string "DirectDrawRenderer".
6. Right click on "DirectDrawRenderer and select Modify.
7. Enter the value data as "opengl" then click "OK".
8. Then click Registry/Exit.

Here's how-to for missing text:
1.Download:
msxml3.dll
msxml4.dll
msxml3r.dll
msxml4r.dll
2.Copy those files to Wine System32 directory.
3.Activate the override in winecfg.

Here's how-to for MP3:
1.Download a MP3 codec.Install it.
2.Find the *.acm file in Wine System32 directory and rename it to winemp3.acm
3.Activate the override in winecfg.

And if you have problems with PulseAudio:
1.Go to Sound settings and set all to ALSA.
2.Open winecfg,deselect ALSA in the sound tab and select OSS.
3.Restart PC.
4.Now we will emulate OSS through ALSA.Go to terminal and type:
aoss wine /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Games/Freelancer/EXE/Freelancer.exe

It works with Discovery mod too.You can install FLMM and Discovery.
How-to for multiplayer:
1.Install global workaround.
2.Add override for DirectPlay in winecfg:
dplayx.dll
dpnet.dll
dpnhpast.dll
dpwsockx.dll
3.Go to terminal and type(aoss is optional - use it only if you have problems with sound):
aoss wine /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Games/Freelancer/EXE/Freelancer.exe -s82.113.48.5:2302
4.Play!

If you want antialiasing/anisotropy in WINE(for NVIDIA cards):
1.Go to terminal and type: nvidia-settings
2.Set all antialiasing/anisotropy settings to max.
3.Select override application settings.
4.Select save configuration to X server.
5.Now you have better graphics in both Linux/WINE.

Tested using Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex),Pentium D 805 Dual Core @ 2.66 GHz,1.5GB DDR2/533 RAM & NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT PCI Express 512MB DDR3.

Hope this helps.

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Playing Freelancer in Linux(WINE) - how-to here:
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