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Joloc · 12-23-11, 05:38 AM

I am trying to get DW multiplayer working reliably on Fedora 16. Using wine the game works well in single-player mode, but wine does not provide a DirectPlay 8 component, meaning I can't play it in multiplayer. I tried overriding the needed DLLs with winetricks, but to no avail. Does DW use a plain old DP8 or does it use some derivative of it I need to override additionally? Currently I am using VirtualBox. The multiplayer part of it works, but, I suffer a very annoying bug with this approach: from time to time the game will "skip" 5 minutes forward. This does not always produce undesirable behaviour, but often I will skip over objective triggers, making missions uncompletable, or someone will fire a torpedo at me, going from "all is well" to "you've been sunk" in a frame. These skips happen every 15-45 minutes. This is virtualisation-only bug, I do not get it in wine. So, does anyone know either how to resolve the 5 minute skips when virtualised or know how to get multiplayer working in wine?

12-23-11, 05:38 AM	#1
Joloc Watch Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 28 Downloads: 83 Uploads: 0	Multiplayer on Fedora 16 I am trying to get DW multiplayer working reliably on Fedora 16. Using wine the game works well in single-player mode, but wine does not provide a DirectPlay 8 component, meaning I can't play it in multiplayer. I tried overriding the needed DLLs with winetricks, but to no avail. Does DW use a plain old DP8 or does it use some derivative of it I need to override additionally? Currently I am using VirtualBox. The multiplayer part of it works, but, I suffer a very annoying bug with this approach: from time to time the game will "skip" 5 minutes forward. This does not always produce undesirable behaviour, but often I will skip over objective triggers, making missions uncompletable, or someone will fire a torpedo at me, going from "all is well" to "you've been sunk" in a frame. These skips happen every 15-45 minutes. This is virtualisation-only bug, I do not get it in wine. So, does anyone know either how to resolve the 5 minute skips when virtualised or know how to get multiplayer working in wine?