Aion 2.5.0.x on Sabayon 6 in wine

[Acidphase]

What Works

PvE, PvP, menu's etc...

I was getting pretty good frames too depending on where and what I was doing between 30-90FPS I would say average PvE around 70FPS and in cities with PvP between 30-60FPS.

What Doesn't Work


64-bit client (going to work on that next)
The new "High Quality" engine (have to mess with that as well)

Did Not Install Thru Wine

I did not run the installer sorry but I'm not going to sit there for god knows how long to wait for Aion to install all it's patches in my case I just mount my Windows 7 Drive and run it from there.

Better that way in my opinion anyway it's running from separate physical drive.

Details

For informational purposes Sabayon 6.0 AMD64 isn't an option so I'll state that here.

My System Specs:

Asus Crosshair Formula III , AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE @ 3.6GHz, 8gigs Ganged Mode @ 1600MHz, Asus ATI HD5870

Also I installed wine as a prefix using a the wine git repertoires the actual version is as follows:

wine-1.3.23-50-g2497a91

Preparation

winetricks:

d3dx9 d3dx9_26 d3dx9_28 d3dx9_31 d3dx9_35 d3dx9_36 d3dx9_42 d3dx10 d3dxof devenum dinput8 directmusic directplay directx9 dmsynth fontsmooth-rgb quartz allfonts fontfix
vcrun2005 vcrun2008 dotnet20 dotnet30 gdiplus

(All of these are probably not necessary but I'm just defining my bottle environment)

What is necessary is the Fonts and DLL's which is why unless at some point they include the fonts and overrides in with wine version by default this could never get a true "Platinum" rating simply none of the menus will display correctly without the fonts installed hence no Platinum because it isn't "Out of the Box".

Settings:

UseGLSL disabled <=== If your a ATI HD Radeon user you defiantly want to set this to disable or you will have this white 2D texture effect from the emitter/shade effects, I've also seen people nick this phenomena "white smoke".

I also set:

DirectDrawRendering opengl
VideoMemorySize 1024 <===Again this is user specific just something I do.

(you can set this via winetricks or edit the registry manually wine regedit)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D

Running Aion: (cd to the directory bin32 where you installed Aion)

US Users: wine aion.bin -ip:64.25.35.103 -port:2106 -cc:1 -noauthgg -ls -charnamemenu

EU Users: wine aion.bin -ip:206.127.147.28 -port:2106 -cc:2 -noauthgg -ls -charnamemenu


This section is how I setup the actual bottle (prefix) Why? well.. the wine from Entropy wasn't all that great in my opinion plus you have more control this way on the configuration and dependencies plus if you have wine installed already thru Entropy this won't interfere with that install.

Before I start just like to point out not trying to insult any ones intelligences here just trying to help people that know nothing and are trying out Linux which is a good thing and this will save them hours of searching the internet lol. Most people running a Gentoo based Distro know what they're doing because it's a fun process setting it up if you never had before and Sabayon is far more different than Ubuntu and a nice easy way to sort of get a virtual Gentoo "like" atmosphere.

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Okay first Wine-git not going to explain that you can read about that here: http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine

Next install useful dependencies:

sudo equo install <package>

app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-sdl
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-qtlibs
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-java

Once you have that all done we can start on the bottle now first lets make a build directory (If your new to git it's a good idea to leave your source tree as is and build and configure from a separate directory)

mkdir wine-build && cd wine-build

../wine-git/configure --prefix=/path/to/your/wine-build --x-libraries=/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/ LDFLAGS="-L/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib -L/emul/linux/x86/lib"

run "make" and go have a drink or something...

Once that's done run:

make install DESTDIR=~/.winetest
(you can replace ".winetest" to whatever you want)

If you did have wine installed already to switch prefix type:

export WINEPREFIX=~/.winetest

If your having trouble with winetricks for some reason try:

env WINEPREFIX=~/.winetest winetricks

To switch back to your Original prefix type:

unset WINEPREFIX

or

set WINEPREFIX ~/.wine

That covers a normal 32bit wine install. If you want a 64bit install or WoW64 setup it's just a few extra steps.

You can read up on it here: http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64

Just don't forget to make a separate bottle each time you configure and make install add the "--prefix=/path/" for your configuring and the "DESTDIR=~/.winetest" for the
make install and like the web page says make sure you configure the wine64 folder first!

I hope this helps some people I'm no guru so if anyone has anything too add or criticize please correct me and enlighten me I'm always willing to learn something new.

Good Luck !

[Skull Fire]

thanks for the great post. id like to see more game developement, tips, tricks and so on. iv been too busy to dive headlong into gaming lately, but im hoping to get some game time in soon

[DHalens]

Ummm... new user creating a big post and wanting to know what others think... To be honest, the right place for this would be your own blog. And/or the wine appdb (I've seen it's there already).

Many people want to start something and get acknowledgement trough its actions quickly. You'll get it. But as quick as you get it, as quick it'll vanish once you slightly loose a bit of your current strong will. Sometimes is better a nice work for a long time than a very nice work for a short time.
Sorry if my guess is wrong but that's what it looks like.
Even if so, I really wish you keep investigating and finding solutions for the daily problems many people may have, and sharing the solutions. Good luck.

[Acidphase]

Ummm... new user creating a big post and wanting to know what others think... To be honest, the right place for this would be your own blog. And/or the wine appdb (I've seen it's there already).

Many people want to start something and get acknowledgement trough its actions quickly. You'll get it. But as quick as you get it, as quick it'll vanish once you slightly loose a bit of your current strong will. Sometimes is better a nice work for a long time than a very nice work for a short time.
Sorry if my guess is wrong but that's what it looks like.
Even if so, I really wish you keep investigating and finding solutions for the daily problems many people may have, and sharing the solutions. Good luck.

So it's bad to make a big post as a new user lol? I may be "New" on these forums but have very active in Aion's forums finding solutions to many problems the main focus of this post was to help people who just installed Sabayon for the first time with little Linux experience especially in a Gentoo based foundation.

Ubuntu users are used to apt-get "MakeEverythingWorkForMeNow" , similar to rpm's with Red-Har/Fedora etc.. end yes I did post it on the forums WineHQ however new users that know nothing about wine Sabayon or any Distro for that matter first place they going to check is here.

Hopefully I will have more time to build more posts here on the forums but I do what I can when I can , I have wife, two children, and I work as a Locomotive Engineer. Honestly only had the Sabayon installed for like 3 or 4 days so as problems arise I'll be sure to post them here (maybe not daily) but at least when there is time lol. So once and short while and very nice isn't by choice unless someone wants to pay my bills =P

Plus in response to:

"Sometimes is better a nice work for a long time than a very nice work for a short time." and "Ummm... new user creating a big post and wanting to know what others think."

Yes I'm interested in what people think for the very reason quoted there "should I bother to spend my time with issues like this for people on here" and "Should I do it often" hence the Post options..

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Just as an update I've messed around with wine 1.3.4 so far not so good , seems to need a mouse patch(similar to 1.2) for one and there are some graphic glitches as well.

I'll also be busy with a another Gentoo install (from stage3) possibly this week as well as working out the High Quality Issue in the git version and maybe 64-bit client but don't know if I have the desire or passion to start actually developing wine itself so that's just a start depending on how busy my wife has me during the day and night =P

I'm a avid gamer and I do this for a hobby so that's where the real passion is that and building PC's been doing it for 13 years now and hope to continue