Freelancer working with Wine 1.1.20

@tai:

Hey Guys.

I just wanted to tell you that Freelancer is again working with Wine!

Multiplayer also works after fixing the Direct play Bug, have a look at this link: http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectPlayGames

Tested it for some hours now on UnderVerse: quite fun, but lags evey ~5minutes for some seconds.

If you are wondering why Freelancer is still marked as Garbage in AppDB, I allready posted an Test there few minutes ago.

Have fun guys!

Question again
And how about flserver.exe ?

I have put at work for this purpose Pardus Linux, but meanwhile there was no time to test it.

I think to get Freelancer to connect to FLServer I had to specify the computer’s IP address when starting FL with the -s command line option. It’s been a while though, so I’m not sure.

@M0tah:

I think to get Freelancer to connect to FLServer I had to specify the computer’s IP address when starting FL with the -s command line option. It’s been a while though, so I’m not sure.

But this is running in Linux. Do you mean you did this in Linux too?

I’m waiting for a breakthrough like this to scrap Windows completely, FL gaming and FL tools are the only thing stopping me from swapping to Linux.

OpenOffice.Org is now very nice and better than MS Office in many ways, so this solved my second problem a long time ago. The rest of what I need the PC for is all available in Linux.

I think the next problem will be which Linux to use, they are all great but some lack differing facilities that I am not yet aware of.

Now i have “Linux admin-pardus 2.6.25.20-114 #1 SMP Mon Jan 19 15:02:57 EET 2009 i686 Intel Celeron CPU 2.40GHz GNU/Linux”
and wine-1.1.8

Flserver.exe started, port 2302 seems to be opened:
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:2302 0.0.0.0:*

From other comp with windows and freelancer client i see my serv running on lan when i use -sMyPardusServ:2302

But when i try to connect to it - timeout message popups :(((

What may be wrong?

May be a firewall problem.

In Windows, as well as permitting Freelancer.exe and FLServer.exe, you need to permit Microsoft DirectPlay8 Server, the file is C:\WINDOWS\system32\dpnsvr.exe

This was my problem a couple of times until I started remembering it! :lol:

And… I don’t think Linux has an equivalent to this? So - are we back to another barrier? Shame if so, it will be a big plus to get through this problem.

@StarTrader:

@M0tah:

I think to get Freelancer to connect to FLServer I had to specify the computer’s IP address when starting FL with the -s command line option. It’s been a while though, so I’m not sure.

But this is running in Linux. Do you mean you did this in Linux too?

Yeah, in Linux. I was also using native directplay DLLs, though, which may have had something to do with it.

@StarTrader:

May be a firewall problem.

In Windows, as well as permitting Freelancer.exe and FLServer.exe, you need to permit Microsoft DirectPlay8 Server, the file is C:\WINDOWS\system32\dpnsvr.exe

This was my problem a couple of times until I started remembering it! :lol:

And… I don’t think Linux has an equivalent to this? So - are we back to another barrier? Shame if so, it will be a big plus to get through this problem.

Pumpurumpum…
Windows with firewall disabled and Pardus…
I dont see anything by “ps -A | grep iptables”
Or Pardus may use another firewall?

2 tai: Dunno how in Pardus getting newer version, may be i need to compile it from sources…
Patch 1.1? Will check…

@M0tah:

Yeah, in Linux. I was also using native directplay DLLs, though, which may have had something to do with it.

I am out of my depth here, maybe if you can explain what you mean to the guys here they can succeed with this?

@tai:

I know what it is:

You just take a normal windows .dll file out of the win/system32 dir and use it with wine

Often it solves Problems, but also creates new ones. Sometimes it works with one version, with another not!

And where to take “true” win32 dlls for wine ? 8 [ ]
I was using winetricks script than dependency walker to find missing dlls…

I’m very interested in this solution guys, hope you can find a working method soon.

@tai:

You could use some site like this

Or search it on Google

Btw: Freelancer can’t create IDs with Wine, I’ve got a workaround for that but before releasing it, I have to ask in the private section.

Khmm … Ok! I thought there same dlls as well as windows xp for example.

@tai:

FLServer prints a hell of messages into my terminal when I open it, so it’s very likely that there is some Bug in Wine.

Yep, its true.