http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23643
Summary: America's Army 3.0 goes black after about ten minutes of play Product: Wine Version: 1.2-rc7 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Keywords: download Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dank@kegel.com
I installed Steam with rm -rf ~/.wine sh winetricks sandbox gecko corefonts steam After disabling in-game notifications and chat in the Steam settings as usual, I downloaded AA3 with Steam successfully.
Running crashed immediately because it needed msvcp80.dll; winetricks vcrun2005 worked around that.
It then crashed quickly anyway (bug 19885); running it outside Steam with cd ~"/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/america's army 3/Binaries" wine AA3Game.exe worked around that.
It then started, but screen went black right after game prompted for username. Setting a virtual desktop in winecfg worked around that.
It then ran fine for ten minutes, and then seemed to hang. There were still sounds, so it wasn't completely hung. This happened both times I tried it. There was nothing suspicious on the console.
(The game suffers from The Mouse Bug, so you have to scrub the mouse around to compensate. I haven't tried any patches or settings for this yet. Tips for newbies: in the third part of the initial obstacle course, you can't turn, you have to sidestep and backstep to get through the maze. In the weapons training, use Space to pick up the weapon.)