[Linux] How To Install Return of Reckoning

[xpander]

Installation Guide for Linux users
If you're not a Linux user, follow this guide.


NOTE! Make sure you have wine installed on your linux distribution first







1 // Install Lutris for your Linux Distribution: https://lutris.net/downloads/
2 // Make an account and download the game torrent or direct data content
(torrent download requires torrent client like transmission,qbitorrent, tixati etc. Direct download needs to be decompressed/unzipped first):
https://www.returnofreckoning.com/join.php



3 // Go to the Lutris.net website and search for Warhammer Online and press install (on Torrent version) on that website. https://lutris.net/games/warhammer-onli ... reckoning/

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4 // Click Continue on the RoRLauncher Download prompt.

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5 // Select a directory where you want to install your game (Make sure its not the same where your downloaded torrent or direct download content is)

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6 // Press browse and choose the Downloaded Torrent folder or Direct download folder which contains WAR.exe

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7 // Wait for the Game files to be copied to your prefix

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8 // Wait for wineprefix to be configured.

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You are done. Congratulations!





Troubleshooting

- // If Launcher doesn't launch and Lutris Show log shows Unknown heap type: #GUlD. You need to force install dotnet40. You can do this (change to your prefix path you chose on installing)

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WINEPREFIX=/home/yourname/Games/warhammer-online-return-of-reckoning winetricks --force dotnet40

- // Server indicators Red on the launcher? make sure you have lib32-gnutls and gnutls installed for your distro of choice - thanks pixeljuice2019
sudo apt install gnutls-bin gnutls-bin:i386 - for Ubuntu and the likes

- // Server indicators still Red on the launcher?
Disable Lutris runtime and Enable Prefer System libraries from lutris config

- // No character models? floating weapons? restart the launcher and it should patch fully then.

- // Main menu white textures with flames? d3d9x_34.dll is missing.

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WINEPREFIX=/home/yourname/Games/warhammer-online-return-of-reckoning winetricks d3dx9_34

- // Game doesn't launch with DXVK v1.10.3+?
make sure you are using latest up to date drivers that have vulkan 1.3 support. If you are not able to update GPU drivers, switch to older version of DXVK from lutris configuration.

- // Game doesn't launch on intel IGP with DXVK, try running

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sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0

- // Game Doesn't launch or has graphical glitches after hitting connect on launcher (this can happen on older intel IGPs or if your vulkan drivers aren't working correctly)?
disable DXVK from Lutris configuration

- // Still Doesn't Launch after disabling DXVK?
Add this Environment variable into Lutris configuration (Configure -> System options tab -> Environment variables):
MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE with a value 4.5

- // Mouse going weird? Running wayland/Sway? try Gamescope (https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope) - thanks felipetrz



Optional Enhancements

Enhanced Graphics with vkBasalt: This only works with DXVK

• Download/Install vkBasalt for your distro (32bit vkbasalt is important, as this game is 32bit): https://github.com/DadSchoorse/vkBasalt

• Download configuration files and extract them into your Warhammer directory: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_7yxO ... EToTrQfWTw

• Change the shader paths to full paths of your shader folder location in the vkbasalt.conf (make sure there are no spaces in your paths. you can copy the shader files elswhere also to link them up)

• add ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 into the environment variables under Lutris or in your Scripts

*pressing home key while in game should enable/disable vkbasalt effects on fly to compare to default look

https://imgur.com/a/PjRTusf

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Sildur's Enhanced Reshade: This only works with DXVK

Click here to watch on YouTube

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- Grab the 3.0 version and extract to RoR directory:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LTaLsp ... sp=sharing
- Grab 32bit d3dcompiler_47 and extract to RoR directory:
https://www.dll-files.com/d3dcompiler_47.dll.html
- Open Winecfg (wine configuration) add dinput8 and d3dcompiler_47 into dll overrides

Hotkeys:
Reshade can be toggled with F11
FXAA with F10
Ambient occlusion with F9
Distance blur with F8 (should only be used for screenshots)

*make sure d3d9.forceSwapchainMSAA and d3d9.samplerAnisotropy is not enabled from dxvk.conf as it breaks depth capture.


Additional Tweaks:

• Want sharper textures on the distance? make dxvk.conf into the game folder with contents (this only works with DXVK)

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  d3d9.samplerAnisotropy = 16

• Want to use MSAA with DXVK? make dxvk.conf into the game folder with contents (goes up to 8 afaik, has big perf impact on mid/lower range GPUs)

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  d3d9.forceSwapchainMSAA = 4

• Great Addons, Try this pack: viewtopic.php?f=66&t=6371&hilit=vinyui

Addons go to: ~/warhammer-online-return-to-reckoning/drive_c//Return_of_Reckoning/Interface/AddOns

• If performance starts to degrade, delete the cache folder from warhammer dir

~/warhammer-online-return-to-reckoning/prefix/drive_c/Return_of_Reckoning/cache

- // RoR Cheatsheet for Addons, Scripts etc by Lilim: viewtopic.php?f=113&t=40739


Addon Manager:
RPM/DEB packages available: https://github.com/Idrinth/WARAddonClient/releases
AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/waraddonclient/

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[MisterViktor]

I'm not a Linux fan! But I decided to try, in the hope of at least slightly reducing the lags of the friezes and the crash of the game client.
Specially for the game, I installed Debian, and the game got up on it without any problems.

To say that I was pleasantly surprised - is to say nothing. Now the game works just fine, I forgot about the lags, even on the fort, even in the warband. Now no crashes, no lags, no friezes!

Under Linux, I can turn on all effects, during the battle on fort, edit the interface while in the warband, and write rel - and I won’t get any crash.

In two weeks I received only one crash - and that when rebooted the server.

With absolute certainty, I can recommend Linux to anyone who has unstable game play. And yes, the problem is not in the server, but in the disagreement of modern Windows and the game client.

What is my evidence? I have them!
Stream on integrated graphics Intel HD Graphics 4600
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXIFo1HtGuc

[Natherul]

I can confirm this works great.

[Valkinz]

I was able to get this going as well. I did have to run the setup under wine before lutris would launch it.

[Ruscour]

Works great, thanks.

If anyone wants notifications for queue pops, you can do something like this alongside the scenarioAlert addon

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while inotifywait -e modify "/opt/lutris/warhammer-online-return-to-reckoning/prefix/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Return of Reckoning/logs/scenarioAlert.log"; do notify-send "QUEUE POP"; paplay /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/sonar.ogg; done

obviously substitute the sound file and message as necessary.

The package containing inotifywait was called "inotify-tools" for me.

[xpander]

Works great, thanks.

If anyone wants notifications for queue pops, you can do something like this alongside the scenarioAlert addon

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while inotifywait -e modify "/opt/lutris/warhammer-online-return-to-reckoning/prefix/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Return of Reckoning/logs/scenarioAlert.log"; do notify-send "QUEUE POP"; paplay /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/sonar.ogg; done

obviously substitute the sound file and message as necessary.

The package containing inotifywait was called "inotify-tools" for me.

i also have this: https://github.com/xpander69/scalert_linux
but yeah scripting is easy on linux

[KhorneBerserker]

It doesn't run in my case.
I'm using Arch linux.
Lutris and manual way failed to launch the game. My wine package version: wine-staging 5.4-1
Using up to date March 2020 torrent to download the game.

I've tried followings:
fresh prefix 64 bit
installing everything listed in lutris script
tried other prefix with only vcrun2012 and dotnet40 (after fail - adding corefonts to that basic - didn't help)
repeating the same with 32 bit prefixes
changing windows version to XP (changes error message), win10 (the message remains the same as in win7)

The last try uses following settings:
fresh prefix 64bit with vcrun2012 dotnet40
win10 version
Terminal output: https://pastebin.com/gwENKqrn
Screenshot of the error message

[xpander]

try changing wine version to 5.0 in lutris. do not use the system wine. use the lutris provided ones


edit: do you have intel IGP? cause i see message

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002e:fixme:d3d:wined3d_check_device_format_conversion output 0x59331b0, device_type WINED3D_DEVICE_TYPE_HAL, src_format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8X8_UNORM, dst_format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8X8_UNORM stub!

looks like you GPU or drivers do not support that format. AMD and Nvidia should support fine, no idea about intel


edit2: you also need to install d3dx9_34 into the prefix or d3dcompiler_47 (thisone works from wine 5.2 and you dont need d3dx9_34 then) for it to work.

You also didnt specify where it fails?... does the launcher work? or launcher also doesnt show up

[KhorneBerserker]

As I said, I've tried with default lutris script settings. To be more specific - as in video, with lutris wine (current version is 5.4). Downloading 5.0.
I have intel GPU hd4600, mesa 19.3.
I forgot to add that I tried to run it with vulkan (dxvk), but no effect on error message popup. https://pastebin.com/81FhyF81 wine logs with DXVK
The launcher doesn't show up - error message appears as in screenshot.
I tried it now with the prefix from previous attempt with d3dcompiler_47 - the same behavior.

But what if the problem in

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0030:fixme:ras:RasEnumConnectionsW RAS support is not implemented! Configure program to use LAN connection/winsock instead!

and in the message error "hostname cannot be parsed" ?

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Behavior with lutris (despite wine version - 5.4 or 5.0) - no visible error pop ups with relatively small wine output https://pastebin.com/3gPgEWZa.

[xpander]

It must be something on your system then. I just tested it from scratch, installed with lutris again. with the 5.4 wine. just same as in my videos, click and click and it works.
Can you try some other distro just to test it? maybe you are missing something on your Arch insrtallation. I do use Arch Linux myself also though.