[Linux] How To Install Return of Reckoning

[xpander]

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


Video: (slightly oudated, but should still work) Check below for text and pictures version!

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Click here to watch on YouTube

https://lutris.net/games/warhammer-onli ... reckoning/

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: https://www.returnofreckoning.com/join.php#download



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

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

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5 // Press browse and choose the Downloaded Torrent folder which contains RoRLauncher.exe

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

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7 // Wait for wineprefix to be configured.

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8 // Download the latest Launcher http://launcher.returnofreckoning.com/RoRLauncher.exe and replace with the installed one

* // Make sure you select 32-bit from the Launcher gog wheel in order to have 100 FPS cap in game. Animations break with 100+ FPS
both executables are 32-bit and LAA patched. The only difference is the FPS cap.
you can also use libstrangle to cap the framerate to 100, if you want to run the WAR-64.exe (which is 32bit) for some reason




You are done. Congratulations!





Troubleshooting

- // If Launcher doesn't launch and Lutris says Game exited. You need to force install dotnet40. You can do this (change to your prefix path you chose on installing)

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WINPEREFIX=/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.

- // Animations Wonky (people, NPCs moving sideways, backwards etc)? use the 32bit executable from the Launcher cog wheel. It caps the framerate to 100 and animations work fine. Can also use libstrangle to cap it

- // Game doesn't launch after hitting connect on launcher (this can happen on older intel IGPs or if your vulkan drivers aren't working correctly)? disable dxvk by opening "wine configuration" and delete d3d9 d3d11 d3d10 and dxgi entries from the libraries, under overrides

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




Optional Enhancements

Enhanched Graphics with vkBasalt: This works only with DXVK

• Download/Install vkBasalt for your distro: 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


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/Program Files (x86)/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/Program Files (x86)/Return of Reckoning/cache


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.