Getting Battlefield to work.

[Smith_mincha]

I think that there is a lot of people that would like to get battlefield 1942 to work but dont know how (like me) so if there is anybody who has it working could please tell us how you managed to get it working.
thanx,

[easuter]

i play call of duty just fine on my suse machine, using wine.

never tried battlefield on linux though, but why not give it a try anyway?

ps: one thing to bear in mind -> emulators (like cedega and wine) dont get along well with punkbuster, so sometimes you get pb_kicked for no reason.

[Smith_mincha]

well Aparently it is very difficult to get battlefield to work at all but i hear that some people have done it.

[easuter]

well, start by emulating the installation program on the cd, and go from there

for example, if you have wine installed, open a terminal and type:

wine /media/drive_name/Setup.exe

the drive name is normaly "cdrom" or "dvd". just open either of them first and see which has the files.

note that setup.exe may be called something else in battlefield's case, so just find the launcher that would normaly start the installation in windows

[Smith_mincha]

I did what you said but i get this error when i try to run setup

wine client error:1a: get_apc_request: bad type 1075891776

I can run autorun.exe fine but i get the same error when i select it to install.

[a12ctic]

you need cedega

[Zelmo]

you need cedega

QFT.

I've had it running well for quite some time using Cedega. Check out this page on the unofficial Transgaming Wiki for tips. Be sure to read all the stuff at the bottom, too.

[Smith_mincha]

Well i'd like to use cedega but I personally dont have a creditcard and dont fell so hot about 5 bucks a month.

[easuter]

well, how about giving us an error copy/paste from wine. maybe it can be solved

[Zelmo]

I believe you can still get Cedega free from CVS (on this page). I haven't tried it so I don't know if it's exactly the same, but people on Transgaming's forums use it successfully.