renegadex-wine-setup-script

A script created by Sho & Testman to download & install all dependencies for Renegade X on Linux.

Why?

The wiki is rather hard to find and outdated, combined with the Lutris solution starting to fail, I decided to host a modified script here that adresses most issues people could have trying to get Renegade X to run using wine.
The techniques in this script can be used to fix Lutris as well, Lutris should be preforming better than this method if the techniques are applied.

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Requirements

An up to date version of WINE.
So that we can actually set up and play the game

Winetricks (Make sure you get the latest version for this URL)
So we can set up the prefix

Wget package.
So we can download our requirements

Docker
So we can use the update container to download the game

ACL
So we can set permissions on the WINE Prefix to allow the container to operate

Features and usage.

Although the script has the potential to be fully automatic, I've a general tendency to not do that.
(Sorry old Sho, but my hand got forced)

This script will download all the required things, this includes:
A) Renegade X Launcher Installer
B) Unreal Engine 3 Redistributable

Optional:
C) A docker image which can run Sonny's update tool to download & update the game.

By installing dotnet452 into the prefix, you could get the normal launcher to work, but since this launcher barely works, it is recommended to use the container solution.

Setup & usage

Setup:

Download and execute this script.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Constructive-Tyranny/renegadex-wine-setup-script/master/rxWine-setup.sh && chmod +rx rxWine-setup.sh && bash rxWine-setup.sh

Once the script starts, a message from WINE setting up config will appear, afterwards (as you may see in the terminal) it starts downloading & installing dependencies.

Usage:

A) Game can be ran from the launchRenegadeX.sh script in this repo. (you can enable the commented stuff to check for updates using the container)

B) By executing this in a terminal:

• WINEPREFIX="$HOME/Games/RenegadeXWine" wine "$HOME/Games/RenegadeXWine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Renegade X/Binaries/Win64/UDK.exe"

Known bugs & errors:

The game itself

x has failed to launch! Would you like to view the report?:

• Any warning from WINE should be ignored, if an app fails to launch, don't view the report. This will cause the setup / execution to fail!

Crash when quickly reloading the in-game serverlist:

• Known error, not limited to just WINE. your best bet is to join the IRC of CT and watch when someone leaves the game.

Crash when running the game with the -nomovies parameter

• Known error, recommend keeping movies on.

Startup movie kills my ears:

• You get used to it. ._.

Crash when launching the game:

• Try again.. I'm not joking, it's like a 75% chance to start the game.

Certain maps don't load and cause a crash:

• We're currently investigating that.

Game takes ages to install/update:

• You can cat the log of the container by using: cat $HOME/Games/RenegadeXWine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Renegade X/Launcher/logs/logs/lib_renegade_x_launcher_rCURRENT.log
• There is a fair chance the mirror it selected is shitting itself (looks at NA mirrors & Luxemburg mirror).. Bear with it is all I can say..