Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions

booman

booman

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I've had Lost Planet for a long time. Actually purchased it used at a books store and ended up loving the game!
So I wanted to try it in Linux and have been having problems ever since

Lost Planet is a Steam game so I had to install Steam and configure everything for Steam.
Then I just copied my backed up game folder from Windows and then did a typical install through Steam.
Install runs fine, game is ready.... no launch!

I researched and researched... Finally took a guess (cause its a Microsoft game) that the videos are played with Windows Media Player... sure enough, installed the wmp9 and codecs and now it launches...
But I still have a controls problem. The menu's act like the down key is constantly pressed

More research (Wine HeadQuarters is a wonderful place!!)
found that since Lost Planet was made for the Xbox there are some drivers critical for the controls, but have not found a fix yet.
I installed the xinput windows package but still not fixed.

I posted on WineHQ website: Lost Planet
So far no suggestions...
 
I'm testing Lost Planet again because I'm hoping newer Wine 1.7.X drivers will improve performance.
Game installs and launches just fine, but if I touch any key on the keyboard, it crashes immediately with a memory error.
What is the deal? That never happened before...
I have installed the following libraries:
corefonts
dxfullsetup
dinput
tahoma
wmp9
wmcodecs
xinput

Can you think of anything else that might help or effect the input problem?
 
Actually I didn't have to. The game launches just fine if I don't touch a key, but as soon as I touch any key on the keyboard, it crashes.
So maybe it is the Overlay... funny, I didn't have this symptom with other games. They just wouldn't launch.
Ok, I'll try it in the morning...
Thanks!
 
I had different crash messages with overlay on, depending on what game I started. And some games, like the Batman games didn't crash until I loaded my game, although sometimes randomly it would crash as soon as I clicked on the main menu, so I suggest you try disabling overlay, hopefully it will help.
 
You were absolutely right!
Disabling the Steam Overlay solved the problem.
So frustrating, but at least the games run fine without it.
Long-term, how are games affected?
I think games like Borderlands requires the Overlay to join an online game... at least thats how we do it
 
@booman, hopefully there will come a wine version in which the Steam overlay works again. I have not tested with wine version 1.6.2, though so maybe it is fixed there already.

@Kladiator, the Steam overlay is the whole Steam interface that is available when you play games through Steam. Shift-TAB opens it up while in a game and you can chat while playing, take screenshots, even browse. Howevever, the latest Steam update caused any Steam games to crash in wine, unless disabling it. You can actually disable it through settings in Steam, although I have not tested if that fixes the problem. I've been opening wine config for the virtual drives, and under the Libraries tab adding a library you name "gameoverlayrenderer", then setting it to disabled.
 
I always disable overlay in Steam settings.
Works perfectly
 
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