Age Of Wushu Guide

ILoveGuro · Jun 3, 2016

booman said:
Oh really? What language are you installing?
I'll have to try the separate packages and installer. I don't mind this either, but what will happen is the game will still update after its installed.
So we are basically installing the base-game and then allowing it to patch up when we launch it.

I don't really know what language i am installing,it doesn't make me choose for it so i think it's english or,more probably,some asiatic language and that's the reason i can't see any character.

booman · Jun 3, 2016

The downloadable files seem to be non-language specific. So I guess you can select a language later on.

I re-read your first post and had an idea...
Before you try to install that Windows library, make sure to set Windows version as Windows XP in Wine Configuration

Zergling_man · Oct 2, 2016

I managed to get it installed, and it's patching, slightly less laggy every time the patcher restarts.
I broke my SteamOS ages ago and just now wiped over with Manjaro, this has made things much less of a headache.
The red ??? bit... I hit it once. I had an old installer sitting on an external (NTFS) drive, in 10 parts (+.exe), so I copied the whole thing into the virtual drive's C:, and ran it from there, it worked fine after that.
Once it's done patching I'll see if I hit the SGP problems too.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I've been running it in VirtualBox for a little while (Win7 to Win7). The character keeps getting bot flagged, and it's glitchy/laggy presumably due to incorrect settings/lack of drivers, but it works. So go figure.

EDIT2: Full list of errors I'm getting, just for comparison/study.
Firstly, PoL generates an "Error in main
Age of Wushu crashed." when I first launch the VM.

When I go to launch Wushu, the following chain occurs:

Code:

lua error
(nx_function)no function [file: @D:\SVN\NothAmerica\Version_OverSea_50716\01_Client\lua\main.lua, line: 15]

run error
(nx_function)no function [script: main, function: main, result: 2]

<loading screen briefly pops>

Notice
Failed to load drivers, please try to run them as administrator...

fatal error
SGP intialize failed

"NothAmerica" indeed, Snail.
I also got a couple other errors that I forgot to mention, while I was setting it up. The same failed package as Guro got, but I got about 4 total. I'm not sure how to check what's currently installed.

booman · Oct 3, 2016

Wow, sounds like you have "work-arounds" for your "work-arounds"
So are you able to play Age Of Wushu at all?

Zergling_man · Oct 3, 2016

Not currently. :S I'm probably just going to install VirtualBox and use it while trying to make progress here.

booman · Oct 7, 2016

Looks like you are getting the same SGP error that I am getting. I have a feeling they updated the SGP anti-cheat and it broke Wine for us.
It might be a waiting game with Wine developers... but that is only if they know its broken
We would have to submit a bug report
So it appears to work in some environments but doesn't work in others...

Zergling_man · Oct 7, 2016

Which almost makes me want to learn how to bypass it. I think it has been achieved already, and if Snail can't dole out bans based on bypassed SGP alone, then I don't see the problem with copying the cheaters just to be able to play...

Zergling_man · Nov 22, 2016

Hmm, I wonder if these two are relevant... I'm curious about what msvcrt is doing, exactly.

Code:

fixme:msvcrt:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0x29b6ebc) stub
err:winediag:IcmpCreateFile Failed to use ICMP (network ping), this requires special permissions.

booman · Nov 22, 2016

Good question. I wonder if the developers updated to Visual C 2015 like everyone else? That could create some problems in Wine.

Zergling_man · Nov 23, 2016

This said, I still want to try and make contact with a hacker. It seems like it'd be enough.

booman · Nov 23, 2016

Yeah, you could probably hack your way around the security. I can't because I want my guides to be legitimate on all levels.

Zergling_man · Nov 24, 2016

That's fair, and I'd prefer Snail to allow us to do it legitimately. But, well, Snail... I can only hope they accidentally make it possible.

booman · Nov 29, 2016

I don't think Snail will do anything for Linux gaming since they only support Windows. Wine developers are more likely to do a fix.

Zergling_man · Apr 21, 2017

Well, well, well.
I'm not sure what's changed (by which I mean "everything has"), but I've been playing a lot of Mechwarrior Online, having major framerate issues despite running wine-gaming-nine.
Turns out I hadn't enabled the gal9 features, so I'd done almost nothing. Flicked that on in wine config and magic happened.

Then I went "what the hell, why not test Wushu before I go to bed? The error is 'failed to load drivers', so maybe this gal9 thing will let it break through". Lo and behold, I now have wine Wushu! The VMs have a lot of weird bugs (like inputs not persisting, shadows turning into tall boxes, etc.), so hopefully this won't and I can get back into full swing.

booman · Apr 21, 2017

Awesome! I've read really good things about the Gallium Nine Wine versions and driver related issues. Unfortunately I don't use AMD video cards, so I don't really deal with it.
Glad you got it working.

Thanks for confirming that Age of Wushu is still working in PlayOnLinux!

Zergling_man · Apr 21, 2017

Oh, so gal9 is an AMD thing specifically? I didn't realise that, but okay. Neato. As you said: At least we know now that it can be done.

booman · Apr 21, 2017

Yes, from what I've read. So guess you got lucky.

Just make sure to use it with other games as well. I've read that it boost performance with AMD cards.

Zergling_man · Apr 21, 2017

Also, apparently logging in with Facebook causes it to all explode. I got logged in (on Facebook) but the request failed, so I resubmitted (by closing the popup and then hitting the button again), and it crit out. Now it won't reach the login screen. Just freezes during loading.

I'll have to test this further.
EDIT: Nope, just hangs for ages. Facebook logged out again. Eh... I'll have to test this further, later.

Zergling_man · Aug 15, 2017

I suppose it's time I gave an update on this. The game randomly CTD's, and I can't figure out why - but it seems to happen much faster when you have more clients open. With 3, the first one will die in ~10 minutes, the third in about 45. With only one it can persist for about an hour and a half.
I haven't tested having them in different drives, and thus running a wine server for each one.

Also, it doesn't exit cleanly, it leaves two pings running perpetually each time you open a client. These will hold the wineserver alive.

However, as of about a week ago, the game no longer works again; you can log in successfully, but once you pass character select (as soon as the spawn-in loading screen appears), the game begins popping up a "don't speed up!" message every 2 seconds, and freezes your character in place. It's impossible to even unlock bag password under those conditions, letalone do anything. Only really useful for checking daily attendance. I'm guessing Snail have improved their anti-cheat detection, and I have no idea how to convince it that wine isn't cheating.
Especially since their bot flag detection is something different entirely.

EDIT: Oh, and Facebook login does work fine. I don't know what changed to get that working, but it just started working a day or two after the above post. It still, on occasion, requires me to cancel it after logging into FB then retry. Presumably the app request times out or gets lost and then never resolves.

booman · Aug 15, 2017

What are CTD's?
What do you mean by "clients open"?

I remember the anti-cheat creating an error "don't speed up" every 2 seconds a long time ago. I had the exact same problem. Did you try a newer version of Wine?