- #Homeworld cataclysm install#
- #Homeworld cataclysm Patch#
- #Homeworld cataclysm software#
- #Homeworld cataclysm windows#
The game was installed with everything checked out while installing (videos, sound, etc installed).
#Homeworld cataclysm Patch#
I used the 1.01 patch and a no-cd crack (I own the full game, btw). I got the game working in OpenGL with 1920x1080 resolution, with excellent performance. disableAVI just removes the annoying intro videos. This should provide a bit more performance, if needed. You can add the /forceSSE option as well, if the game doesn't crash with it. These launch options can be included in a desktop launcher, though, of course. If that happens, you will have to redo all the registry settings again, before running the game with these command line options.
#Homeworld cataclysm software#
If that happens, the game will default to software rendering and this will overwrite all the settings in the registry as well. Without them, the game fails to run in the OpenGL mode. You NEED to run the game like this EVERY time now, more precisely the /noglddraw and /device gl options are mandatory. Run the game with wine cataclysm.exe /disableAVI /noglddraw /noswddraw /device gl
#Homeworld cataclysm install#
Go to where your game is installed (apparently the game doesn't like if you don't run it from its install directory). Make sure you have a terminal open and all the appropriate WINEPREFIX and WINEARCH environment variables set. Now close regedit, we're ready to run the game. In regedit, that then looked like this for me: For me that was 1920x1080: screenHeight 1080, screenWidht 1920 Now you can simply put in your desired modes. Same thing with screenHeight and screen Widht, just double click on them and change the editing mode to decimal. Here we will change a few entries (without the quotes):ĭeviceToSelect should be "gl", glToSelect should "opengl32.dll", screenDepth should be "0x00000020 (32)" (you can do that by switching to decimal mode and just inputting 32 as the value. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Sierra On-Line/Cataclysm. Now open the registry editor with wine regedit.
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Set all your desired video settings now, like highest details and maximum texture detail, etc, but NOT the resolution.
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If the game doesn't want to run in sw mode by default, do it yourself by opening a terminal, setting the appropriate WINEPREFIX and WINEARCH to win32, changing the directory to where the game is installed and run wine cataclysm.exe /sw /disableAVI. This is fine, because this is the only mode where the game doesn't crash when trying to change video settings (texture memory, more precisely, crank that thing to max). By default, it should run in software mode.
![homeworld cataclysm homeworld cataclysm](http://www.gamesurge.com/hwn/cataclysm/gallery/ships/c_to_d/images/Dreadnought01.jpg)
To get the game to work in OpenGL and your desired widescreen resolution, you need to first run it in software mode, to set your desired video settings (details, etc). Using the D3D mode is not recommended because the image quality is noticeably worse than in OpenGL mode and you can't use your monitor's native resolution, like I did (1920x1080) and the performance is a bit worse in big battles.
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The game also crashes when trying to change rendering modes to OpenGL in the options. This prevents you from using the OpenGL mode. There is a problem with this game where it fails to load the OpenGL mode properly because it does some weird things while setting it up. I recommend installing this in a separate 32-bit wine prefix and set your OS version to NT 4.0 (before installing the game).
#Homeworld cataclysm windows#
Setting the OpenGL mode doesn't work, although windows have a similar problem, The workaround on Linux is different, however.