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I have been grinding my teeth over getting this to run in Linux. When starting the launcher the "Play" button doesn't appear to start the game. And if you try to launch the client directly it jsut times out while authenticating to the login server. Fortunately a simple solution is available.

Just open the launcher and click the "Fast Launch" option under the "Options" menu at the top.

Oh and while I don't believe it was needed in the end, I have the following installed in the bottle:

Corefonts
MSXML 3.0
MSXML 4.0 SP3
MSXML 6.0 SP1
DirectX runtime - Modern
Crossover HTML Engine

I'm running CXgames 9.1 Linux in Ubuntu x86_64 (Kernel 2.6.32-24-generic)

After that, the game runs as good as windows, maxed out settings for everything at over 60 FPS.

My specs are as follows for comparison:
Nvidia 9800GTX+ (GTS 250 now I believe)
Intel Core i5
4GB RAM

Thanks for the information, but I am not a Linux person, I use a Mac and Window Vista (arrggh, hate MS...).... So I have some questions for this, maybe I can get some help to figure this thing out....

Brandon B. (Caedis) wrote:

Just open the launcher and click the "Fast Launch" option under the
"Options" menu at the top.

hmmmm.... where is this at??? In Crossover or the game itself....

Brandon B. (Caedis) wrote:

Oh and while I don't believe it was needed in the end, I have the
following installed in the bottle:

Corefonts
MSXML 3.0
MSXML 4.0 SP3
MSXML 6.0 SP1
DirectX runtime - Modern
Crossover HTML Engine

Where can I download these files??? And how do I install them in the bottle???

Thanks for the help!! Noobie Mac here!!

Jerry Kouzes wrote:

Thanks for the information, but I am not a Linux person, I use a Mac
and Window Vista (arrggh, hate MS...).... So I have some questions
for this, maybe I can get some help to figure this thing out....

Brandon B. (Caedis) wrote:

Just open the launcher and click the "Fast Launch"
option under the "Options" menu at the top.

hmmmm.... where is this at??? In Crossover or the game itself....

Brandon B. (Caedis) wrote:

Oh and while I don't believe it was needed in the end,
I have the following installed in the bottle:

Corefonts
MSXML 3.0
MSXML 4.0 SP3
MSXML 6.0 SP1
DirectX runtime - Modern
Crossover HTML Engine

Where can I download these files??? And how do I install them in the
bottle???

Thanks for the help!! Noobie Mac here!!

I don't have Champions Online installed, so I cannot answer the question about the 'Fast Launch' option... but I would assume that that is within Champions Online (Perhaps it appears as a menu item once the game is installed).

The rest of the items listed can be installed via CrossOver Games.

The 'CrossOver HTML Engine' is automatically installed with the creation of a new bottle. So here's what I would do...

Go to 'Configure' (top of the screen when CrossOver Games is launched [CrossOver Games | File | Edit | Programs | Configure | Window | Help]) and choose 'Manage Bottles'. Use the plus button (+) to add a new bottle, select 'winxp' as the 'New Bottle Type:' and of course give the bottle a better name than 'New Bottle'. Click 'Create'.

Next, choose the bottle you just created (in the "Manage Bottles" window), click 'Applications' (in the "Manage Bottles" window) and click 'Install Software...' below the list of applications that are installed.

When the 'CrossOver Software Installer' is launched, click the triangle next to 'Supported Applications' to collapse that group. Then, click the triangle next to 'Runtime Support Components' to expand that group. The remaining five items you need to install are within this section. I would install them in the order they are listed:

Corefonts
MSXML 3.0
MSXML 4.0 SP3
MSXML 6.0 SP1
DirectX runtime - Modern

You will have to do them one at a time, note that MSXML and DirectX will be listed as "Microsoft XML Parser...." and "Microsoft DirectX...".

When those are all within the bottle, click 'Install Software...' one more time (with your appropriate bottle still selected). This time, collapse the 'Supported Applications' group, open the 'Unsupported Applications' group and click on 'Other Application'. Point CrossOver at the installer for Champions Online.

Again, I have not installed Champions Online and have not tested it. I do not know how well it works with CrossOver Games (Mac or Linux). But, these instructions will at least get you started. If you have any further trouble, please don't hesitate to post here or send an email to info@codeweavers.com (probably the best way to reach us) and we will do our best to help you.

Using the 9.2.0 trial, I'm unable to run the installer for the new free-to-play version of Champions Online. I have installed the listed app, but it somewhat crashes before it get to download anything with the installer.

Should I maybe include .NET, etc.?

Hi,

I'm not sure - I just grabbed the F2P installer to have
a peek -- seeing as CO has gone free2play, I'm checking if
it's possible to get a c4p/crosstie happening for that ; more
later...

Cheers!

I couldn't get the downloader installer to work, and chalked it up to the same (or similar) issues to the downloader installers for DDO & LOTRO. I was able to get the game to install by using the full download installer found here:

http://www.bigdownload.com/games/champions-online/pc/champions-online-free-to-play-client/ (Warning, 2.9GB download)

But I think there may be more needed, as after successfully installing and launching the game, I get to a white screen that says "Loading, please wait". I let it run for about an hour, and it never changed. I'm going to let it run overnight, but I'm thinking there are other issues that need to be figured out.

For reference, this is my system config:

Mid-2010 Mac Mini
4GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256MB GPU
OS X 10.6.6
CX Games 9.2.0

Bottle Installed Apps:
MSXML 3.0
MSXML 4.0
MSXML 6.0
Corefonts
DirectX Runtime Modern (installed by CO installer)
MS Visual C++ 2008 Runtime

Nor could I, the live downloader route is definitely a weird
animal (I actually had it crashing in a pthread call in glib
on my linux box)...like you, moving to the full download instead
to check there...

Apparently the white screen thing seems to be connected to IE
http://forums.champions-online.com/showthread.php?t=91877&page=2

Even if I use Crossover Mac Pro, I can't seem to be able to install IE, so can't test it.

I get something like "This installation doesn't support your OS language".

That's odd (the IE thing)...what locale are you in?

Apols for not mentioning that before, I had figured out
it was making some use of ie related stuffs, but I figured
that might just have been the live downloader...apparently
not...thanks for the clue...(I've still to install it ;)

Ok I used the french installer. (French inside)

I changed it for the english one and I was able to make it work (IE7).
But now I can't tell if Champions Online works because I am at work (with my macbook pro yes), but I am behind a proxy.
I don't get the "Loading" white screen anymore, but I get an error page from the proxy.

I'll try again in a couple of hours at home.

EDIT: Forgot to say that I did it with Crossover Mac Pro and not Crossover Games (since I don't know how to make IE work on that one)

...strange...thanks for mentioning it...I might get
someone to check it to make sure it's all sane....

...the proxy error is probably a good sign all things
told - at least it's tossing and retrieving packets...

...there is no way to get IE7 'cleanly' into Crossover
Games perse ; you -can- make a cxarchive of the bottle
(in Pro) and do a restore from archive (in Games), but
the behavior of the IE7 installation may change a bit.
Depending on what the game itself requires, you might
have to do that anyway (run it in Crossover Games) due
to differences in the base code of the two products..

Update: Hmmm...ok...keep in mind my test here is against the latest
release candidate for the upcoming Crossover Games 10 series, and
not using 9.1 as this thread subject may suggest - and in that, I
know there's been a number of improvements with cxhtml engine &
friends in the new builds that won't be apparent in the 9.x series
of Crossover Games and this below may not apply in that situation...

*the full installer bundles it's own redist of directx9 - installing our own might not be needed

*installer does require IE7 in some manner, however, I'm using mshtml7 (Microsoft HTML Rendering Engine 7) for this...

*2 step install ; first self extract exe then run setup.exe in %extractdir

*emulated virtual desktop enabled @ 1024x768 - safemode

*first start, login with your cryptic/atari account credentials - seems to take a long time, the username/password entries areas are skew-if but it works...

*then it loads another html page and starts a patch update - using mshtml7 the graphics flicker wildly as the patch is downloading but it patches without need for user input

*after this you can click play - here (nv9800gt/1024mb) it complains about not knowing my videocard - it offers a choice, I chose start with lower settings

*game loads, takes an inordinately long time to load but gets there - character creation ok - get into game ok

*maybe I'm a bit down on cpu (2.2gHz x2 amd64) but it felt like I was near the limit here with the game in windowed mode @ 1024x768

*perhaps it was looking for http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=7490 at install time ; perhaps this is still optional

*possibly one should avoid futzing with gamma value at the start - in game it seems brighter than on test screen

...but it ran, seems to work, just looooong time waiting for loads.
This was just a 'bare' test ; nothing in the bottle except what mshtml7
pulls in + plus the app itself -- perhaps one could make it run a bit
better if you looked at it's loadout in debug to figure out where to
start poking at it...ie; maybe it's looking for physx and I haven't
double checked what the bundled directx install actually did...

Cheers!

edit: the truetype Arial font fixes some menu issues in linux

I get pretty much everything the same as you (CX Pro). Except I don't get past the black loading screen.
You mentioned that it is very long, but mine is quite faste actually, in fact it take less that 15 seconds to get to half of the loading bar. Except little after that I get a crash of the cryptic thing. Everytime.

I tried backing up the bottle and restoring it into Crossover Games, but I get a white screen (right after the "Loading. Please wait." part).
And it never ends.

Maybe I should just backup the bottle with IE7 and do the game installation properly into Crossover Games? By the way. The CX Games I have is the 9.2, does it change anything?

I tried a "clean" installation on CXG from a IE7 bottle restored, but I still have the same problem (White Screen).
No change on CX Pro.

Mercusio wrote:

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By the way. The CX Games I have is the 9.2, does it change
anything?

Highly likely, as mentioned in the first para of my post
here above, there have been numerous code improvements
in and around this area in 10 that won't be in 9.x, and
it wouldn't surprise me at all that the results I'm seeing
are only possible in 10 as such. I'm not in any way saying
one can't get it running in 9.x but I haven't checked, and
it may actually be so -- perhaps it doesn't run in 9.x...

...then again, maybe it doesn't like OSX...hmm...might check
it on the iMac....

That would be a shame.
Please let me know (you or someone else) if there is a way to make it work under mac os x.

Thank you.

Nahh...it won't be a shame for you at least - the only reason I'm
dribbling this information out here, is the CX 10 release is nigh
imminent, and going by your account creation date and that you have
Pro, I figure you're entitled to the upgrade when it appears =)

Good to know.
Thank you very much.
I will try again then.

Update2: 11,2 iMac, hd5670/512mb

*same conditions - if I were to say the GUI flickered @ 2-4Hz on the penguin during patch download, this is more like 10-15Hz on the Mac

*else, all the same - game starts and runs as it should - probably appreciates the 3.2gHz i3 - needs a little extra gamma on the hd5670

*Mac gets the login menu placement right - perhaps in linux we need drag in another font...

Hi, running Snow Leopard with cxgames 10 here and it seems to be working smoothly so far.

My installed software:

MSXML 3.0
MSXML 4.0
MSXML 6.0
DirectX Runtime - Modern
MS Visual C++ 2008 Runtime
msls31
IE7 (installed with winetricks)

I'm sorry to come back like that, but is there a way to get cxg 10 even if it is still a beta?

Hi folks,

Please carry this discussion forward in the forum of the newly
created C4 page for Champions Online - Free for All (f2p)...see;

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=8464

@Mercusio - CXG-10 is out 8)

Cheers!