Just Cause 2 Forum

Not for me it doesn't. I downloaded JC2, clicked play, and... nothing. I bought it based on its Gold rating, and I want proof that it works, if any.
BTW: I can't find the program files. It's "installed", and there's nothing but readmes.

Hi,

I can't tell you what release of the game the gold medal was
submitted against..ie; CD/DVD, Steam, another distributor...I
can possibly ask a Ninja about it if you want?....

By the looks of WineHQ, the Steam version of the game is known
not to work.....see;

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=11316

What you say about the apparent installation is a bit confusing,
and doesn't sound right...from which distributor did you get your
downloadable version?

Cheers!

Um, steam. But doesn't the physical version require steam? If it makes a difference, then shame on me.

Well, I'm not familiar with the game myself -- that said, I do see it's
available via Direct2Drive (currently on special actually for $7.50)...so
although it requires Steam to play, it seems apparent you don't have to
use the Steam version, and you can use the D2D version with Steam...see;

http://www.direct2drive.com/9738/product/Buy-Just-Cause-2-Download

This is why I'm speculating the medal ranking may have been derived from
the use of a non-Steam release of the title. The C4 site here has only
recently acquired the new feature of 'distributor comparison table' but
nowhere near all apps have been tagged with this yet -- I just added such
to this C4 page, based on the information available....as it is, this new
table's intent is to better inform users of which distributor releases do
and don't work with Crossover - unfortunately it's appearance is a little
too late to help yourself... ;-/

Do note, I am not saying the direct2drive version works - that, I do not
know....what I do know is I have a number of D2D titles working, so it's
possible their release can/does work in Crossover....like I say, best I can
do is ask a Ninja to email the customer who submitted the medal ranking, and
hope they post back the required information.

Cheers!

I, too, bought it from Steam based on it's Gold Medal. The game requires Vista/7 to run, and I made a new bottle with Vista and the game starts, installs, then...nothing. This is on my i7 iMac with 10.6.5, Crossover Games 9.2, 8GB RAM and Radeon 5750 GPU

I notice this game REQUIRES directx10, and I see that Wine is not yet DX10 compatible. Might there be a workaround for that?

Would this work?
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=7558;forum=1;msg=86491

crispy wrote:

I notice this game REQUIRES directx10, and I see that Wine is not
yet DX10 compatible. Might there be a workaround for that?

Would this work?
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=7558;forum=1;msg=86491

If you install app_id=7558 (after first preparing the bottle for it's installation), you
will end up with d3dx10_33.dll thru d3dx10_43.dll inclusive. Whether that helps or not, is
up to you to discover =)

I installed 7558 and the good news is that it doesn't appear to have created any conflicts with my other games.

I originally had Steam in an XP bottle, but used the winecfg to switch to Vista and then Windows 7. No dice.

Still getting this error:
Fatal DirectX error!
Code: 2
Result: 0x0: S_OK

The game will now exit. Try starting the game with /failsafe if the problem persists.

BTW, I'm using the Just Cause 2 demo rather than the full game.

So it would see that maybe I need a real live DirectX10. I'd love to have this working though, since it seems like a truly fun game.

If you installed 7558 'properly', you will have a 'real' directx10
install -- but searching about, I see this title requires pixel shader
model 4.0 ; I'm not sure where that leaves wine/crossover...

..also. Windows users are seeing this as well - they need a directx10
capable videocard to avoid it ; perhaps there's a clue there...it may
simply be video hardware/driver related, and not a software issue..

I have an ATI Radeon HD 5750.

That seems to work with Just Cause 2 (there's a youtube video, but haven't watched it).

What's the pixel shader situation with crossover? I'm not familiar with that.

..the situation in Crossover will be about the same as the situation
in Wine pure...see;

http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectX-Shaders?highlight=%28shader%29

Not quite sure how to fix the problem. I tried following the directions on using /failsafe, but either I didn't do it right or it simply didn't fix the problem. On one forum, they suggested turning off anti-aliasing, and I was dubious about that. I created an App Default for the JC2 exe in the steam registry. Didn't work (much as I expected). I looked at the link you gave about shaders, and although I didn't really understand a lot of it, I tried useGLSL disabled (though, actually, maybe I should have tried enabled. Didn't think of that).

You mentioned Pixel Shader 4.0 and I tried looking that up but couldn't find much if any information on that. I'm taking it that Crossover only supports up to 2.0? Is that likely the problem? Is there a workaround? Not really expecting much on that, though.

http://hotbot.com/search/web?q=pixel+shader+model+4.0

...heaps of stuff.... as I understand it, 1> your videocard hardware
must support it (this is in silicon, and not all GPU's have the same
number of pixel shader pipelines) ... 2> your (native) videocard drivers
have to support/expose this interface for the apps/wine to access, and
although I didn't look hard it seems the linux ati drivers only support
pixel shader model 3.0 (??...don't quote me on that, but I read something
to that effect) ...and 3> winecore itself must support the dx10 function
calls in some way to knit the whole show together... whether that's done
or not, I have no idea.

I have a Radeon HD 5750, and according to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_shader

It should support up to D3d11 and PS 5.0.

I actually tried to install the windows graphics driver into the Steam bottle but it didn't work. I might try that again and see if I can get it to fully install.

The Windows driver is of no use to you at all ; as I said, it depends
on the level of support in your native video driver & winecore.

I tried a few things, but I do somewhat suspect maybe my graphics card isn't good enough to run this game.