The Secret World Legends Forum

Hi there, I was wondering if anything progressed since the last post in thread titled disappointed?

Currently I'm on an iMac (3.2 GHz Intel Core i3) with 16GB 1333 MHz DDR3. This iMac has the ATI Radeon HD 5670 512 MB graphics card. I'm on the most current OS (10.8.2) and I am running CrossOver 12.1.2.

I followed most of the directions in several threads and I have the game working, but I'm having some of the fore mentioned graphics problems. The screen does this rapid blink and some of the menus are a bit screwed up. While it is technically playable, I can't really edit/create a character due to most of the menus being a bit of a mess.

These are the steps I followed so far:

create a new winxp bottle, and install the following :

*Microsoft Directx Runtime - Modern (in Runtime Support Components
of cxinstaller GUI)

*DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer (in Community Supported
Applications of cxinstaller GUI)

One of the directions (* set a library override for shlwapi.dll to native in the Wine Configuration libraries tab) I could not follow because, frankly, I don't know how to. I'm not sure how to access RegEdit in CrossOver to do many of the suggestions in the threads.

Anyways, it seems like Secret World is almost playable. Any suggestions on how to get this fully working? Any new steps? If you do have code or regedit procedures, would you mind going thru the steps on how to do this, as I'm a novice when it comes to dealing with that sort of stuff. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there that are like me too.

Thanks for your help and I hope to get TSW working and running.

Hi there, I was wondering if anything progressed since the last post
in thread titled disappointed?
I haven't tested the game since 12.0, but it seems that most people are having the same
issues.
The screen does this rapid blink and some of the menus are a bit
screwed up.
http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/mac/mactutorial/registry_keys

Follow the guide's example using a new/empty bottle. Once you understand how to
add, modify, and delete registry keys, add the following registry entries to The Secret
World bottle:```
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\TheSecretWorld.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\TheSecretWorld.exe\Direct3D

global-wide - it is recommended to do this with most settings and overrides that allow it)

***** In Direct3D, add a new String (value data: enabled) and name it **StrictDrawOrdering**

This should be the only registry entry necessary, but feel free to play around with the  
other keys. A list can be found here:  
[http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys](http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys)

> *DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer (in Community Supported
> Applications of cxinstaller GUI)
DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer isn't required. It won't hurt anything, just not  
needed. Only Microsoft Directx Runtime - Modern is required.

> One of the directions (* set a library override for  shlwapi.dll  to
>  native in the Wine Configuration libraries tab) I could not follow
> because, frankly, I don't know how to.  I'm not sure how to access
> RegEdit in CrossOver to do many of the suggestions in the threads.
I don't believe that an override for shlwapi.dll is required, but feel free to check. Dll  
overrides can easily be added using winecfg (Configure menu > Manage Bottles > Select the  
Bottle > Control Panel tab > **Wine Configuration**).

Before trying to override the dll for The Secret World, try overriding it using a  
*new/empty* bottle:

***** Open winecfg and click the Add application button

***** Navigate into the *windows* folder and select **notepad.exe** and click the Open button  
(the notepad.exe application should be highlighted in winecfg - this allows you to  
override settings per-application using winecfg)

***** Click the Libraries tab and add **shlwapi** as a new override  
(the shlwapi.dll override entry should be highlighted)

***** Click the Edit button and change the override to *native*, then change it back to   
**native, builtin**

***** In winecfg, click Apply or OK to save

For The Secret World, select TheSecretWorld.exe instead of notepad.exe.

> Thanks for your help and I hope to get TSW working and running.
No problemo! Let us know how it runs for you.

First off, thank you for that step by step instructions. It helped out immensely.

The steps you had me do did a lot. I was able to see more of the menus in order to create a character. It was still difficult as things were still really scrambled. Fumbling through I was able to enter the game, in what I assume was a tutorial zone.

Unfortunately that is where things got worse. Odd words scrambled about. I'm assuming they are part of menus. Here is a screenshot:

Here is a video of me logging in and entering the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2ZJot9wAyE&feature=youtu.be

As you can see, it is hard to do anything.

A little update. Back on March 30th, I hadn't touched TSW in a few weeks, but I figure I'd launch it up to see what patches happened. I'm glad I did because whatever patches they applied made a major difference on my computer. Graphically it is very playable with only a few cosmetic issues. Now, it seems to run a little slow with Graphics settings at Low (in the Video options in Settings), but if you go to the Advanced tab and set everything to 0, then there is no lag at all. Obviously, graphically, this looks bad-ish, but the game runs really smooth.

I also changed the refresh rate in the regedit string (above posts) to 15 seconds. This really helped clean up what I was looking at. It seemed to "gather" image echoes after a while, causing some difficulty seeing. Once I changed that refresh rate things were even better.