Stephen Coetzee

Lately I had a load of issues trying to get Stalker to work under wine. At first, Got nothing a blank screen.
Did some googling, and didn’t come up with much. A few cryptic messages about using -nointro and -nodistort in the CLI.
After a while I gave up. And then another week passed and I decided the reward is too great but long story short, I want to include my own method here. Mostly so I don’t forget how I did got it to work smoothly.

Installed Stalker from DVD, Patched to 1.0005, then to 1.0006 and then applied NODVD crack (couldn’t get it to work otherwise)

These entries I then had to manually enter into the wine regedit:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D :

DirectDrawRenderer opengl
OffScreenRenderingMode fbo
PixelShaderMode enabled
UseGLSL disabled
VertexShaderMode hardware
VideoMemorySize 512

Stalker-SoC.sh :

#!/bin/bash
X :1 -ac &
DISPLAY=:1
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine
WINEDEBUG=-all
wine "C:\Program Files HQ/S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl/bin/XR_3DA.exe" -nodistort -nointro -dsound


Game now works fully, other than a few issues with slightly laggy gameplay, need to tweak a bit i reckon.

Happy Gaming