Hi! I am trying to get LAN multiplayer working with the disc/retail version of SW Battlefront 2004 (1.2) working between a Linux machine and a Windows machine.
To get it working on Linux, I followed the sticky guide to install the disc version via Wine. That worked, although the resolution was a bit wonky, so then I added the EXE as a non-Steam game in Steam and forced it to use Proton 4.11-13 Steam Play compatibility. This works quite well overall outside of multiplayer. However, although I can see and attempt to join multiplayer games hosted by the Windows computer, the Linux computer times out while connecting to the match.
Does anyone know how to speed up the loading times? Perhaps some sort of command line flag ("Launch Options") in Steam could be added that would make it load faster?
I believe that the bug is this one:
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29582
Unfortunately, compiling bespoke versions of Wine just for this is outside my skill level. Can anyone help?
To get it working on Linux, I followed the sticky guide to install the disc version via Wine. That worked, although the resolution was a bit wonky, so then I added the EXE as a non-Steam game in Steam and forced it to use Proton 4.11-13 Steam Play compatibility. This works quite well overall outside of multiplayer. However, although I can see and attempt to join multiplayer games hosted by the Windows computer, the Linux computer times out while connecting to the match.
Does anyone know how to speed up the loading times? Perhaps some sort of command line flag ("Launch Options") in Steam could be added that would make it load faster?
I believe that the bug is this one:
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29582
Unfortunately, compiling bespoke versions of Wine just for this is outside my skill level. Can anyone help?
