How-to: Trackmania United on Wine!

Trackmania United is a fun game with cars/themes from the previous Trackmania games, gathered in one game.

First of all, insert the disc/mount the iso and start a terminal and go to the disc directory:

cd /media/cdrom (in my case)

Then you start the install program by writing:

Wine TmUnitedSetup.exe

After you have installed the game, you must find a no-dvd patch/crack (I'm obviously not going to direct you to one). The game also requires D3dx9_30.dll + D3dx9_30.dll to run (place in .wine/drive_c/windows/system32 and add them as natives via winecfg)

Then you should be ready to run the program by directing to the games directory, and run:

wine TmUnitedLauncher.exe in the terminal!

Benchmark:
Very High Settings @ 1024 x 768 (virtual window) on following system
Ubuntu 7.10
Wine 0.9.56 with 3D Mark patch
Core 2 Duo 2,33 ghz, 8800 GTS with 169.09 drivers, 2 gb RAM.

Average FPS: 30 fps



Notes:
Some more advanced settings will only work if you have installed the 3DMark patch.
Bloom will only result in white lines on the screen.
Motion Blur doesn't work.