Comments - R-800

I'm running A.D. 1257 on Linux Mint 18 right now without Wine. This is possible because I'm using the SteamOS version of Native Warband (with this mod simply dropped in its modules folder). No emulation required.

If you own the Steam version of Warband, and are running Linux, you can download and run it in the standard way via the Linux-specific Steam client. After initially confronting some stability issues (common ones that even many Windows users were having), it now runs flawlessly. My guess is that this is your best option; I think it unlikely that you'll get the Windows version running flawless in Linux using Wine.

Anyone know why turning on Dynamic Lighting would turn off the player character's shadow? Because that's what seems to have happened. Anyone else experience this?

I had this same exact problem until I gave up on the Steam version of the game and installed the GOG version instead. For some reason, this allowed me to get Dynamic Lighting working in the mod. I knew it didn't have anything to do with the Steam Overlay setting, as that had long been turned off. Later, I got to thinking, based on things I'd seen mentioned from others, that it may have had something to do with the install location. Steam puts everything in its own default folder, but if you follow the path up the line, it begins with the Program Files(x86) directory. I've heard that this could cause probolems, but can't remember why. My GOG version was installed in a different directory. I haven't tested this, but I now wonder if the fact that my GOG version of the game is installed elsewhere (because it's allowed to be) is responsible for the fact that the mod now works. I don't know.

I had the crashing trouble too for a long time. Nothing anyone was telling me to do worked. I had the Steam version of the game, and was only able to get it to start without crashing by enabling Static Lighting in the SoC Options Menu, THEN installing AA2 with the Static Lighting option selected. This was the ONLY way I could get the Steam version of the mod to work at all. But I wanted Dynamic Lighting, and finally found that I could only get it by buying and installing the non-Steam version of the game from GOG.com, which is on sale right now for eight bucks. Don't know why it worked, but after reading a lot of posts from people claiming the Steam version might be causing issues (I had the Steam overlay disabled, and still couldn't completely fix this problem), I decided to try this other version, and it worked for me.

I'm not sure you're having exactly the same problem as I did, because I could never get it to load. For me, the Steam version of SoC NEVER ran the mod, not one time, before turning off Dynamic Lighting in both SoC and the AA2 install. Then it ran, but of course, without Dynamic Lighting. It runs now with Dynamic Lighting. You may get more stability with another version, even if your crashes are happening in different places than mine were. It's something to consider, anyway.

Hey, everyone. After a lot of work, and trial and error, I finally have AA2 running successfully with Dynamic Lighting, and everything looks great! I'm curious now, though, about one key difference I've noticed between running it with Static Lighting vs. Dynamicl Lighting: I do not see my actor shadow on walls now that I'm using dynamic lighting, but I DID see one when I used static lighting. Is there any way to get my own shadow back without turning off Dynamic Lighing? Because seeing it there really added something.