Need for Speed ProStreet on Linux with Wine

Written by Tom Wickline

Tuesday, 20 November 2007 20:43

About Need for Speed ProStreet

A new spin on the Need for Speed franchise, ProStreet thrusts players into a head-to-head competition against the best street racers in a multitude of racing showdowns. The game is a true taste of raw adrenaline and racing with consequences. Every dent, every scratch and every crumpled body panel is a battle scar, proof of your commitment and competitive mettle. With an aggressive and skilled AI system, you become immersed in an unmatched believable race experience. Add in a revolutionary online mode that will redefine the meaning of competitive social play, and Need for Speed ProStreet is the ultimate formula for an emotionally charged street racing showdown. It also pushes the "Autosculpt" technology to a new level, allowing you to directly impact your car's performance for the first time as well as personalize its appearance.

Wine configuration

This is with a clean configuration directory and running in a 1024x768 virtual desktop.

$ winecfg

Once the .wine directory is built the configuration tool will start and you can set a virtual desktop in the graphics tab if you wish. This is a good time to also set your Audio driver in the Audio tab.

Installing NFS ProStreet

There is a demo of Need for Speed ProStreet here.

After you download the demo, you will want to create a temporary directory in your home directory, I named the one I created simply nfs

tom@tuxonfire ~ $ wine NFSProStreet_Demo.exe
fixme:shell:SHAutoComplete SHAutoComplete stub
fixme:shdocvw:PersistStreamInit_InitNew (0x1296b8)

Now we need to edit the registry and turn off GLSL and use OpenGL as the backend for DDraw. If you have a modern video card you can also change the amount of video memory thats reported, 64MB is the default. there is more info on useful registry keys here.

tom@tuxonfire ~ $ regedit

First run of NFS ProStreet

tom@tuxonfire ~ $ cd /home/tom/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Electronic\ Arts/Need\ for\ Speed\ ProStreet\ Demo
tom@tuxonfire ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/Need for Speed ProStreet Demo $ WINEDEBUG=-all wine nfsdemo.exe

Here is some random in game screenshots........