Rune Install Guide

This guide describes how to get Rune installed on a (Gentoo) Linux system and running using wine.

Prerequisites

1. A copy of Rune and Halls of Valhalla.
2. A Linux system with HW-accelerated 3D video, audio, networking, and wine already functional.
3. Patience.

Notes

• The install was conducted on a Gentoo system, so some of the instructions are Gentoo-specific.  If you're not running Gentoo you need to be familiar enough with your distro to make the necessary adjustments. 
• I recommend dedicating a directory on your system for wine-based game installs, and configuring wine to map that directory to a drive letter.  I.e. create /games or something, and use winecfg to map that to, say, X:\.  If you see X:\ in the instructions, and if you use a different location (like wine's default C:\ mapping), then adjust accordingly.

Instructions

1. Mount the Rune CD:

   • mount /mnt/cdrom

2. Install the game using wine.
   

   • wine /mnt/cdrom/Setup.exe

3. Unmount the CD:

   • umount /mnt/cdrom

4. Insert and mount the HoV CD:
   

   • mount /mnt/cdrom

5. Install HoV (be sure to select the same installation location):

   • wine /mnt/cdrom/Setup.exe

6. Unmount the HoV CD:

   • umount /mnt/cdrom

7. Patch to v1.08:
   • Download rhov108upd_full.exe.

   • wine rhov108upd_full.exe

8. IMPORTANT: Run the game once, to allow configuration of the graphics settings.

   • wine System/RUNE.EXE

   • Select the OpenGL renderer.  D3D crashes the game on my system.
   • Quit the game.
9. There are several alternative renderers that you might want to try:
   • An alternative OpenGL renderer by Chris Dohnal.
   • An alternative D3D (DX9) renderer by Chris Dohnal.
10. Install the Co-op mod v1.2:
    • Download runeco-opv1_2.zip, and unzip it.
    • Be sure you've run the game once already, since the co-op installer launches Rune upon completion, and if it's the first time the game's been run, it crashes (did for me anyway, and very annoyingly took down my whole X session).

    • wine RuneCo-Op12.exe

11. Install the GrottoRuneMegaMapPack v1.0:
    • Download GrottoRuneMegaMapPack.zip and unzip it someplace where you can reference it via a wine path (i.e. X:\GrottoRuneMegaMapPack.zip).

    • wine <runedir>/System/Setup.exe install "X:\GrottoRuneMegaMapPack.rmod"

12. Enjoy!