Medal of Honor Allied Assault on Linux: Notes & Tips

Game Information

Title	Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Year	2002
Developer	2015, Inc.
Graphics API	OpenGL
Audio API	DirectSound3D

Runtime Information

• Wine Version Tested: Wine-GE-Proton8-26 with RadeonSI (AMD OpenGL driver)

Common Issues & Fixes

Gray Frozen Screen at Launch

• Fix: Set environment variable: export MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2002

DXVK Library

• Not compatible (game uses OpenGL).

Audio Setup

This setup enables 3D spatial sound with EAX 2.

• Added missing audio setting:

seta s_milesdriver "Creative Labs EAX 2 (TM)"

• Enabled 3D Spatial Sound using the DSOAL wrapper.

Installation Steps

1. Extract the libraries dsound.dll and dsoal-aldrv.dll into the game folder.
2. Download the UT3‑OpenAL Soft archive from GitHub.
3. From the archive, copy the contents of the OpenAL-44100Hz folder into the %appdata% directory of your Wine prefix.
4. (Optional) Update the dsoal-aldrv.dll library with a newer version of OpenAL Soft:
   1. Locate the file soft_oal.dll inside the bin/32bit folder of the archive.
   2. Rename soft_oal.dll to dsoal-aldrv.dll.
   3. Replace the existing dsoal-aldrv.dll in the game folder with this updated file.

Configuration Files

• Default config file (base game):

 <path-to-game>\main\configs\unnamedsoldier.cfg

• Custom config locations:
  • Base game: <path-to-game>\main\*.cfg
  • Spearhead DLC: <path-to-game>\mainta\*.cfg
  • Breakthrough DLC: <path-to-game>\maintt\*.cfg
• Autoexec vs. New Config:
  • autoexec.cfg → works for base game only
  • newconfig.cfg → required for DLCs

Graphics Enhancements

Anisotropic Filtering (Linux Mesa3D drivers)

• For radeonsi (and older r600) OpenGL driver:

export AMD_TEX_ANISO=16

• For RADV Vulkan driver:

export RADV_TEX_ANISO=16

• Valid values: 0, 2, 4, 8, 16