Vinductus isn't compatable with WINE
I'm really not sure where else to ask this, so here I am; can somebody point me in the right direction to find a guide to setting up a VM to run Vindictus in? I'm not looking to hack the game, or run bots of any kind; I just want to be able to play the game again without having to configure several dozen drivers on a dual booted Windows 7 install that can't even access the internet without the right driver. My main machine has plenty of resources to work with for Vindictus, as well as all the drivers I need to fully utilize my graphics card and pass it through to a guest.
A couple hours of searching through the site has found me nothing that has helped, so I'm asking for myself.
WINE does not emulate the Windows kernel (completely/functionally). Hackshield loads a driver and thus cannot be run on WINE. Otherwise, it should be possible to run Vindictus on WINE (e.g. emulation of heartbeat).
To those that have responded,
That's why I mention a VM; I can't dual boot Windows due to serious driver constraints, but I have plenty of resources and the hardware-level compatibility to run a virtual machine with Windows in it. I've heard that people have gotten Vindictus to run in VMs before, but every time I try it stops at the splash screen and crashes quietly without going further.
Themida (ehsvc.dll is packed with it) has VM detecting code. Namely VMXh and SLDT, although it is possible that they may also be using other tricks such as SIDT/SGDT or even undocumented ones.
Like the others have said. VMware works fine with Vindictus. I run VMware with Vindictus for several weeks now (why I never thought of it before I don't know). I also use VMware player and I can run both Vindictus on my host computer and on the VM at the same time with little to no hiccups.
I've been running vindictive on vmware on multiple computers for years, the only problem I had was setting too many cores per vm causing vindictive to crash.