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Where magic spells doom.

<span class="bold">Zenith</span>, a tongue-in-cheek fantasy RPG with reckless wizards messing with chaotic powers, is available now, DRM-free on GOG.com, with a 20% launch discount.

Say what you will about Argus Windell's snobbish attitude and outdated ways but the fact is the man knows how to spell. And that's not all too common in a world full of moronic adventurers, criminally overconfident wizards, and volatile cosmic powers. That's why, following a series of unfortunate events, Argus is forced to come back from his early retirement and help clean up the mess before the whole world goes the way of the complimentary cloth map.
Aside from his deep knowledge of the arcane, Argus can also swing a mean spell, when the situation calls for it. Which is good too, because as the story progresses, and the bosses keep growing toothier and toothier, he will need all the special combos, peculiar artifacts, and clever pop-culture references that he can get his hands on.

Get ready to kick some serious monster butt and scold some seriously incompetent heroes as you reach your spellcasting <span class="bold">Zenith</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com.
The 20% discount will last until September 27, 3:59 PM UTC.


https://www.youtube.com/embed/xdT7jbAWz4g
Post edited September 20, 2016 by maladr0Id
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Patsche85: I had no luck. I tested it with Debian 8 and Backportkernel 4.6 and R9280X with proprietary fglrx driver.
Pity... :(

Thanks for the info though (and for the effort!)
Post edited September 20, 2016 by muntdefems
I don't know... I should be far more interested in this than I am. I loved Bard's Tale. But I'm just not feeling this one. And am I the only one less than happy to see PS buttons on screens for a PC game? What gives?
Looks good!!. Price is very appealing (compared to quite a few pricey indies that have been released recently). Humor is right up my alley.
Wishlisted til i get a closer look at the game play....
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muntdefems: Has anyone tried this game on Linux with Wine?

I've got a more or less strict 'No Tux, No Bux' rule, but I'm totally willing to break it for this one (provided I'm able to play it, that is). :P
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Patsche85: I had no luck. I tested it with Debian 8 and Backportkernel 4.6 and R9280X with proprietary fglrx driver. I used playonlinux with wine 1.9.18-staging and 1.9.19-staging. I tried to install vcrun 2013, 3dx9, 3dx11 and dotnet 4.5 but the game always chrash while loading the mainscrren. Installation works and the 2 intro video, too.
But the game does not run jet for me. Perhaps anybody has an idea. Here is the output from starting the game from cli:

/usr/share/playonlinux/playonlinux --run "Zenith" %F
Looking for python... 2.7.9 - selected
[main] Message: PlayOnLinux (4.2.5) is starting
[clean_tmp] Message: Cleaning temp directory
Script started /home/marco/.PlayOnLinux/shortcuts/Zenith
[POL_System_CheckFS] Message: Checking filesystem for Zenith.exe
[POL_Wine] Message: Running wine-1.9.19-staging Zenith.exe %F (Working directory : /home/marco/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Zenith/drive_c/GOG Games/Zenith)
[POL_Wine] Message: Notice: PlayOnLinux deliberately disables winemenubuilder. See http://www.playonlinux.com/fr/page-26-Winemenubuilder.html
Mono path[0] = 'C:/GOG Games/Zenith/Zenith_Data/Managed'
Mono path[1] = 'C:/GOG Games/Zenith/Zenith_Data/Mono'
Mono config path = 'C:/GOG Games/Zenith/Zenith_Data/Mono/etc'
shader.c:1237: unsafe_impl_from_ID3D11GeometryShader: Zusicherung »iface->lpVtbl == &d3d11_geometry_shader_vtbl« nicht erfüllt.
[POL_Wine] Error: Wine scheint abgestürzt zu sein

Wenn Ihr Programm weiter läuft, ignorieren Sie diese Nachricht
[POL_SetupWindow_Init] Message: Creating new window for pid 26636
[POL_SetupWindow_Close] Message: Closing window for pid 26636
[POL_Wine] Message: Wine return: 5
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Patsche85: I think the problem is 3dx11....if I google that problem I have found another game, with the same message:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&amp;iId=33920
Here is the bugreport:
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41295

Hope I could help and I hope anybody finds a solution....
Patsche85,

The thing I've noticed with a lot of games lately is that they tend to have a DirectX 9 fallback mode and for some reason when you run them in Wine they want to use DirectX 11. So all you need to is disable DirectX 11 support in your prefix by disabling it in Wine's configuration utility.

Once you disable DirectX 11 in Wine, most games will simply use DirectX 9 and will play just as well as if they had DirectX 11 support.

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Patsche85: I had no luck. I tested it with Debian 8 and Backportkernel 4.6 and R9280X with proprietary fglrx driver.
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muntdefems: Pity... :(

Thanks for the info though (and for the effort!)
The game more than likely has DX9 support but Unity games (I can tell it's a Unity game by Patsche85's terminal output he/she posted :P) like to default to DX11 for whatever reason.

If you give me some time I can make a test run of the game myself :)
Post edited September 21, 2016 by JudasIscariot
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JudasIscariot: Patsche85,

The thing I've noticed with a lot of games lately is that they tend to have a DirectX 9 fallback mode and for some reason when you run them in Wine they want to use DirectX 11. So all you need to is disable DirectX 11 support in your prefix by disabling it in Wine's configuration utility.

Once you disable DirectX 11 in Wine, most games will simply use DirectX 9 and will play just as well as if they had DirectX 11 support.
So... does Zenith work fine if you force it to run on DirectX 9? :)


EDIT: Never mind, I've just read the edit to your post. Will wait for your report. :)
Post edited September 21, 2016 by muntdefems
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JudasIscariot: Patsche85,

The thing I've noticed with a lot of games lately is that they tend to have a DirectX 9 fallback mode and for some reason when you run them in Wine they want to use DirectX 11. So all you need to is disable DirectX 11 support in your prefix by disabling it in Wine's configuration utility.

Once you disable DirectX 11 in Wine, most games will simply use DirectX 9 and will play just as well as if they had DirectX 11 support.
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muntdefems: So... does Zenith work fine if you force it to run on DirectX 9? :)
I would need to download it first so let me do that :)

As for running fine, it should as long as it's not like Necropolis where it would require certain D3D formats to be fully implemented instead of being stubs like they are now.
Hmm, The humour is appealing, the fact that you are not able to swing the camera around is not. Savepoints?, I don't like those. As Breja already suggested, this looks like this game is desgned for the console.
JudasIscariot, nice hint about disabling DX11 in Wine. I'm definitely going to try that more often for modern games.
Post edited September 21, 2016 by jorlin
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jorlin: Hmm, The humour is appealing, the fact that you are not able to swing the camera around is not. Savepoints?, I don't like those. As Breja already suggested, this looks like this game is desgned for the console.
JudasIscariot, nice hint about disabling DX11 in Wine. I'm definitely going to try that more often for modern games.
Also, be sure to try running some games with the -opengl4 flag like so "wine Game.exe -opengl4". It's how I managed to run Ether One Redux damn near perfectly in Wine :) Not all games will work with the -opengl4 flag but it's worth a try :)
so i've looked at the trailer

and this was my face.
https://media.giphy.com/media/fvtmoJ7S6GzRe/giphy.gif
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JudasIscariot: Patsche85,

The thing I've noticed with a lot of games lately is that they tend to have a DirectX 9 fallback mode and for some reason when you run them in Wine they want to use DirectX 11. So all you need to is disable DirectX 11 support in your prefix by disabling it in Wine's configuration utility.

Once you disable DirectX 11 in Wine, most games will simply use DirectX 9 and will play just as well as if they had DirectX 11 support.
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muntdefems: So... does Zenith work fine if you force it to run on DirectX 9? :)

EDIT: Never mind, I've just read the edit to your post. Will wait for your report. :)
There's my report: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_judas_does_this_run_in_wine_thread_v1173/post332

And I've attached a screenshot of my running applications in alt-tab mode. You should be able to see Zenith running :)
Attachments:
Damn this reminds me of another series of humour and reference filled RPGs. Problem with that game is that the humour and referencing was what held it together because the rest of the game was indeed not great.
Predicting the same with this one.
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tinyE: If they'd given him his signature, DC would be up their ass with a gang of lawyers right now.
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JudasIscariot: Ah but he's only wearing a vest there and not the FULL get up :P
Certainly, the first thing I thought when I saw that green guy in the screenshot was "that's the lucky charms guy!"
Great release, it looks so beautiful and fun. It reminds me Fable 3 somehow. ^_^
Why do so many games on GOG just appear the day of release with no advance notice? This game (and many others) was never listed under the coming soon tab. Just curious.
Could someone give me a warning if this game actually is like Fable III, so that I know to stay the hell away from it?
Post edited September 21, 2016 by MightyPinecone