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Posted September 11, 2008
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Like fangbite wrote in my other thread, I think it is good, if we could make a list, what game from GOG works good/ not so good with Ubuntu/Linux and Wine.
I will edit this post with alle tested games. :)
I take the start:
Games with Wine tested:
Descent 3
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bagnaj97: it works perfectly if you take note of the following:
1. You must use the opengl renderer. After some fiddling I got direct3d working but it was slow.
2. I found oss sound to be better than alsa, but YMMV (change using winecfg)
3. Compiz must be disabled before playing. This is very important as direct3d wouldn't display anything except the hud and opengl had severe scaling issues (only top right of display shown over the whole screen). You can run the command "metacity --replace" to temporarily disable compiz, log out and in again to get compiz back.
This actually worked better for me than under vista x64 as under vista I couldn't get mouse control working.

Fallout
No Problems with the installation, starting the game also worked without any problems.
Fallout 2
No Problems with the installation, starting the game also worked without any problems.
Freespace
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jsims2359: Freespace 1 runs on Ubuntu 8.04 with wine 1.1.4, but the sound cuts out and exiting the game will force you to kill the X server with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Be advised.
UPDATE: The mouse is usable as a flight control, but just barely. There seems to be some disparity between the resolution of the game window and the resolution the mouse thinks is in effect. The effect is also noticeable in the hanger if you move your mouse pointer to the far right. You start to see some delay on both axises.

Giants: CItizen Kabuto
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jmgreen7: Giants installed and started fine but the performance really tanked whenever the camera was facing a building/structure (like 5-10 FPS). Then I installed the GiantsHooks patch and the performance is now great. I haven't tested multiplayer.

Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising
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jsims2359: is running as it should on Ubuntu 8.04 with wine 1.1.4.
NOTE: You must emulate a virtual desktop in order for Direct X to be detected correctly which allows you launch the game. Also, the sensitivity of the x axis while using mouse control (with the helicopters) seems to fluctuate randomly from near perfect control to frustratingly unresponsive. Mouse works fine everywhere else.

Kingpin
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danebramage: installs and runs fine (there's no cursor on the main menu screen, but since it can be navigated with the arrow keys, that's no big deal).

M.A.X.
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danebramage: installs and runs fine (since it runs in DOSBox, it works best in a window where the top of the screen isn't cut off by the DOSBox window's title bar--hit Alt-Enter to go into windowed mode).

M.A.X. 2
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danebramage: installs fine but wouldn't run for me the one time I tried. No big loss, as M.A.X. 2 sux and it comes bundled free with the original M.A.X.

MDK 1
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Dash: works great under WINE, all except for the video. It's not bad though. It stretched the video out to the point where some of the game was off screen in the Y directions. A change of options to the display of games in a window fixed it.

Original War
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FALK: Original War is somewhat playable, but with bad graphics in hud, wouldn't recommend it. Unable to run in VirtualBox because it cant detect the graphics card memory correctly. Maybe it works in vmware.

Perimeter
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fangbite: Perimeter installed and ran fine. The only thing which might be considered a glitch is that the game just took over a piece of my desktop in the top left corner, carving out a number of pixels according to its resolution.
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FALK: Runs great in wine 1.1.4 except the cursor is invisible, can be fixed by building and using wine-hacks: http://repo.or.cz/w/wine/hacks.git . I hope the patch enters mainline soon, but the bug has been known for almost a year.

Sacrifice
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jmgreen7: Sacrifice installed and ran without a hitch and runs great. I haven't tested multiplayer.

Stonekeep
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chris20636: In Fedora 8, the game would play fine for a 15-30 minutes and then the sound would go to a loud hiss. Some google searches seems to pinpoint the problem to the new X windows sound server in Fedora 8 and up called pulseaudio. I removed the pulseaudio packages from my system using yum. I rebooted and after playing with the volume control some, I got sound back which should be pure ALSA system. So far, that seems to have fixed the sound problem.
I didn't notice the mouse issue some have had under XP. However, I did notice it under Linux. The fix was the same though. Just don't use the mouse and hit ESC to get past the movie to the main menu. Then using the mouse at the menu and in the game works fine.
Post edited October 25, 2008 by Destro
Posted November 17, 2010
Does anyone know if it's possible to use Baldur's Gate Trilogy or Tutu with GemRB on Linux?

I have both Baldur's Gate games, and I want to play the first in the BG2 engine.
All I've been able to find are Windows installers, and I'd prefer to not use wine. For me, BG2 works better in GemRB than wine. The graphics flicker in wine.
Post edited November 17, 2010 by Kingoftherings
Posted November 26, 2010
Star Wolves (and all of its sequels) are working (again) since Wine-1.3.8.

Chaser is running fine, too. I had to remove the intro videos to prevent the game from crashing on startup (or disable winegstreamer.dll).
Posted November 27, 2010
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Kingoftherings: Raptor: Call of the Shadows

There are two .exe files you can use to run the game. If you run rapwin.exe the game will work with no configuration needed. But if you run Raptor.exe wine will give you a descriptive error message telling you to install Mono for Windows. To do that you want to install winetricks.

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks mono26

Click through the installer and you're all set. The only thing different about Raptor.exe is it shows a launcher menu and you can set the resolution (2 options) and whether or not to use Fullscreen. rapwin.exe defaults to a window.
I can't run Raptor.exe on Linux, even after installing Mono :( And seems like I'm not the only one:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/raptor_call_of_the_shadows/linux_version/post8

rapwin.exe works, but then I'm missing the extra resolutions and the full screen mode.
Posted November 27, 2010
Ubuntu 10.10
Wine 1.2.1

The following games run without issue:

Baldurs Gate
Baldurs Gate II
Icewind Dale Complete
Icewind Dale II
Jagged Alliance - Deadly Games
Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition

The following games needed settings changed in winecfg to run:

Abe's Exoddus (In the Audio tab, change Hardware Acceleration from Full to Emulation)
Abe's Oddysee (In the Audio tab, change Hardware Acceleration from Full to Emulation)
Caesar 3 (In the Graphics tab, set a Desktop Size of 640 x 480 and set the games resolusion to 1024 x 768 by pressing F9 )
Posted December 17, 2010
Guess this information will be implemented in the Linux GOGmix? paldepind?
Posted December 20, 2010
I set up a GOG mix (Play on Linux) with Games and the results running it on Linux. So you can see what games work at least on my system, what workarounds can get them working and what I didn't get to run (references to WineHQ bug tracker).
Posted December 26, 2010
Neverwinter Nights should definitely be added to the "GOG games that work in Linux" GOGmix since it works both natively and with Wine.
Posted December 29, 2010
Well, I tried playing Baldur's Gate with wine but it just won't start.
Is there something I have to look out for?

I posted over at the wine forum but they all seem to be as stumped by that as I am.


Mhm, so far the only game I got working is MDK (out of Baldur's Gate, MDK and Syberia).
Post edited December 29, 2010 by yuastnav
Posted January 31, 2011
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SemperFi: Neverwinter Nights plays fine here, provided I start the game in virtual desktop mode; using Wine's fullscreen mode only 800x600 resolution is available for me.
Multiplayer works, too (I was able to connect servers).

Wine-1.3.5 / Nvidia 7xxx series card
um... bioware has a native client guys. Just go use that...
Posted February 19, 2011
Wait, what? Someone's managed to get BGI multiplayer working under WINE and/or GemRB? (GemRB won't let me even touch it, and WINE seems to error out - but my son's router is flaky enough that it *could* be the router if others have succeeded.)
Posted February 26, 2011
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I did't run under wine, but it uses Dosbox, so it's easy to get it working with linux Dosbox by copying startup configuration from shortcut created on the desktop. It should work in all Dosbox-based games I think.
Post edited February 26, 2011 by eustachiusz
Posted April 09, 2011
Wanted to add a couple of new games to the list

XIII --- more or less works. It ran better on wine 1.3 system with native dlls over a wine 1.2 system with built in ones. However, it would not install on the 1.3 system requiring me to run it from a working instillation elsewhere. Once done the only issue is a dreaded mouse warping issue that plagues many games.

The main problem with the 1.2 system is it failed to move pass the lifeguard in the very beginning requiring me to download a saved game that started after that. This makes the wide screen hack unusable, but the game plays fine from there, baring mouse warping. Sometimes the sound would not work but logging out and back in fixes it, though it hasn't been a problem for awhile.

I haven't reached them but there are many reports that two levels (canyon levels) are unplayable due to lighting issues. Bottom line - it works but its not perfect.

Guilty Gear X2 --- This is easier. Install, run the config program, turn off pixel shaders and enjoy. Runs great, though it keeps forgetting my button config.
Posted April 24, 2011
I just tested Raptor: Call of the Shadows and Alone in the Dark in Ubuntu with WINE and both installed and ran perfectly. You can add those to the list!
Posted April 29, 2011
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jsdratm: I just tested Raptor: Call of the Shadows [...] in Ubuntu with WINE and both installed and ran perfectly. You can add those to the list!
(Sorry for my bad English)
"Raptor - Call of the Shadows" works, but not out-of-the-box. "Raptor.exe" (which includes the GUI and allows you to choose options such as Fullscreen, HQ etc.) need an installed mono26-Environment to run on wine. It's possible to run the game over "rapwin.exe", but if you do so, you need some startup-parameters like "-hq", "-4x" etc. if you want to use High Quality, 4up-Scale etc..

Or another solution: Replace the "Raptor.exe" with this one (Link to Thread). It is nearly the same Launcher, but doesn't need dotNET or mono to run it...
Post edited April 29, 2011 by Astorek86
Posted April 29, 2011
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jsdratm: I just tested Raptor: Call of the Shadows [...] in Ubuntu with WINE and both installed and ran perfectly. You can add those to the list!
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Astorek86: (Sorry for my bad English)
"Raptor - Call of the Shadows" works, but not out-of-the-box. "Raptor.exe" (which includes the GUI and allows you to choose options such as Fullscreen, HQ etc.) need an installed mono26-Environment to run on wine. It's possible to run the game over "rapwin.exe", but if you do so, you need some startup-parameters like "-hq", "-4x" etc. if you want to use High Quality, 4up-Scale etc..

Or another solution: Replace the "Raptor.exe" with this one (Link to Thread). It is nearly the same Launcher, but doesn't need dotNET or mono to run it...
Oops, you are correct. I was using the rapwin.exe and didn't realize that they were so different. :)
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