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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 September 24, 2008
I haven't yet tested any games from this site under wine, but as an idea of compatibility you can search for the games on http://appdb.winehq.org. As well as an indication of how well the game will run there are often workarounds posted for any problems you might encounter.
Posted September 24, 2008
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bagnaj97: I haven't yet tested any games from this site under wine, but as an idea of compatibility you can search for the games on http://appdb.winehq.org. As well as an indication of how well the game will run there are often workarounds posted for any problems you might encounter.

Good point. In fact, we should all make sure that somehow this collection of GOG specific info gets into the AppDB @ WineHQ and on the wine-users mailing list, once the site goes live. I've got a few friends in the Wine development community and I'm going to see if there is any interest in supporting games from GOG. At the very least, GOG provides an easy and affordable "test suite" of games. Nothing may come of it, but it doesn't hurt to ask.
From what I've learned in the wine community, the louder we shout "GOG", the higher the chances are that we get patches that make these games run better. I wish it didn't have to be that way, but, you know, the "squeaky wheel" strategy has yet to fail.
Posted September 25, 2008
I've just tested descent 3 under wine 1.1.5 and 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.
Posted September 25, 2008
I just tested Giants: Citizen Kabuto. Single player runs fine, some slight shadow corruption, however when I tried to host a network game it gave a directplay error and failed. I tested with compiz running but as with most games under linux running without compiz is preferable.
Posted September 26, 2008
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fangbite: I tried Sacrifice and Perimeter.
Sacrifice wouldn't run because I have too much memory (complained about the pagefile not existing). It's the same problem in XP, but I don't know of a fix in Linux.

You can solve it by running winecfg and setting a separate profile for Sacrifice.exe to run as Win98.
It runs fine after that. Evidently a lot of older games exhibit the same problem.
Posted September 29, 2008
Awesome-coolness !!
Thanks - I'll try a few and post my luck with 'em here as well.
I just signed up and It's late here - I'm tired.
Also have a new Ati 4750 coming tomorrow... upgrading from a geforce 6600, so it should be interesting... Afaik Ati aren't so good under wine, but that may change soon, what with AMD's renewed focus on the OSS drivers.
Anyway, I'll be back another time. ;)
Posted October 01, 2008
ATIs binary Linux drivers are quite bad. The wine screen corruption was solved in the 8.9 release and they keep improving at least.
I still have Windows as my gaming system so its not that bad. Open drivers will definately take some time to support new chips, especially when it comes to its full OGL capabilites.
Posted October 02, 2008
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a1ex: ATIs binary Linux drivers are quite bad. The wine screen corruption was solved in the 8.9 release and they keep improving at least.
I still have Windows as my gaming system so its not that bad. Open drivers will definately take some time to support new chips, especially when it comes to its full OGL capabilities.

Yeah, I know. They have been improving though.
With forced edge detecting 8x anti aliasing, forced anisotropic trilinear filtering, high detail mip mapping and everything set to "quality" in the Ati Catalyst Control Centre;-
I've yet to hit a single test case whereby this Ati 4850 fails to absolutely beat the pants off the Nvidia 6600 GT it replaced*
Mind you, I have seen some driver glitches already, running the game Chaser under wine with projected shadowing, but turning that off at least avoided that issue.
* Aside from sheer ludicrous framerate in glxgears, which IMHO doesn't begin to count - my monitor cannot update any faster than 60 Hz as it is, it's a flat panel. I don't care at all that the 6600GT got around 7kfps, and this card only 3kfps. Neither is indicative of any useful performance metric.
Posted October 02, 2008
With Ubuntu 8.04 and whatever the most current Wine version is:
Fallout installs and runs fine.
M.A.X. 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 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.
Kingpin 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).
Posted October 10, 2008
Could this thread be made sticky?
Posted October 10, 2008
That is, for everybody by default. It would be nice to get some exposure in order to get this list flushed out.
Posted October 20, 2008
I'm having trouble running Fallout under Wine. It says I need 20megs of HD space free, of which I have gigs upon gigs free. Any idea how to fix this?
Posted October 24, 2008
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Daydreamer: I'm having trouble running Fallout under Wine. It says I need 20megs of HD space free, of which I have gigs upon gigs free. Any idea how to fix this?

Could you provide details on your linux distro and your version of wine? Also, you may want to check appdb.winehq.org for postings of other wine users that may have encountered and resolved this particular issue. Just search WineHQ for "Fallout".
[url=]http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=43[/url]
Posted October 24, 2008
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Daydreamer: I'm having trouble running Fallout under Wine. It says I need 20megs of HD space free, of which I have gigs upon gigs free. Any idea how to fix this?

That's a problem with the game itself, not Wine. See here for possible fixes.
Posted October 25, 2008
Every Dos game sold on GOG.com will work on Linux with the native Dosbox build. I usually:
-run the GOG installer
-copy the game folder to a folder I always mount as my C-drive
-I check which .conf options GOG.com uses and copy them if needed
-uninstall the GOG version
-run the linux build of Dosbox
Would be less tedious if the Dosboxed games on GOG.com came in zips, but it isn't a big hassle anyway.
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