Hi,

I'm tempted to buy this game, but want to play it on Linux. Has anyone tried this on Wine? Did it work?

The [WineHQ appdb hasn't got any data for this remastered version yet](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2684), as far as I can tell, only the [original](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=11117), so I'm curious to know if the version on GOG is better or worse for compatibility.

Thanks.

I managed to get the original version working okay, but it did require a lot of patching and some dx tweaking (Z buffer inversions).

Not tried this version yet, but would love to, especially if I can get a x360 controller working too.

I tried running it on Wine but I got a "3D driver not found" error on start. I messed around with dxvk so it might just be my setup that's broken.

I'd rate it bronze on wine-3.5 on Linux (Tonga/AMDGPU driver). (Why/d I say 2.5?)

It runs well, but:

Smoke trails are messed up.

It complains about not having IPX installed if I click on multiplayer.

Once you load the game and get to the title screen, you want to alt-tab out and back in again to get rid of the x11 cursor, which incidentally doesn't track with the game cursor.

Edit: Oh, right. First release of Racer.
Also movies are silent, and you have to skip those or alt-tabbing will break things.

I had no success getting it to run properly on wine 2.6 on Mint 17, but I just did a standard setup using the GUI as I don't know enough about wine. It loaded the intro video with no sound and no response to any keystrokes. Ended up having to get to a raw console and kill all wine processes to exit.

I downloaded a trial version of Crossover and installed the game in a Windows XP bottle, and it ran great, albeit with no sound for any of the cutscene videos. I can definitely live with that, so I may end up getting a Crossover license anyway since it does feed the wine project.

Technically the GOG.com version is the 2002 official LucasArts patched XP version of the game.
So after removing all the GOG.com specific DLLs from the games folder, you are left with the old game.

The technical changes done to the original game files by GOG.com are very simple and not as complicated as people claim they are.
They probably don't have the source code for this game, so these changes are done with a hex-editor = they are variations of the original file, but not a new version.

Wine should see no difference between this and the original version.
Even if it does, you can just download the patched US version binary again and put it in the GOG.com version folder.
The majority of the patches the GOG.com version has are done to the DirectX files, which are the DLLs which act like an overlay for your system DLLs (even for Wine).

There's also on OpenSWE1R, which is currently more like a lightweight "PC / Windows emulator" specifically for this game. If your Linux/PC has KVM it could become a viable option in the future.
However, at this point, there's many small issues and broken features (input / audio / network) which ruin the experience.
Even in the future, for technical reasons, OpenSWE1R will likely never be able to support the original network multiplayer either (instead, you'll only be able to play with other people using OpenSWE1R).

I tried it yesterday and it failed to run. I was hoping a wrapper or something would solve this but I have no how to tweak this to run, otherwise.

I wrote a Lutris script to facilitate "Star Wars Episode 1 - Racer" install on Linux:
https://lutris.net/games/star-wars-episode-i-racer/