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General discussionGOG.com Now Supports Linux!(115 posts)(115 posts)
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Posted August 19, 2014
50 games for the free OS available right NOW!

A while ago, [url=http://www.gog.com/news/gogcom_soon_on_more_platforms]we've announced our plans to add Linux support as one of the features of our digital platform, with 100 games on the launch day sometime this fall. We've put much time and effort into this project and now we've found ourselves with over 50 titles, classic and new, prepared for distribution, site infrastructure ready, support team trained and standing by, and absolutely no reason to wait until October or November. We're still aiming to have at least 100 Linux games in the coming months, but we've decided not to delay the launch just for the sake of having a nice-looking number to show off to the press. It's not about them, after all, it's about you. So, one of the most popular site feature requests on our community wishlist is granted today: Linux support has officially arrived on GOG.com!

The first 50+ titles we've have in store for you come from all the corners of our DRM-Free catalog. Note that we've got many classic titles coming officially to Linux for the very first time, thanks to the custom builds prepared by our dedicated team of penguin tamers. That's over twenty fan-favorite GOG.com classics, like FlatOut&Flatout 2, , <a href="http://www.gog.com/game/darklands">Darklands, or Realms of the Haunting we've personally ushered one by one into the welcoming embrace of Linux gamers. That's already quite a nice chunk of our back-catalog, and you can expect more from our dedicated Linux team soon!

Now, for the recent titles. We've got some indie games with native Linux versions that finally find their well-deserved spot in our store. Among them, debuting on Linux, CLARC - a well received original comedic Sci-Fi puzzler. On top of that, be on the lookout for two new additions to the GOG.com catalog: Gods Will Be Watching (coming in a couple of hours) and Unrest:Special Edition (Linux build coming right up!), both of them very fresh and intriguing. This is the very first time we can provide you with all the PC versions of a premiere game, and we will continue to do so in the future. If there's a Linux version of a title we're releasing, our aim is to deliver it to you Day-1. But enough about us, let's talk about the games. Here's what you can be playing on Linux today:

Anomaly Warzone Earth
Ascendant
Bionic Dues
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold - first time on Linux!
Blake Stone: Planet Strike - first time on Linux!
Bloodnet - first time on Linux!
Braveland
CLARC - first time on Linux!
Darklands - first time on Linux!
Darwinia
Defcon
Don't Starve + DLC
Dragonsphere - first time on Linux!
Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition
FlatOut - first time on Linux!
Flatout 2 - first time on Linux!
Fragile Allegiance - first time on Linux!
Gemini Rue
Gods Will Be Watching
Hammerwatch
Hocus Pocus - first time on Linux!
Kentucky Route Zero
The Last Federation
Legend of Grimrock
Litil Divil - first time on Linux!
Long Live the Queen
MouseCraft
Multiwinia
Normality - first time on Linux!
Pinball Gold Pack - first time on Linux!
Pinball World - first time on Linux!
Pirates! Gold Plus - first time on Linux!
Realms of the Haunting - first time on Linux!
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender - first time on Linux!
Rise of the Triad: Dark War - first time on Linux!
Shattered Haven
The Shivah HD
Sid Meier's Colonization - first time on Linux!
Sid Meier's Covert Action - first time on Linux!
Sir, You Are Being Hunted
Slipstream 5000 - first time on Linux!
Space Pirates and Zombies
Spacechem
Stargunner - first time on Linux!
SteamWorld Dig
Super Hexagon
Surgeon Simulator 2013
Sword of the Samurai - first time on Linux!
Teslagrad
Unrest:Special Edition (Linux build on the way!)
Uplink
VVVVVV

As if this wasn't exciting enough, we've put more than half of these titles on a special promo! Head out to the promo page and find out which of them you can get up to 75% off until Tuesday, 9:59AM GMT. Of course, all of the games from the list above that you already own will be updated with Linux versions with no additional cost for you, just as you might have expected from GOG.com.

"OK, but how will Linux support actually work on GOG.com" - you might ask. For both native Linux versions, as well as special builds prepared by our team, GOG.com will provide distro-independent tar.gz archives and support convenient DEB installers for the two most popular Linux distributions: Ubuntu and Mint, in their current and future LTS editions. Helpful and responsive customer support has always been an important part of the GOG.com gaming experience. We wouldn't have it any other way when it comes to Linux, and starting today our helpdesk offers support for our official Linux releases on Ubuntu and Mint systems.

Diversity and freedom of choice have always been an important part of the GOG.com way. We're very glad that we could improve our service with the addition of the free (and DRM-Free) alternative to the commercial operating systems. Talking with gamers is just as important, so we're counting on your feedback! If you've got any questions, suggestions, or run into any trouble, just tell us in the forum thread below this post. Just please be gentle, this is [url=http://youtu.be/qBxbPts5tOk" target="_blank]our very first time[/url] with Linux. Happy launch day, everyone!
Posted July 25, 2014
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Tolya: That is interesting, on none of our testlab machines this has happened. Do you have a twin-monitor setup? We have experienced the problem with restoring screen resolutions, but it was on dual monitor setups (hence our recommendation on not using them).

My suggestion is to contact support directly. If you tell us what your setup is, we may be able to reproduce the bug and make appropriate fixes.
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jamyskis: I don't have the laptop with me here, so that all I can say is that it is indeed a laptop with a AMD Mobility GPU chipset, twin-monitor setup with a cloned display sent to a TV.

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Tolya: X needs to die :( All Im going to say. Screen tearing has always been horrible because of it. It may also be a bug of the Unity game engine. Can you tell us your setup and what drivers do you use?
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jamyskis: Again, can't check the precise setup from here, but it's whatever driver the fglrx-updates package in Mint 17 is currently using.
Disconnet/turn off the second monitor. Leave only one display on (be it laptop or TV) and see if the issues persist.
Posted July 25, 2014
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Venom: We've added this option. You can now type "linux", "ubuntu", "mint", "mac" or "osx" in the search field on My Account and the list will be filtered accordingly.
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Starmaker: That box hasn't worked for me since approximately forever (and before that, it'd used to straight up murder my browser, so not working was an improvement). Latest Mozilla (31.0 as of this writing).
Errm, why would that search box murder your browser? Serious question as I've never heard of a search box anywhere doing that :)

edit: just used the search box by writing "linux" in it with a no add-ons installed copy of Firefox 31 and it seemed to work ok. Could you try using that search box without any add-ons or extensions?
Post edited July 25, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted July 25, 2014
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Grargar: Are you using shelf view or list view? The search field is bugged on list view.
We've also fixed the list view search.
Posted July 26, 2014
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Matruchus: Having a problem with Space Pirates and Zombies - installed the game true Ubuntu Software Center, deinstalled, installed via dpkg, deinstalled and installed via Gdebi which says install is ok.

The game did not start one time till now. When I click on the game icon in the dash nothing happens.

Can't find the game directory to run it manually. Using Ubuntu 12.04.

Any help, pretty please :)
Tried gog-space-pirates-and-zombies yet? :) You should be able to press Tab to auto complete the name once you are a few letters in :)
Posted July 26, 2014
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Hecke: After refreshing the database with "sudo updatedb" you can use "locate $name" to locate files. (Of course without $ before the filename)

Or you can use "find".
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Matruchus: Thanks. Finally found the gog folder in /opt and the executable it seems there must be something wrong with the link to the icon in dash. Don't know how to fix that but I did make a shortcut for the game on the desktop. The game runs now :)
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JudasIscariot: Tried gog-space-pirates-and-zombies yet? :) You should be able to press Tab to auto complete the name once you are a few letters in :)
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Matruchus: Thanks for your help Judas - did just find the folder :)
Cool, just remember you can always try typing "gog-game-name" to check if the install went OK :)
Posted July 26, 2014
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JoeyJoeJoe87: I don't know. Maybe Linux isn't my thing after all.
What distro are you using? Maybe you just need a different one :)
Posted July 26, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Cool, just remember you can always try typing "gog-game-name" to check if the install went OK :)
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Matruchus: Ok run that and there seems to be something missing.

Check the picture.
Looks like you have an outdated glibc from where I sit but I am not 100% sure.

If you type in terminal

ldd --version

what do you get?
Posted July 26, 2014
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JudasIscariot: What distro are you using? Maybe you just need a different one :)
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JoeyJoeJoe87: Manjaro. Can't get a game working. and I don't understand the advice given to me. I don't understand how to use the terminal very well.
Well, I myself have ran Ubuntu and now I am running Mint 17.

I know I am biased but I can recommend Mint 17 as it's a pretty decent distro for a beginner such as myself :)

You can easily run our Linux-compatible games just by using the .deb files :)
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JudasIscariot: Looks like you have an outdated glibc from where I sit but I am not 100% sure.

If you type in terminal

ldd --version

what do you get?
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Matruchus: This.
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JoeyJoeJoe87: I tried both Mint, and Ubuntu, but didn't like them very much. And Manjaro is a much more user friendly version of Arch. It's just the terminal I don't get, and you have to use it in every distro.
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Matruchus: Well you usually don't have to use it on Ubuntu or Mint - only if something goes wrong to fix things.
The output shows you have glibc 2.15 and apparently SPAZ requires glibc 2.17. I know you are running Ubuntu 12.04 so your options are either to try and see if there is an updated glibc package for Ubuntu 12.04 or, and I dislike saying this because it may sound rude so forgive me!, update your distro to 14.04 :)
Post edited July 26, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted July 26, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Well, I myself have ran Ubuntu and now I am running Mint 17.

I know I am biased but I can recommend Mint 17 as it's a pretty decent distro for a beginner such as myself :)

You can easily run our Linux-compatible games just by using the .deb files :)

The output shows you have glibc 2.15 and apparently SPAZ requires glibc 2.17. I know you are running Ubuntu 12.04 so your options are either to try and see if there is an updated glibc package for Ubuntu 12.04 or, and I dislike saying this because it may sound rude so forgive me!, update your distro to 14.04 :)
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Matruchus: Unfornately can't at the moment my dvd-drive is gone and no usb boot supported in bios :) Ah, well. Will just make links to desktop for gog games for now. Now I know where to find gog games folder ;)
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JoeyJoeJoe87: KDE

And thats kinda my point, you have to use it if soemthing dosen't work, and in my case I can't get a game to work, and the terminal is the only way to get it working, and I have no clue how to use it the way I'm being told.
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Matruchus: KDE can be problematic from my experience - not everything works out of the box there and you can use KDE also on Mint if you wan't to. Its only a desktop environment. I would suggest you to move to Mint or Ubuntu since Arch Linux or in this case Manjaro is to much for Linux beginners.

You can also try this distro - its made for beginners - http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lite
Check your Update Manager as users of 12.04 are supposed to get an update to 14.04.01 via that :)

Source: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2014-July/000188.html
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aBlin0: I have downloaded the tarball file of Pinball Gold Pack (because it was much larger than the deb file then I suppose it included the cd audio soundtrack...), but running the script provided I just can play the Pinball Dreams tables and I can't figure out how to play the Illusions ones. Besides, it runs the version without the cd audio and the cool intros.

I know there are workarounds to play some GOG games in Linux, but I want to enjoy the out-of-the-box experience GOG is trying to deliver to Linux users.

Thanks by the way for this great initiative. I was waiting for it since long time ago.
Try ./start.sh --settings and see where that gets you :)
Post edited July 26, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted July 26, 2014
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sbolokanov: To use Arch or Arch-based distro you gotta know terminal well.. There is no other way.
Either learn terminal or go to some noobie/casual user distro.
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JoeyJoeJoe87: I only know basic use of the terminal. someone earlier said to do this

"Anyway, after extracting the game, in the game folder where the "wine_standalone" folder is located, run the following commands and try starting the game:

rm wine_standalone/lib/libxcb*
rm wine_standalone/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxcb*
rm wine_standalone/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdr*
"
What exactly does that mean? how, where and when do I input those commands?
Hi,

Step 1.

Open your terminal.

Type in the command

locate wine_standalone

(Don't worry about being in a particular directory :) )

Step 2.

Report back here to tell us what happened when you tried Step 1, please :)
Post edited July 26, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted July 26, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Hi,

Step 1.

Open your terminal.

Type in the command

locate wine_standalone

(Don't worry about being in a particular directory :) )

Step 2.

Report back here to tell us what happened when you tried Step 1, please :)
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JoeyJoeJoe87: For all three files, it says none of them exist.
Hmmm not sure then, maybe someone else will know :)

By the way "rm" stands for "remove" so be careful using that command unless you are absolutely sure you wish to remove something :)
Posted July 26, 2014
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JudasIscariot: By the way "rm" stands for "remove" so be careful using that command unless you are absolutely sure you wish to remove something :)
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stg83: rm DRM <Enter> doesn't seem to work for the games that aren't from here for me. :P

I see you're providing overtime as tech support for linux Judas, nice to see your dedication to the cause. :)
Nah, just want to help if possible and I also empathize with Joey as when I was cutting my teeth on a couple of distros I had no help and I wouldn't want someone else to go through that :)
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JudasIscariot: Hmmm not sure then, maybe someone else will know :)

By the way "rm" stands for "remove" so be careful using that command unless you are absolutely sure you wish to remove something :)
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JoeyJoeJoe87: I didn't know that, why would he want me to remove them?
I have no clue, I'd recommend asking the person who suggested that :)


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JudasIscariot: By the way "rm" stands for "remove" so be careful using that command unless you are absolutely sure you wish to remove something :)
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stg83: rm DRM <Enter> doesn't seem to work for the games that aren't from here for me. :P

I see you're providing overtime as tech support for linux Judas, nice to see your dedication to the cause. :)
The command is

sudo apt-get remove --purge drm-starforce drm-securom drm-tages

:P
Post edited July 26, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted July 27, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Here's hoping :)

I also hope we manage to get native ports of some older games like Unreal Tournament 2004 and Neverwinter Nights :) Fingers crossed!
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Future_Suture: Please include Heroes of Might and Magic 3 in that list! I may already have the game, but I can still purchase a number of copies for giveaways!
Would love to but were the expansion packs ever ported to Linux? :D

I am not sure it would work having the base game being native and all the rest of the pack via Wine. Wouldn't things break then?
Posted July 27, 2014
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stevenstarar: This is awesome! How does one run the graphics mode setup? That function is incredibly useful in windows for avoiding the usual blurry lcd look, and I'd love it if the linux versions of the games could have this feature.
Go to where you have your game of choice installed and type

./start.sh --settings

and that should get you a settings menu in terminal :)
Post edited July 27, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted July 27, 2014
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weissel: Now I miss a filter in my games shelf to only show the games with Linux capability. With ~ 230 (twohundredthirty) games clicking through them looking for Linux is not so much fun. (I use a Linux main system and a Windows for playing those games than don't do Linux ...)
Type "linux" (without the " " ) in the search box :)
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Kamamura: I wonder, however, why games with native Linux binaries like Trine are not listed as Linux supported.
Because we don't have the Linux version just yet :)
Post edited July 27, 2014 by JudasIscariot
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