Posted July 20, 2017
adamhm: I plan to release a wrapper for Civ4 at some point (it's actually more or less done already), will need the GOG version though. I'll likely be using a newer version of Wine Staging though because I ran into some problems with the usual version of Wine.
The Witcher 2 would only have been installed as root if you'd deliberately done so. Even if it was installed somewhere odd though, its saves should be in your home directory, under ~/.local/share/cdprojektred/witcher2
Thanks, that sounds good. It's excellent that you keep making scripts to make the installation process even easier. I'd like to try out some more of them :) The Witcher 2 would only have been installed as root if you'd deliberately done so. Even if it was installed somewhere odd though, its saves should be in your home directory, under ~/.local/share/cdprojektred/witcher2
If GOG wasn't changing so much for the worse, I'd feel less bad about re-buying Civ4. Right now... not so sure.
Found Witcher 2 though, so I'm glad about that, with saves and everything (they were indeed where you said). Apparently I had installed it on a separate harddisk back when, and the path was slightly changed now because I mounted them in /mnt instead of /media. Small things all across the board really, and as far as I can tell everything works now, with the exception of Trine 3. But that's a bit of a traincrash anyway.
One of the frustrating things with Witcher 2, that I re-remember now when looking through some files, is that it was hard to mod on linux, for the reason that a key file is simply missing. I've no idea what they've done with it, but it's gone. The only type that really works is simple XML modding and replacing of pictures/art. Not a huge deal I guess, but it was still frustrating. Didn't help to put in a copy of the missing file either, base_scripts.dzip, because the game still didn't use it.
Suffice to say, if TW3 ever makes it to Linux, I'd greatly prefer it to be a proper native version instead of a wrapper, so hopefully problems like this wouldn't exist - plus better stability and performance. But at this point I'd also just like to have it available at all. Pretty absurd that it isn't. DRM Free + Linux should be a match made in heaven (Antarctica?).