hi everyone so as the above says everytime i try to start the game nothing happens. it looks like it wants to load a window but its gone so fast i cant even see it pop up or anything. i am running linux and understand that i somehow have to use wine to play the game but i dont really understand that. so maybe someone could walk me through it step by step

i also noticed that it needs a few apt packages and i have the one installed but the libpng12-0:i386 i cant seem to find it. so how would i go about installing that if its the issue. anyway i think its one of these two things unless someone else has had another experience so please get back to me.

Same problem here. Game installed on Ubuntu 18.04 without issue from the gog_two_worlds_epic_edition_2.0.0.2.sh script and now when I run start.sh I just get a blank screen for a few seconds and then...nothing. The window closes and I'm right back to the CLI with no errors or output of any kind.

I've opened a ticket with GOG for the issue.

I wrote a step-by-step installation via Wine post a few months back:

Linux/Wine Installation - Two Worlds Epic Edition

Note that for a Wine installation you need to download a Windows copy of the game from GOG.

It does assume some command line and Wine understanding, though. Two Worlds was a little trickier to get running than your average game, requiring a few winetricks calls, a DLL override, and re-encoding the video files, so if you need further assistance I'm happy to help where I can.

Alternately, Lutris lists support for Two Worlds Epic Edition . I haven't tested it, but it may fit the bill easier than a manual installation.

If you're new to the Wine project in general, I'd suggest checking out the main project site, WineHQ . The gist of installing an up-to-date prebuilt version of Wine, if you're using an Ubuntu derivative, is to add their repository to your apt list.

Unfortunately, since Wine version 5.0.0 you will also need an up-to-date version of libfaudio0 and libfaudio0:i386, which you can get from the OpenSuse repository. I would HIGHLY recommend installing only libfaudio0 / libfaudio0:i386 and then disabling the OpenSuse repository, though. Otherwise performing general updates could get your system out of sync with your standard distribution. As for libpng12, you shouldn't need it for an updated Wine installation, but if you still want it for the sake of other games' compatibility, you can download DEB packages for Ubuntu 18.04 / Linux Mint 19.* from the Ubuntu Security Team's LaunchPad project pages:

Build Pages:
• libpng12-0 ---> libpng12-0_1.2.54-1ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
• libpng12-0:i386 ---> libpng12-0_1.2.54-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb

Edit: Looks like I'm having to reroll this comment a few times to get the links working -- I really wish GOG would add a preview post feature... it doesn't seem to want to form links for the LaunchPad pages. So you might just have to copy and paste those URLs yourself ;)

Edit 2: Links fixed thanks to Gydion below.

FYI, you need to percent encode the "+" or the tilde:

Thanks Gydion, encoding the tilde did the trick (no need on the plus signs).
A preview would still be useful ;)

you don't have to disable it, this repo works fine, I have it enabled for wine-staging on Debian 10 and it does not seem like there are any other versions around. next Debian maybe will include FAudio libs. Why it is bad idea to disable the repo? wine can require different (updated version) and you can miss it.

apt-cache policy libfaudio0
libfaudio0:
Installed: 20.01-0~buster
Candidate: 20.01-0~buster
Version table:
*** 20.01-0~buster 500
500 https download opensuse org repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/Debian_10[/url] ./ Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

You can always re-enable the OpenSuse repo if you require a libfaudio0 update. But that's not the only lib in the repo...

If you install something else from your general distro repo that depends on something that happens to have a more up-to-date version in the OpenSuse repo, then the OpenSuse version of that dependency would be installed--thereby putting you out of sync with your standard distribution.

that repository contains only wine-staging and faudio, there's nothing else to pull. Debian ATM has no candidate for faudio and if you use wine-staging you probably use winhq own repos for that (because it's the newest one), in my case

deb http dl winehq org/wine-builds/debian/ buster main

winehq repos have most recent version and older versions so you won't be getting any issue here

apt-cache policy wine-staging
wine-staging:
Installed: 5.10~buster
Candidate: 5.10~buster
Version table:
*** 5.10~buster 500
500 dl winehq org/wine-builds/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
500 download opensuse org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/Debian_10 ./ Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
5.9~buster 500
500 dl winehq org/wine-builds/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
5.8~buster 500
500 dl winehq org/wine-builds/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
....


also, the clarification, this is not OpenSuse repo, these are packages for Debian hosted by OpenSuse maintainers. What you get is 100% Debian package.