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General / Re: Running under Linux?

« on: December 19, 2015, 04:37:23 pm »

Not using Linux myself, but saw this posted over at the GoG forums

A more clear summary of how it works

As always, it's safer/cleaner to use a different prefix for each game. Also safer for your other games. So we'll install it on a new one by prefixing all your wine commands by WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine_underrail for example. On 64bit systems, specify that you want to run wine in 32bit as 64bit will mess up .NET/XNA, with the WINEARCH variable.

$ WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine_underrail WINEARCH='win32' ; wineboot 'wine'
$ WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine_underrail WINEARCH='win32' wine setup_underrail_2.0.0.2.exe

Accept to install the bundled .NET 4.0 runtime libraries as well as XNA (XNA might complain that it can't find .NET but it's okay). Before running it, install two components (or one of them might not be needed, maybe xvid? please let me know if you find out!) via winetricks for audio support, otherwise it will crash at the menu screen:

$ WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine_underrail WINEARCH='win32' winetricks xvid allcodecs


And now run it:

$ WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine_underrail WINEARCH='win32' wine underrail.exe

After the character creation, the game may eventually show a black screen. Force quit the game (^C in terminal), relaunch the game, choose to "resume last saved" (your autosaved game). A new conversation with an NPC will occur and will eventually show a black screen again. Do the same thing, force quit, relaunch, resume your autosaved game. You will now be able to start the game.

Known issues:
- Black screens occuring, they seem to be cutscenes (unconfirmed!) that Wine has difficulty to display (might be related to the fixme:wincodecs:PaletteImpl_InitializeFromBitmap (0x5f4c5a0,0x5f4c4f0,256,0): stub error). Maybe adjusting/installing xvid filters is needed, or maybe upgrading to a new version of xvid if available or wine.
- Unable to change to another area, level, screen (Error: Zone transition failed).
Workaround: on the title screen, click "Resume Last Saved".
- Unable to manually save (Error: Failed to save the game), wild guess: possibly because it fails to generate a thumbnail
Workaround: just continue as it did save the game correctly.
- Alt modifier key, as in other games, might not work (Alt+Click to automove an lootable item to your inventory may fail) possibly due to how Alt is used by the WM to move windows. Try changing it in your WM settings or via Xmodmap, or disabling the key.
- Mouse cursor might not follow the position of the WM's cursor. Try changing the game's screen usage (resolution). Full screen might also help, or/and try within the emulation of a virtual desktop (via winecfg, "Graphics" tab).

Hope this helps!