Magicka

On April 15, 2011, in playable games, by Necron99

STATUS: playable Steam Store Page: click here
Wine Versions: 1.3.31 SGOL .verb: click to download
Virtual-Desktop: not tested Full-screen: yes
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WINE SETTINGS:
Before launching Magicka for the first time I installed winetricks dotnet35. All the installs through dotnet 3.0 went ok – though dotnet 3.5 failed to finish installing.

GAME SETTINGS:
Changing the game graphics resolution in game caused a crash, though was able to relaunch with new settings. I had to turn shadows down to low to get better framerates.

RUNNING THE GAME:
The game appears to run fine – though some textures / element effects are messed up (this appears to have been fixed in Wine 1.3.31.)  - either way, this does not really affect gameplay much.

PROBLEMS NOTED:

  • crashing when changing graphics settings
  • some textures / effects not displaying correctly

NOT YET TESTED:

  • online play

WINETRICKS .verb INSTALLER NOTES: [general installer help here]
The magicka.verb installer will install Steam + Magicka in it’s own wineprefix + try to install install dotnet35… I had to run the verb installer twice and dotnet35 failed both times – but on the second time Steam installed with Magicka… if any other problems with SGOL .verb installer please do post a comment!

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5 Responses to “Magicka”

  1. Shawn says:

    Hey, I installed the verb using wintricks and it all went well (even dotnet 3.5). How do I start magicka from here? This is all thats holding me back from switching from windows =]

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