| STATUS: playable | Steam Store Page: click here |
| Wine Version: 1.3.3 | |
| Windowed: no | Full-screen: yes |
For my next set of tests I chose to try installing and playing the Fallout series of games. While Fallout 3 is well known, I can whole heartedly say it’s worth playing this franchises’ humble beginnings.
Unfortunately for many Windows Vista and Windows 7 users, this actually isn’t possible as these games don’t run well (or at all) ! Lucky for us, we’re Linux users with our WINE, making it much more likely we can enjoy our vintage gaming…
RUNNING THE GAME:
I’m happy to say that Fallout 1 started up straight away, in fullscreen and all intro videos played fine. I was able to start playing straight away. Character creation went well and soon I was leaving the vault…
ISSUES:
The only thing I noticed was the cursor movement over the main part of the game-screen lagged and the game appeared to run a little slow… though over the bottom part of the game control interface the cursor moves just fine. Being predominantly a turn-based game this doesn’t affect gameplay too much, though it is noticeable. I suspect this has something to do with the 2D ATI drivers… will have to do some digging on this…
| STATUS: playable | Steam Store Page: click here |
| Wine Version:1.3.11 | |
| Windowed: yes | Full-screen: yes |
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CONFIGURE WINE:
Trine runs fine in either a virtual desktop or running full-screen. No overrides are required and can set to run as XP.
RUNNING THE GAME:
All works well – no problems so far! :)
| STATUS: playable | Steam Store Page: click here |
| Wine Version: 1.3.11 | |
| Windowed: yes | Full-screen: yes |
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WINE SETUP:
Darwinia will run in a virtual desktop or full-screen. No overrides were required and I ran Wine as Windows XP
GAME SETTINGS:
If you are receiving a DirectSound error on launch you may need to edit your /Steam/steamapps/username/darwinia/preferences.txt file to change:
SoundLibrary = dsound
to
SoundLibrary = software
This may turn off sound in the game, though sound worked fine for me after changing this setting.
If you do not have a preferences.txt file you can try using mine: [ download ]
RUNNING THE GAME:
Everything appears to run just fine in-game. I played through the first tutorial level without any problems.
OTHER OPTIONS:
You could alway head to the Introversion.co.uk web site and purchase the native Linux version of Darwinia :)
| STATUS: playable | Steam Store Page: click here |
| Wine Version: 1.3.12 | |
| Windowed: yes | Full-screen: yes |
Alien Swarm is a free Steam game download.
WINE SETTINGS:
Can configure with Virtual Desktop or set to run full-screen. No library overrides were required
RUNNING THE GAME:
Everything appears to run well – though have not tested the networked multi-player 100% yet.
PROBLEMS NOTED:
- game freezes when loses app focus – had to kill process with ps x
| STATUS: playable | Steam Store Page: click here |
| Wine Version: 1.3.12 | |
| Windowed: no | Full-screen: yes |
Another game that started working after switching to an NVIDIA graphics card.
WINE CONFIGURATION:
No wine library overrides were required.
RUNNING THE GAME:
The game launches in fullscreen – see below for video issues – otherwise everything else appears to run fine.
PROBLEMS NOTED:
- FAILED TO PLAY WMV title video + no codec etc… will have to look into getting WMV support. I went to the Avencast forums and found out there is a config utility not shown in Steam. c:/Program files/Steam/steamapps/common/avencast/Options.exe. You can disable videos from there to avoid the errors.
- ATI Cards cause character model artifacting and “frozen” models.
- The game freezes if it loses focus
| STATUS: playable | Steam Store Page: click here |
| Wine Version: 1.3.3 | |
| Windowed: no | Full-screen: yes |
RUNNING THE GAME:
On first run I accepted the EULA. Then I ran the config utility. After that I tried to run the game and received the “Failed to launch Steam” error… I tried running the config utility again with same error…. the config utility was running in the background still – used PS AUX – so I killed the process and tried to run the game again…
The pre-loading window came up with music playing… a promising start… launching the game went to full screen… though the intro movies were running in black and white…
Once the main menu loaded everything appeared fine… I started a new game, created a character and began playing…
The first thing I noticed was artifacting on the screen… it appeared that graphics from the character creation screen were “ghosting” over the game… a little annoying though did not affect core gameplay… It may be my ATI video card (Radeon 4870×2) causing this as a lot of times I get residual memory graphics showing up between initial launches / loading sequences…
Will have to do some more testing – but overall this game appears playable.
| STATUS: broken | Steam Store Page: click here |
| Wine Version: 1.3.6, 1.3.18 | |
| Wine Virtual Desktop: no | Full-screen: no |
I had this game running at one point – though now the game appears to have DRM issues and launches with error “can not find Steam”
OLD TEST
WINE CONFIGURATION:
In order to get Deus Ex: Invisible war to run I had to set Wine to use a virtual desktop before launching Steam.
IN-GAME SETTINGS:
I had to run the game using Direct3D for video drivers at 1024 x 768 resolution, otherwise the game was unplayable on my system
RUNNING THE GAME:
The game first launches with a configuration app – I ended up selecting Direct3D as others seemed to cause problems with rendering. The game launched into a 640×480 window and I could only increase it to 1024 x 768. Once started the Deus Ex plays fine within the desktop window.
| STATUS: playable | Steam Store Page: click here |
| Wine Version: 1.3.6, 1.3.17 | Winetricks .verb: click to download |
| Windowed: no | Full-screen: yes |
WINE CONFIGURATION:
No overrides or workarounds were required to play Obulis.
RUNNING THE GAME:
Obulis launched into full-screen mode from within Steam with no problems. No problems were experienced after playing a few levels.
| STATUS: playable | Steam Store Page: click here |
| Wine Version: 1.3.2 | 1.3.6 | |
| Windowed: no | Full-screen: yes |
REGEDIT REQUIRED: click here
Once done playing be sure to set the regedit back to MouseWarpOverride = enable
RUNNING THE GAME:
The game launched in 800×600 fullscreen and left the Gnome sidebars still visible. Changing the video resolution to 1027 x 768 corrected the screen. Game runs fine with MouseWarpOverride = force regedit.
| STATUS: playable | Steam Store Page: click here |
| Wine Version: 1.3.8 | Steam for Linux: yes |
| Windowed: yes | Full-screen:yes |
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RUNNING THE GAME:
Osmos launches fine from within Steam and is playable in fullscreen or in windowed mode on a virtual desktop.
This game is also available as a native Steam for Linux game.
