Topic: Anyone ever get OP to run under Linux???

[Lepton]

The vid card in my year old 1500 dollar laptop blew up and needs repairing, so I am typing this up on an old 500mhz machine on which I have installed debian.  I have seen that some people have tried to get OP working under Wine with varied success usually failure.  Anyone know of anyone who has made OP run under linux??

[Lepton]

Answering my own question at least for EAW

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=1457

Seems as if it can be run, but it runs poorly and multiplayer probably does not work.  However these are the results of only two testers who may have had vastly different wine configurations and may or may not have used Windows native DLLs.  I wish these fellows had posted their configurations.  Makes the results of testing nearly useless if you don't know how it was achieved.

[Bonk]

Don't know of it... (damn slackers over at Transgaming... (j/k) (FireSoul's crew)) edit: actually, it looks like they've been busy over there, this new version of Cedega looks promising...

Hmmm OP is in their games db: http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/games/view.mhtml?game_id=2341 but does not appear to be listed for cedega 5.1, it is rated for 4.2 however so I see no reason why it would not run under 5.1... I guess you could try the new demo of 5.1 to find out.

edit - more on the subject: http://transgaming.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=277 (dated post)



I've been playing with VMWare a lot lately, got a nice slackware install going on my windows box.

http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php/topic,163364319.0.html

Using the VMWare workstation for Linux (30 day demo - longer if you register for the challenge) you could create a VM for Win9x or XP on your linux box and I can almost guarantee the OP will run on it (I'd try windowed mode for OP). I'd reccomend NAT for the VM and set up the approrpriate port forwading on the virtual network in the Workstation Virtual Networking options for multiplayer. You could then use this VM in the free VM player. This should also be possible with the new Free VMWare server but I have not finished downloading it myself yet so I can't say for sure.

If you do get it working, complete with multiplayer you'll need to remove the portforwarding settings on the virtual network when done playing if you run linux apps that use the same ports (as VMware will keep them tied up).

Technically you'd still be running it on windows so it should work. The more power the machine has, the better the chance it will work well. >1GHz with at least 512MB ram would probably do it. I'd reccomend at least 256MB ram for the VM maybe even 384 if the host can spare it, and make sure the virtual disk is plenty big enough and pre-allocated.

edit: ...and definitely install the VMware tools in the guest OS as reccomended.

[Lepton]

Thanks, Bonk.  I don't think this machine has the specs necessary to run VMWare, but it is good to know there is an option out there.  Cedega is basically a pay version of Wine designed specifically for gaming.  I was trying to avoid that pay option, but I have yet to actually try OP under Wine, so I'll report back when I try it out.

[Lepton]

Ah, FireSoul uploaded the screenshots on the Transgaming site for OP, so I would assume that he got it working well enough so that he felt somewhat confident in rating the game under Cedega.  Perhaps, he will stick his head in here or I could contact him directly on his experiences with it.

[Stealth]

Hey guys, I got VmWare workstation v5.5... on my linux box. Have tryed to run sfc3, it starts up and all that, it is just that the screen is black in the main menu, any ideas what is the reason for this? I got the VmWare tools installed too, will go ahead and try out op as well...

Will try out OP in Cedega 5.2.7 . will come back soon with my experience... later guys.

[Stealth]

Ok, OP does work in Cedega, that is good, but for god sake, sfc3 don't.It tells me that the module cache can't be saved...   Does anybody know why?

Anyway , here is my pictures from OP that I runned with Cedega v 5.2.7 in linux

[CaptJosh]

Some graphical oddities there, but I'm impressed. Now if I could just spare the cash to subscribe long enough to get a copy of cedega. I know you can get Half-Life 2 working under Cedega. I've seen screenshots and a couple gameplay films.