Two Worlds: Epic Edition continues Topware Interactive's push into Linux with their older titles. It is now available in beta form, and it uses Wine.
Writing on their Steam forum the developer said:
QuoteHello everyone,
the Wine port of the game is almost ready for public release. The game was tested on a SteamOS, Ubuntu 15.10 and Arch Linux, however as you know there are many different Linux flavors, not to mention hardware configurations, therefore they might be some issues not yet discovered and thus resolved.
I encourage those of you who already have the game in their library to test it, any feedback will be appreciated. Beta access code is:
TW1LinuxBETA
If you encounter any problems please attach TW1.log.txt (located in game folder) as well as a short description. Thank you!
I think it's really great they are doing this for older titles. Wine is a powerful bit of software and extremely useful when used correctly. Not every developer has the resources to port older titles, especially when it won't make much money. I definitely applaud what they are doing with older titles.
About the game (Official)
To all intents and purposes you're an unscrupulous bounty hunter and mercenary - but the search for your sister takes you back to your roots.
At the beginning of your epic adventure, a mercenary task takes you to the far north - but you're also following up a mysterious lead at the same time - the first clue you've been given since Kyra's disappearance. You get a shock during a meeting with the delegates of a dark Brotherhood - your sister's kidnappers are indeed after your family's relict. Whether there's any truth in your family being chosen ones or not, the others obviously believe it - and if you ever want to see Kyra alive again, you'll have to act swiftly... Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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ElectricPrism Apr 7, 2016
Quoting: leillo1975To me, Wine is a perfect solution to "port" this old games. I don't have any problem if this game works perfect and the support is good.
That's sort of the Catch 22 though, I've purchased winewraps some of which won't even launch, support/quality usually nose dives so when Linuxers tend to discourage wine now I know why. I agree with the "IF's" of winewraps, but currently quality doesn't seems to be the case.
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I tried to install the game using the vanilla WINE 1.9.7: the game is correctly translated in Italian, but the most annoying DRM in the history failed to activate my copy, so I can't play.
All the other languages are available, too.
Now I'm searching a way to bring all the supported languages to the Linux beta.
All the other languages are available, too.
Now I'm searching a way to bring all the supported languages to the Linux beta.
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leillo1975 Apr 7, 2016
Quoting: ziabiceI tried to install the game using the vanilla WINE 1.9.7: the game is correctly translated in Italian, but the most annoying DRM in the history failed to activate my copy, so I can't play.
All the other languages are available, too.
Now I'm searching a way to bring all the supported languages to the Linux beta.
Thanks a lot, I´m also searching
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Omg it's amazing. I used to play the shit out of this on Xbox. Going to play the shit out of this on Linux. But those horse controls....wtf.
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Quoting: leillo1975Quoting: ziabiceI tried to install the game using the vanilla WINE 1.9.7: the game is correctly translated in Italian, but the most annoying DRM in the history failed to activate my copy, so I can't play.
All the other languages are available, too.
Now I'm searching a way to bring all the supported languages to the Linux beta.
Thanks a lot, I´m also searching
Here's what I found:
- Windows and Linux game files are the same: so all the supported translations could be available in Linux (and Gog) too.
- Searching the Wine registry into the Linux game prefix for keys that store the language string or code, gives only false positive
Now I have a question: when the game is started by a Russian user, does it use the Russian language?
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leillo1975 Apr 7, 2016
Quoting: ziabiceQuoting: leillo1975Quoting: ziabiceI tried to install the game using the vanilla WINE 1.9.7: the game is correctly translated in Italian, but the most annoying DRM in the history failed to activate my copy, so I can't play.
All the other languages are available, too.
Now I'm searching a way to bring all the supported languages to the Linux beta.
Thanks a lot, I´m also searching
Here's what I found:
- Windows and Linux game files are the same: so all the supported translations could be available in Linux (and Gog) too.
- Searching the Wine registry into the Linux game prefix for keys that store the language string or code, gives only false positive
Now I have a question: when the game is started by a Russian user, does it use the Russian language?
Perhaps we must left the work to the devs. I found problems with the resolutions, like a lot of games that I execute in Wine. Normally I configure a virtual desktop (wine in a window) and then I change a resolution. Then I uncheck virtual desktop. But in this case I can't execute "Configure Wine" in the game directory
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Quoting: leillo1975To me, Wine is a perfect solution to "port" this old games.
I would have prefered FLOSSing the code instead. :P
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Is this a Winelib port or the Windows game packaged and preconfigured in Wine?
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Quoting: leillo1975Perhaps we must left the work to the devs. I found problems with the resolutions, like a lot of games that I execute in Wine. Normally I configure a virtual desktop (wine in a window) and then I change a resolution. Then I uncheck virtual desktop. But in this case I can't execute "Configure Wine" in the game directory
You are right! ;)
I noticed that newer (beta) WINE versions have less problems handling resolution changes: in this case the "official beta" started in 1024x768 and when you switch to FullHD resolution the game shows a broken window and you need to restart it in some ways. Using the newer WINE the problem is absent.
You can run the
winecfg command this way (you need to install Wine 1.8), from a terminal:WINEPREFIX="/yourSteamLibraryPath/steamapps/common/Two Worlds - Epic Edition/Wine/prefix/.config/" winecfg
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