Topware Interactive are continuing their promise of putting their older titles on Linux and Two Worlds Epic Edition is now available on Steam. It uses Wine, but that's not as bad as you may think.
From the release notes:
QuoteThe port is based on Wine with CSMT and PhysX hardware support patches enabled.
They also removed the more restrictive DRM it had. It has been replaced by what they call "DLM V2":
QuoteThird party Serial Codes are only required to access the Multiplayer Server and create an account. Activation is optional and grants live time support and updates, restore of the game in case it is lost and change of the platform or content provider.
A step in the right direction, I think that alone is worthy of a little praise.
As for the use of Wine: It's an amazing bit of software, and while I shunned it in the past I decided to look past my own self-righteousness about it and learnt to appreciate it all over again. I think it's a cracking tool for developers to bring older titles over to Linux where performance and stability are good. It also means you are essentially buying a Linux game, and it counts as a Linux sale for future reference.
With that said, the Wine port does seem buggy for me. My first launch didn't work, as I could hear the game but not actually bring up the game window.
After that I was able to launch the game, but changing resolution seems to make it crash. I refuse to play it at 1024x768, but any attempt to change it results in the game minimising and I can't seem to bring it back.
I thought that it was due to me using two monitors, so I disabled one and it still has the same issue.
Overall, not impressed with this one.
It also has a massive discount:
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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OLucasZanella 29 May 2016
Great to have another MMO on Linux, as we need a lot more of those!
Serious question though, how does, or how much does a "WINE-based port" like this differ from running the native Windows version in WINE?
I suppose would mean that it doesn't need configuring. It's just click to download instead of Google and correct to make it work better.
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Great to have another MMO on Linux, as we need a lot more of those!
Serious question though, how does, or how much does a "WINE-based port" like this differ from running the native Windows version in WINE?
From what I gather, "ports" such as this come pre-packaged with a version of WINE that has been tested against the game (or is that visa versa?), and is known to run well. It also counts as a Linux sale.
I think.
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rustybroomhandle 29 May 2016
Great to have another MMO on Linux, as we need a lot more of those!
This is not an MMO.
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No, but multiplayer looks similar to MMO gamesGreat to have another MMO on Linux, as we need a lot more of those!
This is not an MMO.
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It was a joke, a dig at the game's generic quests and grindy gameplay.Great to have another MMO on Linux, as we need a lot more of those!
This is not an MMO.
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Why would they need Steam runtime for Wine though? If the game is playable in Wine, just get the GOG version and run it.
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coryrj19951 30 May 2016
It runs decently for me, ~30fps. And oddly enough I didn't have that resolution problem, it worked like it was supposed to for me.
Anyone else notice that this is the GOG version wrapped in WINE (second time I seen this done :P ). Completely DRM free and can be ran with the .SH script without steam open.
Anyone else notice that this is the GOG version wrapped in WINE (second time I seen this done :P ). Completely DRM free and can be ran with the .SH script without steam open.
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Anyone else notice that this is the GOG version wrapped in WINE (second time I seen this done :P ). Completely DRM free and can be ran with the .SH script without steam open.
Why can't they release it on GOG then?
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Why can't they release it on GOG then?I don't know. TopWare Interactive already released Gorky 17 and Earth 2160 as a wine port on Steam few months ago. And both never appeared on GOG.
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coryrj19951 22 Jun 2016
Just so everyone knows, the Linux version was just added on GOG today.
Last edited by coryrj19951 on 22 Jun 2016 at 1:14 pm UTC
Last edited by coryrj19951 on 22 Jun 2016 at 1:14 pm UTC
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Just so everyone knows, the Linux version was just added on GOG today.
Yeah, I just saw that. How exactly is it configured? I recently tried to install it in Wine myself, and it had all kind of issues with missing codec so it couldn't play cutscenes.
Last edited by Shmerl on 22 Jun 2016 at 7:00 pm UTC
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Yeah, I just saw that. How exactly is it configured? I recently tried to install it in Wine myself, and it had all kind of issues with missing codec so it couldn't play cutscenes.Videos are in WMV, try this in your prefix:
winetricks devenum quartz amstream wmp10
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@Nel: Yep, that didn't help. It had an error like this:
Using this POL script as a guide, I also got http://www-pc.uni-regensburg.de/systemsw/WinMedia/wvc1dmo.exe and registered wvc1dmod.dll, but it didn't help in my case.
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err:msvideo:ICLocate Required media codec 'vidc WVC1' not found! Using this POL script as a guide, I also got http://www-pc.uni-regensburg.de/systemsw/WinMedia/wvc1dmo.exe and registered wvc1dmod.dll, but it didn't help in my case.
Last edited by Shmerl on 22 Jun 2016 at 8:07 pm UTC
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I tried to install and launch this game with my own wine just to test it. I had to install d3dx9_36 and xact with winetricks to get rid of video glitches and activate sound, but I can't get videos working.
But at least, GOG linux installer just works. :)
But at least, GOG linux installer just works. :)
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