'Enclave', the 2003 action RPG now has a Linux beta that uses Wine

Topware is shady. What they did with Ravenscry was scaming at the highest level and this is just another case.

Quoting: manero666The Topware situation is definitely strange, I too didn't know about that and would like to hear what the other side (Topware) has to say about that.

You won't hear anything other than a straight "no comment" if you're lucky enough and not just ignored. They have been judged guilty last year and condemned to give back the entirety of IP to Alkemi (Transcripted devs studio) and to pay 19'000€, which they never did since they are in bankrupt for 1 year.

They also keep illegally selling Transcripted as Steam key and Download (DRM free?) with a big discount. The steam keys probably don't work anymore since Transcripted devs revoked all (not yet redeemed) 100'000 keys previously generated by Topware.
For information, Transcripted has currently 25'000 owners, according to steamdb, which is not bad for that kind of game. They said in another topic between 75'000 and 80'000 keys got revoked.

All this mess reminds me Bad Juju and Desura.

Quoting: manero666Also they are selling some other games, such as Two World series, as bundles for basically nothing (on Bundlestars for example).

They are in bankrupt for 1 year. I just hope current Topware devs get paid for their work on all linux versions.

Quoting: manero666It would be great if Steam could give us the ability to launch wine games through the Linux Client, without switching between clients every time.

IIRC, there was some discussion about making a library that would allow windows games to communicate with native steam, but I don't know its status, nor do I remember its name.

I see the Game in my library, but when I push the install button, the Game is inmediately downloaded, but obviusly, the Game don't work.

Quoting: leillo1975I see the Game in my library, but when I push the install button, the Game is inmediately downloaded, but obviusly, the Game don't work.

Have you joined the beta branch? Instructions are on the game's news page.

I've been having some weird issues with the game running way too fast!

The text scrolls by very quickly during the video just before the prison scene, but the audio runs at normal speed. Once my character appears in the prison, he jerks around erratically and any key I press results in him running into a wall...

Anyone else had this?

Quoting: MyeulC

Quoting: manero666It would be great if Steam could give us the ability to launch wine games through the Linux Client, without switching between clients every time.

IIRC, there was some discussion about making a library that would allow windows games to communicate with native steam, but I don't know its status, nor do I remember its name.

I remember that, but it was by definition against Steams policy, so I never tried it. Unfortunately, such support would have to come from Valve.

Quoting: robvv

Quoting: leillo1975I see the Game in my library, but when I push the install button, the Game is inmediately downloaded, but obviusly, the Game don't work.

Have you joined the beta branch? Instructions are on the game's news page.

Thanks a lot, I will try it this night. When I saw "public beta", I don't thought in passwords to activate it.

Quoting: MyeulC

Quoting: manero666It would be great if Steam could give us the ability to launch wine games through the Linux Client, without switching between clients every time.

IIRC, there was some discussion about making a library that would allow windows games to communicate with native steam, but I don't know its status, nor do I remember its name.

https://github.com/sirnuke/steambridge

This was in my Steam collection, as part of a bundle I purchased months ago. Good that it has come to Linux, at last. I decided to give it a try for myself, and it wasn't what I'd call seamless to get it up and running.

First thing, needed to go into Enclave's properties on Steam, and activate the Beta Access. Once this is done it will install. At the end of the install, it mentions a Mono component that it can install (if you aren't using your distro's package of Mono).

After installing I had a go at firing it up, and the screen was very pixellated and too bright. I managed to go into the Video settings, and change to 3840x2160 32bit.

My Debian 8.6 Jessie (default Wine version is 1.6.2) wasn't happy launching the game, after the main menu. Needed to escape from it, and go into Steam/steamapps/common/Enclave/Game and edit the environment.cfg
Changed the VID_RENDER=Direct3D8 to VID_RENDER=OpenGL

To get the graphics behaving, after setting in the game Video menu, to my display settings, I needed to Quit out of the game, restart the operating system, launch Steam, and play Enclave again. After some more fiddling, restarting, setting brightness low, and still finding the game too bright / wrong gamma settings / and trying some things with xrandr in a terminal.

After this, I'm able to play, and it is working reasonably well (apart from the on-screen colours). Sound, music, controls - all reasonable. Completed the first section of the game "Escape the Dungeon" and ready for part 2, and BLAM... "UNRECOVERABLE ERROR ENCOUNTERED. PRESS ANY KEY TO QUIT."

And that's as far as I could get. I've tried reinstalling the game, running Linux updates, deleting the steamapps/common/Enclave folder after uninstalling, and then doing a "clean" install.

Yes, I'm not a big fan of Wine Wrapped games.

EDIT: Got past the problem.

Okay, so I went back into the environment.cfg and put back the VID_RENDER=Direct3D8

Today, it seems like the Enclave developers have sorted out the brightness issue in the game, and things are looking good now. With Direct3D8 setting, I have been able to play Part 2. I haven't observed any appreciable slow-down running as Direct3D8.

So, for me, it's working okay now.


Last edited by g000h on 10 October 2016 at 9:48 pm UTC