Just for info: i-war 2: EOC on linux

[admin]

While cleaning up the forum I stumbled over this thread.

I’m playing Independence War 2 on Linux all the time. It almost works out of the box with wine, but there is a nasty bug which freezes the game when someone talks.

But no worries – there are instructions on how to get around that:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=7386

The “European Windows XP” bug happens on Linux, too – if you come from Europe and want to play Multiplayer, you have to tell Linux that your thousands delimiter is a “.” by putting this in front of the application you want to run:

LC_ALL="c"

I’m happy that it runs so well – no need to keep old Windows versions around or hoping for Microsoft not breaking anything in their next release. 👿 :whistle:

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Space. The final frontier.

[davedevils]

I’m linux player of i-war 2 – EOC

I i can help any body 🙂

If you want play on Ubuntu −−> little tutorial

How to make the game work with sound (but without dialog sound) (CD version) :

0°) Install wine 1.7.38
1°) Install EOC 2 and the F14.6 patch
2°) run winetricks mwo=disabled
3°) run winetricks quartz devenum
4°) Go to wine config –> lib -> winegstreamer –> Disable
-> quartz –> Builtin then Native
5°) Go to the folder of game –> streams/audio/music/ –> rename loading.mp3 to loading-.mp3
6°) back to the folder of game –> streams/audio/ –> rename the folder speech to speech-

Now you can play 😀 (i use Q4Wine for launch)

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My config before the next of this post !

Ubuntu 15.04 (32 bit) / Windows 7 – 64 bit

Intel core i7-4770K
6 go ram
GeForce GTX 980 4go

Edge of chaos 2 – CD version FRENCH + official patch 14.6
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Torn star …

by the way when i playing in windows 7 64 bit … never work for me ! Crash when i click in “new game”

Under Ubuntu −−> menu work −> loading may crash (often and SLOW 5fps ) -−> LOT of freeze In game ! the game work 20/30 min before crash …

Torn Star : Unstable Space

Under windows −−> menu work −−> loading slow (12 fps) -> but game work well

Under Linux −−> menu perfect −−> EXTREM SLOW LOADING (8 min) -−> crash if you not speed for select the race in new game −> save freeze the game for 4/5 min -−> In game it’s ok, but lot’s of texture problem … for fix i have install low res … now in game work , but sometime freeze 3/4s .

[admin]

I didn’t even need that many steps to run the game.

My latest test results are here:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=7386

I only needed to install and patch the game, run:

winetricks quartz directplay

and then disable winegstreamer in winecfg.

Afterwards, it worked fine. But I’m on a European system and that corrupts the flux.ini sometimes, so I had to do the LC_ALL fix, too. Maybe that affects Torn Stars, too?

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Space. The final frontier.

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