Running BGEE on Linux via Wine
Smeuuh
Member Posts: 34
Hi,
I have managed to run BGEE under wine. Here's what gave me trouble. If any dev happens to stumble onto this thread, there are a few things you could change that would make life easier for us linux users ...
- The beamdog installer uses dotnet, and refuses to install the dotnet runtime, for some reason. My solution was to install BGEE in a windows virtual machine and copy the files over.
- I had no backgrounds, only black textures. Apparently this is an with some decompression lib. It's fixed by running wine with the force_s3tc_enable flag : force_s3tc_enable=true wine Baldur.exe.
- A few keys (mostly numeric) are non-functional on an azerty keyboard. I had to change my keyboard layout to qwerty (this can be done on a per-window basis so as not to affect the other apps)
Hope that helps someone.
Oh, and that's with the beta. The game didn't run on the stable version.
I have managed to run BGEE under wine. Here's what gave me trouble. If any dev happens to stumble onto this thread, there are a few things you could change that would make life easier for us linux users ...
- The beamdog installer uses dotnet, and refuses to install the dotnet runtime, for some reason. My solution was to install BGEE in a windows virtual machine and copy the files over.
- I had no backgrounds, only black textures. Apparently this is an with some decompression lib. It's fixed by running wine with the force_s3tc_enable flag : force_s3tc_enable=true wine Baldur.exe.
- A few keys (mostly numeric) are non-functional on an azerty keyboard. I had to change my keyboard layout to qwerty (this can be done on a per-window basis so as not to affect the other apps)
Hope that helps someone.
Oh, and that's with the beta. The game didn't run on the stable version.
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