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Re: GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects

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Post by sydbarrett74 »

ykonstant wrote: post #23
freedomben wrote: post #2

Just a high level comment on GOG, I am immensely grateful to them for existing and for sticking so strong to their principles against DRM, and for maintaining great customer service. I have bought a lot of games from GOG and have been very happy. As an exclusively Linux user, I also appreciate how well GOG works with Lutris et al and that they aren't making life harder for those devs. I love the offline installers an…

Unfortunately, it is (very) hard to make non-native games from GOG work on Linux, as someone who just doesn't "grok" Wine. This is especially painful for me, because I have supported and want to support GOG, but my obscure point and click adventure games work out of the box with Proton on Steam, which is more than I can say about GOG games. To this day, I have exactly one game that I have not managed to get working o…

What distro?

Have you spun up a SteamOS VM?

Re: GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects

#32

Post by PostOnce »

ykonstant wrote: post #23
freedomben wrote: post #2

Just a high level comment on GOG, I am immensely grateful to them for existing and for sticking so strong to their principles against DRM, and for maintaining great customer service. I have bought a lot of games from GOG and have been very happy. As an exclusively Linux user, I also appreciate how well GOG works with Lutris et al and that they aren't making life harder for those devs. I love the offline installers an…

Unfortunately, it is (very) hard to make non-native games from GOG work on Linux, as someone who just doesn't "grok" Wine. This is especially painful for me, because I have supported and want to support GOG, but my obscure point and click adventure games work out of the box with Proton on Steam, which is more than I can say about GOG games. To this day, I have exactly one game that I have not managed to get working o…

I usually just go Lutris -> install windows game from exe -> done & working.

Lutris handles the wine config for me, works 99% of the time.

Re: GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects

#34

Post by ForOldHack »

sydbarrett74 wrote: post #31
ykonstant wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, it is (very) hard to make non-native games from GOG work on Linux, as someone who just doesn't "grok" Wine. This is especially painful for me, because I have supported and want to support GOG, but my obscure point and click adventure games work out of the box with Proton on Steam, which is more than I can say about GOG games. To this day, I have exactly one game that I have not managed to get working o…

What distro? Have you spun up a SteamOS VM?

I spun up a few Linux VMs, tryin to get wineing... some would not even boot. ( ubuntu server ). Had a suggestion to try... Zoltan. Hmm... Installed perfectly. Ran dx9 installer next. Not even a hint of problems... Ran dxdiag like it was windows XP. ok... on to Dungeon Siege 1. Full on ran first try. Ran every GOG game I had. So.. if you need windows/wine compatibility... spin up a Zoltan Linux VM.

Re: GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects

#35

Post by ktallett »

NegatioN wrote: post #7
postepowanieadm wrote: post #3

I wish I liked GOG, but they ignore Linux users, while Steam's Linux support is the best thing that's happened to Linux gaming.

Not a perfect solution, but you could just use Steam to load games from GOG on Linux though. Thereby getting "the best of both worlds". I have yet to stumble upon any major issue doing this.

There is a gog galaxy Linux replacement called MiniGalaxy

Re: GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects

#36

Post by freedomben »

ForOldHack wrote: post #34
sydbarrett74 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What distro? Have you spun up a SteamOS VM?

I spun up a few Linux VMs, tryin to get wineing... some would not even boot. ( ubuntu server ). Had a suggestion to try... Zoltan. Hmm... Installed perfectly. Ran dx9 installer next. Not even a hint of problems... Ran dxdiag like it was windows XP. ok... on to Dungeon Siege 1. Full on ran first try. Ran every GOG game I had. So.. if you need windows/wine compatibility... spin up a Zoltan Linux VM.

I've not heard of Zoltan Linux before, and am not finding it. Could you provide a link to it?

Re: GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects

#37

Post by freedomben »

PostOnce wrote: post #32
ykonstant wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, it is (very) hard to make non-native games from GOG work on Linux, as someone who just doesn't "grok" Wine. This is especially painful for me, because I have supported and want to support GOG, but my obscure point and click adventure games work out of the box with Proton on Steam, which is more than I can say about GOG games. To this day, I have exactly one game that I have not managed to get working o…

I usually just go Lutris -> install windows game from exe -> done & working. Lutris handles the wine config for me, works 99% of the time.

Seconded. There are some games that still won't work, but for the most part they do.

Re: GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects

#38

Post by sydbarrett74 »

freedomben wrote: post #36
ForOldHack wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spun up a few Linux VMs, tryin to get wineing... some would not even boot. ( ubuntu server ). Had a suggestion to try... Zoltan. Hmm... Installed perfectly. Ran dx9 installer next. Not even a hint of problems... Ran dxdiag like it was windows XP. ok... on to Dungeon Siege 1. Full on ran first try. Ran every GOG game I had. So.. if you need windows/wine compatibility... spin up a Zoltan Linux VM.

I've not heard of Zoltan Linux before, and am not finding it. Could you provide a link to it?

Same. The only thing I can find is the Zoltan load-balancer at Sandia Labs.

Re: GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects

#39

Post by sydbarrett74 »

ForOldHack wrote: post #34
sydbarrett74 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What distro? Have you spun up a SteamOS VM?

I spun up a few Linux VMs, tryin to get wineing... some would not even boot. ( ubuntu server ). Had a suggestion to try... Zoltan. Hmm... Installed perfectly. Ran dx9 installer next. Not even a hint of problems... Ran dxdiag like it was windows XP. ok... on to Dungeon Siege 1. Full on ran first try. Ran every GOG game I had. So.. if you need windows/wine compatibility... spin up a Zoltan Linux VM.

Do you mean Zorin?
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