Guest bongo Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 Hi All, I am very happy that I found this project of yours! You keep great games like BGII surviving. I just wanted to ask if there is a way to install BGII or Planescape Torment using your engine under Linux (Ubuntu). It seems to me from the pictures around that you are able to run some games at this time, so I hope I am not mistaken. BtW. is there any Debian/Ubuntu repository so that I could install your software? Thank you
the bigg Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 GemRB isn't still complete (games aren't playable from start to finish), so it's not in the Ubuntu repos (AFAIK); I also find it unlikely that there is an unofficial .deb GemRB repository (for one, I believe that the main GemRB developer uses Gentoo, and we're not at the stage where ease-of-use by the end user is a primary goal). I wasn't able of installing BG2 (the installer died with Wine), however, if you already have a working install (or are willing to manually copy the various files), it's very playable using plain Wine.
Avenger Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 I use Suse And here are the: installers. Btw, the games are still not complete. I think it is better to run them under Wine, (though quite slow).
the bigg Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 I use Suse Sorry for the offence, I won't mix Suse and Gentoo any more (of course I should insert a comment about the recent Suse/Microsoft dick sucking game, with Suse being the giver, but I won't). Btw, the games are still not complete. I think it is better to run them under Wine, [/i](though quite slow). Never noticed a problem, at least for BG1, BG2, Tutu and IWD2. I got my PST and IWD1 CDs just this morning, so I'll tell about those later
Nugrud Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 I wasn't able of installing BG2 (the installer died with Wine), however, if you already have a working install (or are willing to manually copy the various files), it's very playable using plain Wine. There is an Loki installer for bg2 using wine. BTW. there was recently for about half a year an really annoying bug in wine when playing ie-based-games - #5370 - and it was finally fixed (0.9.28) Have you noticed that? P.S. I use opensuse 10.2 as well.
the bigg Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 Actually, I had found a solution as well: I had simply to edit all BAM files so that they don't use the RLE encoding, but only either the flat one or the zlib one. Obviously, I was too bored to actually write a program to do that Unfortunately, I believe that 0.9.28 can't run PST and IWD2 (while Ubuntu Edgy's 0.9.22 can).
Nugrud Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 Actually, I had found a solution as well: I had simply to edit all BAM files so that they don't use the RLE encoding, but only either the flat one or the zlib one. Nice! Obviously, I was too bored to actually write a program to do that Simple bash script would be enough Unfortunately, I believe that 0.9.28 can't run PST and IWD2 (while Ubuntu Edgy's 0.9.22 can). Haven't tried. If you say so, that's a pitty. Maybe gemrb showing nice progress recently will do (playing fully - not only 'run') that earlier P.S. You had problems with installing bg2 with wine whilst it is on a top of The Top 10 Platinum List at wine's appDB
the bigg Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 Simple bash script would be enough No - I have to extract the BAM files from the BIFs, extract all frames, convert RLE -> zlib, and put them again in the BIFs. It's more work than a bash script would be able to do in a reliable time P.S. You had problems with installing bg2 with wine whilst it is on a top of The Top 10 Platinum List at wine's appDB Yes, I had problems installing it with 0.9.20 and 0.9.22 - something that winehq confirms. (and, to be the ultimate laughing stock, the only IE game I can't play with 0.9.22 is BG2. BG1, IWD1, IWD2 and PST are all fine).
Guest Guest Posted January 21, 2007 Posted January 21, 2007 P.S. You had problems with installing bg2 with wine whilst it is on a top of The Top 10 Platinum List at wine's appDB Yes, I had problems installing it with 0.9.20 and 0.9.22 - something that winehq confirms. (and, to be the ultimate laughing stock, the only IE game I can't play with 0.9.22 is BG2. BG1, IWD1, IWD2 and PST are all fine). Experience and appdb showed that recent versions of wine won't run PST so I switched back to 0.9.15 (they had some binaries left over at sourceforge, but no tarballs) and at least this game runs fine again. Following wine's bugzilla and google this could be related to a revised DirectX implementation - looks like the old MS-hybris to not supporting apps that rely on obsolete APIs. I don't know about the other games (don't want to know about BG 1 or 2 because after they were released I played them excessively enough to know every little detail...).
Avenger Posted January 21, 2007 Posted January 21, 2007 Well, i can't even run bg2 under wine. Though it would be very helpful while writing gemrb
the bigg Posted January 21, 2007 Posted January 21, 2007 Apparently 0.9.28 is platinum, but I can't run BG2 either. (OTOH, I can run all games except BG2 with 0.9.15, and I don't even suffer from black boxes)
Guest Guest Posted June 28, 2007 Posted June 28, 2007 Newbie question: How do you run GemRB after it has been compiled from source code on Linux?
Avenger Posted June 29, 2007 Posted June 29, 2007 Assuming you compiled without errors. Type make install too. Then edit the gemrb.cfg (it is commented up). Make special attention to the CaseSensitive flag. Once the .cfg is done, you just start with 'gemrb' It should find all plugins and the .cfg file. Watch if all plugins loaded. If you want sound, and the nullsound plugin loads before the acmimporter plugin, delete the nullsound plugin.
Guest Shade Posted June 29, 2007 Posted June 29, 2007 The default config file appears to be named 'GemRB.cfg.sample' so you'll to rename it or copy it to 'GemRB.cfg' to make it work.
Artimus Posted June 29, 2007 Posted June 29, 2007 I don't have a copy in front of me, but from memory. Baldur's Gate II install in Wine: Go here, get version 6 of Install Shield: http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q108322 Install it with wine. 1. Mount CD1 of Baldur's Gate II. Run Setup.exe on the disk.Do a Minimum install. Don't install DirectX if it asks. 2. Edit your "baldur.ini" file. Change the line "Install Type=1" to "Install Type=3". Also, you will need to edit the [Alias] section. Make the following changes where [bG2] is the location of your BG2 install [Alias] HD0=[bG2] CD1=[bG2]\CD1 CD2=[bG2]\CD2 CD3=[bG2]\CD3 CD4=[bG2]\CD4 3. Copy the following directories (and all their contents) from the BG2 CDs to your BG2 install folder, where [cddrive] is the letter of your CD-ROM drive and [bG2] is the location of your BG2 install CD2 [cddrive]\CD2 ===> [bG2]\CD2 CD3 [cddrive]\CD3 ===> [bG2]\CD3 CD4 [cddrive]\CD4 ===> [bG2]\CD4 You now have a Full install. (some of the above shamelessly stolen from the Bioware BG2 FAQ) 4. Mount your Throne of Bhaal disk. Run setup.exe. Do a full install. If you performed the previously steps correctly, it will *NOT* ask you for your BG2 cdrom. If it asks, you missed a step, start over. 5. Get the Throne of Bhaal patch, install it with wine.
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