Hi there,

i found no thread like this so i created this one. I decided to post it in this public part of the forum, cause its interesting for non subscribers too.

I tried to get Xsyon running in linux (using wine [1]), cause i have no copy nor installation of windows. I play all MMOs in linux and probably surprisingly for most of you, pretty well.

This is not a thread about bothering the devs making a linux port. I understand that linux has not enough users to be attractive for most game developers. Anyway, i try to get it running and maybe, just maybe, i get some help of someone poking around.

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ok, here is what i did so far and what i got running: (I will keep this list up to date) Last updated: Nov. 28, 2011

*edit: The game is currently not playable in linux. You will get a winsock error when you try to connect. :/

Installation:
-Installing the Game works great. The installer is nothing special so no problems here.

Launching the game:
- Starting the game works well too but you have to install d3dx9 using winetricks [2] (winetricks d3dx9)

InGame:
-Most of the game works so far but sadly there are these crashes i get every 15 - 30 minutes. I tried everything to avoid them but it seems there is some kind of memory leak in either wine or the game itself (err:d3d:resource_init Out of memory!). It seems by lowering the grphics details, you can lower the chance to get a crash. Please vote here, so the bug can be fixed faster! (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26145)
-There were some graphic glitches in the past but they are totally gone now. Try to play with your setting. Disable some advanced shadows and/or glow.
- If you have a problem with the mouse cursor jumping back to the middle of the screen, you can fix it with "winetricks mwo=disabled".


Summary:
Beside the crashes the game is playable in linux to. Would love to get some feedback of other linux guys.


There is now also an entry about Xsyon in WineDB (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...sion&iId=22738) So if you are a linux player please add your testresult there. Thx

My system:
OS: Archlinux (64 Bit)
CPU: Intel i7 quadcore
Gfx: Nvidia Gforce 275 GTX
Gfx driver: 260.19.06
RAM: 8 GB
Wine: 1.3.13 (git)

[1] Wine is a linux program that emulates the windowsapi. It makes it possible to execute windows programs in linux, even games. Most of the directx9 stuff is implemented and if something is not available you can even install directx9 to get a game working. Many games are working this way in linux without performance drops, cause wine is not an emulator, its a windows api mapper.
[2] Winetricks is a script used to install windows programs in wine easily. You don't have to download them and install them manually. You can execute e.g. "winetricks dotnet20" and it will be downloaded and installed.