Freelancer on Ubuntu

[Cyberanson]

Greetings brothers,

I'm just asking, if there are any Linux users, which make Freelancer run on certain distributions. My wish would be Ubuntu. Ever tested Wine or Cedega from Transgaming?

It would be a pleasure to run Disco with this penguin behind.

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[Tenshu]

Yeah a friend of mine has unbuntu and is trying to get it work with no success.
He has to use his old laptop to play FL.

Anyone have a solution?

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[Unseelie]

Right. Cedega is mostly a load of crap, and doesn't help a lot with most of the games it says it will, so I wouldn't recoomend trying it.
Wine, on Umbuntu, you can get fl to play, but its a nightmare doing it, and not clearly documented anywhere, also, the internet play does not work...and I've no idea why.
Id love to have it run, but my best suggestion is to run an emulation of windows on one side of your cube...best I can come up with.

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[kindred]

Dual boot, Linux and Windows is the simple way to go. Go luck.

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[Teknikal]

Yeah I would look into making your machine dual boot games are the only reason I use windows at all. I don't think anyone has managed to get Freelancer playable through wine yet which is a shame another alternative might be running windows in a virtual machine but would definetely degrade the experience.


Freelancer on Wine

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[JohnLenin]

What about having a WMWare playing your gamer Windows image (this could be a Win ME to save resources)?
Sure you need performance and RAM to do so but should work...

(What I'm not sure whether WMWare can handle the 3d features of your videocard - what about its virtualisation)

Good luck!

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[Cyberanson]

Teknikal, the destination of your link seems to have some problems with the syntax of the PHP files.:P

Anyways, I will try to get FL running in a virtual machine. My hardware should make it.

On the other hand I read a post in the deepnet, that somebody made it and get FL running with wine and without restrictions.

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[Jihadjoe]

I dual boot ('cept I use fedora core), tis the only way around I have found.

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[fatbuddha]

Resurrecting an old thread sure, but it may help others so I figured I should chime in.

Freelancer does run on linux via wine. There are several hacks/edits needed to make it happen. I believe they are all listed on this page http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?...on&iId=2504 . I play via wine sometimes so I know it works. Even without those fixes it works, just without sound and some minor graphic bugs.

[darkshadow]

I play Freelancer in Ubuntu Intrepid,Wine and it works very well.100% Windows free(no dual boot/virtual machines).

Here's how I did it:
First,backup your account ID.
Start Freelancer from terminal and see the error messages.It says it needs MSVCRT.dll and D3D8.dll.
1.Download MSVCRT.dll and D3D8.dll and copy them to Wine's system32 folder.
2.Install DirectX 9 and 8 (you can download DX8.1 from http://www.oldapps.com/ and DX9c from MS site).
3.Deactivate all overrides in winecfg.
4.Run Freelancer.

Here's how-to for renderer:
1.Go to Applications/Wine/regedit.
2. Expand the tree for HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D. You may need to create the Direct3D folder. You can do that by clicking the Wine folder, then clicking "Edit" and selecting New/Key. Then name the key Direct3D.
3. Click on the Direct3D folder.
4. Click "Edit" then select New/String Value.
5. Name that new string "DirectDrawRenderer".
6. Right click on "DirectDrawRenderer and select Modify.
7. Enter the value data as "opengl" then click "OK".
8. Then click Registry/Exit.

Here's how-to for missing text:
1.Download:
msxml3.dll
msxml4.dll
msxml3r.dll
msxml4r.dll
2.Copy those files to Wine System32 directory.
3.Activate the override in winecfg.

Here's how-to for MP3:
1.Download a MP3 codec.Install it.
2.Find the *.acm file in Wine System32 directory and rename it to winemp3.acm
3.Activate the override in winecfg.

And if you have problems with PulseAudio:
1.Go to Sound settings and set all to ALSA.
2.Open winecfg,deselect ALSA in the sound tab and select OSS.
3.Restart PC.
4.Now we will emulate OSS through ALSA.Go to terminal and type:
aoss wine /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Games/Freelancer/EXE/Freelancer.exe

It works with Discovery mod too.You can install FLMM and Discovery.
How-to for multiplayer:
1.Install global workaround.
2.Add override for DirectPlay in winecfg:
dplayx.dll
dpnet.dll
dpnhpast.dll
dpwsockx.dll
3.Go to terminal and type(aoss is optional - use it only if you have problems with sound):
aoss wine /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Games/Freelancer/EXE/Freelancer.exe -s82.113.48.5:2302
4.Play!

If you want antialiasing/anisotropy in WINE(for NVIDIA cards):
1.Go to terminal and type: nvidia-settings
2.Set all antialiasing/anisotropy settings to max.
3.Select override application settings.
4.Select save configuration to X server.
5.Now you have better graphics in both Linux/WINE.

Tested using Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex),Pentium D 805 Dual Core @ 2.66 GHz,1.5GB DDR2/533 RAM & NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT PCI Express 512MB DDR3.

Hope this helps.

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Playing Freelancer in Linux(WINE) - how-to here:
http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread...pid1610948