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February 15, 2006 7:32:21 PM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
Has anyone heard anything about whether this is going to work under linux via Cedega perhaps?... I tried installing my pre-ordered Stardock Central via Cedega and it failed trying to run "explorer.exe" ...

Anyone?
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Reply #1 February 15, 2006 9:26:49 PM
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The bit in the SDC installer that calls explorer.exe is to open the folder after everything is installed. It may run from that point. It may not. But it's probably not fatal.

It will be up to people with more Cedega/Linux knowledge than me to tell you if the game might run.

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Reply #2 February 15, 2006 9:53:52 PM
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Cedega would have to intercept any explorer.exe or iexplore.exe calls SDC makes and convert them to some linux equivalent. You may be able to get the game installed from the CD and manage patches yourself outside of SDC... but if I remember right from my last attempts... SDC is too tied to Windows calls to actually function in Cedega. Hopefully GC2 is popular enough to warrant Transgaming to add support for it... and by extension SDC.
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Reply #3 February 15, 2006 9:56:18 PM
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If you buy the retail boxed copy, you can just run the game that way and get updates from the download page. 

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Reply #4 February 15, 2006 10:18:21 PM
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Oh, it's fatal alright... too bad I can't get the devs to code a command-line option to not open the destination folder... I'm trying to find a workaround... but nothing so far.

Anyone have any ideas?
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Reply #5 February 15, 2006 10:47:45 PM
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I have many ideas, though none of them are put into practice while testing a Stardock Central install under Cedega.

If it's failing at the moment of opening the folder (which is a relatively dirt simple bit in the installer to explorer.exe %groupname%), then you've not gotten to the point where 'sdcentral.exe /install' runs to setup some of the various registry keys.

Email [email protected] with a way I can know the installer is under... duress... and I can try and account for it. VPC or VMWare images also welcome.

Given the other games that use Direct3D functions, it is theoretically possible that GalCiv2 can be launched and run with some degree of happiness on Linux. At this point, to the best of my knowledge, everyone is at least a couple of steps away from getting to the point to test that.

Kris

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Reply #6 March 6, 2006 9:46:16 PM
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If you have a Cedega TransGaming subscription, please go to their web site, look under "Vote", and "Review Suggested Polls". I submitted GalCiv II to that page, but 10 people need to second it before it becomes a real poll open for voting.

As to my own attempts, I gave up on Stardock Central. Then, I decided to just copy the installation on my Windows partition over to Linux-land. When I run it, a dialog box pops up with the following message:
"WARNING: DirectX Acceleration is not enabled. You may experience difficulties running Galactic Civilizations 2."

If I click "Ok", it then proceeds to play the opening video, then it dies. That's as far as I've gotten.
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Reply #7 March 8, 2006 7:40:21 AM
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Pretty much the same deal with me, with either Wine or Cedega. Starts up, gives me a warning that DirectX Acceleration is not enabled, plays the movie, then dies.
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Reply #8 March 23, 2006 10:23:29 AM
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I managed to install the game (it froze when it came to calling explorer), and then tried to use Point2Play to run the program. It got the game up with the DX Accelleration warning, did the video, and then gave me the main screen with the fonts fried (sort of like aoe2 runs). I clicked on the first option and then the game died. I then ran it via the command line and progressed through. The font was slightly better but still not there. I'm not quite sure how far I got along (haven't installed it in Windows yet), but I managed to click my way through a few screens before it hit the wall (and debugger).

One item of note might be the message I got running one of the executables. It mentioned IE5.5 and some XML library. I'm not sure if this is the same XML lib that RoN uses and prevents it from properly working under Cedega. Fonts is probably the same as the AOE2 thing.

Just my five cents,

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Reply #9 March 23, 2006 3:57:15 PM
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I managed to install the game (it froze when it came to calling explorer), and then tried to use Point2Play to run the program. It got the game up with the DX Accelleration warning, did the video, and then gave me the main screen with the fonts fried (sort of like aoe2 runs). I clicked on the first option and then the game died. I then ran it via the command line and progressed through. The font was slightly better but still not there. I'm not quite sure how far I got along (haven't installed it in Windows yet), but I managed to click my way through a few screens before it hit the wall (and debugger).


I get pretty much the same thing. I didnt install through linux. I installed it in windows and just tried to run it through the command line. I dont get the movie to play but I do get to the menu with the messed up fonts. I can click on the first option and get the next screen with more messed up fonts. Try to click next and it crashes.

This is the first game I have tried to get to work in linux as I am just now trying to move to it rather than windows. Any help would be appreciated if someone finds out more.
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