Any luck in Linux?

[Kheldin]

I've been running Ubuntu 7.04 for awhile now and have the games I mostly play installed and running good. After I took a look at this game, I figured I'd give it a shot.

Everything downloaded fine and even the NullSoft installer/extractor worked without a hitch, needless to say, my hopes were up. This has been as far as I've been able to get though however as I can't get any of the .exe files to load without immediately crashing.

I was wondering if there was anybody else that has tried this game in Linux and if so, how far were you able to get?

[Tamlinari]

I wish!
I hate having to boot into windows just to play. :(

[Collinnk]

At the moment it looks like you will need to install either windows, or Wine for linux, in order to play outspark. I run SuSE linux at the moment and have yet to get the game working. I can install it just fine, but I cannot run the launcher. If you search for "linux" in the forum search there is a thread called "Linux Users (please read)" that has the attempts to run fiesta from linux.

[lnxgk]

This is what I've done so far, still no luck getting outspark to run yet, but
where I am so far seems to be still far from running the game...

INSTALL
=======
The install works. It completes, injects the right registry keys and the
folders on linux and windows appear to be the same size (1.8G), so there
aren't missing files/registry entries after the wine install.


POST_INSTALL
============
After the install, you'll need to grab: mfc80.dll msvcp80.dll msvcr80.dll and
drop them in /path/to/fake_windows/system32 and /path/to/fake_windows/system
(the second is just to be sure...)


If you run: wine /path/to/Outspark/Launcher/outspark.exe you'll get a nice
window with a C++ Runtime Lib error. I haven't got past it yet. It doesn't
like something in msvcr80.dll and fails to load it. Other games have this
problem too, and its usually a re-hack of the dll that fixes it. I even tried
copying my actual WinXP SP2 msvcr80.dll over and it still choked.

If you run: wine /path/to/Outspark/Fiesta/Fiesta.bin, you'll get a tad
further. It gives you a goofy input error, but at least it _tries_ to start up.
It's probably pissed that I didn't use the launcher to fire it up.

I have strace logs of the wine commands if anybody would like a gander.

Hopefully I can get a little further before the weekend.

Funny thing.. I've never even played the game. I've seen it and my sis-in-law
is digging it, but I just wanted to make it run on my Linux gaming box before
I play it since thats where WoW and other stuff is running.

[thundernate]

Hey, I am also trying to get Fiesta to run in wine. I got it to install as well, but without the launcher's special Fiesta.bin cmd line I don't think we can play. Even with it... dunno!

I sure hope someone ingenious figures this one out I'd love to switch to my linux desktop full time!

thanks for your efforts thus far!

[Tamlinari]

Yesterday I put in an inquiry to TransGaming Technologies Inc.the makers of Cedega asking them if Fiesta had been tested on Cedega but I have not heard back from them yet.
If they can provide a layer of compatibility to run these games, specifically Fiesta and SoS then that would save me and many others a lot of time trying different ways to get it to run on a Linux machine.
For anyone that is interested in running Fiesta on Linux, sending some emails to TransGaming Technologies expressing interest in a compatibility layer for the Outspark games certainly wouldn't hurt.
http://www.transgaming.com/products/cedega/
Just my opinion.
:D

[Xanthros]

I thought I was the only one crazy enough to try to get an open beta game running on *nix. Many hrs of tweaking and toying with Fedora Core 6 has produced nothing workable in regard to Fiesta.

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