[gog installers should always be executed with the /nogui option.]

Flatout works perfectly in Wine; for optimal performance ensure to disable Triple Buffering from the configuration screen the first time you play.


Also Flatout2 works fine, but you need to use winetricks -q d3dx9

Well, that depends on your graphics card. :-) If you have a current/new graphics card, it looks plain wonderfull on Linux with all settings to "high"! Very funny and fast driving game with realistiv physics and really good graphics. Runs smoothly in 1600x1200 with allsettings "high" on my Ubuntu 11.04 64 Bit with an NVidia 9400GT. Go for it!

BTW: in the beginning, I thought it is quite difficult. But when you drive the same track multiple times, you get better and know how to drift optimally to get one of the first three places to unlock a new track.

Better late than never. The reason of disabling triple buffering is that with it Wine complains with this line:

fixme:d3d:swapchain_init The application requested more than one back buffer, this is not properly supported. Please configure the application to use double buffering (1 back buffer) if possible.

Or at least it happened at the time of the first post. Can you try with a recent wine?

I had to delete the "Savegame" folder content to get it working again. I leave "Trible Bufferung" on and it works (wine 1.4) ...

The error is not fatal, the game works both with Triple and Double buffering. But since (at least at time of writing) Triple buffering was not supported there is a performance penalty.
Please double check the wine log on the stdout if there is no line complaining about triple buffering we can assume it is unneeded.

It looks like GOG released Wine-based Linux version of the first two games. A bit strange to see that they didn't bother to make Wine-based OS X version yet. I personally am going to pass on buying them because of use of Wine even though I believe that they should work rather well regardless.

My xbox 360 controller doesn't work, is it supported?

What? I am not sure I get it... do you hate Wine? I do not know for sure, but I assume Wine sees it a joystick: try it with this program (or any similar one). This is needed to see if it works in Linux in general.

If it does, from the game environment (WINEPREFIX and stuff) try to execute: wine control joy.cpl to see what joysticks wine sees.

The game runs really well.
Wine on my system doesn't work for whatever reason, but this game launches without a hitch.
Xbox controller works for racing, but menus still require keyboard input - you can't navigate the menu at all with the controller.
Frame rates seem solid 99% of the time and are at least 60fps (guestimate), I had one stage run at 30fps for half a lap, shot back straight to 60 and stayed there for the remainder of the race.
Textures seem really low though, even though I've set them to very high. It looks good but they look very flat. Like they have no bump mapping.
My CPU and GPU are barely being worked. my temps after an hour of play are GPU 30C and cpu 29C - usually on most games they hover over 50C for the GPU and 50C for the CPU.

Yes, sort of. There is almost always a chance of graphical imperfections when you play a game through Wine. While I'm sure this version of game has been tested for game-breaking glitches, as you can see in metcard's post above there might be significant graphical ones. Properly tested native port is always better.

You should probably read the Wine FAQ few dozen of times.


The sentence "Properly tested native port is always better" is obviously true, but you cannot change reality.
Heck, about "better". Why a port in the first place? It would be better if Bugbear Entertainment developed directly in Linux. Even better if open source (possibly after few years from the release). Even better if free. Ect...

The point that Wine still can't run most DX9 games very well still stands. Hell, even Portal still only has gold rating and it runs on engine that is known to be one of the most stable to use with Wine.
Why so bitter? It's not like I'm trying to discourage anyone from buying this. Do you want to say that I am completely wrong about this after both reviews there reported existing issues? I just don't want to buy this only because it has Linux version when publisher who gets most of the money from this purchase has done next to no work for this port. It's just not my piece of cake to buy this when I already paid for one of these games in retail and I'm better off playing that copy in my Windows partition than buying another one and waiting until GOG might fix these bugs or trying to tweak Wine myself.

Are you talking about Wine's AppDB right now or just applying it's rating criteria to native ports?

i was applying the raiting criteria to native ports to match with wine appdb yeah.
sometimes you need to do some symlinking or go through config files with native games as well to make them work correctly on different distro/hardware sets.