I personally prefer to play the original version, so that I get a more accurate experience, rather than one with bugfixes. (For example, Blind behavies differently; in Morrowind, it increases accuracy, but the OpenMW developers (as well as the Morrowind Code Patch developers) deemed it to be a bug and made it decrease accuracy instead.)

Yes, I know I'm strange, but bugs like that give the game character, and I prefer to only mod them out if they are noticeably detracting from the game experience.

(Also, I was actually reviewing the Construction Set rather than the game itself.)

Anyone get Betrayal at Krondor to run in wine?
After I installed it and tried to launch I got an error with dosbox.

So, looks like dosbox is what you need to set up, not WIne.

Have you checked out DXVK?

Water is now rendering nicely with Wine+dxvk at last: https://i.imgur.com/rEAzBqY.jpg

But there are still some major immersion breaking issues, such as lack of stream output support which causes distrorted monsters.

By immersion you mean the overall game experience right? Because I've seen far too many underwater graphics issues in the past (pre-dxvk times), I still have those nightmares :-)

Also, this just popped up today on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1MUGMxYY2E (Kingdom Come)

I mean it annoys me when monsters look like a pile of disjoined polygons, and it breaks immersion into the game, so that's why I paused my TW3 playthrough (currently in Velen), until either dxvk fixes that, or wined3d will fix performance to acceptable level. Unfortunately, neither offers a fully playable experience now. Once that happens, I'll hopefully finish my first playthrough :)

Nice, I didn't buy the game yet, since I tend not to buy recent Windows only games (even for TW3 someone gave me a key). But eventually I might buy it at some major discount, when it will be clear that there is no chance for it to ever come out for Linux.

With dxvk and a hefty discount I might buy it too, I'll play the waiting for the time being.

I realize it's a bit late but I just tried it with Wine 3.3 and 3.4. The game runs fine, but buildings don't render properly; walls and ceilings don't render so, what looks like empty space highlighted by the mouse cursor is supposed to actually be a vehicle factory. Bear in mind, this is on OS X (10.11.6) so YMMV on Linux.

Thanks for this update. Shows that I was right in not buying Witcher 3 in the recent sale. Unless it works properly, there really isn't any point. Still annoyed CDPR broke their promise of supporting the game for Linux. They'd be in a much better position to get it working properly than fans and third party software developers.

I've played through a fair chunk of the game using the ResidualVM engine. It adds a few extra bugs to an already buggy experience and there are a few annoyances (such as the journal not working) but it is still quite fun.

http://wiki.residualvm.org/index.php/The_Longest_Journey

The point can be to help testing Wine and dxvk projects. Luckily someone gave me TW3 key for that, but I can understand why you might not want to pay for it.

Alright, thanks for the feedback. I still have Windows on one of the drives, so I might play through this there before I finally format it (if it becomes too challenging to get it playable on Linux). I'll check out the ResidualVM first though!

Game: Mafia II: Director's Cut
Installer MD5s:
fcb579508014c11660760eef7a10fb8b setup_mafia_ii_update5_(19642)-1.bin
7146d28ae2f997a08cae9da4d034adfb setup_mafia_ii_update5_(19642)-2.bin
6a22e2245595414c665ae01b52b49eeb setup_mafia_ii_update5_(19642).exe
WineHQ AppDB link: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=11920

Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64-bit
Kernel version: 4.15.0-15
Graphics card: AMD RX 480 8GB
Graphics driver & version: Open source, with Mesa 18 from Padoka's stable Mesa PPA
Wine version(s) tested: Wine 3.7 (with CSMT enabled)

Install notes: Requires physx
Run the game from/create a shortcut for "mafia2.exe"
How well does it run: Very well
Details: With this version of Wine shadows are now working and it seems to run great, however for shadows to work on AMD GPUs a workaround is needed (or at least it was necessary with my RX480). Two registry entries are required; run these two commands to add them (this is the same workaround used for getting Fallout 3 to run on Intel GPUs):

reg add "HKCU\Software\Wine\Direct3D" /v VideoPciDeviceID /t REG_DWORD /d 0x402 /f
reg add "HKCU\Software\Wine\Direct3D" /v VideoPciVendorID /t REG_DWORD /d 0x10de /f

This appears to be an issue with the game itself as I've heard reports of issues with shadows on ATI/AMD GPUs on Windows too.

Aside from that, the sky flickers occasionally - not a major issue.

If you encounter a stuck loading screen, be aware that this is a bug with the game itself & not a Wine issue. I encountered this issue during chapter 10 during my playthrough with Wine 3.0 & had to restart the chapter from the beginning (use the "load chapter" option from the menu) to fix it.

Some users at WineHQ's AppDB reported regular crashing unless PhysX is disabled so that's something to keep in mind if you experience the game crashing a lot. I've only been playing with PhysX disabled and the game seems to be mostly stable - I've had it crash three times, but I couldn't reproduce them & they may just be the result of game bugs.​

Wine wrapper
I have put together a Linux Wine wrapper for this game. For more information, see the release thread in the game's forum: https://www.gog.com/forum/mafia/mafia_2_for_linux