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Posted July 09, 2011
I'm primarily a Linux user.

What would be really cool for me would be some kind of WINE rating whereby the games are tested on some version of WINE and listed as perhaps not supported but found to work.

An awful lot of these games work great on my system using WINE while some do not.

Just finishing Far Cry, (what a great game) and it works flawlessly.
Posted July 09, 2011
It is not official, but - http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/gog_games_that_runs_on_linux/page1
Posted July 09, 2011
GOG only has partial support for Windows 7. What hope do Linux distros have?
Posted July 09, 2011
The best resource is the Wine appdb:

http://appdb.winehq.org/

Please contribute to it, adding new reports when the existing ones are old or if you find alternative workarounds to any problems. Also file bugs for regressions and so on.

Additionally, many of the game specific forums have a topic about playability on Linux.
Posted July 09, 2011
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Bodkin: It is not official, but - http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/gog_games_that_runs_on_linux/page1
Someone also has a linux list floating around out there, but its not always super easy to find. Personally I look up everything on the WINEHQ apdatabase then try to post my wine experiences for any just released games. I get.

Can't do anything about a rating system but I have a few games that are working for me
Guilty Gear X2
Dragonshard
Gothic 2 (sometimes/quite risky)
Chaser
Space Rangers 2
MDK2
The Nations
Age of Wonders Shadowmagic
Prince of Persia Sands of Time
Haegemonia
Stronghold

Some I have that don't work or work sort of are

XIII ( which has mouse warping issues and I had to use another's save game to get it passed the start sequence. Fine after that)
Alpha Centauri
Spellforce (hear it works for some people, but runs way too slow for me. Fine beyond that and the ground texture issue)


Another note is that most of the DosBox based games should work, but you may have to edit each games config files to get them to work in the linux environment
Posted July 09, 2011
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gooberking: Another note is that most of the DosBox based games should work, but you may have to edit each games config files to get them to work in the linux environment
The main issue there is extracting the files, but since the OP is just primarily a Linux user rather than only a Linux user then getting the files extracted shouldn't be too much of a problem.

And many files will extract and install properly in Wine anyways.
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Navagon: GOG only has partial support for Windows 7. What hope do Linux distros have?
Official support from GOG isn't going to happen, but the hope is better seeing as these games all work from XP on. And Wine does a much better job typically with older software that doesn't require the latest libraries to function.
Post edited July 09, 2011 by hedwards
Posted July 09, 2011
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gooberking: Another note is that most of the DosBox based games should work, but you may have to edit each games config files to get them to work in the linux environment
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hedwards: The main issue there is extracting the files, but since the OP is just primarily a Linux user rather than only a Linux user then getting the files extracted shouldn't be too much of a problem.
The GOG installers work perfectly under wine. There's also innounp (no native port, but again works under wine). I think Xyem said he might some day like to write a standalone Inno unpacker (maybe it was someone else?), which would be awesome.
Posted July 09, 2011
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hedwards: The main issue there is extracting the files, but since the OP is just primarily a Linux user rather than only a Linux user then getting the files extracted shouldn't be too much of a problem.
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asb: The GOG installers work perfectly under wine. There's also innounp (no native port, but again works under wine). I think Xyem said he might some day like to write a standalone Inno unpacker (maybe it was someone else?), which would be awesome.
I've had mixed results in the past. Definitely observed it refusing to install a program. I'll have to look into it to see if that was just a one time deal though.
Posted July 09, 2011
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asb: There's also innounp (no native port, but again works under wine). I think Xyem said he might some day like to write a standalone Inno unpacker (maybe it was someone else?), which would be awesome.
Yes, that was me :)

I'm about to (over the next few months) go through the games I own and test them all in Linux. Will put all the information up on AppDB and the GOG Wiki and if paldepind is still around, that information will end up on this GOGmix (or I'll make a new one if not).
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