DOS games can't run natively on Linux to begin with. But you can run them with DosBox.

But if you are asking why GOG don't release all their DOS games for Linux with DosBox like they do for Windows, most of the time it's licensing issues, nothing to do with technical reasons. So just take the game and run it in DosBox yourself.

Hi there,

thanks for your reply - yes, why aren't all Dosbox based games available for LINUX was my question.

Shame that, Linux can use all the support it can get from game developers/vendors. It's getting better slowly and GOG has been fantastic in this regard, kudos where it is due.

Though licensing as the main reason seems a bit odd to me, since I would've thought if a a game runs under DosBox it does not really matter what does Dosbox itself runs on it, or does it? Also, most of the games are 20+ years old, who still enforces the licenses on those? Don't they expire at some point?

Not complaining, just curious.

The story usually begins with GOG making a contract in the past, before they supported Linux. And for each OS they need a separate contract. Adding Linux would require communicative publisher, and publishers often don't care enough to bother doing it. They (publishers) might think paying lawyers to prepare / review a contract is more of a trouble than releasing it for Linux. There can be other similar reasons, but you get the idea.

Dust: AET doesn't work out of the box with 18.04. The fix is simple enough: Just install SDL2 from the repo and remove the bundled libSDL2-2.0.so.0.

My personal wine experience, out of recent:

Major issues:
Seven Kingdoms 2 (both hd and classic) is completely broken - game's menu work, but game itself is full of visual artifacts.
Nations Gold (a.k.a alien nations 2) - game itself works, but extremely (about 16 fps) slow (also freeze each few seconds), plus cursor seems to flicker.

Minor issues:
Titan Quest Anniversary seems to have random micro-freezes, unrelated to fps (on both intel and nvidia gpus).
Spellforce - Platinum Edition has some weird controls issues - pressing tab cause game to close; sometimes controls glitch out completely (e.g you can move your camera, but cant select any unit. Even if you will log out to menu and select another map - problem persists. Only restart helps).

Wine 3.8

According to Titan Quest Anniversary Edition: Have you compared it on the same system with Windows as well?

Though I really love this game and have sunken many hours into it: The engine has its quirks.

I have no comparison to Linux but it is definitly choppy sometimes on Windows as well, so i assume it 's not necessarily a problem with Wine. (Especially when you trigger many mobs and the pathfinding algorithm kicks in...)

In case people still wondering what happened to that Shadow Tactics v2.2 Linux update: https://www.reddit.com/r/MimimiReddit/comments/8iugzi/gog_linux_shadow_tactics_at_144/

Dev reply is from 20 days ago:

intresting. Seems to be anniversary-exclusive issue then? Coz I've spent dozen hours playing original titan quest on my old (core2duo, 2Gb ram, 512mb vram (dont exactly remember, which model of nvidia was it)) pc and everything ran butter smooth

Thank you for the link!

Well, I gess, I'll buy the game at some point, yeah. (Maybe) :)

For what it's worth, the Linux DRM-free build on Humble not only has the 2.2.2 patch, but also the 2.2.10 which was released on Monday and GOG hasn't still rolled out, not even for Windows. :\

Lookie, lookie, who's just arrived:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread/post19929

Can someone confirm this applies to the Linux build as well?


EDIT: Looks like it does. :)

The day has finally dawned!

As it right now, we finally have gotten the most recent build, but… there are some worrying messages. It seems our troubles are not over…

Works fine on my end.

work for me too.