I wonder what the odds are on this running in wine out of the box?

We do not know about this before release. After, I think some people will try that.

There are always ways of getting wine to work, I recommend checking by the wine forums to see if anyone has been able to get it working after release date.

Someone tested the hardware test they released for LoG and that worked with wine 1.5.1. So chances are quite good that the game will work at launch. :-)

I will surely play this game with a glass of wine in my hand... errrr...or, what wine are you talking about??? LOL. Sorry bad joke, couldn't resist :)

Hi

Using Crossover 11.0.0 (wine 1.4)

installed:
Crossover HTML engine (default with a new bottle)
Legend of Grimrock (manual install)
MS Direct X runtime - modern (manual install)
Visual C++ 2010 redistributable (either Grimrock did this or was done as default when bottle was made)

and it runs like a CHARM !!!, full screen, windows, all effect, music.... weeeeeee :)

Nice to hear, as I ended up going with the "direct" dl as steam was still telling me that it wasn't released yet. (I bought it direct, but they gave you a "direct" dl link AND a steam key.)

I'm dling it under my linux install just in the hope that it would work with wine, as it's nice to have some games to play when running linux w/o having to reboot to windows.

I got it running on wine 1.5.1. Installed directx9 dlls with winetricks, and xact (for audio). Strange thing was that after directx install, game complained something about d3dx9_43.dll, so I removed entry from winecfg dlls list. Everything worked fine after that.

I have now played thru level 1.

I am jealous. I too am running 1.5.1, Ubuntu 11.10. Installed xact and dx9 dlls. I got the same complaint about 43 being missing, so I installed that as well with winetricks. I am still not able to even get it to run. :/

I get an error saying "XAudio2 error in XAudio2Create" in a popup. I'm running wine 1.5.1 on Arch Linux 64 bit with a Nvidia GT520 Silent card and nvidia 295.40 drivers.

I get the same error. Stuck there...

It works flawlessly for me with wine 1.4 and FreeBSD. Been playing it for a few minutes now, submitted a review to wine appdb.

It did the same for me, so I started winecfg, and then REMOVED the said dll entry from Libraries page - and it started to work.

I tried that and the game still won't launch. Now a pop-up shows up saying that directx9 isn't installed correctly. :-(

Do you have still all other library overrides on place? I have these:
d3dx9_24.dll -> d3dx9_42.dll
So I removed only the 43.
Also, it seems that even I did install xact via winetricks, it doesn't show up on the libraries list. I am not sure if this is normal.

You could also check the file ~/Almost Human/Legend of Grimrock/grimrock.cfg. Here is my working config. I am using quite low settings because of my puny integrated Intel Hd Graphics 3000 video card
...............................
mouseLook = true
muteMusic = false
textureResolution = 3
displayMode = 1
textureFilter = 1
autoSave = true
arrowIcons = false
resolution = "1600 x 900"
invertY = false
verticalSync = 1
disableDamageTexts = false
muteSounds = false
ssaoQuality = 2
hideItemProperties = false
shadowQuality = 1
move_forward = 87
move_backward = 83
strafe_left = 65
strafe_right = 68
turn_left = 81
turn_right = 69
rest = 82
map = 9
character_sheet_1 = 49
character_sheet_2 = 50
character_sheet_3 = 51
character_sheet_4 = 52