I just played this game for two hours straight on ubuntu linux 8.1 in wine 1.01 and everything woks. Only audio stopped working after a while, but works now when I restart.
The only thing I changed about the default wine config was that I checked the "emulate virtual desktop" option in the graphics tab and set the desktop size to 1280X1024 after that the graphics detection/configuration tool worked and I could start the game.

The lion's share of GoG games will run in Linux. Wine is incredibly robust these days, even running many brand new games as well or better than they run in Windows, but the older (meaning DIrectX 9b and earlier) games are pretty much a snap unless the programmers did something weird with the coding.
All these guys paying through the nose for their Windows boxes and all the supporting software they need to run it would be pissed off if they knew I do what they do for free, a whole lot more securely, and with a whole lot less headaches. (Not that Linux is for everybody. Windows has one or two good points. Well, maybe one.)

It seems to occasionally crash in Wine for me. I am using the latest version of wine and Ubuntu 8.04
Other than that it runs without so much as a hiccup. I have not checked to see if it is wine crashing or the game client itself. Fortunately the games auto save feature has bailed me out most of the time

I'm on kubuntu with KDE 4.2.2 and wine 1.1.18. I got it working too, but interestingly enough, it was using opposite options from bismuth. I had to turn off the virtual desktop and allow the windows manager to decorate and control the windows.
Yay for linux and wine!

Hi,
I'm under Ubuntu jaunty and the latest version of wine. The game doesn't even install on my configuration, stopping at the middle of the process (every time at the same percent). I have to kill wine every time as I can't recuperate the error.
I try to simulate a virtual desktop, but I guess this is not related to the problem. WOuld someone have an idea?

No, sorry, jhyn, I don't know what the problem could be. Obviously, the installer runs and installs files, so that's not the problem. Evidently it's getting to a file that causes it to hiccup for some reason. I kind of doubt it's a corruption problem, since it's rarely the case that only one byte or whatever gets screwed up (usually the whole file is gibberish and the installer won't run at all if there's a corruption problem), but you might try redownloading the game anyway and see if that works.

I managed to get Patrician 2 working under OpenSUSE Linux 11.2 using wine 1.1.28.
I had to run winecfg and remove my physical cdrom drive so it was no longer drive D:, remove my linux home directory (Z), and add the .../drive_c/Program\ Files/GOG.com/Patrician\ 1\ and\ 2/Patrician\ 2/ as drive D: in order to get around a "Font not found" problem -- I noticed that it tried to load a bunch of files located in this directory. Before this change, the game would also try to access my cd drive.
Finally, I had to force it to use 1024x768 32-bit to make the intro video play -- it defaulted to 1024x768 16-bit, and the video wouldn't run under that mode.
Strangely enough, I couldn't get it working at all natively under Windows XP. Maybe I needed to empty the CD drive there as well, but the generic 0xc0000005 error message didn't give me any help in debugging the problem.

I've run Patrician fine as single-player under WINE, but multi-player seems to have issues. It's a crap-shoot whether I'll stay connected to my buddies during a LAN party when I'm running WINE and everyone else is running Windows.

Also, it's a drag that I can't host, since WINE insists on running within its own private subnet. If someone is more clever with WINE than I am, I'd love some advice.

Hi guys,

if your P3 game occasionally bombs with "division by zero" when trying to scroll around in a rainy city, set the weather effects to "low". You'll miss out on some nice graphic effects but at least your game won't crash...