Did anyone have any luck with running this under wine? I must have tried all possible version of the game and Wine - no dice. PlayOnLinux has Jedi Outcast in the list as running, couldn't get it to start at all, even tried adding the opengl dll file as one would on Windows - no change.

The best result was an unhandled exception error on start from Wine. The installer runs fine, the launcher runs fine, yet the game won't start.

Any insight is appreciated.

Crash on start is bug 25368, too long OpenGL extension string. Both nvidia & Mesa allow you to limit GL extension strings. For nvidia it's __GL_ExtensionStringVersion where __GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700 would limit the extension string to extensions present in the nvidia 177.x drivers. For Mesa it's MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR where MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2003 would limit the extension string to extensions created in or before 2003.

E.G. launch Wine with one or the other set: env MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2003 WINEPREFIX="$HOME/sommelier/prefixes/swjkII" wine jk2sp.exe

I got the same problem. Crashes on start up with Lutris.


I get the following:

lutris-wrapper: Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Started initial process 31315 from gamemoderun /home/x/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/lutris-7.2-2-x86_64/bin/wine start /unix /home/x/Games/star-wars-jedi-knight-ii-jedi-outcast/drive_c/GOG Games/Star Wars Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast/Launch Star Wars - Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast.lnk
Start monitoring process.
gamemodeauto:
wineserver: using server-side synchronization.
Initial process has exited (return code: 0)
Monitored process exited.
Exit with return code 0

Hi there,

not sure if it still interest you but the best way to play JK2 on Linux is to install OpenJK. Lutris has the install automated, just pick and choose. Works like a charm, although I cannot increase in game brightness for some reason. It is not too dark to play but I would prefer it to be brighter. Changing the gamma settings makes no difference. I will post here if I figure it out. I am on latest Mint.

EDIT:
OK, I've figured out the brightness issue - I switched to full screen in the in game video settings and the brightness slider started to work.

Thanks man. Fixed it a long time ago. Plays great.... Though i forgot some of the levels that are uninspiring.

Maybe I will get into the Jedi powers again, but getting there is a chore! Not like I remember, but back in the day when I played this game it was the cats meow. It is still one of the best FPS in the Star Wars Universe IMHO, but I think Dark Forces has beat it now days.... How? Full 3D... It is so good now, I have played through Dark Forces from beginning to end again. Do yourself a favor and play this one again in real 3D: https://theforceengine.github.io/

For Outcast... To fix the dark areas, scroll down to issues fixed here: [url=https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Jedi_Knight_II_-_Jedi_Outcast]https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Jedi_Knight_II_-_Jedi_Outcast[/url]


Dark forces Midi information I posted on the Dark Forces page:

Linux users:
- The Force Engine: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/theforceengine (for automated building). Other distros may need to do manually.
- QSynth MIDI engine: https://qsynth.sourceforge.io/ To make it perform flawlessly, I had to set the MIDI driver to alsa_seq, Client name ID to pid, audio driver on the Audio tab to alsa, sample rate of 44.1khz, and the audio was a bit scratchy at 64 buffer size so I increased it to 128 and it is rock solid. Note you will need to select the MIDI engine in The Force Engine to use it.
- SoundFont: https://www.mediafire.com/?zo8l3dgf2989266 - This has some great instruments. If you want a comparison, the 2nd half of this vid should convince you: https://youtu.be/-UwhEyxFrns

I wrote two Lutris scripts istaller for this game, one with OpenJK (single game) and another with JK2MV (Multiplayer):
https://lutris.net/games/star-wars-jedi-knight-ii-jedi-outcast/