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Nooooooooooo!!!!!!

kenjokenjo
edited July 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
I knew I should not have bought it but could not resist.

As a linux/wine user I was hoping that the directX8.1 would mean it worked but apparently not.

o well they never did say it should work (but then again nobody does).

That is 35$ down the drain. hopefully some wine hacker get interested and fixes the issue.

Comments

  • [Hunter.Wolf][Hunter.Wolf]
    edited July 2009
    Those wine folks are pretty fast. And the possibility is high that there are some MI fans under them.

    However, somebody should make an entry for ToMI in the WineHQ application database.

    (I don't know much about the MAC version of wine, but if wine manages to run ToMI someday, maybe MAC users will have accses to ToMI also.)
  • jamiehavokjamiehavok
    edited July 2009
    damn time to buy windows and dual boot!?
  • HoppyDragonHoppyDragon
    edited July 2009
    It doesn't work? That's odd. If I could get my wireless internet working in Ubuntu, I'd try myself. Never had any problem with the rest of Telltale's games in Wine.
  • NetherNether
    edited July 2009
    Thank you for the advise, but next time, please, use a post title that says "Wine doesnt work" instead of "Nooooooooooo!!!!!!", i thought you where falling from a plane or something.
  • harlequ1nharlequ1n
    edited July 2009
    jamiehavok wrote: »
    damn time to buy windows and dual boot!?

    "Buy" Windows? hahahaha
  • DangerzoneDangerzone
    edited July 2009
    OR... you can also get a FULL refund by emailing them at support@telltale games.com and tell them your situation.

    (They are always very polite about refunds :) )
  • HoppyDragonHoppyDragon
    edited July 2009
    harlequ1n wrote: »
    "Buy" Windows? hahahaha
    I like you. :)
  • MoroMoro
    edited July 2009
    It doesnt work on Parallals for Mac either.... None of the telltale games do
    I had to delete windows/parallels and install Fusion instead. Seems to work ok but it has crashed once
    It also works on Bootcamp but who want to do that!!!
  • mizarmizar
    edited July 2009
    I pulled out a laptop where I had some old wine (1.1.1) on Debian and it works prety ok so far (I have not properly setup audion in that comp so I can't tell about sound), mouse controls ok, keyboard ok, quality maxed (9)

    All I had to do was:

    - run the installer in wine
    - uncheck 'check for DX updates'
    - get a copy of the file D3DX9_41.dll (you have one in any windows install of the game in the game's folde) and copy into wine's game's folder
    - (I didn't launch game nor made a Desktop shortcut in the end)
    - run the game in wine (MonkeyIsland101)
    - when launcher pops up may be messed up (it was for me, all blank but an edit box to type the serial number in)
    - type the serial number (from TT's your games page) (you need a working internet connection set up in Linux for it to work)
    - wait some seconds, if launcher is blank (as it happened to me) kill/close the window
    - run the game again in wine
    - instead of the serial number input edit box you will get an hypertext link to start the game, click it and game will run

    happy gaming
  • AndrewbouchierAndrewbouchier
    edited July 2009
    cant you use a virtual machine on linux to run windows and then run the game?
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited July 2009
    It probably wouldn't have any extensive 3D support.
  • mizarmizar
    edited July 2009
    Don't know, only VM's I've used some time ago were with VMware and by that time VM's didn't provide support for virtual 3D graphic cards, but I'd love to know if it changed since then :)
  • DjNDBDjNDB Moderator
    edited July 2009
    mizar wrote: »
    Don't know, only VM's I've used some time ago were with VMware and by that time VM's didn't provide support for virtual 3D graphic cards, but I'd love to know if it changed since then :)

    Recent VMware versions have Support for DirectX 9.0c with Shader Model 2 3D graphics.
    If wine makes any trouble, you might try that, although performance might be an issue. However the last time i tried it with 3DMark it at least wasn't terribly slow.
  • AmseAmse
    edited July 2009
    Saúde!

    The game works fine using wine on my linux box: same graphics as using windows... a bit slower performance, but greater performance can be reached running with a low graphics quality (5 or 6). I'm using a 1280 x 720 screen resolution without any problems...

    But i have a real trouble with the sound: It doesn't works.

    I tryed modifying the sound options on the TOMI menu, but it doesn't works...

    Someone whith the same problem???

    My box: Debian GNU/Linux (Testing/Squeeze), using a 2.6.28-2-686 kernel, on an Intel Pentium Dual-core 2000 GHz microprocessor, 4 GB RAM, and a nVidia 9000M graphic card with 256 MB VRAM (nVidia linux driver 180.60), and my WINE version is 1.0.15, i think.

    Atte,
    Amse.
  • Masta23Masta23
    edited July 2009
    kenjo wrote: »
    I knew I should not have bought it but could not resist.

    As a linux/wine user I was hoping that the directX8.1 would mean it worked but apparently not.

    o well they never did say it should work (but then again nobody does).

    That is 35$ down the drain. hopefully some wine hacker get interested and fixes the issue.
    hmm there is a demo you could have downloaded first.
  • guitarsareboringguitarsareboring
    edited July 2009
    Masta23 wrote: »
    hmm there is a demo you could have downloaded first.

    Telltale didn't mention anything about a demo though and it wasn't available until the game was out, so if they wanted the preorder stuff they just had to go for it.
  • CyphoxCyphox
    edited July 2009
    i'm sorry, but i have to ask: these setup problems with wine, playing the game without sound and so on is all so damn weird and lame, what is so hard about setting up a dualboot system with xp and linux?
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