Hi,

When they will launch the linux version? (or it was canceled?). Wine works, but not as fast as my comp. can run it. =(

thx

Yeah... I'd like to ask the same question.
I got the Steam key and everything, but I can't do much playing without it being released on Linux.

Is there any date, timeline... anything?

It's not cancel (till now, or at least there is no information about it) and the only Timeline given was "after the mac-version" Hopefully we will get some information about that soon ...

i love to play with my wife and here windows is broken (and i don't wona fix it...)

Gog version in wine still doesn't work (it hangs 98% of the time when starting the game, only the cursor changes and nothing else). (and i had to patch wine just to install it since this bug http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32451 and it's 'easy' workaround don't work for this gog installer). If it's patched it's 100% of the time as far as i can tell. Also the gog 'version' is obviously just the steam version repacked with a rush install shield job, what with the steamapi.dll being imported and all.
In fact, i'm just going to try that, dummy that dll.

edit: which didn't work, along with the many workarounds i tried.

Linux should be priority over mac, because Linux has much better graphic drivers. I can imagine porting a game to mac to be real mess.

can someone please write a tutorial how to get it running in wine. I was able to make run till after character chreation but than it hangs

export WINEARCH=win32
export WINEPREFIX=....somepathto install
winetricks dotnet35sp1
winetricks --no-isolate steam
install game
cd $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/SteamApps/common/Divinity\ -\ Original\ Sin/
mv _CommonRedist _CommonRedist_Backup
run the game

Once i'm after character creation basically the game uses 1 core @ 100% for a very very long time.
Not sure if i should wait even longer but i don't think it will help, if you checkout all the 32bit issues they have.

Tried to get a 64Bit wine running with dotnet 3.5 but i wasn't successfull.

[Edited]
I kinda get to the same result if i do the following
WINEPREFIX=....
winetricks corefonts msxml3 d3dx9 vcrun2008
winetricks --no-isolate steam
install game
winetricks --force d3dx9_43 d3dcompiler_43
cd $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/SteamApps/common/Divinity\ -\ Original\ Sin/
mv _CommonRedist _CommonRedist_Backup
cd $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/SteamApps/common/Divinity\ -\ Original\ Sin/Shipping
wine ./EoCApp.exe

not sure if msxml3 d3dx9 vcrun2008 corefonts is need but it seems like d3dx9_43 and d3dcompiler_43 is needed

Ok i think i found out where it hangs and what is needed to install it in wine

You only need d3dx9_43 and d3dcompiler_43 and the Game doesn't depend on steam so once downloaded you can move it to another wineprefix.

1.) export WINEPREFIX=somedir
2.) winetricks d3dx9_43 d3dcompiler_43
2.) winetricks --no-isolate steam
3.) download the game
4.) cd $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/SteamApps/common/Divinity\ -\ Original\ Sin/
mv _CommonRedist _CommonRedist_Backup

^^ the last step stops steam trying to install additional files (not needed and might end up in a looop)

Once this is done you should be able to start the game / create a profile / change gfx settings and so on. Also you should be able to start New Game.
After a while you will be able to create your char's and you should be able to see the intro movie. But when loading Cyseal the game basically stops with using 100%.

But i was able load a stored save from windows after copying all the profile data and cache data from the windows game to the linux folder.

Hope it relases on Linux/Mac Soon- I dont have those, but still the more players that can play this game the better

This WORKS!!! Thanks...I have been looking for a way to play until the LINUX version is released. Thanks

Anything about the linux version or they just forget it?

Originally, this game worked for me in Linux, and in fact I played it for about 30 hours without a single crash, and the only minor issues i had, I'm finding, occur in the Windows version as well. However, at some point my sound drivers decided they hated Wine even more than usual. I've since reinstalled Windows (which hurt) and haven't had too much trouble.

But yeah, I'm looking forward to playing this game natively.

Personally, I doubt it will be anytime this year

The questioning would end if there there would be some schedule like "this year" or "till winter" but larian keep silent...

seems like no linux release

I still have some hope. They said that the GOG version would have the Galaxy stuff and still nothing, maybe they are trying to make it work before pushing foward with the linux version. It would be nice to have even in the early state to at least test it ...

It is kind of hard to support Galaxy before it is available. When Larian first confirmed Galaxy support they said the end of August; I have not been following GOG news to see if it is still on track.

Larian has confirmed there will be a Linux release, they just have not announced an ETA. After the PC and Mac releases is that terribly surprising? In response to a tweet asking if it would be released this year, Larian responded "We certainly hope so!", which, unless you are a pessimist, implies a release well before the end of the year.

Well I certainly hope the Linux version is announced soon, as my collectors edition box is sitting in a corner unopened with lots of dust on it.

For us Linux users with no windows machines, this wait is excruciating.

+1

While I still have a Windows installation in a triple boot config (Linux Mint, PC-BSD and Windows), I would much prefer to play D:OS on Linux.

Same here, I have dual boot but I rarely use it because it feels like visiting that weird uncle that nobody really likes.
The only reason I kickstarted was for the linux release and I simply won't play until it arrives.

Meanwhile my brother whom I gifted my second kickstarter key is enjoying the hell out of D:OS on windows which makes the wait even more painful...

Any news?

It actually implies they haven't bothered at all. Which is a shame because the windows and the linux build could almost be made together. The mac build is of course a little bit weird.

If they hope it will be this year, it will be next year, and that is a realistic stance. This game was planned for november 2013. It became juni 2014. I don't hold that against them because the original release dates were absurd. It's just how a developers mind works.
But if I compare it to another kickstarter project: wasteland 2. They really are a year late (even though they had a more realistic time table), but every engine bug is being worked out. The beta testing is on multiple platforms. Even though they use a standard unity engine, there are still platform and engine bugs to work out.
I am guessing that with an in-house made engine, these problems are way bigger to handle, especially if you adapt the engine for another platform as an afterthought.
So for my feeling, I think we can expect the first beta end 2014, start 2015. And the release will probably be Q2 2015.
That's fine with me, because I know the game will be wort the waiting. I hope the engine is too. And I do not have any time this year to play games.
If it appears sooner, I do have a major problem, because I still do not have the time :-(.

I'm waiting for Divinity to drop on Linux as well. I don't actually mind waiting, since given the low market share of Linux and financial factors etc I'm grateful we're getting a Linux version at all. An estimate would be great. If an official representative would just pop in and say 'Q2 2015 is what we're looking at', that'd be much better than just silence.

The good news is, their silence on the forums is a clear indication of their dedication to invest every waking second into porting the game to Linux ;-)

So far, the FAQ says it's coming. But there was no update form developers about any progress.

And really, can't they give some ETA if they plan their own work properly? Didn't they give an ETA for the Windows release?

I can understand their hesitation to give ETAs. There are always some people who forget that the "E" stands for "Expected" and not "Guaranteed". And software ETAs are notoriously inaccurate.

There were a few ETAs for the windows release, if I remember correctly, and the single correct one, the last one, was only accurate because of a day-one patch.

But, it really would be nice to get some sort of progress report from time to time, just here in the forum.

Not to digress, but actually, the 'E' stands for estimated. As in 'Estimated Time of Arrival'.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/e.t.a.?s=t

The ETA for DoS was:
For a game like DoS that was a bogus ETA, or better: a developer ETA. You should always multiply developer estimates by 2. So in that respect, Jun 2014 was early... Even now I think they were pretty fast.
But the cool part of larian was the 63 updates about how they are moving on.
I'd rather have them continue like that:

I used to keep three OSes going, too--Workbench, OS/2, and Windows (even the horrid Mac OS for a brief period)--and it turned out to be a lot of work for very little payoff. Of course I was much younger and had ample energy to burn and it was a great ego kick...;) But it didn't take me long to find out that where games were concerned Windows was the place to be--even then--much as I would have preferred it be the Amiga. Today, it's not even close. The Linux version certainly won't be "better" by any stretch, so it's hard to figure sometimes what you guys are waiting on and why. If computer gaming is something you really like then Linux is the exactly the wrong place to be . I mean, you don't have to like Microsoft to understand why Windows is the game-developer's choice, hands down. I'll shut up, now...;)

Oh man, OS/2! Was so proud when i was finally able to afford 8MB RAM to get Warp 3 run smoothly...

Anyway, unless you need to play games on release day, Linux with wine is sufficient for most modern RPGs. D:OS certainly works fine with wine 1.7.24.

wine is not an viable option. it's a bad workaround at best. updates will constantly break games. performance and quality is often much worse. many effects are not supported yet and probably never will be. it might not be true for dos NOW but it's true for many titles out there that worked and then suddenly stopped working.

well i was pretty lucky so far, probably because i usually wait for the finished version (with all DLCs/Expansions). But a native version is certainly better & i look forward to see more games running natively on linux. Fortunately, linux support seems to get more common, at least in kickstarted / unity games, maybe even in future AAA-Titles due to steamOS.

Yes, the emulators have come a long way...! But still...it's an emulator...;)

OS/2...after warp I stripped OS/2 from my life and never looked back. It was my third version of OS/2. IBM did such a poor job with it--I had an on-the-shelf CD-ROM drive that ran great under Windows (which I was hoping to escape) but OS/2 did not support it! I asked IBM for a driver and their response was: just use the built-in Windows emulation! Grrrrr....;) That was it for me!

At the time IBM had the money and OS/2 could have been a contender. But IBM just didn't want to match or exceed Microsoft's OS R&D budgets, and so OS/2 predictably failed. Can you imagine what a boon it would have been had IBM spent $500M (it was an $80B-a-year company then, richer than Microsoft or Intel) to get 500 of the leading Windows applications & games ported to OS/2? That and some serious hardware driver improvement would have put OS/2 out front. But as soon became clear, IBM simply didn't have any taste for competing with Microsoft on the OS front. Such a pity!

Sometimes I wonder if it is better to just settle for a wine version. If it works, wine will always work, even in ten years. But I have a load of Lokigames that really need a lot of .so hacking just to get them to run.

Well, Actually they are right: the supplier of the CD-ROM drive should have supplied an OS/2 driver. It's like that in the current graphics world too. Intel supplies linux drivers by making sure the opensource drivers work. Nvidia delivers binary drivers, and AMD delivers binary, and makes sure that the opensource drivers work.


At that time IBM and Microsoft had a deal to develop OS/2 together. Microsoft had a habbit of stabbing partners in the back, so they went and developed NT, and made sure that IBM was not able to run Windows software by sueing them over the para virtualisation replacement IBM made to be able to run Windows in OS/2 protected mode. In the mean time Microsoft could just use everything IBM thought of for OS/2.
In the end I am glad OS/2 did not make it. Although it probably still is better than windows 8, if IBM would have had success with OS/2, they would not have invested time in linux.
Now there is just one common "enemy" with still a lot of anti-competition lawsuits, and one common linux in which about every company is investing.

At the time i was quite annoyed that a better system would fail due to bad software support and marketing. But you make a very good point, looking back it was actually a good development for Linux and the Open Source World.

Ah, memory lane (pun most definitely intended). My second computer, and first IBM-compatible, was a 486 DX/2 66MHz with a whopping 640KB of RAM. Yep, it had a single stick of 72-pin SIMM RAM with 640KB on it. Not sure who designed that frankenstein of a RAM stick, but it worked. I still have it on my keychain, to this day.

Hey, just throwing in my 2 cents for the eventual Linux release. I bought into the late beta back when I was still on Windows, and I've been waiting anxiously to play the full version since I converted over. I got to taste the appetizer, and now I want the full entree!

I say take your time and get it right. Though admittedly, the wait...yeah, it's killer.

It's not the wait, it's the silence. Especially the silence after almost every week a video until the windows version was released. Which is great and I think might have been too much.
We don't need a weekly video. We just need a monthly bone to chase...

Well, IBM told me to use Windows--and I had no trouble with the off-the-shelf IDE CD-ROM (not SCSI, not custom) drive under Windows at the time. That wasn't the only limit to the hardware OS/2 didn't support, either, just the one that I remember most because it was so ridiculous. Nobody comes close to supporting hardware like Microsoft--as I mentioned, IBM should have *paid* for the requisite driver support, paid to port applications & games to OS/2 *if* IBM really wanted to challenge Windows for OS primacy. But, they didn't really mean it...at least, they simply were not going to go head to head with Microsoft on OS R&D. So, OS/2 shriveled up and blew away...




Eh? The Windows virtualization in OS/2 was its *downfall*...that's what made it suck so hard, imo. After MS & IBM split their differences and went their separate ways, IBM began relying far too heavily on Win3.1 emulation *instead* of doing what I thought they should have done...make a clean break and pay to port what they needed to port to OS/2. Emulating Windows was a *bad* idea because it worked the reverse of what IBM thought...instead of convincing people they didn't need Windows, it convinced them they didn't need OS/2...;) Emulators frequently work exactly that way--no emulation is better than that which it seeks to emulate.



IBM invested time & money into Linux because much of it was a freebie, remember. OS/2 cost a lot more money and time to develop--just like Windows. If you want to build a global desktop OS to beat Windows you'll have to really invest the money--Linux just won't do, open-source development is far too insecure and slow for a global commercial *desktop* OS. For specialty servers and custom networks, Linux is very nice indeed. Still, even there, Windows is tough competition even though it frequently is more expensive. As a competitor to Windows on the global desktop, however, it's a poor substitute by any measure. Heck, even now OpenGL races to keep stride with D3d, and its a race OpenGL has yet to win...

Just my two cents...;) This is something that I doubt either of us wants to debate to infinity...!...:D

"open-source development is far too insecure and slow for a global commercial *desktop* OS"

There are problems with OS for a consumer desktop because development doesn't necessarily take the direction the customer wants.
But really, insecure software didn't stop windows from conquering the market in the last century. Only after their reputation couldn't get any worse somewhere near 2002 did they invest into security at all.

The development speed of linux is also comparable to windows, there are only two differences: Linux might not go into a direction a commercial entity using linux might want (but there are remedies, see google, see ubuntu). And driver development for windows is completely outsourced to the hardware manufacturers. But the same happens for any OS that gets enough market share, so some hardware companies do that for OS-X and even Linux.

Take a look at android which is, obviously, a global commerical "desktop" OS, just not the "desktop" you were thinking of. Is its development too insecure and slow? Doesn't seem that way.

IBM did invest some time and money into linux, but they never tried to make it into a consumer/business desktop, they looked at the server market. They had burnt their fingers with OS/2 and they always were a big iron and server company at heart and didn't and still don't have the mindset to push a desktop into everyones home and business.

They had their small chance with OS/2. Their chances after 2000 would have been negligible, whether with Linux or OS/3 or any other OS. The only way Microsofts domination could be endangered was by conquering a new market and coming in from the side. That's what Apple and google did. But notice that Microsoft still has 85% or more of the desktop market even though Apple has a closed source OS and the money.

Ah, what was this discussion about? Oh yes, Divinity ;-) Got a bit sidetracked

On subject, Will there be a beta for the Linux version? If so I would really like to be a part of that. I'm running Arch 64b following the "short-term" kernel on a system with the following specs: i7-4930k, 8GB RAM (upgrading soon-ish), nVidia 570 (upgrading sometime in the next 6 months when the 870 comes out).

Linux is their main OS next to AIX and they keep investing in it, because it has proven to be very advanced system. Oracle, Novell does the same.

EDIT:

To show how stupid this claim is:

IBM's jfs file system was ported to Linux, so it's not an effort that company takes, because something is just a freebie. Furthermore, IBM is one of the main companies that works on the Linux kernel:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/infographics/who-writes-linux-2013

You can notice how many people are working on the same kernel and how fast development is. Next time you'll write some bull do some research.



This is just silly. Open Source model has proven to be far more secure and successful. There are companies who check the quality of code (like Coverity) and Open Source projects have same quality as closed ones. However, what they don't take into account is the time needed to fix critical vulnerability exposure. Just compare Linux to Windows. It takes months to close CVEs in Windows (and some of them won't be EVER fixed, because it's still based on broken DOS principles), but only hours in Linux. This is the power of Open Source and this also shows how closed development model is weak and insecure. Linux is growing much faster than any other closed source project, so your arguments are nothing, but false and wishful thinking. The only thing that Linux currently lacks are some specialized programs. It beats Windows in everything else.

No, it's not comparable. It's ways faster:

http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74

The same way as the kernel is much faster than Windows one:

http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/21092

Man...I see all these features being added and I can't even play the game. Swen mentioned it in the last video, but I can't see what would take so long. It's hard to truly believe a lot of effort is being put into this. Honestly, I wouldn't care anymore, but I like their development philosophy in general. Part of me thinks that they have lost all my future business, but part of me wants them to redeem themselves with a good Linux release.

On a separate note...Please ignore waltc. The level of FUD, ignorance and blatant naivety is incredible. I expect people to not talk about things they have no idea about. The guy is telling us that we shouldn't expect games _because_ we are on linux. He implies the Linux gaming experience is worse and has not even tried it. Why is this clown even talking on this thread that clearly is none of his business?

Well, in the latest update Lar did mention that the Linux version is coming. So, at least there are some news

I second the desire for linux. Currently the only reason I boot into windows is to play this game.

Keep in mind, primary development is still focused on adding new content and bug-fixing for the Windows and Mac releases. Development is likely already ongoing for a Linux release, but it's a back burner issue and almost certainly will not be a priority until development slows down for the already released versions.

Linux version is coming out this year hopefully: https://twitter.com/LarAtLarian/status/510387611199102976

The Linux version is delayed, but it's being worked on: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/larianstudios/divinity-original-sin/posts/1034753

ETA is in the beginning of 2015.

So, were there any updates from Larian about the Linux version? It's been quite a while.

No, there has been nothing new in the last 3 weeks. The Linux version of the engine is being updated with the current changes to the game, some of which are still a work in progress.