GalCiv via Linux ??

It's been asked if it could be played on Linux before (as well as Mac), and as I recall CariElf's answer was because of DirectX and other windows specifc files it couldn't be done.

~SDC~

"It's been asked if it could be played on Linux before (as well as Mac), and as I recall CariElf's answer was because of DirectX and other windows specifc files it couldn't be done."

And what about the new "wine software" from transgaming??

I use linux, but I dual boot. I mainly keep my windows partition for games and photoshop. I mainly use linux for email, ftp and website editing. I browse websites in both using mozilla. I have heard that you can get good windows emulators for linux that will use all the appropriate windows files straight from your windows partition, but if you have a windows partition, why not play the games from it? Except that it might save a reboot...

WineX from Transgaming.com works PERFECTLY with GalCiv!!!! The only "problem" is that at the moment, since WineX doesn't work well with IE 6, that means that StarDock Central won't run. So, I use VMWare to update via SDC and then copy all of the files over to my linux partitions where I have GalCiv installed.

I can't say enough good about A) GalCiv and WineX. I am SOOO HAPPY that I can finally TRUELY play GalCiv properly in Linux now and not via VMWare.

1. bump
2. does it run, some told me it won't work with WineX?
3. How may SDC work without a Win partition or VMWare?

I plan to setup a Linux box soon thats why i'm doing research on all my favorite games and on all places i can gather infos.

And of cause i get many different (yes and no) infos on the same topic (:(

Once upon a time I got it running with linux based on SUSE 8.2.

I did it with cvswinex and the most valuable HowTo of fusibou and Topy Paavola (a search should be sufficient)

Since updating to 9.1 I somehow managed to scramble it up. I am still researching!
Whenever I get a new idea I shall post it here.

Right now no luck (but maybe I am miserably off the path )
(:(

Is there any feedback from Transgaming.com? A new success story regarding WineX? This would be a perfect for me as the only reason for keeping Win2K really is galciv. I don't dare to subscribe, as I still do not positively know wether this would be a save bet.

Well, there are different Feedbacks concerning Transgamings WineX, some say it workes, some say it don't (the Transgaming guys for exemple)

Feedback concerning Transgaming.

At last I took the risk subscribing to transgaming. Installed WineX.
First try was to do the installation of galciv via the HowTo of fusibou and Topy Paavola. This essentially means a step by step copy of directories with manual editing of configuration decks.No success. I totally mixed it up. This is probably my fault and not the problem of the Howto as i tried to take some shortcuts. ...well

Second try was the installation of the basic version of GalCiv. (this is the german version of galciv with an installation cd).

As there is a copy protection on the cd the basic game did not start probably because of this "feature" of the german version. So I copied the updated version - which in my case is a complete installation via Stardock Central - to the linux directory tree.
The copied game does indeed work. And it works fine! No editing of configuration files!

The only tweak I had to do is in the configuration section of point2play: I had to change the installed memory of the graphics card (ATI RAGE 128) to 32MB. With this change even the movies are fine. Basic system is an Athlon 1,4 GH, 512MB. Software is SUSE 9.1.

Only hassle remaining is Stardock Central. I haven't got the slightest idea wether there is a chance of getting SDC to run in linux. Personally I don't think so.
I still have to ftp to Windows the saved Endgame in order to be able to subit to metaverse. I can live with this!

So my conclusion is: You can run galciv on linux.
Installation is simple enough as long as there is an installation cd at hand.

If anyone is still following this part of the board, I just got Galactic Civilizations and tried to make it work under Wine (not WineX). The first problem I stumbled across was that whenever I moved the mouse it would throw unhandled exception and exit (which practically meant game was unplayable). I managed to solve this problem, but now I am getting a new error which is:
DispatchMessageA BeginPaint not called on WM_PAINT for hwnd 0x10024.
I did check to make sure the if statement supplied by fusibou was included in Painting.c. Does anyone have any ideas as to the solution of this problem? I would appreciate any insights you might have.

I would also like to add that game window is entirely irresponsive of the mouse (it does not seem to receive the mouse events).

I still check this forum from time to time, but it looks like Linux will never be a working option.

Well, with the newst winex and new graphic drivers I was able to run it. But then my Computer needed a rebuild and I had no time to reinstall Linux

You have to use WineX. WINE itself does not emulate enough of DirectX for GalCiv to work.

~SDC~