This title runs very well in linux using COG-8.0 using the winxp bottle
profile -- it recognized the game controllers I had connected at the time
(analog joystick & USB gamepad), however it's really one of those driving
simulators that will be best appreciated with a steering-wheel/foot-pedals
controller setup. This machine was achieving 40~50 frames-per-second, running
crossover/wine in windowed mode (emulate a virtual desktop) at 1024x768. [this
machine is AMD64 x2 4000+ (2.11ghz) CPU with 8400GS nvidia GPU]
Notice I didn't say it =installed= correctly, because the game itself does
not (yet) come with an installer -- instead, the .exe file of this game that
you download is an executable self-extracting ZIP file, and so "installation"
into the crossover bottle environment is a completely manual affair that you
will have to do for yourself. I'll post a tips&tricks about doing this all
in the next couple of days to help with this, but for now the plain text
version goes something like this....(linux-centric) ;
Download the game .exe file
Make a directory in your HOMEDIR named LFS
Start cxsetup=>Manage Bottles=>click on the '+' symbol to add a new bottle - name the bottle LFS, use the winxp profile
Highlight the bottle=>Configure=>Control Panel=>winecfg
Click on the Graphics tab in the winecfg GUI, toggle ON 'Emulate a virtual desktop'=> click Apply, OK
Click on the Add/Remove tab in cxsetup, highlight the LFS bottle. click on 'Install software'=>'Install other game'
Click on Next=>Next=>Other installer file -- use the Browse button to navigate the the game .exe you downloaded
Click on Open=>Next -- crossover/wine will start, you will see the 7-zip 'Extract to' file requester
It should have chosen to extract to Y:\ (this is actually your HOMEDIR) -- change this path to Y:\LFS then click on 'Extract'
Once the files have extracted, the install process will complete => click on Finish
Copy/move the LFS directory containing the extracted files, into the LFS bottle
mv ~/LFS ~/.cxgames/LFS/drive_c/
In cxsetup=>Add/Remove tab, highlight the LFS bottle=>Configure=>Control Panel=>Run
Click on the Browse button to navigate to the actual game executable -- the full linux path will be ;
~/.cxgames/LFS/drive_c/LFS/LFS.exe
With this file selected, click on Open=>Create Shortcut, then click on Close=>Ok=>Exit
Now you should have a desktop icon to double-click on -- play the game!