Runespell: Overture Forum

Here are the steps to make this game work with the current version of Crossover games on Linux:

1. Create a fresh Steam bottle called Runespell or whatever name you like

2. Log on to Steam and activate your game with the key you got in the email from the devs and install it but DO NOT run it just yet

3. Close Steam. Go to Manage Bottles, select the Runespell bottle and go to Control Panel tab

4. Select Wine Configuration and the Graphics tab.

5. Uncheck the options:

Allow the window manager to decorate the windows
Allow the windows manager to control the windows

6. Check the option Emulate a virtual desktop and set the desired size. Mine is 1024x768

7. Click Apply and OK to exit.

8. Restart Steam from the Runespell bottle, go to the library, select you game and press the "Play" button. You should be able to play now.

My rig and software configuration:

CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K
MB: Asus P8P67-LE
Video card: NVidia GTX 260 core 216
OS: Kubuntu 11.04

I am using the latest NVidia driver for Linux, which is 275.09.07.

LE: I managed to play through the tutorial. When I try to leave the camp after receiving the first quest, the game crashes.

Adjusted the medal to bronze.

Adjusted title of the post. I thought the old one might mislead people that the whole game works.

I found that I was able to play Runespell (beta) on my Fedora 15 (64-bit) machine without having to set the Emulated Virtual Desktop, but it had to fail to launch, once, first.

For each new Steam session, when I went to launch Runespell (fullscreen), it froze on the opening splash screen. Being in GNOME3, I used ALT+F1 to view all active windows on the desktop, and saw a "Fatal error in gc" message hidden behind the main screen. I quit this message, and quit Runespell's window, as well, at which point GNOME told me I should force quit Runespell.

Steam was still up, and if I then attempted another Runespell launch, this worked fine.

On a hunch I tried installing .NET 1.1 into the same bottle, but this had no effect. with emulated virtual desktop set Runespell launches fine each time (didn't have much time to play far into it), but without emulated virtual desktop I have to force quit the first launch, each time, and then subsequent launches will work well.

The interesting bit is that it will work until you hit the first mission. The tutorial is scripted. You will get the same decks and items every time.

The game will crash when it has to do some actual work (I guess generating random decks and random loot).

I have the second beta now and it will launch fine (with the settings I mention in the first post) but it crashes as soon as have to do a "quest".

I guess mono+wine != love

OT: Look at the time of your post Jack, 13:13 on the 13th ;)