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Hello all. I'm not sure if this is the best place for this, but as these are officially unsupported applications I thought I'd try my luck here first. I'm having vexing problems running Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate 2 in Crossover Games 10.3. I've got Linux Mint 12 KDE (64 Bit) running on a Dell Studio XPS with 4GB of Ram and an AMD Mobility Radeon 3670 HD (512 MB). Each of my IE games fails in interesting and frustrating ways.

First, BG2. I'm running a vanilla installation of the Good Old Games edition, and it appeared to go very smoothly at first. After one or two saves, however, the game fails at every save attempt (automatic or manual), jumping to desktop and delivering a message that the save has failed, and asking if I want to quit (if I decline to quit, I can resume playing the game but cannot save). I have no idea what prompts the change in behaviour, but it has survived several installs. Baldur.err (?) appears to be empty, and disabling with the open GL/ 3d settings prevents the game from launching at all (it just hangs as the game resizes my resolution). I end up hard rebooting after those crashes, and have noticed that my sound is muted by some aspect of the crash and reboot.

Icewind Dale is fighting me in a similar but not identical fashion. Again, I'm working from a vanilla GOG installation, and although I can create a party, the game crashes when I try to begin the game proper (the load screen hangs between 2/3 and 3/4 of the way complete, and the program becomes completely unresponsive). Again, the system is muted when I manage to get it rebooted.

I'd appreciate any help or suggestions that people might have to offer: I'd dearly like to have these games working in my Linux installation.

Stu

Stu,

You did not report what distro you are on, what graphics drivers you have or what your current game patch versions are.

On the topic of Baldur's Gate 2; what I would suggest is getting the Throne of Bhaal expansion installed, and then making sure that you have the following patches installed:

BGII-ThroneofBhaal_Patch_26498_ENGLISH.exe
BGII-ThroneofBhaal_Patch_26499_BETA.exe

You can get them here: http://www.sorcerers.net/Games/BG2/index_misc.php

There's a patch for the vanilla BG2 there, but if it was me I'd get the ToB expansion and use the first two patches. Then reevaluate the game

On the topic of Icewind Dale, I just completed a report on it for this beta cycle:

"Icewind Dale as installed from CD has graphical problems and
does not work correctly; specifically, the game has a black
screen, but sound indicates the game is running. I attribute
this to the game being somewhat dated, and having bugs that
were later patched.

However; if the Heart of Winter expansion is installed, and then
the final patch/final expansion combo "Trials of the Luremaster"
is applied (patch 1.42 included), then the game options can be
configured for OpenGL first and then the game will run in single
player mode.

TCP/IP Multiplayer mode is not functional and doesn't respond.
Without TCP/IP mode, Icewind Dale players are left with
either IPX or Serial cable options; which remain untested.

"Trials of the Luremaster" is an expansion pack/patch combo. It
provides the final patch to the game as well as 60+ megs of
additional game content. It supplies the final patch to 1.42.

CXPro will not run "Trials of the Luremaster" as downloaded. It
is an executable pkzip archive which CXPro cannot run successfully.
It needs to be extracted first with Winrar, and will generate a "Disk1"
directory with a setup.exe inside along with data files. You must
run that setup.exe in order to get the final expansion/patch
installed. This expansion is available at the following url:

http://www.sorcerers.net/Games/IWD/index_misc.php

Final note: Target bottle was first initialized with
"Directx End-User Runtime Web Installer" under
"Community Supported Applications". "

Something else I highly recommend as an advocate; the release of Cxxi is imminent, aka Crossover 11. There was a half-off sale this weekend from the 2nd to the 4th, today is the 5th, but I have heard that the sales team will extend the sale to today for forum contributors here if they contact the sales team by email.

For this beta cycle I just completed testing on BG2:ToB, IWD, and IWD2. No detectable failures here on Crossover 11.

Crossover 11 will have something on the order of over 10,000 graphical code fixes/upgrades since Crossover 10 was released. That's just graphically related code changes, that's not including other under the hood fixes. It's vastly improved so if you can do it I'd go to 11 within this weekend's sale window, which has already expired, by contacting sales.

Xaphir,

Thank you very much for responding and for pointing out the information people might need to better help. Sorry, I should have been clearer. The GOG versions of BG2 and IWD both include all commercial expansions and patches (ie, ToB on the one hand and Heart of Winter and Trials of the Luremaster on the other) – so these are as up to date as vanilla versions of these games get (I thought I'd see if I could get the game working before I got fancy with fixpacks and mods). Additionally, they're provided as No-DRM .exe files which makes installation significantly easier.

Linux Mint is a popular Ubuntu-based distro – LM 12 KDE is based on Ubuntu 11.10. So this is a modern Debian/Ubuntu derived distro with a KDE desktop. I'm using the official AMD drivers from the repositories – Catalyst version 11.8 (8.881-110728a-122950C-ATI) according to the Catalyst Control Center.

I just renewed my licence with Crossover Pro (a few days ago) so presumably I'll have access to the new programs when they become available.

Thanks again for the advice: it's much appreciated.

Regards,

Stu