Was any playtesting under wine/linux considered or even performed.
i.e. hl2 works wonderfully with wine.
or does bioshock ship with a windows license?
Was any playtesting under wine/linux considered or even performed.
i.e. hl2 works wonderfully with wine.
or does bioshock ship with a windows license?
is wine an operating system?
no, its a blood-red drink, d'UH! (bad jokes aside)Im pretty sure think its an OSOriginally Posted by BioShockWins
WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is an app that lets you run Windows software in a Linux environment. I don't think they'd test for compatibility with it, as it's a very small market share, and you'd need to be just as thorough as testing for the 360 and XP/Vista. If it works, well, that really comes down to the WINE guys to create the compatibility, it it doesn't happen automatically.
Wine doesn't support Pixel Shader 3 at the moment, does it? So it will probably take some time before it's playable in Linux.
i am not asking the developers for a linux port, all i want to know is if they just tried to run it using wine.
if it works great, if not then i am going to spend my money for other games. As much as i would like to play bioshock i am not going to pay app. 150$ for a game (win license + game). i am also not interested in a xbox360, as i already own a wii and have got a high end pc for hd gaming.
The DVD is not even mountable.
I can calculate its md5 sum, but I can’t mount it.
How can a DVD be no DVD?
Linux itself supports SM3.0 natively. (OpenGL uses it.)
WINE supports it as well in the DX9 implementation.
When it's burned in the way it is (spiraled basically, it only identifies that specific dvd). Now I can't expressely help you with this on the forums, but I will say there is an easier way.
A DVD should be mountable, if not it is not a DVD.
> mount /dev/hdc
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
What do you have in dmesg? Type 'dmesg > message.txt' and open the resulting file in whatever you prefer. (I stand on the sidelines of the Vi vs. Emacs war and laugh. I use pico.)
If you guys can get it to work, I'm some people would be interested in knowing that.
They shouldnt have to test in WINE, your running linux, u cant expect a game this new/advanced to run in it.
if WINE was dong its job properly, it would emulate windows correctly and run the game right
The kernel said:
Sep 6 17:53:18 metrocles kernel: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
It may be in some odd format, or securom may be interfering. (That last is a wild guess. Previous incarnations did interfere like that.)
Considering that the whole project has been reverse engineered from scratch... I'd say it works fairly impressively, given how much does work under it.They shouldnt have to test in WINE, your running linux, u cant expect a game this new/advanced to run in it.
if WINE was dong its job properly, it would emulate windows correctly and run the game right
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