Telltale + Linux: A Definitive Guide

[ChemBro]

Originally Posted by Cheeseness

Can confirm that Puzzle Agent 2 is completable under Wine (using the same prefix I've been playing BTTF in).

Can confirm that, too (though I haven't played the game, but it starts without any problem). Only had to install d3dx9_36 via winetricks. Everything else worked out of the box.

[Luisca]

With wine 1.3.28, IE7, launcher looks more or less ok. I can see login/pass boxes but I cannot write on them. I have a "No thanks, just take me to the demo" button, I can click it and then the content of the launcher window shifts to the left, so all the middle part of the launcher window is just a grey box... and nothing happens, the game doesn't get to be launched.

[tyrchyus]

Sorry I have been read somewhere a elegant solution for the sound.
Everyone knows that pulseaudio must disable for well gaming.
but in pulseaudio 1.0 I think it's suggest to use pulseaudio suspender.
then: my command for do sounds works in every title of telltale is to add padsp before the wine command.
example in my launch command of TOMI:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/user/.wine" padsp wine C:\\Programmi\\Telltale\ Games\\Tales\ of\ Monkey\ Island\\Launch\ of\ the\ Screaming\ Narwhal\\MonkeyIsland101.exe

PS: sorry about my fake english =)

[Cheeseness]

Currently playing The Walking Dead. Seems to run OK so far with whatever version of Wine we have installed with whatever overrides we're currently using (I'm not quitting the game to check, but I'll make another post once I have the non-Steam version and have had time to fiddle around).

Edit: Whoops. I think I posted too soon. Seem to have a reliable crash when firing the shotgun. Happens regardless of game settings.

Up until that point, the game runs fantastically.

[BadKitty]

Originally Posted by Cheeseness

Seem to have a reliable crash when firing the shotgun. Happens regardless of game settings.

Up until that point, the game runs fantastically.

Same problem here. I'm running Debian squeeze, wine 1.3.27. Tried emulating Windows 98, tried turning all graphics settings down to awful, tried running in a window, all with no success.

Appreciate any help I can get. I realize that Linux is not supported yet.

[BadKitty]

Turns out all I had to do was upgrade to Wine 1.4. Now WD works great!

[Cheeseness]

Originally Posted by BadKitty

Turns out all I had to do was upgrade to Wine 1.4. Now WD works great!

Oh, awesome!

If you're keen, please consider submitting a rating to the appdb.winehq.org (you'll need a login if you don't already have one). The Walking Dead doesn't have any ratings there, so you'll need to follow the Submit App link on the left (have a search before you do though, in case somebody else has done it in the meantime).


The computer I'd tried it on was running 1.3.29. I haven't had a chance to try it on my desktop, which runs 1.5.2, but I'm downloading it now.

Edit: Tried with 1.5.2 in a fresh prefix and it seems happy. For anybody who's keen to try it, you'll need to use winetricks to install d3dx9.

[Cheeseness]

Anybody been able to get Episode 2 of Walking Dead working via the Telltale version? Mine keeps saying the cpnnection was lost while downloading (though nothing actually gets downloaded).

[Cheeseness]

Originally Posted by Cheeseness

Anybody been able to get Episode 2 of Walking Dead working via the Telltale version? Mine keeps saying the cpnnection was lost while downloading (though nothing actually gets downloaded).

After many retries, I was able to get the whole thing down. Good thing it resumes.

I played through the episode from start to finish without noticing any issues. Would really love to play natively though <3

[Cheeseness]

I meant to check in earlier (whoops), but I played through all of TWD.

In other news, the Double Fine Game Club will be starting the first episode of Sam & Max Save The World this weekend, and I'll be streaming it from Linux. The launcher still behaves really poorly, with the buttons sometimes not appearing/working, but the game itself is as playable as ever (although not as appetising as something native would be).

[Cheeseness]

Mim's been playing Poker Night 2 under Wine. Performance is a little less than the native version on Mac OS is, but we haven't encountered any significant issues beyond it not properly detecting an appropriate full screen resolution (Alt+Enter to switch to windowed mode in case anybody runs into similar problems).