Telltale + Linux: A Definitive Guide

[torturedutopian]

Hi ! First, thanks for this amazing guide

Tales of Monkey works very well with a Geforce 8600GTS + Ubuntu 9.04 + nvidia 185.x drivers + wine 1.1.28.

However, I borrowed a friend's Radeon HD 4670 because my fanless GF was overheating (the fanless radeon is about 15 degrees cooler).

With the radeon and latest 9.8 catalyst drivers, the game still works well, apart from the subtitles and texts that are unreadable. (look like "random data")

Any idea ?

[GozzoMan]

Originally Posted by GozzoMan

But, if I run it in windowed mode (i.e. not wine virtual desktop, but selecting fullscreen to off inside the game), sometimes I get past the initial cut-scene and into the playable swordfight.

Please ignore the quoted part: after a few other tests, getting to the swordfight seems to be totally random in respect to game settings. And it freezes nonetheless a minute into the playing.

In other words: it freezes at a random time between more or less immediately (even in the options screen) and a few minutes after "new game", giving the aforementioned messages.

[torturedutopian]

Hmm, I usually play in windowed mode. Whenever I try to switch to fullscreen, the X server instantly dies and I'm back to the login screen ! Any idea ?

(using : Ubuntu 9.04, AMD64, nvidia 185.18.31)

[PirateyPenguin]

Originally Posted by torturedutopian

the subtitles and texts that are unreadable. (look like "random data")

Any idea ?

I had this too with the garbled fonts.
But when I tried to start the game from the installed directory instead of the wine link, the problem went away.

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Telltale\ Games/Tales\ of\ Monkey\ Island/The\ Siege\ of\ Spinner\ Cay/
wine MonkeyIsland102.exe

Crisp fonts, good performance.
Fullscreen 1440x900.
Graphics quality on 9

This is with pulseaudio enabled btw.
I see a alot of references to Pulseaudio being a bad boy.
Not so for me.

Only problem I have left is that the game crashes on exit. No biggie.
Oh... and the treasure hunt.

[ChemBro]

Originally Posted by PirateyPengiun

I had this too with the garbled fonts.
But when I tried to start the game from the installed directory instead of the wine link, the problem went away.

Ati or Nvidia? And which Wine-Version do you use?

I ask, because I'm starting it always with this method. I'm using Ati and wine 1.1.27. I don't know, if this happened because of the newer catalyst-driver or because of the newer wine-version.

Because... it worked perfectly before. (with Catalyst 9.7 and Wine 1.1.26, I think)

[PirateyPenguin]

Originally Posted by ChemBro

Ati or Nvidia? And which Wine-Version do you use?

Ubuntu 9.10 beta x64 (Karmic Koala)
Nvidia closed source driver 185
Wine version 1.1.27 (in Karmic repo as "wine1.2")

Hope that helps.
If you need any other info just let me know.

The patch from the first post IS required though!

[ChemBro]

Originally Posted by PirateyPengiun

The patch from the first post IS required though!

Yes, but only to enter the game, not for the game itself. Maybe I wait for wine 1.1.28. Hope this will do it (else I blame the catalyst-driver).

[m_stolle]

I also have problems with the fonts, latest catalyst, wine1.2 from karmic. wine 1.0 from jaunty didn't work with the launcher of Epsiode 2, but otherwise it worked perfectly for Episode 1 8-(. I wish I could somehow get past the stupid launcher with wine 1.0 and I have a feeling the font issue would be resolved, too 8-(.

[proxymoron]

Seems like an ATI/Catalyst compatibility issue for sure - my Radeon 4830 does the same in all versions of Wine I've tried, although it was perfect for Episode 1 in Wine 1.0

[ChemBro]

Okay, I installed Wine 1.1.26 and now I can see the font correctly. So it is definitely a wine issue. 1.1.26 = Font ok. 1.1.27 (and higher) = Font not ok (at least for Ati-Users).

[DarthBo]

Good news everybody, activation now works out of the box in wine-1.1.29, no patch required!

You'll still need it to play the demo of course, as Telltale didn't add a link for that in their noscript page.

The launcher still hangs (white page) after typing in your code, but if you kill it and restart it, it's fully activated :-)

[covox]

Ah, you beat me to it yeah the Wine guys have patched Gecko to make the quirk not break, so you only really need my script to get at the demo.

On that subject sorry to anyone trying to get at the script, my webhost has taken a dive. Will try and add a RapidShare link or something.

[ChemBro]

For those, who have problems with the font in TMI, please confirm it on the bug-report I created, so the bug will be fixed faster (I hope so).

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20022

I found the problematic commit and reverting it solves the problem.

[clarsthemight]

do all ubuntu users have no treasure hunt option? how do I get treasure hunt work with ubuntu?

[ChemBro]

Originally Posted by clarsthemight

do all ubuntu users have no treasure hunt option? how do I get treasure hunt work with ubuntu?

That's a good question. I think, only possible on windows at the moment.

[torturedutopian]

Hmm, although the script does work with Sam'n Max Season 1 and Tales of Monkey Island (I think it's not required anymore since wine 1.1.29 except when playing in demo mode ?), here's what I get with Sam'n Max Season 2 (before getting the chance to type my serial nr or login) :



Any idea ?
Cheers !

[PirateyPenguin]

Just want you guys to know that chapter 3 runs "out of the box" on my Ubuntu 9.10 development branch powered laptop (Dell Precision M4400).
It has a nVidia fx770m gfx chip that is run by the closed source nVidia drivers v185.
Desktop is Gnome with Compiz Fusion enabled.
Wine version is 1.1.30
All of it is standard repository stuff from Ubuntu.

LOVE IT!!!! Yayyh!

It might be me hallusinating but I think the game actually runs better on this setup than on my other boot with W7 and XP.

Happy happy happy

[tofumeister]

Apologies if this has been asked or fixed already but I haven't yet found it...I've completed the install as instructed, but at the serial number entry I am prevented from entering any characters. The submit query button does refresh the page however. The demo works also. Thanks for your help

[proxymoron]

Episode Three works out of box on 9.04 with an ATI graphics card, just like it did for Episode One. Now if only there were a fix for the text being broken in Episode Two.

[desmoo]

Hi,
I am getting this message when trying to start the demo with the python ttg-patch. Any ideas?

kim@ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Telltale Games/Tales of Monkey Island/Launch of the Screaming Narwhal$ python ttg-patch.py MonkeyIsland101.exe
Unofficial Telltale Wine Patcher v0.1
(C)2009 moral recordings
Starting Wine...
Waiting on the debug channel for the Launcher to load...
- Launcher found! Temp key used:
Checking for index.html...
- Expected to find cool stuff at /home/kim/.wine/drive_c/windows/temp//launcher/index.html, but found nothing. Except maybe disappointment.


Edit: Reinstalled everything, and I could get to the html screen. where I could choose between serial number or play demo. After selecting demo it hanged. Now, when restarting with the same command "python ttg-patch.py MonkeyIsland101.exe" I get the above message again. I tried the "wine explorer /desktop=Wine,800x600 MonkeyIsland101.exe" cmmand as well. But it just hangs also...



Thanks, and best regards