Hey, I was just playing this great game The Witcher on windows, and I thought, wouldnt it be possible (and very cool too) if it could run natively on linux? After all, it runs on the aurora engine that powered NWN, which as everyone knows, had a linux client. Anyone think it could be released?
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Considering the poor showing that Atari had in handling the NWN2 situation and considering that Atari is the publisher for The Witcher, it's unlikely. You can ask, but I wouldn't expect much from them unless the Studio's got a much more liberal deal than Obsidian had with NWN2.
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Originally posted by xav1r View PostHey, I was just playing this great game The Witcher on windows, and I thought, wouldnt it be possible (and very cool too) if it could run natively on linux? After all, it runs on the aurora engine that powered NWN, which as everyone knows, had a linux client. Anyone think it could be released?
In any case Witcher is a good game but made by a company that cannot handle such a big project so patching and fixing current issues with the game is already a big challenge for them.
BTW Witcher works with wine 0.9.49Last edited by val-gaav; 28 December 2007, 08:31 AM.
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Well, the 1.2 patch is out and it fixes lots of problems the witcher had, it even reduces loading times by 50% i think. Dunno, I'd be great to have commercial rpgs available natively on linux, since it's mostly (entirely) fps that get the linux support.
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Originally posted by d2kx View PostWine 0.9.52 should be released by today and you can have it a look on whether it works.
In the end, you're going to have to come to the conclusion that you're going to have to largely insist upon Native versions of games or you'll never really get past just emulating Windows titles, which is what you're doing with WINE. Each time you run a Windows title that way, you're handing in a vote for Windows and distorting the usage numbers they use to determine what gets done, what not gets done.
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Originally posted by val-gaav View Postno way ... Witcher devs modified the engine heavily so it's very directx dependant ... besides there were petitions and talks with cdprojekt about it even before the game was released.
In any case Witcher is a good game but made by a company that cannot handle such a big project so patching and fixing current issues with the game is already a big challenge for them.
If either of these isn't met, you don't get the title unless the studio retained the right to seek other publishers for the title on other platforms without input from the main publisher. I don't see a small studio like Cdprojeckt being in a position to do something like that. Only studios like BioWare, Id, Epic, 3D Realms (yep...), and others like them have the sort of bargaining power and are willing to use it to accomplish this sort of thing at this time for Linux versions.Last edited by Svartalf; 29 December 2007, 12:46 PM.
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Originally posted by Svartalf View PostHeh... If it's done, it can be undone.
If either of these isn't met, you don't get the title unless the studio retained the right to seek other publishers for the title on other platforms without input from the main publisher. I don't see a small studio like Cdprojeckt being in a position to do something like that. Only studios like BioWare, Id, Epic, 3D Realms (yep...), and others like them have the sort of bargaining power and are willing to use it to accomplish this sort of thing at this time for Linux versions.
Cdprojekt is in fact a publisher in Poland and Czech. They do translations and publishing for games. Witcher is AFAIK the first game they made (I may be wrong here). Anyway they are also the publisher for witcher at least in Poland (and maybe in Czech too ). I'd love to see Witcher or NWN2 native port but I somehow doubt it will ever happen ... cdrpojekt so far didn't support Linux in any way.Last edited by val-gaav; 29 December 2007, 02:39 PM.
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