On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
Berillions wrote:
the other petition does have a point about Wine not doing as well with sound as it should.
Yes, there are some issues.
For the record, here are a couple links to people talking about their problems with the game: http://askubuntu.com/questions/144915/limbo-game-has-no-sound https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142465 ( from http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ufxcg/were_humble_indie_bundle_v_creat... )
Several people are trying to run it without proper graphics drivers, and seeing crashes like the following; maybe Wine should blacklist graphics drivers that can't handle common games?
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0xffffffff in 32-bit code (0x7ca26b9b). Backtrace: =>0 0x7ca26b9b in swrast_dri.so (+0x195b9b) (0x00000000) ... 23 0x7e52ff27 Direct3DCreate9+0x66() in d3d9 (0x0033fa1c)
This comes up in one form or the other very often, though, doesn't it? Company x releases software y with a Wine wrapper advertising "native linux support" and users get upset. Personally, I'm glad they're thinking about Linux and I think Wine fills a great role as a "transitional" step between Windows and Linux, but I don't think it's any good to encourage using Wine over making the game more portable. Besides, doesn't HIB have some rule about requiring all games to support Linux natively?
J. Leclanche