Several high profile games are currently being blocked from working by Games for Windows - Live. GFWL installs successfully under wine how ever is unable to run due to its reliance on .net 3.5sp1. Neither mono 2.4 or 2.6 currently for-fill its requirements. The games affected either install and run (in the case of Batman at a Platinum status) with no ability to save current progress or crash due to the lack of GFWL. Many Steam games cannot run due to Steam attempting to install GFWL and the installer fails due to it detecting a lack of .net 3.5sp1.
I'm interested to find out the current progress on .net 3.5sp1, what still needs to be done, and if its installed status can be faked for the purposes of tricking the GFWL installer in to completing. This would allow the games to be run via Steam sans the ability to save. As an aside if people have other examples of games being broken by GFWL please report them so a list of blocked games can be compiled.
My list currently includes Batman Arkham Asylum, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Dawn of War 2 and several less popular titles.
The GFWL binary is available here http://www.microsoft.com/games/EN-US/LIVE/Pages/livejoin.aspx
Regards,
On 03/14/2010 07:27 PM, Edward Savage wrote:
My list currently includes Batman Arkham Asylum, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Dawn of War 2 and several less popular titles.
I wouldn't call Bioshock 2 a less popular title, which also uses gfwl.
Vitaliy.
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