LINUX SUPPORT IS HERE

[ABSTRACT]

Ive never worked with wine before FAF but i can explain you the installation on Ubuntu 14.04, and try some troubleshooting if you post the terminal content.

[Frozen_byte]

wait Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

how'd you manage to do this on play on linux???

i've been trying for decades over there and nothing seems to work with the blasted thing so I just gave up.

(why does it fail at steam install, why does it choose a lower version of wine?)

i can't get any of this to work anymore because I'm trying to do it clean this time and make a wineprefix first.
but this seems to be impossible.

EDIT i got the wineprefix working.

May use an ISO-File, not the STEAM-Version.

Got it Working!

Versions
Kubuntu: 13.10
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.1
Wine: 1.7.11
FAFlobby: 0.10.107

My Steps
Create Empty Device
Install dotnet4 from Winetricks
Install FA from ISOfile
Install FAF from MSIfile
Working!

Info
Sometimes it crashes at start, anyway runtime is stable - even Mods working fine.
If the Update/Installation fails - just extraxt the *.MSI Files an copy all files into the "Forged Alliance Forever" folder.

How to Update
If you updated FAF but it still says "new version found" just edit the 'version' file and corret the version.

//edit: Update version 0.10.87 was broken, the MSI Installer crashed. Just extract the Files manually into the FAF Folder - worked!

Acutally my current Versions are:
Kubuntu: 14.04
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.5
Wine: 1.7.28
FAFlobby: newest Oo

[rootbeer23]

steam works too.

[ZeRen]

steam works too.

so you have window steam instaled on linux and by this steam instaled SC FA and it working, correct?

[rootbeer23]

steam works too.

so you have window steam instaled on linux and by this steam instaled SC FA and it working, correct?

indeed

[ZeRen]

steam works too.

so you have window steam instaled on linux and by this steam instaled SC FA and it working, correct?

indeed

I guess you dont have Linux Mint 17 cinnamon?

[rootbeer23]

just standard issue 14.04 with wine 1.6.2.
why can you not run steam?

[Aurion]

steam works too.

so you have window steam instaled on linux and by this steam instaled SC FA and it working, correct?

I have this as well, but on OSX. Only problem I had with 'Windows' Steam was that it wouldn't render any text. After some googling I could use the WINE registry editor to fix that. Downloading FA after that and then installing FAF (it had to be Steam linked, because apparently some other guy played on FAF on my MacBook before ) was without any problems.

[tatsu]

I got it working.

My guide to faf+steam+fa on linux :

1.) If wine is already instaled (If not skip to 2)

wineserver -k
rm -rf $HOME/.wine
rm -rf $HOME/.winetrickscache
rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/????_*.xpm
sudo apt-get remove --purge wine wine1.2 winetricks -y -f
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
follow this link
apt://wine1.7
click uninstall when softrware center opens up (yes wine is still not uninstalled)

2.) here we go :

install wine through the link above (and having pre-emptively added the PPA in your sources) before you click install, tick in the optional gnome .exe icon creator.

run in terminal :
winetricks --no-isolate steam

patching will take awhile.

copy over your Suppreme Commander Forged Alliance folder if you have it to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common (yes you do have to create the folder yourself then in steam tell it to install. it'll patch the registry .
If you don't have it just download and instal through steam.

run FA. create a user, change basic graphical settings

fun FAF msi installer by double clicking it.

(you can't have mumble, and you can't open .fafreplay files sorry)

have fun.




this method doesn't feature icons for the apps.

I managed to have those when I had it all installed under simple wine 1.7 (I donot know how I managed to get the 32 bit libraries to install)

[Frozen_byte]

Please Notice: That you will destroy any other wine program with that procedure.
This way is not recommented if you have more than one Application using your wine wrapper:

I got it working.
My guide to faf+steam+fa on linux :
wineserver -k
rm -rf $HOME/.wine
rm -rf $HOME/.winetrickscache
rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/????_*.xpm
sudo apt-get remove --purge wine wine1.2 winetricks -y -f
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