Football Manager 2010/2011 under linux (wine) with the Steam Installation?

[rattyboy]

Hey, not sure if this will work with 2011 -- but I would like to know before I buy.

Can someone try out / document 2011 under Linux?



I used this trick to successfully install steam and play under Linux:

1. Install wine with your distro (I am using Ubuntu maverick)
2. delete ~/.wine if it exists or change your prefix to something new
3. Downnload steam's installer and run wine msiexec /a SteamInstall.msi
4. Logged into steam to make sure its working.
5. Exit steam -- be sure to exit the system tray part too.
6. ran winecfg and on the libraries tab added in an override for d3d8 and edited it to be only builtin - not the default.
7. vi ~/.wine/user.reg and added these lines (taken from another website):
"d3d8"="builtin"
"d3d9"="builtin"
"d3dim"="native"
"d3drm"="native"
"d3dx8"="native"
"d3dx9_24"="native"
"d3dx9_25"="native"
"d3dx9_26"="native"
"d3dx9_27"="native"
"d3dx9_28"="native"
"d3dx9_29"="native"
"d3dx9_30"="native"
"d3dx9_31"="native"
"d3dx9_32"="native"
"d3dx9_33"="native"
"d3dx9_34"="native"
"d3dx9_35"="native"
"d3dx9_36"="native"
"d3dxof"="native"
"dciman32"="native"
"ddrawex"="native"
"devenum"="native"
"dinput"="builtin"
"dinput8"="builtin"
"dmband"="native"
"dmcompos"="native"
"dmime"="native"
"dmloader"="native"
"dmscript"="native"
"dmstyle"="native"
"dmsynth"="native"
"dmusic"="native"
"dmusic32"="native"
"dnsapi"="native"
"dplay"="native"
"dplayx"="native"
"dpnaddr"="native"
"dpnet"="native"
"dpnhpast"="native"
"dpnlobby"="native"
"dsound"="builtin"
"dswave"="native"
"dxdiagn"="native"
"mscoree"="native"
"msdmo"="native"
"qcap"="native"
"quartz"="native"
"streamci"="native"

Note that you don't want to duplicate the 1st entry -- so overwrite /delete the d3d8 line.

8. Put a copy of streamci.dll into ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 -- you can get it from your windows CD or from dll-files.com.

9. Download the directx10 redistributable from Microsoft and run it with wine -- extract it to c:\tempdx

10. cd to the tempdx folder you created (cd ~/.wine/drive_c/tempdx) and run wine DXSETUP.exe -- and setup directx.

11. cd to ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam and run wine ./Steam.exe

12. Download FM2010

13. Hit play -- and it worked!!!!!

---------- Post added at 03:20 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:03 AM ----------

blah. and it ran ONE time. SUbsequent attempts to run it did not work.

 

[rattyboy]

Guys, you won't believe this. I found a way to get fm 2010 to run in steam under Ubuntu.

Follow the instructions I wrote here: http://www.fmtux.net/forum/english-...ger-2010-under-ubuntu-maveric-with-steam#p454

then -- this is clincher. You have to run dwarf fortress (see bay12games.com) in the background in another wine window. Just run wine Dwarf\ Fortress.exe.

Can SOMEONE please try the above in FM 2011 before I shell out the cash?

*** the above is a working steam copy with a legit steam account and a legitimately purchased license for FM2010 -- not a crack or fix or anything weird.

---------- Post added at 07:10 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:08 AM ----------

Hey, it may be that my original post will work too -- but you have to have DF running in the background. I know, it sounds nutty.

 

[Tharros]

I don't think there are many Linux users on this forum. I use Ubutu, but not to play games.