Freelancer on Linux - The easy way!

It is limited to Basic Client Side Freelancer under Linux. In truth this is an impressive step and is no real fault of Wine or the other emulators. We have to remind ourselves we have had to exploit creative ways to expand Freelancer, not being allowed direct code modifications that we all know would be best. These creative ways that expand the game while fantastic, are all too deeply dependent on Windows for the current emulators.

Of course the better question is, Had they given the code up to Public Domain. Would it run native on Linux by now?

Sorry M8, Never meant to slight you by commenting. It is a positive thing being able to run even the client side of Vanilla and many Mods on a Linux Box. Some really want to rid themselves of Windows like a bad infection of athletes foot. Only thing stopping them is a lack of good games, and everyone here agrees Freelancer is a good game…

tai wrote:
Well I think there would be an Linux Port, if we would have had the source code Years ago, but we hadn’t

I just wanted to tell that things like Hook won’t ever work with Linux, so for most People a Linux FL Server won’t be useful …

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-3327.html

Any ideas?

Eureka…?

I just found a guy that could run FL in MP on Wine. Here’s the review:

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2504&iTestingId=39826&bShowAll=true

I’m a bit skeptic about this one, because it seems just the newest versions of Ubuntu can pull it off. Nonetheless, it seems promising.

I heard already from at least one other source that it is possible to run Freelancer in MP meanwhile (tai)

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Ah right, almost forgot!

I CAN run FL on Linux… not “natively” though. I use VMWare to simulate an XP system inside Ubuntu, which I then use to play FL on. Works with FLMM, FLHook, FLServer, everything a normal XP machine would.

Although, VMWare can lag sometimes a bit, so it’s still better to run FLServer on Windows

Which hardware do you have?

<- 1 GB RAM & 2.1 Ghz single-core processor

Actually it’s not THAT hard to run it, I used to do it on my 512mb RAM and 1.7 single-core CPU. I got a 1GB RAM, 2.9 dualcore CPU now, though.

Hm, I tried a few weeks ago with Virtual Box but I wasn’t successful. IIRC I had problems with the 3d graphics, I mean, I got a message at the startup of Freelancer at every try…

Could you might assisst me directly via IM?

Just for the report: It seems that you might be able to run FL at almost any aspect according to the APPDB-test results:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2504&iTestingId=56299
(SP test incl. cutscenes)

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2504&iTestingId=39826
(MP test)

Know I juts need to fiddle around a bit by myself. >>>_>

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Sidenote: A non-fl-playing friend told me that the new wine version now supports directplay directly. /info

Who of you is running freelancer under linux anyways?

Its ridiculously easy to do it with WINE as well.

Put dsound.dll, dsound8.dll, d3d8.dll and d3d9.dll as resources.

Wolfie wrote:
Its ridiculously easy to do it with WINE as well.

Put dsound.dll, dsound8.dll, d3d8.dll and d3d9.dll as resources.

Can you upload yours? But I guess it is more some kind of graphics problem for me…how did you got MP working? I can’t see any server…

Oh, right, I forgot that you have to add dplay.dll and dplayx.dll.

Can you upload your files?