Brian The Dog on 30/10/2009 at 01:10
With the advent of Ubuntu 9.10, I thought I'd try playing Thief 1 with Wine in Ubuntu 9.10 x86. After setting up hardware acceleration for Wine's graphics, installation went OK but I had to edit the install.cfg file to correctly map to the directories Wine used for the CD drive.
The game itself played well except for a few issues:
- It seemed quite fast, perhaps 1.3 times faster than the game in native Windows. This led to the game losing sync with the audio occasionally, and made blackjacking a bit difficult.
- 800x600 resolution gave an "out of bounds" error on my monitor, but the other resolutions worked well.
- The game crashed when I blackjacked a random guard in Mission 1. Not sure why, blackjacking had gone well beforehand.
- WineHQ's website says that the game crashes at the end of Mission 1, I will load it up tomorrow and see if I can make it to Mission 2 (The Bonehoard).
I would be interested to see if anyone else has success with getting Thief 1 and 2 to run in Ubuntu. Does anyone know how to force vsync in Wine, as this may fix the "speed" bug?
For reference, my spec is:
Phenom 9950
5Gb 800MHz RAM
GeForce 7950GT 512Mb
On-board audio with ALSA driver
Ubuntu 9.10 x86
16:10 widescreen monitor
