Update for Linux wine users?

I can't use Impulse...

from Sins Forums

After reading that SOASE ran well under wine, I bought the game. I spent several hours gettng it to run, and (despite having no sound at all after the opening cinematic), it runs very well. I tried to install (under wine) Impulse, but Impulse requires .NET 2.0, and wine and .NET don't get along very well with each other. Yet.

 

What I'm trying to find out is if Stardock or Ironclad can provide patches for we Linux users who are willing to pay for Gaming Excellence, even if we have to kludge our way into it.

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

I tried this myself, but although sins works without as much as a glitch and at a great framerate, I haven't been able to patch or update in wine either, and I've had to use my windows virtual machine to install, download the updates, and then just copy the whole sins folder over to the wine prefix. Works like a charm from then on, and I don't really mind going into VirtualBox every once in a while, although it would be cool if there was a way to update using separate patches (though I'm sure the devs have better things to do)

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

The devs have said many times that they will not release stand-alone patches beyond v1.05.  They've also pointed out that the box says "Games for Windows", so I kinda doubt they'll do much to make it work on Linux.  GGLucas's suggestion is probably your best bet.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks...I kind of figured that that was what I had to do. I'm so anti-Windows that I never used a virtual machine, but there's always a first time!

 

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