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Originally Posted by disposer
I kind of hate that the first thing I do here is request help, but here I go.
So I bought Silent Hunter 3 and it works perfectly under wine and I've been having a blast. I decided to also get SH5 throught Steam, but I can't get it to work. As some of you know you can play a game for less than 2 hours or own it less than 2 weeks and still request a refund. I'm at 47 minutes and one week. The 47 minutes was spent trying to install uplay before I decided to install it seperatly from steam (to save that refund time). I've had no luck installing uplay after several hours of running stuff and reading.
The real question is can anyone get SH5 running under wine? Uplay seems to be a no starter so is there a way to play it without uplay? Am I missing something that should fix uplay? Should I find another way to buy it or is there a way to play SH5 under wine? Should I get my refund and buy the game a diffrent way? Thanks for the help!
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Have you checked out this post ?
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SilentOtto
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=196100
Default SH5 working under Linux
I don't know if many will be interested in this, but since I want to enjoy my feeling of achievement, I'll share this info here. There is a thread going on but I noticed it is in the MODs subforum so I'm posting here too for easier finding.
So, I finally have gotten SH5 working under linux! (xubuntu 12.04 in my case).
Basically I had to do what I said above:
1) Download wine source (I used latest 1.5.6 from sourceforge) here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wine...r.bz2/download
2) Extract in your docs folder (or wherever) with:
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tar -xvfj wine-1.5.6.tar.bz2
Apply patch
http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=40106
(save the code as a regular file, in wine source folder (wine-1.5.6) name it for example hack-patch)
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patch -Np1 -i hack-patch
3) In order to be able to compile wine, you need a lot of developing libraries you probably won't have in your system. Fortunately, in Ubuntu there is a very easy way to do this, with:
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sudo apt-get build-dep wine1.4
(this installs all the needed libs for wine 1.4, it worked perfectly with 1.5 too)
in my system it downloaded about 200Megs of data
4) verify everything is ok with
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./configure
5) if reported ok, you can then
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make
6) magic will happen for a few minutes while new wine is compiled.
then the command
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sudo make install
will setup your new wine binaries
7) Done!!
PS: Unfortunately in my first test sh5 runs sloooow compared to Sh4. That was to be expected, when the kids go to bed i'll test it a bit more, but I could load one of the historical missions and mess around a bit. Though I didnt go inside since I have no mods installed yet, and I never cared much to learn the new (silly?) sh5 interface!
Anyway my objective is achieved, I wanted to get the thing working, even if I don't play it!
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Angriff, Ran, Versenken!
Hope this works for you
Simon