Sacred Underworld
 

Has anyone ever gotten Sacred Underworld to actually work? The latest patched release doesn't require a cd to play so no loader issues or having to make an iso image. Using Ubuntu (Edgy) and Wine from 0.9.28 to the current 0.9.32, I still can't get it to work, it installed fine starts to load up, I get to see the first loading graphic then it shuts down.

I loaded it from the console, and theres a whole list of issues, but I really don't know how to interpret the messages. Any help here would be greatly appreciated!
I searched around the wine site, and nothing really helpful there, unless you use gentoo. I have the console messages saved, but I'll wait to post them until some one actually responds to this thread, for all I know it might not even get read. Thanx in advance!

Have you tried using Cedega?

That has much more support for games since it has directX support.

No. I don't do the 'pay to play' thing that blizzard has tried to make so popular. Donations to help the further development of wine is one thing, having to pay someone to use their product on a monthly basis, with no guarantee they will not be out of business in a few months and have my personal information is another. Theres just too many scams out there, as Katrina has shown us. Sacred is 4 years old, someone out here has to have gotten it to work, or at least can tell me how to interpret the console messages.

Cedega has always been free, even when it was WineX it was free.

If you dig deep enough on their site, you can download it without any login account.

I can provide you with a torrent if you really want.


Also, there are hundreds of other P2P games, many have been around years, why has Blizzard tried to make it popular? O.o

Thanks for the tip, I'll have to try it out. I did some reading on it, and as far as I can tell Cedega's latest version doesn't have as good of dx support as the current 0.9.32 wine. Or at least thats what one of the forum's general consensus was.

As far as the p2p games, never has it been so popular, which is just bad for the rest of us gamers. Sure a few doofuses' played Ultima, and Everquest a little while when they came out, even up to a year for each series release but hardly as much as WOW currently. Roughly 38% of Blizzards World of Warcraft players have been paying to play without service interruption since it's initial release. Just like all corporations, eventually greed will take over, and thin clients will be released as games for us to play, paying a monthly fee of course, if this trend takes a hold. The only way it can be thwarted is if we make it a non lucrative business for them. I know its a bit off topic, so hopefully Cedega works like I want it to.