ToEE Front-End X for Linux/Mono BETA

What you could do instead of saving to a tmp dir and renaming is to:

save the files on the directory whose name is not equal to the files that will replace them, but the lowercased name IS, in a list,

and then simply delete those files.

You wouldn't have to change the installer if that part is not on C#, just find and delete the duplicated files on C#

However, doing it in the installer is better since the old game can be run right away if a person doesn't care for the co8 patch anymore (i'm guessing this.)

 

I copied game with my main computer(Windows 7) on my netbook(Fedora 14).
I install mono package.

I run game TFE-X-linux and see message error!
Error: You must run ToEEFE X from the Temple of Elemental root folder!
If you are running ToEEFE X from the root ToEE folder and are still getting this error, please make sure you have the official Patch 2 installed before trying again.

Please talk me what i can do.

 

Does the new version fixes the duplicate files problem when using TFE-X-linux?

I also wouldn't mind that that files ("TFE-X-linux") was executable from the install on, instead of like now. You may not be able to control this - it may be wine setting up the exe as executable when it installs them and skipping the non-exe file.

 

ToEE under wine - fullscreen?

Hi Guys,

Apologies if this has already been answered somewhere else on the forum, I haven't been able to find anything out about it.

I've been running ToEE (GoG version, co8 6.1.0 NC) with wine on my Ubuntu 11.04 machine using the linux TFE-X frontend. Everything works perfectly under windowed mode, but I can't get fullscreen to work under any resolution - can anyone tell me what I need to do to get this working?

I've been coming back to this game every 3-4 years since it came out, and I'd just to say the latest NC mod is *unbelievable*. The new content is worthy of a AAA title, amazing stuff guys.

 

Re: ToEE under wine - fullscreen?

thegom have you tried to unchecked the "Window Mode" in the "Option" menu of TFE-X or try reading this thread Link. (It's all about resolutions and widescreen monitors)

 

Re: ToEE under wine - fullscreen?

I had a look at that link already, thank you - unfortunately the game will not start unless the "windowed mode" checkbox has been checked, I have tried setting different resolutions to no avail

 

Re: ToEE under wine - fullscreen?

I figured it out eventually, its a little tricky. Here are the steps if anyone else has this problem in the future:

1) Go to wine configuration -> graphics tab -> check "virtual desktop"
2) Set the wine virtual desktop resolution, your monitors resolution and the resolution in TFE-X.cfg to the same widthXheight
3) Full screen should now work (this might mess up settings for your other games, its probably a good idea to create a specific wine profile for ToEE)

I have it working in lovely 1680x1050, looks great

 

Re: ToEE under wine - fullscreen?

That's great. Your step-by-step solution would definitively help the linux users.

 

Re: ToEE under wine - fullscreen?

It's a common problem in wine.
Infinity Engine suffers from that too.

I think the root cause is that changing resolutions in apps in fullscreen is not well supported in X11.

Here is what i use for torment, you can have the same (normal) prefix if you use this as a template (change the exe name) etc.

The sound thing is a problem you might not have.

 

Re: ToEE under wine - fullscreen?

Cheers SCO, I'll look into altering that to work on ToEE

 

Is the issue i reported above (the frontend "replacing" no files and instead making a copy with a different case fixed?

This is essential if this version of the frontend is to be of any use.

If i isn't could you tell me a exact list of the files the frontend replaces so i can rename them ahead of time before co8 install?

 

It's more than the exe. If i remember correctly (which i may not), you also replace a dll and a config file.

And the problem is not them being lower case or upper case, but rather not checking the case of the original exe in the dir.

If the game version had a different case, then you may end up with two version. And which gets run is, if not random, not exactly deterministic (i don't know).

This is only a problem on filesystems that are case sensitive by default (windows is too, but the windows api higher levels pretend it's not, because of backwards compatibility with this very problem).

Resuming, i don't think standardizing to lower case is enough unless you want to require (or do it on the mono version) a renaming to lower case before you start copying over things - unless all versions of the game have the same case for all replaced files, then it suffices to use that.