GTL and Linux

[phspok]

You don't need steam for GTL. It is a good option for a clean and easy install
But you can run it without needing to start it from steam, and there are installs
you can get that re stand alone if you know the right people... 

[Christian Dauger]

You don't need steam for GTL. It is a good option for a clean and easy install
But you can run it without needing to start it from steam, and there are installs
you can get that re stand alone if you know the right people... 

get it, no problem, get it to work correctly in linux, it's less easy ...

[Cookie]

Afair you need no steam for GTL or GTR2(P&G) just the CD...+ code

For GPL I do nor use any wine helper apps, just pure install on drive_c

[Wiltshire Tony]

If GTL fails to run under W10, and you have told it that you are running as Administrator it is most likely a compatibility issue. Set it to run in Compatibility mode using W8, or run the Compatibility troubleshooter.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Afair you need no steam for GTL or GTR2(P&G) just the CD...+ code

Wrong. The CD will not work on anything after W7. The built in "Starforce" copy protection usually fries your Windows install if you try to install from disk. Buy the Steam version, install it then forget Steam. You will however need a valid online code.

[phspok]

I vaguely remember starforce killing GTL in Win7. Is why I strangely liked Vista 

[Christian Dauger]

under win10, it works, it is under linux that I have the problem ... (for the moment  )

[EvilClive]

................................I am reading these exchanges with great interest  .

I have delved into Linux over the past 3 days and now have a 30GB USB stick with a bootable virgin, Linux cinnamon working, so there is ample space on there for any other stuff I might want to add in the short term. I have yet to investigate all of the various parts of this new OS, but I am in no rush.
Next step is probably a 2nd SSD drive for my rig that will eventually host Linux and any other software ( GPL, GTL etc ) I decide to try and run with it.

I am quite impressed with myself for getting this far lol.

[Christian Dauger]

As long as you are not looking for anything special, all is well! When you start to want to do something out of the ordinary, it can quickly get complicated, before losing his habits and the apparent ease of w10

Not much has changed in the last few years in Linux !! On the other hand, we can say that win10, yes it is much improved and makes the transition to Linux much less necessary other than by conviction ...

Nevertheless, I will still try like you ...

[Cookie]

What special task are you looking for?

All tasks I expect from my pc can be done with linux.

[phspok]

I have been using real Unix systems like Solaris, and Linux, which started as "Hobby Unix" and is now very capable
for more than 30 years, and unless you know what you are doing it is likely to be a frustrating experience.

I mostly use MS windies for games, and some software that only exists for Windows. I would never run anything
under wine in preference to running it on the system it was compiled for. Unless I wanted to do it to prove I can

I would use a Linux distro over any MS opsystem if everything I wanted was ported to Linux, but they are not
my current PC would easily run GTL or modern simms with an extra layer of translation, but the only reason I would
do it is, as I said for "fun" it is only going to run "well enough", and there may be some intellectual satisfaction with
being able to. You better be prepared for some learning Clive   I expect Cookie can talk you through it so that
will make it less painful. Good luck  

p.s Cinnamon is the desktop program. What Distro are you running? Mint? or somethings else?

[Cookie]

Clive to start a good mint install read here: https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/1.html

[Christian Dauger]

Clive to start a good mint install read here: https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/1.html

Mint is very nice. 
Cookie, I sent you a message, a suggestion to install Gtl / gtr2 ...?

[Christian Dauger]

Well a big step, GPL is finally working, maybe the next race will be under Linux  

However, as I noted it was not without pain, Wine did not install correctly and I had to find some help to enter everything manually and load the latest version (6) which Mint does not did not want to load!
(@Cookie, that's what I wanted to point out, compared to Win10, where there are rarely programs that don't work)

It remains to solve the shifter, because the pallets     and install GTL among other things, I think Lutrix also works poorly ...
EvilClive courage, with a little luck it will work the first time for you ...

[Cookie]

Yes I do prefer the winehq.org version too, as one of the repository versions of mint is outdated

Therefore you must learn to read carefully and  copy paste the given lines into the terminal.

Don't forget after installation you have to write "winecfg" into the terminal to built the wine environment.

I confirm linux coding people are no gamers so they sometime have problem to understand what we need...