Application Details:
| Version: | GoG.com (v1.0.0.24) |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 3.0 |
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What works
Install OK
Launch game OK
Game OK
What does not
- setup never finish installation, windows childs are not visible, they appear behind the main window and you can not alt+tab in virtual window mode
- annoying black screen appear at launch
- crash before the main menu for Nvidia users
- the game is only 800x600 if launch in a virtual desktop mode
Workarounds
This game needs a little work to run almost perfectly on Linux.
1°) the Syberia setup program never finished installation
Use the task manager to close properly the setup program, launch:
wine taskmgr
and choose the setup program to obtain focus on the window child
2°) When you launch the game you have only a black screen, you can hear game sounds
I have not yet found a tips to avoid the black screen to appear. All you can do is give focus to the correct game screen located behind the black screen.
--> solution a: you launch the game in a virtual desktop, open a terminal, go to the main Syberia folder, execute Sberia with this command line:
wine Syberia.exe & sleep 15; wine taskmgr
when the task manager appear, choose Syberia in the list or in the Wine task bar to give focus to the correct game screen
--> solution b you launch the game in a virtual desktop, download the utility nircmd.exe, copy it in the Syberia installation folder
and launch Syberia like this:
wine Syberia.exe & sleep 15;wine nircmd.exe win hide title Syberia; sleep 0.1; wine nircmd.exe win hideshow title Syberia
3°) the game crash after the cinematics, before the main menu appear
It is a bug that affect Nvidia users.
in a terminal execute this command:
wine reg.exe ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\X11 Driver" "/v" "UseXVidMode" "/t" "REG_SZ" "/d" "N"
No more crash for Nvidia users ( Thanks to "Bob Wya" from the WineHQ forum: https://forum.winehq.org/viewt...)
4°) in virtual desktop mode, the game size is 800x600
use dxwnd to launch the game in fullscreen, in virtual desktop mode, at your desktop resolution, use "respect ratio" option to keep a 4/3 ratio
What was not tested
I have not yet finished the game
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux Unstable "Sid" x86_64 | Mar 25 2018 | 3.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | real name | |
| Current | Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 27 2017 | 2.21-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Le Gluon du Net | |
| Show | Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jun 18 2017 | 2.10 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Alex Shilo | ||
| Show | openSUSE 13.1 x86_64 | Jan 01 2017 | 1.9.23 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Mikael | ||
| Show | Gentoo Linux x86_64 | Apr 24 2013 | 1.5.28 | Yes | Yes | Gold | eroen |
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by Ãœmit YAKUPHAN on Wednesday August 24th 2011, 7:38
www.gog.com/en/forum/syberia_series/linux_playability
by Boris on Wednesday May 25th 2011, 3:00
I hope it helps someone
by Elmo on Tuesday April 5th 2011, 2:12
I had to use the crack, install MVCP60 and finally dsound to get any sound at all (there was a small glitch at the start of the logo video). But now there's no sound in the videos. Then I tried installing directx9, as someone had for syberia2. Now the sounds are as before installing dsound: Only glitches at the start of videos and no ingame sounds (including the start menu). I'd be satisfied if I oculd view the videos separately, but VLC didn't recognize the format of the .syb files.
Will try reinstalling in a new prefix.
by Elmo on Tuesday April 5th 2011, 2:30
by Per Johansson on Sunday January 2nd 2011, 9:23
Still needs a virtual desktop though, at least on OS X (using XQuartz)
by Per Johansson on Sunday January 2nd 2011, 12:58
by Ryan Chartier on Tuesday January 4th 2011, 13:20
The crashes are not wine's fault though. I've been having crashing problems on my windows pc as well which says that it's the programs fault and not wine's.
by Ryan Chartier on Sunday December 26th 2010, 17:01
In terminal the following error keeps getting repeated over and over and over again.
fixme:d3d:context_check_fbo_status Location SFLAG_INTEXTURE (0x40).
fixme:d3d:context_check_fbo_status Color attachment 0: (0x1c9990) WINED3DFMT_B5G6R5_UNORM 800x600
fixme:d3d:context_check_fbo_status Depth attachment: (0x1cb088) WINED3DFMT_S1_UINT_D15_UNORM 800x600
err:d3d_draw:drawStridedSlow >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_FRAMEBUFFER_OPERATION (0x506) from glEnd and previous calls @ drawprim.c / 299
fixme:d3d:context_check_fbo_status FBO status GL_FRAMEBUFFER_UNSUPPORTED (0x8cdd)
I assume it has something to do with how direct 3d has changed in later versions. I'm not sure how to fix it, but doesn't look like it should be that hard to fix. Using Ubuntu 10.04.
by Gergely Fazekas on Sunday July 18th 2010, 4:30
Ubuntu 10.04, Dell Latitude D610 (with Intel 915GM)
by Gergely Fazekas on Sunday July 18th 2010, 4:39
by Ryan Chartier on Friday December 24th 2010, 22:08
by Béla Gyebrószki on Sunday March 28th 2010, 10:19
I was sceptical: I bought the game from GoG, they always offer their games without DRM.
However, THERE IS a no-cd patch that can be applied to the GoG version: look for the Collector's Edition of the game on GCW. With that "patch" the game is playable.
If I had known that before I submitted my test result, the rating wouldn't be Garbage.
by Mikael Bergström on Sunday March 28th 2010, 12:41
Should still not be more than Silver though, a NoCD is a pretty bad requirement to get something to work...
by Vitaly Bogdanov on Friday January 6th 2012, 8:36
by Vitaly Bogdanov on Friday January 6th 2012, 10:03