Limbo

What works

• Game runs via Steam
• Steam cloud works for saved games
• Full screen support works!
  

What does not

Steam client still requires -no-dwrite for fonts to be displayed

Installation requires some finessing as Steam install to playing game isn't without issue.  Game attempts to install DirectX prerequisites, but fails to complete.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Play to finish was not tested.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

This was running Gentoo Linux on an Apple Mac 5,5 with: Video Card: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400M] (rev b1) CPU: model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7550 @ 2.26GHz Wine version, Kernel source, nvidia drivers: $ emerge -pv wine nvidia-drivers vanilla-sources These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ~] app-emulation/wine-1.7.8::x-portage USE="X alsa cups fontconfig gecko gstreamer jpeg mono mp3 ncurses nls openal opengl perl png prelink realtime run-exes samba ssl threads truetype udisks v4l xcomposite xml -capi -custom-cflags -dos -gphoto2 -gsm -lcms -ldap -netapi -odbc -opencl -osmesa -oss -pulseaudio -scanner (-selinux) {-test} -xinerama" ABI_X86="32 64 (-x32)" LINGUAS="en en_US -ar -bg -ca -cs -da -de -el -eo -es -fa -fi -fr -he -hi -hr -hu -it -ja -ko -lt -ml -nb_NO -nl -or -pa -pl -pt_BR -pt_PT -rm -ro -ru -sk -sl -sr_RS@cyrillic -sr_RS@latin -sv -te -th -tr -uk -wa -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB [ebuild R ~] sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-3.12.3:3.12.3 USE="-build -deblob -symlink" 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.20 USE="X acpi (multilib) tools -pax_kernel" 0 kB # Initial configuration of Wine 32 bit prefix: $ WINEPREFIX="/home/user/.wine-limbo" WINEARCH="win32" winecfg # Set user name and left audio devices set to default, Windows version is Windows XP. # Obtain Steam install binary. $ cd .wine-limbo/drive_c/ $ wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/SteamSetup.exe $ cd - # Install Steam. $ WINEPREFIX="/home/user/.wine-limbo" WINEARCH="win32" wine C:\SteamSetup.exe # Do not launch steam once it is installed, as no fonts will be displayed, instead re-launch the newly installed client. $ WINEPREFIX="/home/user/.wine-limbo" WINEARCH="win32" wine "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -no-dwrite # At this point install and launch Limbo. This will attempt to # install DirectX. It will hang indefinitely, so after a few minutes, kill Steam, and re-launch again. $ WINEPREFIX="/home/user/.wine-limbo" WINEARCH="win32" wine "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -no-dwrite This will allow running Steam in full screen mode.

Override the following dll 's before (or after) installing Limbo:

export WINEPREFIX="❚❚❚❚❚❚"
winetricks d3dx9_43 d3dcompiler_43

In the instance of a failure you would find Limbo might fail to launch successfully (backtrace will indicate a failure in d3dcompiler_43), e.g.:

Backtrace:
=>0 0x056396a9 in d3dcompiler_43 (+0x1e96a9) (0x0033e238)
1 0x055285e4 in d3dcompiler_43 (+0xd85e3) (0x0033e63c)
2 0x0552750e in d3dcompiler_43 (+0xd750d) (0x0033e668)
3 0x054b6e6f in d3dcompiler_43 (+0x66e6e) (0x0033f3a4)
4 0x100e6186 in d3dx9_43 (+0xe6185) (0x0033f650)
5 0x004862e3 in limbo (+0x862e2) (0x03058489)

Alternatively you might see a vertex error KW_VERTEX popup dialog from Wine.

Note: you only need to specify the WINEPREFIX env variable if you are not using the default location: WINEPREFIX="${HOME}/.wine"

More recent test indicates that the issue is still present in Wine release wine-1.9.18 (Vanilla).

"First Time" Setup

To stop the firstevery time (!!) setup of the MS DirectX redistributable, for the default SteamApps location, in a 32-bit Wineprefix:

rm -rf "${WINEPREFIX}/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Limbo/DirectX_Redist"

... or for the default SteamApps location, in a 64-bit Wineprefix:

rm -rf "${WINEPREFIX}/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Limbo/DirectX_Redist"