Homeworld Remastered Collection

What works

Homeworld -  game runs and loading levels works fine with custom command line

Homeworld2 - game runs and loading levels works with basic graphics

Homeworld/Homeworld2 Remastered - game runs and loading levels works with basic graphics with custom command line and force opengl version

intel

VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620

nvidia

3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [GeForce MX150]

What does not

Original launcher

Doesn't work at all it requires .NET4.0 but even with 32bit wineprefix and installed all dotnet crap it is still failed to launch.

Homeworld2
If you want to set LOD to maximum it will crash under wine5 you can eliminate crashes caused by some of LOD settings by installing winetricks 

• glsl=enabled
• ddr=opengl
• rtlm=readdraw

but anyway with all high settings it will crash on load level it just allow to set few of them to high.

So my solution to use wine 4.21 where it works fine...

Homeworld Remastered

Again almost the same about high settings like in homeworld2. Just can't be sure about it because it's a bit random. Sometimes I was able to launch with highest texture quality. But looks like with options provided above it is more stable.

Intro video glitching like in a attempt to start play it over and over again till intro finished. First mission video works fine. About others I'm not sure I didn't  see them yet and I will not see them under wine5 because I will play this game as well under wine 4.21.
You can eliminate video glitching at start by installing winetricks directplay and directmusic. But looks like they caused more crash on high settings not sure because as I've mentioned it's a bit random for me.

The only what I can say for sure about settings, those are most affected and here stable values for them:

- TEXTURE QUALITY: 6-MEDIUM - works stable, higher values sometimes causing troubles on load level
- TEXTURE SIZE LIMIT: 2048 - works stable, any higher value failed to load level
- DEPTH OF FIELD: OFF - works stable, ON value works stable but significantly lower FPS (don't know how it is in windows)

So again I'm using wine 4.21 to launch it

Workarounds

Some work around in "What doesn't work" section. (but using wine 4.21 is a way better)

All off the below implemented in launcher script here

So below just some of the settings

Winetricks to install:

WINEPREFIX="$wineprefix" WINE="$winebin" winetricks -q vcrun6 vcrun6sp6 vcrun2003 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010 vcrun2012 vcrun2013 vcrun2015

WINEPREFIX="$wineprefix" WINE="$winebin" winetricks -q dxdiag dxdiagn dx8vb directx9 d3dx9 d3dx9_24 d3dx9_25 d3dx9_26 d3dx9_27 d3dx9_28 d3dx9_29 d3dx9_30 d3dx9_31 d3dx9_32 d3dx9_33 d3dx9_34 d3dx9_35 d3dx9_36 d3dx9_37 d3dx9_38 d3dx9_39 d3dx9_40 d3dx9_41 d3dx9_42 d3dx9_43

WINEPREFIX="$wineprefix" WINE="$winebin" winetricks -q tahoma corefonts fontsmooth=rgb

# actually this one below doesn't work insome reason

WINEPREFIX="$wineprefix" WINE="$winebin" winetricks -q mwo=force

WINEPREFIX="$wineprefix" "$winebin" start winecfg

when "winecfg" started go to "Graphics" tab and mark checkbox "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"

Homeworld parameters

waveout -1024 -safeGL -waveout -noglddraw -noswddraw -nofastfe -triple

Homeworld2 parameters

-w 1024 -h 768 -hardwarecursor

Homeworld remastered parameters

dlccampaign HW1Campaign.big -campaign HomeworldClassic -moviepath DataHW1Campaign -mod compatibility.big

Homeworld2 remastered parameters

dlccampaign HW2Campaign.big -campaign Ascension -moviepath DataHW2Campaign -mod compatibility.big

Homeworld multiplayer remastered

-mpbeta -mod compatibility.big

Every game support "-locale Language"

Additionally for homeworld 2 you need to force to set  opengl version 

export MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3COMPAT

General command to launch game looks like this
WINEPREFIX="$wineprefix" "$optimus" "$winebin" explorer /desktop=HomeworldRM,"$screenWidth"x"$screenHeight" "$exename" "$homeworldparams"

What was not tested

Actually gameplay of homeworld classic just passed tutorial.

And multiplayer never tried

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

Actually as I've tested in wine 5.5,5.6,5.7 all of them has more problems than wine 4.21

Do not run game in 32bit prefix the FPS really lower than 64bit.

I've made script for myself with collection of tweaks and tricks to launch steam version installed into lutris or playonlinux (it should work with GOG version installed to playonlinux as well).

https://github.com/coozoo/HomeworldRemasteredLauncher 

So you can find some useful commands and actions there or just simply to use it. Additionally in readme there is more descriptions.

Last update: 2021-04-17

HW:RC requires the following software:

• Steam, only for the Steam version of the game (users may want to use the native Linux client instead, see information at the top of the page)
• .NET Framework 4.0 (required by the game launcher)
• LittleCMS 2 library (liblcms2-2 in Debian and Ubuntu)
• PNG library (libpng16-16 in Debian and Ubuntu)

Please refer to the AppDB entries of Steam and .NET Framework 4.0 for detailed installation instructions.

The LittleCMS 2 and the PNG libraries are provided in Debian and Ubuntu by the liblcms2-2 and the libpng16-16 packages respectively.

Last update: 2021-04-18

The following shell commands can be used to directly launch one of the games in the collection, bypassing the HW:RC launcher.

Set the path to your Wine prefix, the path to the Steam folder (only for the Steam version of the game), and the path to the main game folder. For example:

export WINEPREFIX="${HOME}/.wine/homeworld"
export steam_path="${WINEPREFIX}/drive_c/Program Files/Steam"
export game_path="${steam_path}/steamapps/common/Homeworld"

If using the Steam version of the game, launch Steam first, otherwise the following commands will not work. To launch Steam in background:

wine "$steam_path"/Steam.exe -silent

To launch Homeworld 1 Classic
Run:

wine "$game_path"/Homeworld1Classic/exe/Homeworld.exe

However most users may want to use the arguments (in the form /argument or -argument) /noglddraw and /window (see notes in the Troubleshooting section):

wine "$game_path"/Homeworld1Classic/exe/Homeworld.exe /noglddraw /window

To launch Homeworld 2 Classic
Run:

wine "$game_path"/Homeworld2Classic/Bin/Release/Homeworld2.exe

To launch Homeworld 1 Remastered
Run:

wine "$game_path"/HomeworldRM/Bin/Release/HomeworldRM.exe \
-dlccampaign HW1Campaign.big -campaign HomeworldClassic \
-moviepath DataHW1Campaign

To launch Homeworld 2 Remastered
Run:

wine "$game_path"/HomeworldRM/Bin/Release/HomeworldRM.exe \
-dlccampaign HW2Campaign.big -campaign Ascension \
-moviepath DataHW2Campaign

To launch Homeworld Remastered Multiplayer
Run:

wine "$game_path"/HomeworldRM/Bin/Release/HomeworldRM.exe

Last update: 2021-04-18

Issues with Mesa drivers - OpenGL 3.3 Compatibility Profile required
This is a known issues that causes the remastered versions of the games to not work with the Mesa drivers. It is discussed in the bug report 41551.
The games require the OpenGL 3.3 Compatibility Profile that should be supported by the Mesa drivers starting from version 18.2.0. Please check if the compatibility profile is supported by your setup with the command glxinfo | grep version. If so, then set/export the environment variable MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3COMPAT before launching the games.

Please note that:

• this issue does not occur when using NVIDIA and AMD proprietary display drivers;
• the classic versions of the games are not affected by this issue.

Homeworld 1 Classic crashes at startup
Homeworld 1 Classic crashes at startup with the message Fatal Error - couldn't initialize default rendering system. To solve this issue, launch the game with the argument /noglddraw.
The argument can be set as described in the section How to launch the games from the command line, or as an argument for the HW:RC launcher. For the latter, if using Steam, the argument can be set in the Steam game launch options as %command% /noglddraw.

Homeworld 1 Classic, game screen not scaled and menus off screen
The game allows to choose only 4:3 screen resolutions. If the game screen is not properly scaled, then launch the game in windowed mode with the argument /window.
The argument can be set as described in the section How to launch the games from the command line, or as an argument for the HW:RC launcher. For the latter, if using Steam, the argument can be set in the Steam game launch options as %command% /window.

Homeworld 2 Classic, game screen not scaled and menus off screen
If the game screen is not properly scaled, then launch the game in windowed mode with the argument -windowed and then set a proper screen resolution.
The argument can be set as described in the section How to launch the games from the command line, or as an argument for the HW:RC launcher. For the latter, if using Steam, the argument can be set in the Steam game launch options as %command% -windowed.

Remastered games, crash when loading levels and cinematics
The problem could be caused by a memory issue with the display server, lowering the texture quality to medium (or below) should solve the problem.