This game is available in two versions:
The information in this page was originally provided for the Steam version of the game, but it should apply for the GOG version as well. These two versions are not compatible for multiplayer games (Steam players and GOG players cannot play together).
Steam users may want to try the game in the native Steam client for Linux using Proton, for more details please check the game entry in ProtonDB (and the now deprecated HWRC Proton Launcher should the game launcher not work properly).
Useful links:
Application Details:
Version: | Current |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://www.homeworldremastered... |
Votes: | 1 |
Latest Rating: | Gold |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 8.19 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
The launcher and the Remastered games
What does not
Workarounds
What was not tested
Multiplayer and the non-remastered games
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Even after following all the steps listed in previous comments, I found that the launcher was still not running. After doing some debugging, I found errors mentioning libpng12. After installing libpng12 (32 bit version) from multilib, the launcher worked. So, to sum up, steps to get everything working are: 1. Install dependencies: lcms2 and libpng12 2. Install the game through Steam 3. Let Steam install prerequisites 4. Install dotnet40 through winetricks 5. Run the launcher
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Fedora 39 x86_64 | Dec 16 2023 | 8.19 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | c0vrt | |
Show | Fedora 38 x86_64 | Aug 14 2023 | 8.13-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Linards | |
Show | Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 23 2022 | 6.0.4 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Didi Kohen | |
Show | Fedora 31 x86_64 | May 23 2020 | 5.7 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Yura | |
Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Jun 01 2019 | 4.9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Ismo Toijala |
Last update: 2021-04-17
HW:RC requires the following software:
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:
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.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
by Pedro Ekhvanossafa on Wednesday June 1st 2022, 12:43
Can someone help?
by Ville Aakko on Monday October 7th 2019, 11:59
The community patch 2.3 (as of writing this) can not be used, as using it causes a "Access Violation" error dialog at start of campaign (any cinematics). I can load a saved game I've made previously, however I presume the game will crash at any cinematic (though I didn't test this thoroughly).
The community patch can be considered semi-essential since it patches gameplay issues still present in the latest official version. In case anyone can figure out how to run with community patch in wine, any tips are appreciated. (I've run game with additional arguments: "-workshopmod 2.3PlayersPatch.big" after placing said file in DATAWORKSHOPMODS).
Otherwise, the game runs fine with the workarounds posted here (even the launcher, though it is black and UI elements only become visible after howering mouse over them - I prefer and recommend launching manually).
by /dev/fra on Monday October 7th 2019, 15:55
Check the troubleshooting discussion on Steam steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/1190476337/1733214357975335317/ , comment #42. Do you mind giving the workaround there a try?
by Ville Aakko on Tuesday October 8th 2019, 0:50
Thanks for your reply! I've found that thread, and tried that (after posting). That user says the crashes happen "randomly", which implies they do not happen every time. On my setup, it is impossible to start any campaign mission (well, at least 1-4, I played the first three before applying the community patch, and can not test subsequent missions). The crash happens *always* - except if loading a saved game (saved without the community patch).
I'm only assuming this is because of the cutscenes, but now that I think about it, it could also be that the community patch is not applied to the running game instance, if one loads a saved game saved before applying the patch. I couldn't find any mentions about applying the patch "on the fly" - i.e. not restarting the campaing after applying patch. With some mods in some games, one is not supposed to do that, but a restart is mandatory, to prevent weird breakage (but here: I can not restart, only load older saved games!).
FWIW I did found that thread and tried setting:
* Base Production Times,
* tried reduce graphics details (to minimum), and
* applied the 4GB patch from the recent test result here.
None of these helped with the "Access Violation" error. Those are the only workaround I've tested so far - in case there is something else I've missed, I'll be happy to try =)
Also, it's worth to note this is on the gog.com version (there is no (sub)entry for it here in the AppDB, not sure how to add one - and AFAIK these versions are practically identical, save Steam version requires a running Steam instance and has achievements and whatnot, so there could also be some subtle differences which could cause a crash on either one, but not on the other). I've also posted in the gog.com forum about this error.
by Ville Aakko on Friday October 11th 2019, 12:46
So, I mean this one: github.com/HW-PlayersPatch . Also steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1190476337 and www.moddb.com/mods/homeworld-remastered-players-patch (all are the same patch). Sorry, I should have put the link(s) in the first comment!
by Linards on Thursday July 4th 2019, 2:52
by Quentin Deldycke on Wednesday December 20th 2017, 2:20
The launcher does not appear, i have these errors:
fixme:dwrite:dwritefactory_CreateMonitorRenderingParams (0x1): monitor setting ignored
fixme:d3d:wined3d_check_device_format_conversion wined3d 0x21a680, adapter_idx 0, device_type WINED3D_DEVICE_TYPE_HAL, src_format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8X8_UNORM, dst_format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8X8_UNORM stub!
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"Launcher.Content"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"Launcher.Content.resources"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"Launcher.Content.resources"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"Launcher.Content.resources"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"Launcher.Content.resources"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"Launcher.Content.resources"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"Launcher.Content.resources"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"Launcher.Content.resources"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"Launcher.Content.resources" [Load of them, seems to print in an infinite loop.]