Kingpin: Life of Crime

What works

With the workaround below, about 75% of the way through the game and so far, everything seems to be working as intended

(Note: I tested with the GoG release, which is slightly different than the Steam version)

What does not

Crash to desktop, regardless of Windows version set in WINE config, when launching without workarounds.

Workarounds

MH's Kingpin patch from kingpin.info is essential (In Downloads, follow the folder path / kingpin / patches / unofficial / windows / mh's_kingpin_patch / linux / for a WINE-specific set of drop-in files) to get the game running after install. It provides support for widescreen and other modern hardware compatibility upgrades.

What was not tested

100% of the single player game

Unofficial multiplayer

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: AMD
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

Sometimes when loading the game, it may appear that you're stuck on the main menu, but you can hear sounds from the game itself. If you cycle the Esc a few times, eventually the in-game rendering will switch over.

The game itself is a little buggy at times, but my understanding is that's how it behaves on Windows, too (e.g. give follower a special command and they won't do it at first. Pathfinding error maybe?).

Some of the sounds can seem oddly loud compared to others once in-game. Switching the Reverb in the options to 'off' seemed to help normalize the volume of actions and ambient sounds.

I also used the Rag2Riches mod for additional graphical upgrades and some gameplay changes. These files were compatible with the above, essential MH'S Kingpin patch, despite overriding the gamex68.dll.

In my case must be added at the beginning of the run line this variable:
__GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700

In my launcher to playonlinux Steam, edit whit this changes and run perfectly:

Add this: export __GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700

#!/bin/bash
[ "$PLAYONLINUX" = "" ] && exit 0
source "$PLAYONLINUX/lib/sources"
export WINEPREFIX="/home/david/.PlayOnLinux//wineprefix/Steam"
export WINEDEBUG="-all"
export __GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700
#ScriptID=Steam
cd "/home/david/.PlayOnLinux//wineprefix/Steam/drive_c/./Program Files/Steam"
POL_Wine Steam.exe "$@"

Thanks mate under Béla Gyebrószki.
Your message:
"Béla Gyebrószki 08/05/2014 9:54:12 CDT
There's a demo version with which i can play the problem:
https://archive.org/download/KingpinLifeOfCrime/KPDEMO.EXE

The game is based on the Quake 2 engine, the game starting with 'wine kingpin.exe __GL_ExtensionStringVersion = 17700' makes it possible to start the demo.

Possibly another dupe of bug # 25362.

Tested with Nvidia binary 337.19 drivers "