From the website.
'Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its
residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown
explosively and today is inhabited by nearly 100,000 people from around
the globe.'
NOTE: there is a native Linux client (latest release is in beta stage) available for Second Life.
It works very well, and is not missing any features that make the game unplayable.
You still cannot view streaming videos, or record videos with the Linux client.
The source is also available from the source archive.
Application Details:
| Version: | All Versions |
| License: | |
| URL: | http://www.secondlife.com |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.1.44 |
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What works
Everything, walking, runing, flying, chatting, browsing inventory, some interactions.
What does not
Nothing I know about.
Workarounds
What was not tested
More advanced stuff like playing for several hours. ;P
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
There might be some issues with more advanced game-play (as I mentioned in comments above/below), but game runs and install out of box. And for example I did not have any issues with sound or walking around in-game.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 17 2010 | 1.1.44 | Yes | Yes | Silver | an anonymous user | ||
| Current | Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 29 2009 | 1.1.26 | Yes | Yes | Platinum | Drachenfels | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 18 2009 | 1.1.25 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Simon Philipp | ||
| Show | Gentoo Linux x86_64 | May 01 2008 | 0.9.59. | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Sara Aishiko Bird | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 10 2008 | 0.9.57. | Yes | Yes | Silver | javier fernandez |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 1631 | Sound underruns occur in directsound | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 4214 | Unsupported 2007 WGL Attribute in Second Life 1.8.0.9 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 5068 | Secondlife will not log in with the Alsa driver turned on and OSS driver turned off | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 5090 | Second Life - transparency problems | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 5387 | Regression: Second Life no longer starts with Wine 0.9.15 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 5791 | Quick TIme viewer doesn't display in Second Life. | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 5889 | Second Life help window causes unhandled page fault | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 6212 | Wine OpenGL does not find WGL extensions/etc. | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 6381 | "Unable to create window..." error prevents second life from running | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 6952 | Second Life since 1.13.1.5 doesn't run | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 10191 | SecondLife v1.18.3.5 crashes on startup | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 11779 | Recent kernel32 patch breaks CD checks and copy protection | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
HOWTO, Install.
Installing Second Life using wine is a
fairly straightforward process.
First you will need to download the latest version, older versions are useless, you wont even be able to log in with an older version.
Install as you normally would with any other standard windows program,
When it asks "Would you like to run Second Life now?", say No.
Now run winecfg and set it up so that (at least for secondlife.exe) wine is running as "winxp", and sound is set to "oss".
Using ALSA causes Second Life to give an error about your system clock being incorrect when you try to log in.
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