Hello; I am very pleased and excited to announce that, as of Wine version 0.9.33, Live for Speed S2 V (almost) works on Linux, with a couple of trivial problems.

The only real issue is that unlocking does not work at all, and cracks found on the net don't work either (hey, I have paid the money!). That damn copy protection stuff always hits you when you expect it the least. I would really appreciate some cooperation from the developers here, as the problem is likely related to retrieving some system-specific information, and thus straightforward to fix.

I'll be happy to answer any questions regarding LFS on Linux.

My configuration:

• Cheap ATI Radeon x550, using the proprietary fglrx driver version 8.34.8.
  
• Gentoo Linux, running on AMD64 native.
  
• Kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r6
  
• wine version 0.9.33.
  
• X.org version 7.2.

I have submitted a Wine AppDB entry, however, until the submission has been reviewed by WineHQ webmasters, I'll post my report here:

What works
Before the game runs flawlessly, a few settings in the 'Options' -> 'Graphics'
screen have to be changed:

• 'Haze effect' has to be set to 'no'
  
• 'Shadow type' has to be set to 'off'
  
• Dropping 'Z-Buffer Depth' from 32 to 24 increased performance significantly on my system.

All the essential functionality works: menus, single player, multiplayer (demo servers), replays, tuning the car, game physics visualizations, custom engine sounds.

Performance is decent, a rough estimation is 3/4 that of running under Windows. However, starting the game is instantaneous, and track load times are several times faster! Pit enters and exits seem faster as well, but they were never slow to begin with.

What does not work

• "Unlocking", that is, phoning "home" to the LFS servers and confirming your registration. Attempts result in a vague "Unlocking error" dialog box. (GRRR, darn copy protections always get in the way!)
  
• Enabling the 'haze effect' results in the track becoming transparent. Cars, skid marks and shadows are still drawn.
  
• Enabling car shadows results in a big dark box around the car, inside which is a light, smaller bounding box of the car. The shadow drawn into the smaller box looks OK.
  
• Ending single player games (returning to the menu) sometimes freezes the entire X11 server; possibly related to the proprietary fglrx drivers.
  
• Sounds have a somewhat annoying 500ms+ delay (even if the "sound lag" option within the game is set to as low as possible), so if you change gears by the rev sound, you will always be a bit late.
  
• Turbo sounds are almost unaudible on the XRT.
  
• Some very trivial and obscure graphics glitches. For example, when switching to another window while LFS still visible, the rear-view mirror starts showing weird things.

What was not tested

• Joystick/wheel/other game controllers.
  
• Registered LFS S1 and S2 cars and tracks.
  
• Connecting other clients to a Linux LFS server

And here's a screenshot of LFS running on Linux:

not new that it works
works for me too under debian, but i get like 10 fps (80 under win)
ill give ur settings a shot when i boot linux the next time

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=19892
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=2292
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=1132&
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=1693&

etc. (and how about attaching that HUGE screenshot as an attachment instead?)

Quote from [RCG]Boosted :

not new that it works

Oh damn, why do I only remember the "search" function after posting. I promise that won't happen again.

Anyway, the last time I tried it, it still had major graphical glitches. Now I'm normally running at ~50 FPS on Windows, and ~35-50 on Linux (although without shadows and haze).

But are you able to unlock the game with Wine? Other users have reported it unlocking under Wine and having problems under Cedega, but it doesn't work under Wine here.

Try changing windows version to win98.

Biggest problem for me is not having ForceFeedback under Linux, so there goes the whole point of trying to get it to run

Deleting my current Wine prefix and creating a new one helped. Thanks anyway.

For me is not only FF, but I cant' see the chalk lines in autocross.
A work arround is runing without hardware vertex shader, but very slow.

Did you try the latest test patch V2? As far as I know it fixed the unlocking problem.

Quote from Scawen :

FIX : Unlocking should now work on Cedega

No mention of wine. Then again, if Cedega really is better for gaming why not use it?

edit: oh, it's non-free.

Quote from GP4Flo :

Did you try the latest test patch V2? As far as I know it fixed the unlocking problem.

As mentioned above, I already fixed the problem by removing ~/.wine

It was probably due to older Wine packages missing some registry keys that were used by LFS for identification.

As per usual: Does FF work?
aaaand now for something completely different:
I had a steak today.
Sorry, just had to!

Quote from felplacerad :

edit: oh, it's non-free.

You can get the sources and compile it by yourself. It's harder though and you won't get any support without paying.

Quote from intgr :

• Connecting other clients to a Linux LFS server

The dedi works fine. Although depending on the Wine version and load of the LFS server, there are a few glitches. Such as freezing / crashing and who aren't entered into the game properly and appear to be invisible. I'm yet to experience this using the latest Wine version, custom compiled without any X support. But then again my test server is rather empty most of the time

Quote from TysCaargh :

As per usual: Does FF work?

Sorry, I don't have access to a wheel right now (yeah, I'm driving with a keyboard).

Quote from geeman1 :

You can get the sources and compile it by yourself.

And it is not free (libre) software as defined by the FSF/GNU. Rather, they're taking advantage of a poor licensing choice made by Wine developers in the past.

I might as well just use Windows instead.

Oh great just what we haven't been waiting for!

Question still stands:
Does FF work? Otherwise it is useless (at least for me...).

No posts about penguin crap unless FFB works. Thank you for your cooperation.

EDIT: Removed smiley to gain approx. 13% more authority.

Lets convince logitech into making G25 drivers (sorry... Kernel modules) for the unixes, becuase then my G25 will be useful on the mac and stuff.

Any news on FFB on Linux?

FFB will never work under Linux unless you have proper driver for your wheel/joystick/whatever. Because penguin-powered machines aren't usually meant like gaming machines, hardware manufacturers don't bother themselves by making extra Linux drivers for their gaming devices(many modifications for each distribution would have to be made, and that means a lot of unnecessary work to do).

Thought as much

Quote from MadCatX :

FFB will never work under Linux unless you have proper driver for your wheel/joystick/whatever. Because penguin-powered machines aren't usually meant like gaming machines, hardware manufacturers don't bother themselves by making extra Linux drivers for their gaming devices(many modifications for each distribution would have to be made, and that means a lot of unnecessary work to do).

http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux ... 8fcab5c076ba2ce2671e22992

It's coming

Of course, now Wine needs some more work

Cheers,

Allan.

That's great news

Quote from intgr :

Hello; I am very pleased and excited to announce that, as of Wine version 0.9.33, Live for Speed S2 V (almost) works on Linux, with a couple of trivial problems.

The only real issue is that unlocking does not work at all, and cracks found on the net don't work either (hey, I have paid the money!). That damn copy protection stuff always hits you when you expect it the least. I would really appreciate some cooperation from the developers here, as the problem is likely related to retrieving some system-specific information, and thus straightforward to fix.

I'll be happy to answer any questions regarding LFS on Linux.

My configuration:

• Cheap ATI Radeon x550, using the proprietary fglrx driver version 8.34.8.
  
• Gentoo Linux, running on AMD64 native.
  
• Kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r6
  
• wine version 0.9.33.
  
• X.org version 7.2.

I have submitted a Wine AppDB entry, however, until the submission has been reviewed by WineHQ webmasters, I'll post my report here:

What works
Before the game runs flawlessly, a few settings in the 'Options' -> 'Graphics'
screen have to be changed:

• 'Haze effect' has to be set to 'no'
  
• 'Shadow type' has to be set to 'off'
  
• Dropping 'Z-Buffer Depth' from 32 to 24 increased performance significantly on my system.

All the essential functionality works: menus, single player, multiplayer (demo servers), replays, tuning the car, game physics visualizations, custom engine sounds.

Performance is decent, a rough estimation is 3/4 that of running under Windows. However, starting the game is instantaneous, and track load times are several times faster! Pit enters and exits seem faster as well, but they were never slow to begin with.

What does not work

• "Unlocking", that is, phoning "home" to the LFS servers and confirming your registration. Attempts result in a vague "Unlocking error" dialog box. (GRRR, darn copy protections always get in the way!)
  
• Enabling the 'haze effect' results in the track becoming transparent. Cars, skid marks and shadows are still drawn.
  
• Enabling car shadows results in a big dark box around the car, inside which is a light, smaller bounding box of the car. The shadow drawn into the smaller box looks OK.
  
• Ending single player games (returning to the menu) sometimes freezes the entire X11 server; possibly related to the proprietary fglrx drivers.
  
• Sounds have a somewhat annoying 500ms+ delay (even if the "sound lag" option within the game is set to as low as possible), so if you change gears by the rev sound, you will always be a bit late.
  
• Turbo sounds are almost unaudible on the XRT.
  
• Some very trivial and obscure graphics glitches. For example, when switching to another window while LFS still visible, the rear-view mirror starts showing weird things.

What was not tested

• Joystick/wheel/other game controllers.
  
• Registered LFS S1 and S2 cars and tracks.
  
• Connecting other clients to a Linux LFS server

And here's a screenshot of LFS running on Linux:

Mate patch W is out.