To get multiplayer working, I followed this advice and installed DirectPlay from Microsoft (you can ignore the stuff about disabling your network adapter). I did find that running the virtual desktop at a lower resolution occasionally gave graphical glitches like this : The virtual desktop will expand and shrink depending on the resolution of the game. To solve this, run SWGB in a Virtual Desktop : wine explorer /desktop=name,1024x768 swgbg.exe
I found that on quitting the game, my desktop wouldn't always revert back to to the correct resolution. You can now run the basic version of SWGB without any fuss. Install the game as normal, the installer will probably crash at the end, ignore it. Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 - but the steps should be broadly similar on any distro. This is a brief guide to getting the game working on Linux - including multiplayer and widescreen. That was the game which introduced me & my wife to collaborative gameplay, so I was incredibly excited to see it available again.
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