Running on Linux

[Gaston]

I played Theif 1 & 2 as teenager and I still love this game. Having migrated to Linux years ago this is one of the few games I'm having trouble getting to run on Linux. When I launch the game in Proton the game screen is cropped to the upper left portion, so the visible screen is small and you can't see anything to the lower right, it's all black. When I try to launch the game using Luxtorpeda it comes up with a cartoon looking screen called ScummVM. So I click Add Game and it opens a brows windows and the windows is already in the game's wine install directory. After click select directory/folder I get an error message telling me that here's now game in the specified directory. That might now be the exact working but that's the gist of it. Any ideas? Anyone else go this to work? Thanks.

[ps47.3dfx]

yes, try the GOG version, or patch the steam version with TFix (will need windows virtual, or physical machine, probably) or TFix lite (extract and drop into the TG folder, should work ok even under linux).

[Gaston]

Originally posted by ps47.3dfx:

yes, try the GOG version, or patch the steam version with TFix (will need windows virtual, or physical machine, probably) or TFix lite (extract and drop into the TG folder, should work ok even under linux).

Thanks, but I'm a little confused. You said I will need to run WIndows on a VM or a physical machine running Windows, then you said it should work even under Linux. I'm a little confused? If I download the GOG version should I still try to use with with Proton or Luxtorpeda outside of Steam? If so how does when use Proton or Luxtorpeda outside of Steam? Thanks.

[ps47.3dfx]

to make it short, the steam version is a trainwreck, so to run TG on pretty much anything nowadays, you need either;

- the GOG version
- the steam version with the contents of the TFix lite archive extracted into the TG folder, overwriting all
- the steam version patched with TFix full (a patcher that probably needs windows to run)

once your game is up to date, you should be able to run in via proton or wine with little issue.

[Gaston]

Originally posted by ps47.3dfx:

to make it short, the steam version is a trainwreck, so to run TG on pretty much anything nowadays, you need either;

- the GOG version
- the steam version with the contents of the TFix lite archive extracted into the TG folder, overwriting all
- the steam version patched with TFix full (a patcher that probably needs windows to run)

once your game is up to date, you should be able to run in via proton or wine with little issue.

Thanks, but you said I'll probably need windows to run the patcher. But then said after that I should be able to run fine on wine. Can I run the patcher in wine? If not this seems contradictory. Can you point me in the right direction for the patcher? Thanks.

Update:
I just downloaded my GOG version of TG and installed it outside of Steam just using wine and it's working perfect. So far I haven't needed a patch or even proton, and I would have no idea how to use proton outside of Steam. Is that possible? Thanks again. And I would still appreciate a link to the patch if you know where I can it that even though I haven't needed it yet.

Out of curiosity, why is the Steam version of TG less reliable than the GOG version?

[ps47.3dfx]

because whoever is maintaining the steam build doesn't care.

no idea whether the patcher[www.ttlg.com] will run/work under wine, feel free to try. if not, you can patch the game on a windows machine, and then move the now patched install to the linux machine and run it with wine as mentioned.

[Grochu]

I run it under proton, used TFix_1.27.exe (also HDmod..), did all the patching using wine bundled with proton, I do not even have wine installed on my system, can post a (video?) guide, from top of my head I think it would require some edgy distro with tools being up to date, not sure.

[Grochu]

Hello. made some kind of guide: youtu.be/DxZa7NU0AJg
My first Video Guide! woohoo! :p