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rasmus91
October 11th, 2008, 07:14 PM
Do you think there will ever be a version of NWN2 for Linux?

if you think so, when ?
corney91
October 11th, 2008, 07:42 PM
It seems to work ok with Wine (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=8688&iTestingId=14159) :)
Nepherte
October 11th, 2008, 07:44 PM
I don't think they will ever make linux binaries for it. They would have made them rightaway as they did with NwN1.
Raffles10
October 11th, 2008, 08:21 PM
...and anyway it isn't as good as the original NWN.
ooobuntooo
October 11th, 2008, 08:44 PM
As an employee of Atari Europe, I can safely say this isn't going to happen.
EDIT: BioWare released the freely downloadable Linux Client in June 2003 (purchase of game still required). I did not know this.
ooobuntooo
October 11th, 2008, 08:49 PM
Other Atari games have been ported to Linux via collaborations with other software companies.

UT 2004 was ported to Linux by id Software.
Ms_Angel_D
October 11th, 2008, 11:38 PM
NWN2 Seems to run quite well for me using Play On Linux (http://www.playonlinux.com)
Npl
October 12th, 2008, 02:20 AM
UT 2004 was ported to Linux by id Software.Wrong, it was Icculus (http://icculus.org/~icculus/resume.txt) which was contracted with the port. id had nothing to do with it.
darrenn
October 12th, 2008, 09:21 AM
I still haven't finished hordes of the underdark. I do plan to finish it eventually.
JohnSearle
October 12th, 2008, 09:30 AM
http://kotaku.com/gaming/ea/ea-buys-bioware-pandemic-309937.php

Your answer.

- John
Perfect Storm
October 12th, 2008, 09:34 AM
I don't think it would happen.

Bioware was ready to make linux binaries if Atari approved it, but they didn't.
mike1772
October 12th, 2008, 05:15 PM
I don't think they will ever make linux binaries for it. They would have made them rightaway as they did with NwN1.

I don't think they will either - however they certainly did not make binaries for LInux right away with NWN1 - the Linux binaries came out quite a bit later - from memory I'm thinking a year or more. Contrary to what they suggested it was not written to be portable and required a lot more work then they initially anticipated.

Regardless - I'm just glad I was able to play that awesome game on my platform of choice.
rasmus91
October 12th, 2008, 08:51 PM
Regardless - I'm just glad I was able to play that awesome game on my platform of choice.

Beautiful spoken! NWN was my favorite game from the first time i tried it... :) and now, i just don't wanna run NWN2 on vista...