Mnemon

#9 on GOGs bestseller list, at the moment - despite the massive sale going on.

I am on Mate (Mint edition) so yeah, not the most lightweight one. Not going to switch that out at this point in time though. Am aiming to go with Manjaro and openbox or xcfe eventually; but that has to wait until new PC arrives. The laptop I currently use is already maxed out on RAM; Bios only allows 4GB. Thanks for all the suggestions, though .

Thank you, both. Updated Wine (was on the 1.6 branch, still) but no luck. The 'slow harddrive' aspect is probable. This is a somewhat oldish laptop with a replacement no-brand hard drive of mysterious features (it was cheap, which was important at the time when the original one died!). Terminal spits out number of error messages throughout. err:d3d:context_create Failed to set pixel format 36 on device context 0x1005a.err:d3d:context_create Failed to set pixel format 44 on device context 0x1005c.err:d3d:context_choose_pixel_format Can't find a suitable iPixelFormat[i]And so on.[/i] There's a new computer coming in, on the near horizon, that should definitely be fast and responsive enough. I am not the impatient type, so it's not much of a problem if that's what it is . (I bought this, and a few other games, irrespective of GOG's official Linux support being announced to happen at an unspecified time in the future. I can wait.)

Mhm. I got the GOG version (and I know this unsupported - but given that you run it through wine anyway folks might have an idea). The game starts fine, but - after clicking away the first initial tool tip (with the geoscape map visible in the background) - I just get a uniformly blue area where the geoscape should be displayed. I checked the assets folder and all the different 'building block' .pngs of the geoscape map should be fine and readable. It only affects the geoscape. I can build a base (click blindly - the pop up that asks for confirmation comes up fine), and can access all the other screens via the menu just fine. Any tips what might cause this? Anything that wine might need / require to run the game? Thank you!