Linux Installation 0.5.2

Minimum Version: v0.5.2 - Sep. 1, 2013

Linux support is minimal and really only indirect support via Wine. See http://www.winehq.org for more information.

Installation via Wine
These steps were only tested on 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu 12.10 and may not fully work on or apply to other distributions or versions of Linux. You can email [mailto:support@synekism.com support@synekism.com] if you have any trouble.


 * 1) You need to install Wine 1.5 (development version) since the stable 1.4 version doesn't run Synekism reliably (or at all in most cases).
 * 2) Just run the Windows Synekism installer via Wine.
 * 3) GPU-Z will fail to run. This is normal. Just click OK on both of the failed GPU-Z prompts and then Yes on the following two Synekism prompts asking you if you'd still like to proceed despite not meeting the minimum hardware requirements.
 * 4) The rest of the installation should continue without issue and basically follows normal Windows installation.
 * 5) After the installer finishes, you need to alter the Synekism shortcut to force DirectX 9 since DirectX 10 does not work properly on Wine.
 * 6) Right-click on the shortcut created by the installer and go to Properties.
 * 7) Go to the Basic tab.
 * 8) Under Command, add -dx9 at the very end. The complete Command should look something like this:
 * 9) You can also start Synekism via terminal like so:

Some notes:
 * When you hover over your saved cities in the city selection menu the paths shown in the tooltips will be paths relative to the virtual Windows C drive and not Linux paths. Normally, Wine installs this virtual Windows drive under:
 * Next few releases will attempt to make the installation process a bit cleaner and improve support so things should get better over time.
 * For more command line arguments see: Command Line.
 * Good luck.