Hello, as a Linux user, I was happily playing to GE:S 4.2.4 on Linux through wine and it worked very well. Since the 5.0 release, unfortunately it's not true.
I experienced:
- obvious rendering issues like some texturing bugs (but does not prevent to play), probably on the wine side
- autodownload mechanism not working anymore (the engine just announce it does it but does nothing)
- crashes
The crash only happen on some maps, some maps never crashes, some always crashes (for example the dam map), and something interesting, some map crashes only at some places (like the outdoor place with a truck in the dam map).
If you are attempting to run GE:S 5.0 on wine because you are a Linux user or a Mac user and you experiment same issues, other issues, or do not experiment this issues, I would be very happy to listen yourself, I will write down more stuff in the future with screenshots, and will probably open some bugs on the WINE side, by the way, I'm not sure everything is on the WINE side.
While waiting for the 2013 SDK port that will bring native Linux and Mac support, let's make the current 2007 SDK based GE:S 5.0 experience better on Linux and Mac !
If nothing can be fixed, I can host a wine-user dedicated server with only working maps in rotation. But I prefer to see the bug fixed, I want to play on that awesome dam map !