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Posted October 16, 2015
Your round table awaits.

<span class="bold">King Arthur Collection</span>, a complete Paradox strategy experience, is available now, DRM-free on GOG.com with a 60% launch discount.


In King Arthur Collection, you'll fulfill your royal destiny and take your rightful place as the king of magic and myth. You'll lead an army of heroes and save the land from an onslaught of legendary warriors and monsters. Spectacular fights and thousands of combatants at one may just melt your eyes off with the bloody sights of medieval carnage - while a turn-based tactical overworld will allow you to take a breather and plan your next attack. Everything you do will determine whether the King Arthur of your time is a benevolent leader, or a mighty tyrant. Choose your skills, choose your people, choose your destiny.

The King Arthur Collection features:
- Standalone Fallen Champions Expansion
- The Saxons DLC
- The Druids DLC
- Knights and Vassals DLC
- Legendary Artifacts DLC

Your seat at the round table awaits in <span class="bold">King Arthur Collection</span>, now available, DRM-free on GOG.com. The 60% launch discount will last for five days, until Wednesday, October 21, 1:59 PM GMT.
Posted October 16, 2015
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WBGhiro: oh hell yeah!

EDIT: oh I thought at that price it would include the second game too, still nice to see it in the catalogue even if the pricing's a bit off imho.
It includes the original game, the smaller DLC expansions, and the stand-alone expansion Fallen Champions :)
Posted October 16, 2015
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Petrell: What version is this?
1.07.
Post edited October 16, 2015 by JudasIscariot
Posted October 16, 2015
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JudasIscariot: 1.07.
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Petrell: So what kind of technical difficulties did GOG techies have releasing this that were enough to prevent developer with full access to source code back in the day from doing the same?
I have no idea, I didn't ask :)
Posted October 19, 2015
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eiii: I've tried the demo under Wine. And although my PC is a bit too slow for it this looks like a game for me. But I had no sound in the demo. Does anybody have the same problem?

Does the GOG version of the game work under Wine?
I can try testing it under my install later tonight :) What version of Wine do you have on your system?
Posted October 19, 2015
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LynetteC: I'm having technical issues with this on my husband's Windows 10 laptop. I'm unable to 'install' PhysX even though it's fully up to date which appears to be a known problem with the Steam version.

I've posted in the game's dedicated forum <span class="podkreslenie">here</span> if anyone can offer any advice please, but there's a part of my query that I'd also like to post over here to see if a blue will respond; that is, why would a GOG install contain the files 'Steam_api.dll' and 'SteamAPIUpdater.dll'? (screenshot attached).
Depending on how a program was compiled, it might need to have files named as you have in the picture in order to function. In short, those should be nothing more than dummy files but you can test this yourself by running on a machine without Steam being installed.
Posted October 19, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Depending on how a program was compiled, it might need to have files named as you have in the picture in order to function. In short, those should be nothing more than dummy files but you can test this yourself by running on a machine without Steam being installed.
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LynetteC: Thanks Judas and Ixamyakxim. It seemed odd to me that a GOG game would have left over Steam files but if. as you say, they're just dummies to make the game work(!) then that's fine. However, getting the game to work in the first place would be a bonus in my case! ;-)
Yeah, sometimes all a program does, and I am grossly oversimplifying things here :), is basically ask the PC in question : "Are these files present?" and then it runs once the program conditions are met :)

Can you tell me what version of PhysX you have?
Post edited October 19, 2015 by JudasIscariot
Posted October 19, 2015
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Ixamyakxim: I've heard a few games mentioned as being just "cracked" Steam Versions. Hopefully a Blue can give better information but I don't think this game is the only one with a few Steam*.dlls hanging around.
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LynetteC: It just hit me - GOG are selling a 'cracked' Steam version! hahaha I know that's a simplified explanation but yeah, go GOG haxors! lol
I prefer the term "nullified" in this case :P
Posted October 21, 2015
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JudasIscariot: I can try testing it under my install later tonight :) What version of Wine do you have on your system?
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eiii: I've tried Wine 1.6.2 and 1.7.51 on Debian. Maybe the reason is a missing library for the audio output. But unfortunately the game doesn't give me a hint.
Might be an XAUDIO issue but I am not sure :/

What winetricks do you have installed?
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JudasIscariot: Yeah, sometimes all a program does, and I am grossly oversimplifying things here :), is basically ask the PC in question : "Are these files present?" and then it runs once the program conditions are met :)

Can you tell me what version of PhysX you have?
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LynetteC: I'm glad you asked that, Judas (not!) So here's the embarrassing thing...

I use GeForce Experience to keep the drivers up to date in both my own and my husband's laptops. When installing the game, it ran a PhysX installer before quitting. When the error occurred, I used GeForce Experience to check for updates and it told me that everything was up to date, including PhysX. Then you asked what version of PhysX I had.

I couldn't find it listed in the driver's properties tab so I thought I was looking in the wrong place. A quick Google showed that I was looking in the right place and PhysX was not installed - at least not where nVidia and King Arthur expected it to be!

I downloaded and manually installed PhysX and hey presto - the game worked! (Cue red face!)

The moral of the story is - don't trust GeForce Experience to keep you up to date. I'm off to install PhysX manually on my own laptop now - just in case I need it in future for one of my 499 backlog games!

Thanks everyone for al the advice.
The important thing here is that the game works now :)
Post edited October 21, 2015 by JudasIscariot
Posted October 21, 2015
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JudasIscariot: What winetricks do you have installed?
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eiii: I've lost a bit track of what I've tried. At least several d3dx versions to get the game running at all, dsound, directmusic and directplay. But only the installation of the full directx9 package finally fixed the sound problem. Nice music in the game. :)

I'm not sure if there's a "cheaper" solution with less native libraries installed. Maybe I'll try the installation from scratch again later, but I'm short of time now and I'm not sure if the demo is worth the effort.

Does the GOG version of the game work for you under Wine? And does it have sound?

Edit: Such a nice music and the game does not come with a soundtrack. :(
I'll see about taking a build home tonight to play around with :)

What does your winetricks.log say? It should have every winetrick that you have installed listed :)

Also, have you tried using a clean wineprefix? I noticed that making a clean prefix really helped me with my Elminage Gothic issues when clicking on "New Game" :)

Please keep in mind that I am using WINE 1.7.53 so your mileage may vary and I recommend taking a look at what's been fixed in 1.7.52 and 1.7.53 :)
Posted October 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: I'll see about taking a build home tonight to play around with :)
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eiii: No hurry! I've just realized that the release discount is gone, so there's plenty of time. Please let us know if you get the game working under Wine. Meanwhile I hopefully find the time to play the demo.

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JudasIscariot: What does your winetricks.log say? It should have every winetrick that you have installed listed :)
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eiii: Good hint, thanks! I did not know that winetricks creates a log. And the log contains exactly what I have written in my last post. :)

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JudasIscariot: Also, have you tried using a clean wineprefix?
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eiii: I use a separate Wine prefix for every Windows application I install. That makes it much easier to restart from scratch and to avoid side effects.

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JudasIscariot: Please keep in mind that I am using WINE 1.7.53 so your mileage may vary and I recommend taking a look at what's been fixed in 1.7.52 and 1.7.53 :)
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eiii: No problem. When the game runs with at least one Wine version often other versions work too. And in the worst case I always can install exactly that Wine version myself.
Well, I tried the game yesterday and here are my results:

Winetricks used were: wmp9 physx dxd39. Wine version 1.7.53.

Game starts up fine, publisher and developer logos show up fine, intro movie plays but there is no sound.

This is a pretty clean prefix too as the only thing I installed on it was some small Windows-based game that didn't require any winetricks.

I'll have to see if xact helps solve the problem :)
Posted October 23, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Winetricks used were: wmp9 physx dxd39. Wine version 1.7.53.

Game starts up fine, publisher and developer logos show up fine, intro movie plays but there is no sound.
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eiii: Try to install directx9 with winetricks. That solved the sound problems with the demo version for me (but is probably overkill, better solutions are welcome :)).
Ah I see there is a separate directx9 winetrick, thanks :)
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