FAQ entry

Keywords: All, Linux, Mac, multimedia, Open General, settings,

I’m a Linux / Mac user and I play OpenGen with Wine. Whenever the weather changes, the game crashes, what can I do?

Unfortunately, the Wine emulator does not support Windows sound system and the OpenGen sound effects like weather animation (but also getting a leader, etc.) can cause a crash. In order to prevent any difficulties, you should disable all possible multimedia completely:

1. Open a terminal, enter to the main OpenGen folder and delete all sound, music, multimedia files (even from the Efile subfolders):
   find . -iname 'sfx' -o -iname 'smack' -o -iname 'sound' | xargs rm -rf
2. Open the game and disable sound, music, multimedia: enter the Settings (if you don’t see the tool button, it can be opened with </> hotkey anytime) –> Media Settings
   • Set all volume = 0
   • Set off “play sound” / “play music” / “play video” (icon background should be grey not yellow)

     

3. Enter Settings –> User Interface Settings, and disable “Show weather animations”:

   

4. Exit the game, and edit the shortcut launching OpenGen and run Wine without sound:
   wine "c:\folder_name_where_your_opengen_is_installed\OpenGen.exe" -nosound