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So, about two weeks ago my windows vista died when I tried to install a new nvidia drivers (I have no idea why but it did) so I jumped ship to Ubuntu. Today I tried to install CF (in Wine 1.1.27) and it did not work. FL installs fine but for some odd reason CF just won't. Even FLMM works fine but I can't get freelancer to run after activating CF. Anyone ever do this successfully before or have any tips?

Well, I have one last attempt. I read that fl works best with wine 1.0.1 (the version in the repos). I'm gonna reinstall in that and try again. I have a feeling that this should work because it seems that some mods can be used in wine (according to the AppDB) and also because I saw a post once by OP that said he wanted it to be usable in Linux.

Cool, I will probably try to install today or tomorrow so I will post my results when I'm done. Right now I really wish Microsoft would release the source code of FL so there would be a true linux port but...

(Quote) Agreed. Even though FL would benefit and the community would be thankful, M$ would never release the source for anything they make. Btw, I made another attempt yesterday and, sad to say FL worked less well as it would not even pass the splash screen after adding some supposed "fixes" I found on another FL site. I'm still trying though.

So, new idea, today I'm going to try to install cf in a real windows xp system and and copy the program files folder to Wine. I've heard this works for something else and I have a good feeling about this. By the way, (Quote) Please, no thread hijacking, this is a thread for running CF in Linux and, once a way is found, helping those who want to follow this thread.

No hard feelings assault, that was more of a message for anyone who really did a full spam or hijack. Anyway, I used to dual boot but my windows crashed and I've had enough. I'm not gonna even consider buying a new copy until Windows 7 though because I've had enough with vista. Anyway, thanks for the suggestion on copying the registry keys, will do that when I make my attempt, I haven't had much time lately.