X³: Reunion - Linux support thread

[J_Darnley]

I too was experiencing a repeatable crash in X3 Reunion during the first mission on Linux (mostly up-to-date Arch). I have the version from GOG. On a whim I decided to try replacing the bundled libraries in the lib/ and game/lib/ directories with packaged ones. Surprisingly that fixed the crash and I was able to finish that and eventually dock at a station so I could save after the mission.

I had to build ffmpeg 0.9.4 and GLEW 1.9.0 but all the rest are packaged. Fortunately I know ffmpeg and think it is easy and GLEW just needed a minor change to the lib32-glew PKGBUILD to build the old version. I renamed the two existing directories to lib.old and copied my newly built libavcodec.so.53 libavformat.so.53 libavutil.so.51 libGLEW.so.1.9 libswscale.so.2 into a new game/lib directory.

Now I can fly in space.

[EDIT] I spoke too soon. I now get a crash when loading that game.

[organism]

I too was experiencing a repeatable crash in X3 Reunion during the first mission on Linux (mostly up-to-date Arch). I have the version from GOG.

...and everyone, who crashes during first mission!

rename or delete:

X3 Reunion/lib/
libstdc++.so.6.0.19
libstdc++.so.6
libxcb.so.1.1.0
libxcb.so.1
libXrandr.so.2.2.0
libXrandr.so.2

X3 Reunion/game/lib/
libopenal.so.1
libz.so.1

system libs wll be used, crashes will disappear

mint 20.1 64bit

[Lukin86]

Good morning

I am writing to point out that the gog linux version is not up to date for the game. The windows version is 2.5b and the linux version is 2.5a for x3 reunion. Is it possible to update the linux version on gog? Thanks in advance.

[scdack]

Good morning

I am writing to point out that the gog linux version is not up to date for the game. The windows version is 2.5b and the linux version is 2.5a for x3 reunion. Is it possible to update the linux version on gog? Thanks in advance.

Either they have updated it by now, or your information is wrong, or I am perhaps reading it wrong... The GOG version of X3 Reunion is 2.5b. The version is shown in the X3 launcher where it clearly says 2.5b!

[symo]

Not hopeful of getting an answer here owing to age of this excellent game.

Now running this on steam under Fedora 43 KDE Plasma - and the base game runs well. Found that the bonus pack on the egosoft link does not happily play under wine despite pointing it to the correct folder as it did not recognise x3 being installed.

Found the bonus pack tar installed as part of steam install and extracted it but still the scripts are neither showing up in MCSI editor or load automatically. Any suggestions?