It's been a while, and with the release of Proton and a little helpful script made by emmet it's now easier than ever to get the game up and running.

Leaving the old guide in place for those who want to have a go at setting it up the old way, but if not just check out the link above for the bash script.

Just thought I should make note that this is my first time using the guide maker in the community. So please give me lots of constructive criticism/feedback on how to improve it and future ones.

But be kind about it ok? Thank you.

I will briefly sum up this part as most of you interested in this already know the basic idea/how.

What you will need to do is create a wine prefix with this software installed(this is just what I have in mine):

Directx
VCrun2005
VCrun2008
VCrun2010
VCrun2012(maybe?)
.net 2.0 - 4.0(might be able to get away without 3.0+)
tahoma
Corefonts

If you don't know how to do this you can do most of these via Winetricks:

http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

Or if you are like me and use Playonlinux all you need to know can be found here:

https://www.playonlinux.com/en/documentation.html

I suggest using Playonlinux as it stream lines everything making wine much more managable.

Then you just need to install steam and Homeworld RM into the same prefix and read my next part about the Launcher Issue.

The main issue is that the launcher simply won't run in wine even with the required dependencies installed.

Solution?

We bypass it completely. The only thing the launcher does is create a menu for us to select which game/version we want to play. Thus all we need to do is run the game .exes directly.

What to do:


Create a shortcut for the game which located ../Homeworld/HomeworldRM/Bin/Release/HomeworldRM.exe

How you do this is different if you use straight wine or playonlinux.
With wine there are so many ways to do it depending on your system and version of linux, I recomend googling for a tutorial for your specific system.

As for playonlinux it's same for all systems:

"Configure button > (selection of virtual drive) > General tab > Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"

Add the corresponding commands to the end of Target:

Homeworld 1:

-dlccampaign HW1Campaign.big -campaign HomeworldClassic -moviepath DataHW1Campaign -mod compatibility.big


Homeworld 2:

-dlccampaign HW2Campaign.big -campaign Ascension -moviepath DataHW2Campaign -mod compatibility.big


Multiplayer:
(note: Multiplayer currently isn't working in wine. Looking into it.)

-mpbeta -mod compatibility.big

(Note: you must first load up the launcher on a windows PC/virtual machine and register for multiplayer beta before you can run multiplayer.)

Repeat for each version of the game.



Now you should have a fully working copy of Homeworld 2 Remastered on Linux.

Problem: Game crashes on load.

Solution: trying lowering your graphical settings such. Some features don't work properly in wine.


Problem: Game crashes when every I press a key on the keyboard

Solution: This happens when you try to use the shortcut system inside steam. Don't do this! Create external/desktop shortcuts and run the game via that.


Problem: All multiplayer games are incompatible

Solution: None at the moment, working on it.