First a couple of screenshots on Ubuntu 12.04 x64, CrossOver 11, 32bit Editor and Launcher v3.4.0:



1) Install wine (yes I think wines ubuntu ppa installs files that makes cryengine happier - weird, try without wine if you want - or just try wine by itself).

2)Create a new bottle, call it what you want.

3) Put the CryEngines files from the zip into a new folder within the bottle (I chose drive_c to avoid spaces in names).

4) In the bottle, install the Visual Studio C++ 2008 Redistributrable.

5) In the config, add the CryDevLogin.exe as a new application.

6) Highlight the new application, go to Libraries and set an override for mfc90.dll to native.

7) Launch the editor or launcher, login as usual.

A couple of points:

1) The Editor is very slow to launch (so much so you won't think anything is happening after double clicking the exe icon).
2) It's normal to get a complaint about an unsupported video vendor
3) Changing/Disabling the skin with a map loaded crashed the editor for me, but worked fine with just the editor loaded and no map.
4) The Launchers main menu UI is a bit garbled, but is useable.
5) The title mentions MacOSX, CrossOver Mac and Wine installers exsist, I see no reason why the above shouldn't work for any mac fans out there, but no guarantees of course.
6) Crossover is a paid product, currently though you can get it incredibly cheap (£3.70 instead of £32) using trialpay and the right offer if you feel like it.


Chief

How does the performance compare with Windows?

Whats the point of running in linux in the first place anyways?

Performance wise seems the same, though I dont think my SLI is enabled currently, so 31.5fps as you see in the picture (though sometimes it said 700:p) but it seemed smooth enough while flying through the forest level in the editor.

The point in my case was I was trying out the latest ubuntu and decided to see if I could get it working, others may have the point that they'd prefer to use their preferred OS whatever it may be.

But this might be a good solution for those indie developers that who can't spent a lot of money on Microsoft software

Mysteriously enough, having just been able to try it on osX, the launcher works perfectly, while the editor viewports are just white blank areas - not sure why the editors viewports would render any different from the game.