I don't know if this is too late or not, but the launcher now basically works with version 2.21 staging and setting it to xp mode in wine settings. Not sure if this is an improvment or not. But you can get into the demo a little and mess with settings before it crashes. I can even get into the cockpit of a tutorial mission. But the colors are funny and I can't figure out the controls.
BTW, it will not work in windows 10 or 7 and probably other version. but it will operate for some reason in windows xp mode what I beleive is a reduced fashion.
Edit: It was working for me. I messed it up somehow adding and removing things. I'll have to remake the bottle and see again.
It requires 2.21staging(possibly others) dotnet4.0 and possibly xinput and wine must be set to XP mode. It should allow partial access to the game before crashing. And you may need to select options on the launcher and deselect all checked options.
I managed to lower the settings and temporarily got somewhat stable game but couldn't use any controls in the demo tutorials. It had red and grey colors in place of normal ones. But it was prone to crashing. Although I could get it to stay uncrashed for pretty long periods of time.
I also used steam in pol to download the game first and used those files. Haven't tested the launcher/client for full download.
Edit: The controls don't work because there were no preset keybinds. Have to set them all manually. Once I did this I was flying around the demo doing stuff. So the game is in essence playable. But some problems with entering the main game and color problems.
If the stuff on the launcher disapears, scroll your mouse over it and it will come in and out again.
Edit: And, Yay for edits!
Edit: If you install dx11 make sure to remove mscoree. It will cause the launcher not to start.
Important: only works in 32bit bottle so far.
Edit: Does anyone know how to get Dotnet452 on PlayOnLinux? If you can install dotnet452, Quartz, corefonts, vcrun2012 in wine you can run the installer in 64bit and start the game. It fails because of a CRC error. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/366894-How-to-install-ED-on-Linux-using-Wine-EXPERIMENTAL-NOT-OFFICIALLY-SUPPORTED
Edité par Aital