I put the tar.gz archive of Witcher 2 on the desktop, right clicked it and extracted it.
after doing so it continues to read it over and over again. I read that it was because it was based on a tape archive.

However it is not explained if I am supposed to continue to let it do that or not.
Also the terminal command listed on the support page;
"1) Open terminal
2) Navigate to the path where the game is unpacked
3) Type:
./start.sh "
Doesn't work. Here is what I get: "bash: ./start.sh: No such file or directory"

I would like this explained to me.

Hello, please keep in mind that extracting a 20gb archive takes some time, depending on the speed of your hard disk and your system overall affects this time. You'll know when it's done once the HDD led stops blinking so much.

Before going any further make sure you have extracted it correctly and try running the start.sh file again.


Can you please provide some details about your system:

- Which version of Ubuntu are you running and is it 32bit or 64bit?
- Can you please post your system specifications?

Let me know how it goes.

Sorry for my late response, had to clear a virus by removing the hard drive on my other windows computer.

When i extract it, the start.sh file isn't there. It is only in the unextracted file.
It was 14.04. I believe that it must be the 32-bit version.

Originally I was going to use it to test the capabilities of an Intel dual core at 3.2 Ghz with HD4890, with 5400rpm 2.5 inch Hard drive. However I will delete/wipe after testing and move it to a quad core amd at 3.2 Ghz with 7200rpm 3.5 inch Hard drive and R9 270x.

The Legend of grimrock and LFD2 worked surprisingly well on the 5400rpm drive. The Witcher 2 has much higher system specs and it would be nice to test how well the computer i assembled handles it.

its probably because start.sh dosn't have the execute permissions you can set them (I forget how without looking up, maybe the ui has right-click properties menu to enable execute) or an easier/lazy work around (I like lazy) just type "sh start.sh"

oh also make sure you a changed to the correct directory
"cd /home/username/whereiinstalledit"
changing the path to where you extracted it

./start.sh as already mentioned.

It's a BASH script. Not DASH or even Bourne shell.

I am by no means a power user but I know if you type "sh nameofscript" or "bash nameofscript" it will make bash or sh (which are the command prompts?) try execute said script even one with incorrect execute perssions where "./" will not work (I do it all the time with my SWF video undelete script)

don't believe me? set one of your scripts to no execute and try it!

but after I reading it again I thought it was more likely he just didn't cd to the correct directory before trying to execute the script.

Only trying to help :)

Right, it will execute them with the different specified shells. The first one specifically will fail as the OP is running Ubuntu 14.04 and sh is linked to DASH. Which immediately chokes on the declare statements, which IIRC are BASH-isms. Running bash nameofscript would work for just missing execute permissions. No worries. Your initial lazy command would fail in this case which was my main point.

so type "bash ./start.sh "

I will install 64-bit Ubuntu.

Didn't know it works on ubuntu. :) Nice.