linux:fix_not_enough_free_space_to_continue_error_in_icewind_dale_2

Fix Not enough free disk space to continue, shutting down

OK, this is strange. I was previously running Icewind Dale 2 on Fedora Linux using PlayOnLinux. After swapping out my old hard drive with a new one – and restoring the game installation using PlayOnLinux Vault – the program threw an error at launch:

Not enough free disk space to continue, shutting down

Doing some digging, such as this helpful thread on the WineHQ forums, it seems that Icewind Dale 2 (and perhaps related games using the Infinity Engine), might have problems when running them on a disk or partition larger than two terabytes 1). Some possible solutions are:

  1. Create a smaller partition and install the game there
  2. Install the game onto an external drive
  3. Create a virtual machine (Virtualbox, GNOME Boxes, etc) with an appropriately sized virtual disk and install the game inside the VM

Not satisfied with any of these solutions, I fiddled with a bunch of settings inside PlayOnLinux. Changing the Display settings did not yield anything fruitful.

What finally did work was changing the WINE Application Settings to mimic Windows 98 (Go to the WINE tab, click Configure Wine, and then use the dropdown menu on the Applications tab. The game launched and ran fine.

For the record, I'm using Fedora 28 and my version of WINE is 3.9.


1)
or at least with more than 2 TB of free space
  • linux/fix_not_enough_free_space_to_continue_error_in_icewind_dale_2.txt
  • Last modified: 2018/06/21 03:16
  • by brian