Just installed osu! on my desktop with the following specs:
Radeon HD 7850 (2GB) + Catalyst 12.11 Beta 11 Drivers
Ubuntu 12.10 32-bit (latest updates)
- Using Gnome Classic (No Effects)
- Latest Wine (1.5)
Here's what I noticed:
- Plays without hitches (haven't had any issues with about 10 minutes of gameplay anyway), Consistent 120 FPS (at 120 FPS cap :p)
- Cannot switch to OpenGL (I don't get an error or anything though; I choose OGL in options, restart osu!, and it's always on D3D still; is there another way to switch?)
- Resolutions don't seem to switch nicely under Fullscreen (trying to go to 1024x768 with my native res at 1600x900 will basically result in osu! being 1600x900, but with the 1024x768 top-corner being shown on my screen; solution is to switch Desktop resolution to 1024x768 prior to starting osu!)
And here's how I installed it:
- Installed normal Wine 1.5
- winetricks installed gdiplus, and .NET 3.0 (also included 2.0)
- Ran osu! installer
- Let installer fail
- Went to osu!'s directory and got osume.exe
- Closed installer
- Re-created osu! folder in Program Files
- Dropped osume.exe in osu! folder
- Ran osume.exe
- Let it download everything
- Ran it
The thing to take note of is, if you can get a hold of osume.exe, it'll allow you to cleanly install osu!

Alternatives is to also backup and recopy the osu! folder before closing the failed installer, or to copy over the osu! folder from another install.
But just to restate the issues I'm having:
- Can't switch to OpenGL
- Non-desktop resolution in fullscreened osu! doesn't work welll