I am an avid linux user, and I really want to learn how to make more than easy programs work. so here's my problem. I have a strict linux box, and I would like to make win games run with it. I loath microsoft..... enough said, and I'm getting deployed for another year in the sand box. So my need to have this wine system up and running is a bit of a necessity. My wine system will open and run the setup wizard, (though it won't let me actually work with it because it says that I don't have "administrative privilages"..... stupid microsoft.) But it won't let me run the halo.exe. I have tried most of the suggestions in the forum and none have seemed to work out for me..... so at a bit of a dead end, and I am running out of time. If anyone could/would help me, I would be grateful... Thanks in advance, and screw Microsoft.
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Re: wine runs setup, but not game.
Hi,
Don't know much about wine, but how are you launching it ? With kdesu or sudo ? (I think it's needed if it complains about root priviledges...)
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Re: wine runs setup, but not game.
I looked around - the general answer is no. However this is from the Win App and it says it runs good with Debian:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=2720
Be careful over there!Comment
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Re: wine runs setup, but not game.
I was trying to launch it via the right click- open with- Wine. But that just works with the setup, and with that I can't even install the game. I noticed it needs root privaliges, and I'm not really sure what command I need to run it through the terminal. I veiwed the site that Podunk sent, and it said that it only works with etch......I am using dapper. so does that mean that I can't use halo under this distro? though I did see a lot of great games that I don't have that supposedly work under wine/debian. I will try others as well when I can get my hands on them.... Thanks.Comment
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Re: wine runs setup, but not game.
Debian Etch is a release of the Debian Linux which ubuntu is founded on. It's a free download and not that different from Ubuntu in function. They don't update or release as often as K/Ubuntu does. My limited experience is that it doesn't install hardware right off the bat as well as Kubuntu does. For example my network card was detected but wasn't activated when I tried Debian
I don't have Halo, I made a decision that I was switching to Linux all the way, so I found games I like that are native to Linux.
Something you might try is this.
Open the terminal.
Use Konqueror to find your set up file.
Drag the file to the terminal and release it - this will give you your path statement.
Hit the home key to go to the beginning of the path.
Type sudo wine <have a space between the word wine and the path statement>
Path statements are case sensitive. Program Files is not the same as program files.
Important!! Wine does ***Not** like spaces in the path statement. If you have something like .wine/zdrive/Program Files/my game.exe
it will not run unless you enclose the path in quotation marks
"
like so
wine "./wine/zdrive/Program Files/my game.exe"
I wish I could help more. :-(
Thank you for your service and courage.Comment
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Re: wine runs setup, but not game.
perhaps I did something wrong. I downloaded all the files to my /.wine folder, then I used winecfg to configure wine to use said folder. then I copy and pasted the file to the terminal.... sudo..... wine.... password..... and still the same thing. did I do something wrong? I still can't use the install..."admin. privlages required". oh, and had to create a "zdrive" folder. is there something wrong with my install of Wine? here's the output I get when I try to run it..... hope you can make something out of it. And by the way.... thanks... I don't get too much gratitude for my deployments... last time I came back, I got spit on and garbage thrown at me..... no pride left in America it seems to me sometimes.... so thank you.
zion@zion-laptop:~$ sudo wine "/home/zion/.wine/zdrive/Files/HALO.EXE"
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible.
err:module:import_dll Library vorbisfile.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Files\\HALO.EXE") not found
err:module:import_dll Library binkw32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Files\\HALO.EXE") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Files\\HALO.EXE" failed, status c0000135
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Re: wine runs setup, but not game.
One of the reasons I decided to go all Linux is because Wine is pretty buggy. It's beta software and I'm an alpha user. I'm on release .0.0.0.0.1 here.:-)
I found a Halo Combat Evolved demo on line. Is that what you are trying to run? If it is I'll download it and see if I can get it to run this weekend.
What kind of computer do you have? Most importantly the video card, I have machines with both ATI and Nvidia cards. I'm sure the set up will be slightly different.
A lot of Americans need to travel more. They're fairly stupid about the world. If they traveled around a bit and saw how many people hated their guts and would cheerfully kill um your pay would be a lot more.Comment
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Re: wine runs setup, but not game.
actually I have the disc. I am using a Dell ispiron 1000, and I have a SiS pci to pci bridge agp.... you know, the one you have to turn on via terminal, though I appended the -k1 to it so that it turns on automatically and has the keep flag. my machine isn't exactly great, but it did play most games when I had a dual boot with winblows 2000. but I wanted to rage against the Gates machine, so I read up on the linux society, and I really liked what I saw, but only been into it for about a year, so still a bit of a rookie.
Thank you for the comment. I very much so agree that if they really saw what was going on there, they might see things a bit differently.Comment
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Re: wine runs setup, but not game.
well wine shouldn't be all that difficult to install, just get the repo from winehq.org and get it with aptitude, and there shouldnt be any reason to use sudo with wine, make sure that you have full access to everything in .wine (probably wouldnt hurt to just chmod it all to 777) or you could just purge and reinstall wine (provided you dont have anything installed on there yet). assuming you are installing from cd all you would have to do is wine /media/cdrom0/somesetuporinstaller.exe (run winecfg and make sure it has a drive letter assigned to all your drives and that cdrom drives are set as cdrom drives) once you do that and get errors
you will have something to go on, in my experience installing with wine can be trickier than installing with cedega and I have found the easiest thing to do is install the game on windows and then copy the whole folder over into your wine folder. Although reading the appdb posts the options look a little bleak =\ i would try to get those dll's that are recommended and go from there. I hope this helped and didnt confuse you more, post back with what does or doesn't work.
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Re: wine runs setup, but not game.
for some reason, my winecfg never retained the changes I made, so every time I exited the winecfg program, it must have reset. So, I uninstalled the whole thing, cleared my .wine file, and if it's not too much trouble, could someone tell me what might have been happening there? I'm going to reinstall with Automatix. I have had some really good results with programs I've installed through that. It installed the 3.5.5 kernel almost flawlessly. After that, I'm really not too sure what's going wrong. I read somewhere that wine doesn't like programs that use directx, and then I also read that directx really has no problem under wine. I don't know what to believe, just that it doesn't like me or something. Could someone tell me what worked for them? Perhaps I could get a better idea as to what to expect from this binary emulator. Thanks!Comment
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Re: wine runs setup, but not game.
You can't save your winecfg as you are running wine with sudo, which you should not do. Your wine setup now has admin ownership/read-write permissions, which is why your settings are not saved. I suggest deleting your wine directory:
and run winecfg again without using sudo. You definitely do not want an emulator running "foreign" applications with full admin rights!Code:sudo rm -rf /home/<username>/.wine
Halo is going to take a bit of work im sure as the newest directx implementations are just making their way into wine.Comment
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Re: wine runs setup, but not game.
Thank you, I was wondering why it wouldn't save the settings. I re-ran winecfg and it set everything up the way it was suppossed to. now I just have to find a game that works with it. Halo tried to setup, but it wouldn't run the pwid.dll (or something like that), and don't most games run directx? I am still not too sure if it worked out or not, at least till I have another game to try on it. But thanks for all the help. if anyone has anything else that might help, please let e know. I will at least keep it in my notebook just in case I run across the problem. The connection, if any, is really weak in Iraq, so the more info now, the better.... thanks!!Comment
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Re: wine runs setup, but not game.
I have decent luck with steam/half-life, but thats about the only game I playComment
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Re: wine runs setup, but not game.
Hey guys i got WINE up and running and i got me an old game to try it out. I think ive set-up everything but i keep getting these errors..
Link: http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/3852/wineup2.pngKubuntu Gutsy Gibbon - Registered Linux User--> # 15709Comment
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Re: wine runs setup, but not game.
DON'T use sudo for wine! sudo is for admin tasks.
I suggest deleting your .wine directory and trying again WITHOUT sudo
#if you setup wine with sudo, else just delete with KonquerorCode:sudo rm -rf ~/.wine
thenOnce that is done and the game is installed, try the command this way:Code:winecfg ###to setup your wine configuration (drives, etc)
I always suggest installing new and not copying the files from a windows install as I find that it seldom works well, but it does not hurt to try it howeverCode:wine "c:/program files/tribes/tribes.exe"
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