[SOLVED] Help with wine

[Telengard]

Re: Help with wine

YES!!!

I don't know exactly because you didn't show me the output of the ls -hl command.

I presume each game is installed into a sub-directory of the games directory. So I'll make a hypothetical for you assuming you have a game named "My Game.exe" inside the "My Game" folder.

cd /home/methos94/games/My\ Game
wine My\ Game.exe

When Wine starts the program it will issue some warning messages and information about any errors which may occur. Please copy from the Konsole window (using your mouse) all the text from the cd command until Wine exits. Then paste that text into your reply here.

[Methos94]

Re: Help with wine

I never got the warning messages you described but here is the konsole copy

methos94@IanD:~$ cd /home/methos94/Games/morrowind
methos94@IanD:~/Games/morrowind$ wine Morrowind\Launcher.exe
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MorrowindLauncher.exe"
methos94@IanD:~/Games/morrowind$ ^C
methos94@IanD:~/Games/morrowind$

[Telengard]

Re: Help with wine

methos94@IanD:~$ cd /home/methos94/Games/morrowind
methos94@IanD:~/Games/morrowind$ wine Morrowind\Launcher.exe
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MorrowindLauncher.exe"

When Wine can't find the ".exe" file specified in the current directory it looks in "C:\windows\system32" automatically. I'm thinking that you got the name of the ".exe" file wrong.

[Methos94]

Re: Help with wine

methos94@IanD:~/Games/morrowind$ wine easy.exe
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP60.dll (which is needed by L"A:\\Games\\morrowind\\easy.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"A:\\Games\\morrowind\\easy.exe" failed, status c0000135

There renamed the exe to make it easier. 8)

[Telengard]

Re: Help with wine

err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP60.dll (which is needed by L"A:\\Games\\morrowind\\easy.exe") not found

Copy the "MSVCP60.dll" file from the Windows computer into the "morrowind" directory. If you can't find it on the Windows computer then you can get it with a web search.

[Methos94]

Re: Help with wine

Ok I thought about that for a second and that dll was something that was missing from the game itself, I tried it with another game and it went off without a hitch. Now the question is why can't wine run it through the program?

[Telengard]

Re: Help with wine

Ok I thought about that for a second and that dll was something that was missing from the game itself, I tried it with another game and it went off without a hitch. Now the question is why can't wine run it through the program?

Umm, what? Please re-phrase that.

[Methos94]

Re: Help with wine

The missing dll was a game specific problem, I tried again with two other games and they run fine through konsole, now I just want to get the shortcuts through wine working

[Telengard]

Re: Help with wine

now I just want to get the shortcuts through wine working

You mean you want to be able to start the games from the K menu on the desktop? Sorry, but I don't know how to do that. I always use Wine from Konsole.

[Methos94]

Re: Help with wine

Wow... Well thats something that would have saved a lot of time

...sorry for bein such a newb :P

I appreciate all the help anyways.

[Telengard]

Re: [SOLVED] Help with wine

You said the games are working now, right?

[Methos94]

Re: [SOLVED] Help with wine

Yes they work... Thank you

[kyonides]

Re: [SOLVED] Help with wine

You could even create a desktop file on your Desktop folder. You just need to enter the right path to the game exe file in the command field (Create new > Link to Application. On the new window go to Application tab > Command: field).

If you still want to create a new link to your games in K menu, then right click on K menu and select Menu Editor. Once it's opened right click on the desired submenu and add a new item. In General tab enter the Name: and the Command: (the file path).