On Monday 09 September 2002 2:46 am, Jonathan Cowherd wrote:
I've spent a good portion of this weekend trying to get reported games to run under Transgaming's WineX 2.1 . This is on my home computer which runs 7.1. I have no problem planning Loki games like UT, Descent3, etc, but all of my installs fail. My hardware is a custom 1Ghz Tbird with 512MB of RAM, GeForce 2 MX 400, 30GB HD, and DFI motherboard. I'm running 2.4.16-64GB-SMP(I know I don't need SMP on a uniprocessor) on SuSE 7.1 Professional. The game I want to get going is called Sacrifice. It is one of my favorites and I just purchased a copy. This game has a 4/5 rating from the support forums off transgaming's website. I've tired to install Quicktime(latest version), M$ Golf (from 1993), Mechwarrior 4 demo. No luck on any of them.
Well, up until yesterday, I would have agreed with Curtis. But having seen my son's Warcraft 3 running fine under Linux, and playing against a Windows machine on the local network, I'm pretty impressed - as Dr Johnson said about the dog, the surprising thing is not that it is done badly, but that it is done at all. The forums at Transgaming show that a lot of people are having "issues", but many others are having success. So it's perhaps a matter of ticking things off and crossing your fingers. I know there are all sorts of questions about whether running Windows games under Wine is bad for Linux desktop adoption. I used to think it was, but judging by the reactions of my son's companions today it is quite the opposite. Those who hadn't heard of Linux were interested in knowing more about it, and those who had were just interested in the game. IANAE (I am not an expert), but check: - do you have 3D turned on OK, and have your drivers had whatever sorting out we all know nVidia drivers need - they're like black magic to me, and I doubt I will ever buy an nVidia card again; - do you have a symbolic link for /usr/lib/libGL.so from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 - it was this one thing that allowed WC3 to run on my setup; - does the install proceed OK - it's not clear from the above whether you get even this far; - what sort of response do you get when you try to run the game - have you tried winex <nameofgame> -opengl as an alternative; - try moving any cutscenes out of the way temporarily (rename the directory), so that they don't play. This probably isn't much help to you, I'm afraid, but I too had given up Transgaming as a valiant but pointless exercise until yesterday. Best wishes Kevin