Hi there. Sorry, but I am a total noob regarding wine. I succeeded in installing Prince of Persia 2008 with wine and the game also starts, but I can't see any video (only hear sound). Can somebody help me with a how-to to run the game? I run Ubuntu Intrepid and in the winw configuration I can see it is set to Win XP and that the sound drivers al alsa, but I don't know anything about the other options: I left them how they were. Anybody can help me? Thanks in advance.
xaber1488 wrote:> Hi there. > Sorry, but I am a total noob regarding wine. I succeeded in installing Prince of Persia 2008 with wine and the game also starts, but I can't see any video (only hear sound). > Can somebody help me with a how-to to run the game? > I run Ubuntu Intrepid and in the winw configuration I can see it is set to Win XP and that the sound drivers al alsa, but I don't know anything about the other options: I left them how they were. > Anybody can help me? > Thanks in advance.http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14808
Thank you austin! And, by the way; I read in a playonlinux discussion that POP 2008 is thought not to be playable under wine with ati cards: do you know anything? And another little question: when I first install wine, does it need a certain configuration? I left everything how it was after the installation. The only thing I did was to copy all my windows XP "C:\Windows" files in the "drive_c/windows" directory of wine.
OK, so I have to re-install wine, right? Ah, appdb is now online: I read that I have to set offscreenrenderongmode in the registry to some values, but in regedit, in HKEY_CURRENT_USER > software > wine I can't find the Direct3D directory with the offscreenrebderingmode value. What to do?
Ah, and - also - what about setting the videomemorysize (always in the POP 2008 appdb)? I am really sorry, but I am totally new to linux and and I am more totally new to wine!
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 4:16 PM, xaber1488 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Ah, and - also - what about setting the videomemorysize (always in the POP 2008 appdb)? I am really sorry, but I am totally new to linux and and I am more totally new to wine! > >In registry as well. -- -Austin
Yes, but to what value? In the registry wiki you gave me is said that the default is an autodetection: should I leave the value empty?
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 4:26 PM, xaber1488 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Yes, but to what value? In the registry wiki you gave me is said that the default is an autodetection: should I leave the value empty? > > > > > >Set it to the amount of memory in your video card ;-). -- -Austin
And how to see my card's amount of memory? Am I forced to see it on the pc box? I can't see that listed in the output of lspci. By the way: I deleted the .wine folder and reinstalled POP. Now the game doesn't start at all: when I try to run it, from the terminal I can see that the d3dx9_39.dll is not found; wine gives me this error, which was not present before I deleted the .wine directory: "wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\Launcher.exe": Module not found xaber at xaber-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/Programmi/Ubisoft/Prince of Persia$ wine "Prince of Persia.exe" err:module:import_dll Library d3dx9_39.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Programmi\\Ubisoft\\Prince of Persia\\Prince of Persia.exe") not found err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Programmi\\Ubisoft\\Prince of Persia\\Prince of Persia.exe" failed, status c0000135" Now, should I copy the file from windows?
I did all the things you told me (even though lspci -v didn't give me the memory). Now: the "splash" menu starts, but when I cllick "start game", the wine window remains blank (i.e.: light blue), while before deleting the .wine dir i got the game running, but without video.
What does that mean to set it to native? By the way, that dll fixed the error and now I get the same result as before: nothing with pbuffer and audio only with fbo. I also set up the graphic card memory (I found that my card is 256+, so I typed in 256). Maybe, it's only the ati driver which does not work... What a pity! I really thank you for your help austin: you were a gold mine! ;) Merry Christmas (even though it's gone by now!)!
Ehm, a little question: I entered the config and now in the libraries there are many libraries set to native, which was not done by me: is this due to wintricks? And could this affect the running of other future windows applications?
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 7:17 AM, xaber1488 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Ehm, a little question: I entered the config and now in the libraries there are many libraries set to native, which was not done by me: is this due to wintricks? > And could this affect the running of other future windows applications? > > > > > >Depending on what you used winetricks for, yes. -- -Austin
Austin English wrote:> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 7:17 AM, xaber1488 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote: > >> Ehm, a little question: I entered the config and now in the libraries there are many libraries set to native, which was not done by me: is this due to wintricks? >> And could this affect the running of other future windows applications? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > Depending on what you used winetricks for, yes. > >Winetricks will set many library files to native. Can you provide a list of these settings to compare with those that should be changed with the use of Winetricks and to give a list of library files that need additional work to make POP2008 work without the native ones. James McKenzie
And how can I reset the changes done with winetricks? Simply removing the libraries overrides? And to apply them again, should I use again the sh winetricks comand?
xaber1488 wrote:> And how can I reset the changes done with winetricks? Simply removing the libraries overrides? And to apply them again, should I use again the sh winetricks comand? > >Open a terminal session code: cd $HOME mv .wine{,.backup} wine notepad Run winecfg and note any overrides at this point. Run winetricks with all of the changes you need to make your program run Run winecfg and take a screenshot of the overrides. Post to the Applications Database entry for your program. If there is not one, create it and add all that you did to get the program to run. James McKenzie
xaber1488 wrote:> And how can I reset the changes done with winetricks? Simply removing the libraries overrides?Pretty much. Those dlls will still be around but Wine by default prefers it's own dlls (in most cases). quote="xaber1488"]And to apply them again, should I use again the sh winetricks comand?[/quote] Should work as well
James McKenzie wrote:> xaber1488 wrote: > > > And how can I reset the changes done with winetricks? Simply removing the libraries overrides? And to apply them again, should I use again the sh winetricks comand? > > > > > > > Open a terminal session > > code: > > cd $HOME > > mv .wine{,.backup} > wine notepad > > Run winecfg and note any overrides at this point. > > Run winetricks with all of the changes you need to make your program run > > Run winecfg and take a screenshot of the overrides. Post to the > Applications Database entry for your program. If there is not one, > create it and add all that you did to get the program to run. > > James McKenziewhat does the mv .wine{,.backup} command do? Is that to delete the winetricks changes?
xaber1488 wrote:> James McKenzie wrote: > >> xaber1488 wrote: >> >> >>> And how can I reset the changes done with winetricks? Simply removing the libraries overrides? And to apply them again, should I use again the sh winetricks comand? >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Open a terminal session >> >> code: >> >> cd $HOME >> >> mv .wine{,.backup} >> wine notepad >> >> Run winecfg and note any overrides at this point. >> >> Run winetricks with all of the changes you need to make your program run >> >> Run winecfg and take a screenshot of the overrides. Post to the >> Applications Database entry for your program. If there is not one, >> create it and add all that you did to get the program to run. >> >> James McKenzie >> > > what does the mv .wine{,.backup} command do? Is that to delete the winetricks changes? > >This is a short cut for the following command: mv .wine .wine.backup It uses some of the functionality of the regular expressions command set. James McKenzie