I have a copy of the Sims installed on a Win2k FAT32 partition. I know for a fact that The Sims works under Wine (Mandrake's "Gamer" edition), but I get an error when I try to run it. The error is as follows: "Game cannot be started because: There is not enough memory or hard drive space to run. Exit now." I do have plenty of free space and plenty of memory. Does anyone know how to get The Sims to run under Wine? Thanks, Josh. -- Joshua Beard <josh@hewbert.com>
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Joshua B. wrote:> I have a copy of the Sims installed on a Win2k FAT32 partition. I know > for a fact that The Sims works under Wine (Mandrake's "Gamer" edition), > but I get an error when I try to run it. The error is as follows: > > "Game cannot be started because: > There is not enough memory or hard drive space to run. > Exit now."That is almost certainly a lie. Yes, children, messageboxes often lie. If I will start the app I use to send this with builtin riched32.dll, it will raise an equivalent messagebox, but if I use native riched32, suddenly it has plenty of memory and disk space. YMMV, but something it wants at startup is missing, and as far as it can tell, it is memory or disk space. It could be _anything_. A resource, a registry entry, a file in windows/system (make one with the *NIX command "touch" and that may well be enough), _anything_. wine --debugmsg +relay blah.exe 2>&1 |tee ~/logfile might well show you what it is looking for before it gives up with that stupid messagebox.> > I do have plenty of free space and plenty of memory. Does anyone know > how to get The Sims to run under Wine? > Thanks, > Josh. >Lawson | We apologize if this message has reached you in error. | Save the Planet, Save the Trees! Advertise via E mail.
> I have a copy of the Sims installed on a Win2k FAT32 partition. I know > for a fact that The Sims works under Wine (Mandrake's "Gamer" edition),You know wrong. The Sims doesnt work under wine due to some wierdness by mixing 3d and 2d directx calls, if you were somehow to get it to run, then a lot of textures won't show up. Transgaming (who makes WineX, which drives the 'mandrake gamer edition') wanted a flagship product to attract new gamers, and at the time 'the sims' has sold more copies than any other game last year, and since it didnt work quite right, TG paid Maxis for the rights to modify and redistribute its own implementation. From what I know, most of the changes are just repackaged images in a more SDL-friendly format. The Sims will only work with wine if you have the special Transgaming version cd-rom, only currently available bundled with the 'mandrake gamer edition' available at mandrakesoft.com or your local computer retailer (Best Buy, Fry's, CompUSA, Circuit City) for about $60 Dave Jones - dajones@purdue.edu