wine users - Jun 2008 - Very strange issue

I have this old and pretty un-heard of game called Space Tripper.  Its pretty
fun and actually very well made, and it runs perfectly in Wine.  I have 5 other
games installed on my computer right now and they all start up fine when I make
shortcuts for them using the:

Code:

env WINEPREFIX="~/.wine" wine "C:\Program
Files\Game\game.exe"



But for some reason, Space Tripper doesn't like to work with this.  When I
tell the game to run, Wine's desktop shows up for a couple seconds and then
closes.  I go to my home directory and surprisingly see this console.txt left
behind, which contains:
> 
> [console] 1400 log started Fri Jun 20 22:44:59 2008
> [init] init_game
> *** [file] failed to fopen 'config.cfg': No such file or directory
> 

So, I figured that maybe I just can't use the default shortcut code for
Wine.  So I just made a link file.  That didn't do anything.  I felt very
suspicious why the game could only work if I run it in it's directory, and I
noticed that if I right-click on the .exe and select "open with other
application", and type in "wine", it doesn't start up.

What do I do?

It's not that uncommon. Some Windows programs have to be started from the
directory in which they're located. You didn't mention which desktop
environment you use. In KDE, right click on the desktop link, select Properties,
Application, and add the full unix path to the executable to the Work Path
field. I don't know about Gnome, but I imagine the procedure is similar.

Does anything have to be in quotes?  I keep getting cd errors.

Tlarhices, your 1 line-code suggestion works perfectly... in terminal.  In the
launcher I still get a cd error saying
"Details: Failed to execute child process "cd" (No such file or
directory)"

schmidtbag wrote:
> so what can I do now?  Am I stuck having to locate the game each time I
want to play it?
Again what I already said:

vitamin wrote:
> Just add this line to the .desktop file:
> 
> Code:
> Path=/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Game
> 
> 
That is the "working directory". Of course modify the path to point to
the palace your game is installed to.