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My apologies for being a total Wine NOOB. I've been trying to get anything to work on Wine (with little success). Panzer General II is supposed to be rated as Gold. I can get it to load fine. It starts, and I can even get to the start of a scenario/campaign. The main problem is it doesn't load the maps or anything into the map area. I ran winedbg and got this:

I can't believe that I am the only person this has happened to. I went to the faq page and found a situation that sounded right but I am still doing something wrong. If anybody can tell me how I can make this screen readable, I would be very grateful. I am running wine 1.7 I THINK. It is hard to read any of the info that the program is sending me. The programs that I run in wine seem to

...at the end where it wanted to do something with directX. However, this probably does not make much of a difference. The game MUST be run in 256 colors. I followed the second part of the tutorial (the part that uses vnc4server, as the other did not appear to work right) here http://wiki.winehq.org/256ColorsWorkarounds Also, I believe the CD itself is mix-mode, as my computer was able to read the audio tracks immediately. This is what I did: I used the installer. It installed, save where part of it "failed" in the directX part. I do not think that makes a difference. After that, I used the patch. It pa...