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For example, I checked Painkiller on AppDB and it works fine, I don't get any keyboard or mouse issues anymore (avoid Compiz), so I decided to try that game first. It loads all fine but in game a lot of objects are missing like monsters. The game is pretty unplayable if you can't see what you are shooting at. Invisible or unloaded objects in games is a common problem for me. So what

This is my question. I want to install some mods to my games, but the program files folder in wine looks empty (only IE) Where are the game folders?? Thanks.

So i downloaded Monkey Island 2 - iso file. I mounted it using terminal with the command: mount -o loop file/directory/filename.iso /mnt/disk then i used the command: wine setup.exe Wine showed up, I browse a directory and the game was installed. However when i try to find where the game is the directory just doesn't exist. I try in .wine/drive_c/Program Files where it should be , but

Hello guys :D i'm a new comer in ubuntu ;) i installed few days ago Wine for play Win game but i know that need Direct x to do it so i found this post : http://www.wine-reviews.net/wine-reviews/games/how-to-install-directx-in-linux-using-wine.html i did all that the writer wrote but when it says "launch direct x 9.0c install it gives me this error : The file

hey guys i got ubuntu 9.04 and i got wine so i can play a few of my games but none seem to work but only one and the only one that works is star wars Jedi knight Jedi out cast all of the games that don't work are here: Max Payne error:no zbuffer formats found star wars battle front 1&2 don't start at all star craft starts but is very slow and lags star wars eaw does not start at all

Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 "Etch" AMD64 Wine version: 0.9.57 AMD64 I got the complete Call of Duty serie. So I want to install them... But on an easy to find place! Like /usr/local/games/. Is it possible to install it there? If not it would be a very nice feature for 1.0!

it was working fine for ubuntu 9.10 but it crapped out on me for 10.04. now i can't even play my games that are even designed got ubuntu. please help

Hi all I'm trying to play the game "BOH" (http://www.bohthegame.com/) on OS X using Darwine. I downloaded 1.1.19 and dragged the Darwine folder to /Applications. Then I opened the BOH installer using WineHelper and installed the game. For some reason it put the installed files inside the WineHelper application bundle. When I tried to open the game's executable using WineHelper,

Is there any chance to running new games under Wine (because I've seen some new videogames running in Youtube) and, what things can be made to try to get those games working. I don't know much about wine so I don't know how it works but, Colud we make some kind of guide about problems, solutions and wine moddings to encorauge users to get working new games?

i typed in the feisty code in terminal, and then i typed in sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install wine and i still cannot run a game of mine that is supposed to work with wine any advice?

I have been trying to add a launcher to the gnome menu for some of my wine games, but I have found that when I add them to the menu the games complain about missing files, I assume because it is looking for the rest of the game files in the directory that the launcher is in. This doesn't happen when I run the same command within the games directory they work fine. I used to have this problem

alright, i think i installed wine on my new aspire one, the problem is, i used the root, yum wine way, is this how you install it? also, i want to make sure it does work with the aspire one (that uses linpus, fedora based)? and then after i installed wine, i tried to install a game, which i then tried to load up and it didnt work, is there a special way of installing games through wine? ok,

ive been using wine for about a month now and ive tried a couple different versions but i cant install or run anything on wine from a CD..i did a work around for it by just copyin the cd to my hard drive and got my game installed, but it comes with 3 play disks and an install disk, and when i try to play it even when the correct play disk is in and copied everywhere on my hard drive the game still

I start up a game- any game, and instead of launching, it seems to start to launch and then fails, and all i see is my desktop in a lower resolution. Is this a bug, or is this human error on my part?

I downloaded Darwine stable 1.0.1 and installed it. I went to /Applications/Darwine/Wine.bundle/Contents/bin and double-clicked on "wine" Then I went to Terminal and went to the directory for GTA2. I typed "GTA2.exe." The process installed GTA2. I went to /Users/brianlee/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Rockstar Games/GTA2 in Finder and double-clicked on GTA2.exe and only a weird

I don`t know you know this problems. But i got an issue exiting games in Wine since wine version 1.2 using wineskin and in crossover (cxg 9.1). I got this issue in almost every game. when i use an other wine version below 1.2 exiting is going just fine. What happens is that i exit i end in a black screen what doesn't disappear. I have to do cmd+apple key+ esc to and the program. After that i

I have recently gotten back into making a games with gamemaker. I had a big game that I didn't finish on my old computer running Windows XP. But then my stupid sister dropped my laptop done the stairs. That was about 2 months ago, and I got a new laptop running OSX because my parents hate Windows (while I love it). I was looking through a flashdrive with my stuff from my old laptop on it

I am on a Macbook 4,1 with 4GB ram and X3100 GPU running 10.5.6, VMware Fusion 2.0.2 and CxGames 7.2. I am trying to get Runes of Magic to run, and I think it has something to do with wine. I tried installing and running this game in win2k, winxp, and vista bottles and all yeilded the same result (the pic). I am not running any additional commands to the application (-dx8, -noshaders, etc). I

Hi, I cannot seem to be able to install champions online no matter what. I have tried installing it with wine bottler, wine skin, crossover, and crossover games, and every time the same thing happens: a window pops up saying program error, an error has occurred. This happens when the champions online starts installing. It is driving me insane. Please help me and tell me what I need to do.

Here is a extract of my posting on Ubuntu forum that so far has not solved my problem: "I have been using Wine and the programs for the past 12 months without any hitches under 32bit 8.04 and 8.10. I did a clean install of 64bit 9.04 and installed wine and the programs I need to run. It behaved oddly right from the start and then just stopped. You can see the program trying to start, and then