wine users - Nov 2001 - How to get Civ 3 running...

Apparently it is possible to run Civilization 3 under wine, but i'm having
no luck. It installed fine, but won't run. With recent CVS winex i get:

[~/.wine/c_drive/civ3]$ wine Civilization3.exe

fixme:module:CreateProcessA (E:\~ef7194.tmp,...): CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE ignored
fixme:module:CreateProcessA (E:\~ef7194.tmp,...): NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS ignored
err:int:INSTR_IDT_Emulate Evil attempt to exploit win9x system security flaws
detected
err:int:INSTR_IDT_Emulate UNIX system security is too strong, can't emulate
properly
fixme:win32:DEVICE_Open Unknown/unsupported VxD SICE. Try --winver nt40 or win31
!
fixme:win32:DEVICE_Open Unknown/unsupported VxD SIWVID. Try --winver nt40 or
win31 !

It doesn't work with --winver nt40 either.

And with the debian "wine_0.0.20011108-2_i386.deb" build i get:

[~/.wine/c_drive/civ3]$ wine Civilization3.exe 
fixme:module:CreateProcessA (E:\~ef7194.tmp,...): CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE ignored
fixme:module:CreateProcessA (E:\~ef7194.tmp,...): NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS ignored
FIXME:pthread_rwlock_rdlock
FIXME:pthread_rwlock_unlock
FIXME:pthread_rwlock_rdlock
FIXME:pthread_rwlock_unlock

Then a message box pops up titled "A debugger has been detected",
stating
"Unload the debugger and try again". And it quits.

My system is a progeny debian rc-1 system, glibc 2.2.4, xfree86 4.1.0,
kernel 2.4.13 with preemptible kernel patch. Winex was compiled with gcc
3.0.2.

Thanks.

-- 
Tom "Moretom" Morton (www.moretom.net)

Tom Morton wrote:
> no luck. It installed fine, but won't run. With recent CVS winex i get:
> fixme:win32:DEVICE_Open Unknown/unsupported VxD SICE. Try --winver nt40 or
win31 !
> fixme:win32:DEVICE_Open Unknown/unsupported VxD SIWVID. Try --winver nt40
or win31 !
> 
> It doesn't work with --winver nt40 either.
Huh? At least the VxD fixmes should be gone then...
> And with the debian "wine_0.0.20011108-2_i386.deb" build i get:
> 
> [~/.wine/c_drive/civ3]$ wine Civilization3.exe
> fixme:module:CreateProcessA (E:\~ef7194.tmp,...): CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE
ignored
> fixme:module:CreateProcessA (E:\~ef7194.tmp,...): NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS
ignored
> FIXME:pthread_rwlock_rdlock
> FIXME:pthread_rwlock_unlock
> FIXME:pthread_rwlock_rdlock
> FIXME:pthread_rwlock_unlock
This looks more like what you would also get with winex;
> Then a message box pops up titled "A debugger has been detected",
stating
> "Unload the debugger and try again". And it quits.
However, this is IIRC a symptom of the copy protection (SafeDisc or
SecuROM, not sure) at work. The latest transgaming binaries
(available to subscribers) support this; however, the source does
not contain this work (yet??) probably due to license issues. 

So, the advice is: try the .deb binaries from transgaming.com if you
can, or get a crack to remove the protection (though I do not know
if it is legal in your country (DMCA?)).

Also, you might try voting for "Civ 3" support in the transgaming
polls. The poll only runs until... today (30th November, 2001), so
in order to influence it, you should subscribe rather soon :-)

Yours Malte #8-)