Hello! I struggle to run the Game Gun from Wine 1.0. I manged to do the following with CrossOver. Through CrossOver 7.0.0 I installed DirectX. In the same bottle I insatelled Gun. I replaced the Gun.exe with a Gun.exe for a no-cd-crack. This works fine. Is it possible to di the same with Wine 1.0? Best regards Fredrik
On Monday May 19 2008 08:28:57 fredand44 wrote:> Hello! > > I struggle to run the Game Gun from Wine 1.0. > > I manged to do the following with CrossOver. > > Through CrossOver 7.0.0 I installed DirectX.There is definitely no need to install DirectX. By doing so you add a lot of garbage to your WINE prefix ("bottle"). WINE (and CrossOver) already have DirectX implementation.> Is it possible to di the same with Wine 1.0?Short answer - probably yes. Just install latest WINE and try. This is very simple and doesn't conflict with your CrossOver installation. In my personal experience WINE works better than CrossOver in most cases. This is isn't surprise because CrossOver always based on outdated WINE version with less features and less bug fixes. However, sometimes because of regressions older WINE version may work better than latest one (a bug report should be filed in such cases at http://bugs.winehq.org ).
On Monday 19 May 2008 01:28:57 am fredand44 wrote:> Through CrossOver 7.0.0 I installed DirectX.You shouldn't have done that. This is in the FAQ. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-fbaa851e07d7484640cc10b6d0c48abc741260b2> In the same bottle I insatelled Gun. > I replaced the Gun.exe with a Gun.exe for a no-cd-crack. > This works fine. > > Is it possible to di the same with Wine 1.0?Have you checked the AppDB? That's the best place to answer this question. http://appdb.winehq.org/ -- Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080519/073cce13/attachment.pgp
I am curious about this question also. I am just getting into OSX for the first time and also Wine for the first time, so please forgive my ignorance here. I tried out the CrossOver Mac and crossover games trials. In my case I am not running any games, but rather only some Audio programs. I found one case where the CrossOver mac product would not run my desired program correctly, but crossover Games did. The program did not use any DX stuff, so there must be other additional stuff in Crossover games besides DirectX. I did not really try to install any other runtimes, so maybe Games comes with some runtime that is not in the other version. Anyway, now I am experimenting with the free version. Please correct me if i am wrong, but it seems like the free version comes with more stuff and is generally going to be the best one to use, But Crossover includes the nice GUI for managing the bottle(s). Are there any other differences between Crossover and free Wine? I notice that when i try to run things with Crossover, I can turn on logging and get very direct logging that tells me exactly which DLL is missing. I can't figure out how to do that with free Wine, so that could be a big advantage I guess. What reasons are there for using the commercial version vs. the Free version, aside from the general stability that is promised for supported apps?(none of the apps I want to use are officially supported anyway).
ahh. So you mean to launch, say notepad, I would go to OSX terminal and type something like: wine notepad.exe (with full paths) and you're saying that would launch the program and I'd see all the logging I need on the terminal? I notice when I launch apps now, a console window is opened that spews some errors and stuff as the programs is running. I thought this was the same thing. but it does not report exactly which DLL is missing.
Yea I see the fixme messages. But so far I have not seen clean messages showing me which DLL is missing. I will try more stuff. CrossOver was more clear. Maybe there is a DEBUG flag I need to set?