i recently downloaded wine and the key and i cant run any of my windows based games. when i insert my disk instead of auto starting like it does on windows it just opens a folder with the disk contents. how do fix this problem.
On 08/21/2009 08:26 PM, beckman0208 wrote:> i recently downloaded wine and the key and i cant run any of my windows based games. when i insert my disk instead of auto starting like it does on windows it just opens a folder with the disk contents. how do fix this problem. >In the folder of disk contents that it opens, look for something ending in .exe it will probably be install.exe or setup.exe or something similar depending on the program. Right click on that and the menu should give you an option to 'open with wine' or 'wine program loader' or something similar. Choose that and you should get whatever type of installer the program used in windows.
that info really helped but the games are really slow. how do i fix this?
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 03:54, beckman0208 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> > that info really helped but the games are really slow. how do i fix this? >Check that desktop effects are disabled.... (aka Compiz, amongst others...)
beckman0208 wrote:> i recently downloaded wine and the key and i cant run any of my windows based games. when i insert my disk instead of auto starting like it does on windows it just opens a folder with the disk contents. how do fix this problem.This is not a "problem". This is the normal behaviour of any popular window manager like Gnome or KDE. Because Linux can't open exe's on its own you really can't expect it to autorun your Windows CD-ROMs, so instead it'll just open the directory. If you want to know what autorun in Windows would have launched, open the AUTORUN.INF file you find in the CD's root with a text editor and your exe will be named right after the open= line.