wine users - Jan 2010 - battlefield 1942 not starting after ubuntu restart

ive installed the game on wine 1.2 in ubuntu 9.10. it runs perfectly ok (except
sound) soon after install.  but when i restarted my system it dont start. i
reinstalled the game it works fine till i made a shutdown n start my laptop. im
not understanding y its behaving like that. i have to reinstall the game to make
it work after every system startup. help plz..

bluewing wrote:
> ive installed the game on wine 1.2 in ubuntu 9.10. it runs perfectly ok
(except sound) soon after install.  but when i restarted my system it dont
start. i reinstalled the game it works fine till i made a shutdown n start my
laptop. im not understanding y its behaving like that. i have to reinstall the
game to make it work after every system startup. help plz..

what is the terminal output?
how are you starting the game?

root at gowtham-laptop:/home/gowtham/Desktop# wine
/home/gowtham/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/EA\ GAMES/Battlefield\
1942/BF1942.exe
root at gowtham-laptop:/home/gowtham/Desktop# 

thats it no o/p. when i double click the icon on desktop or in program files a
button saying "starting battlefi.." in bottom panel appear for some
time n disappears.  [Rolling Eyes]

but when i mount the iso n double click autorun.exe game starts! n from then
till a restart dektop icon does its job!! game isnt a genuine copy(cracked one
[Twisted Evil]). im able to play this way but ill be glad to know what is the
problem...plz help

bluewing wrote:
> root at gowtham-laptop:/home/gowtham/Desktop# wine
/home/gowtham/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/EA\ GAMES/Battlefield\
1942/BF1942.exe
> root at gowtham-laptop:/home/gowtham/Desktop# 
>   
Here is a possible source of your problem:  Avoid running Wine as root. 
You should get an error that you are not the owner of the directory. 
Can you start over without running Wine as root?

James McKenzie