wine users - Jan 2010 - New to Wine - going to get Gothic II & Warcraft III running

Huhu,
I tried to run Warcraft III with Wine. First it crashed, then I read about the
video issue and renamed all the movie files. Then I started the game but got bad
video and/or mouse lag.
There is a description about this problem, but I can't find the
registry-import file...?

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=3126&iTestingId=48263

I am using Ubuntu Karmic Koala.

Till yet I didn't try about Gothic II, will report if I run into any
problems.

I also read that it is recommended to install the applications with Wine and not
to use the installation made at windows.
I tried to install WC3 ROC via the blizzard installer (downloaded WC3 legally
(!) before (CD key required for that one)), but I get an error message
(translated into english):
The file "Z:\usr\games\Warcraft III.temp\blizzard.ax.temp"
couldn't be created. If the problem consists any further please contact the
customer service of Blizzard. (InstallerFile::Create)

After that one:
The folder "Z:\usr\games\Warcraft III.temp" couldn't be deleted.
(ConflictManager::UncreateObjects)

Original geman error messages:
Die Datei "Z:\usr\games\Warcraft III.temp\blizzard.ax.temp" konnte
nicht erstellt werden. Sollte das Problem fortbestehen, wenden Sie sich bitte an
den Technischen Support von Blizzard. (InstallerFile::Create)

Danach:
Der Ordner "Z:\usr\games\Warcraft III.temp" konnte nicht gel?scht
werden. (ConflictManager::UncreateObjects)

I am also really new to Ubuntu/Linux, so don't be surprised by any noob
mistakes.
I am using the Wine version which came with karmic koala (software center says:
Version 1.0.1-0ubuntu8(wine)

I am also going to play via battle.net, see the article. I somehow need to
compile a part of Wine by myself, but I don't have any clue hwo to do this.

Basinator wrote:
> I am using the Wine version which came with karmic koala (software center
says: Version 1.0.1-0ubuntu8(wine)
> 

That version is over a year old, and many things have been fixed since then.
Upgrade to the latest development release, currently 1.1.37.

Any idea? I might be able to run it from my windows hdd (where I did install it
via windows), but I need to change the to OGL mode then and somehow need to get
bnet working.

Basinator wrote:
> Any idea? I might be able to run it from my windows hdd (where I did
install it via windows), but I need to change the to OGL mode then and somehow
need to get bnet working.
>
>   
It is recommended that you install the programs to the Wine installation
vice using it from the Windows partition for many reasons.  One of those
is that most Linux distributions mount FAT32 and NTFS partitions as
noexec.  Also, some programs create entries in the registry to run with.

James McKenzie

Yeah, but unfortunally I just don't know how to fix this installer issue :(

I suggest that you delete the prefix where the game was installed (in your case
it is probably /home/your_user_name/.wine) and that you try again to install
your games. Make sure you do not run wine as root.

How do I do that?
Sry, totally new to Linux and WinE...

né©

Basinator wrote:
> How do I do that?
> Sry, totally new to Linux and WinE...

In a terminal

rm -R /home/your_user_name/.wine

Then try to install your games again.

You should also read this carefully :
http://www.winehq.org/docs/wineusr-guide/index

Ah btw: The flackering of my background applications like filemanager, pidgin
and firefox seems to be still existent. The "Workaround" is for me
that I minimize all windows and apps first.

But what bothers me a bit that I can't back-tab into the game. (I know, it
works with virtualized screen, but that's rather uncomfortable and ugly to
play with...)