wine users - Aug 2010 - Games 'dissappear' after installing in wine...

Heya,

I'm new to these forums and fairly new to linux and wine. I'm having
some trouble with some computer games I'm trying to run under wine. The
games are:
Call of Duty 5 World at War
Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare
Alien Versus Predator

I managed to install Call of Duty 5 and AvP without errors, however I can't
run them. They don't appear in the wine menu or the games menu. (I'm
using OpenSuse 11.3 64 bit with kde) I've checked the wine c-drive, and they
don't appear there either. That is, I've checked
/home/jacob/.wine/drive_c and /home/jacob/.wine/dosdevices. The games are NOT in
those folders. However, the game installers can see the directories. Meaning
that when I installed AvP I could see the folder for Call of Duty 5, however
neither wine nor nautilus seems to be able to find these folders. I haven't
changed ANY settings in wine.

Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare is a different story altogether, this installer
can also see those magic invisible folders that the other games are in, however
it keeps claiming that I don't have 8gb of available harddisk space. As far
as I can make out I have about 95gb free harddisk space.

According to the appdb all games should be supported. The Call of Duty Games
should be awarded silver medals and AvP got gold...

Best regards,

Daqar

On Tuesday 10 August 2010 8:19:07 am Daqar wrote:
>  I've checked /home/jacob/.wine/drive_c
Have you tried going one folder more?  My games show up in 
/home/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/<name of game>

Look in /home/your_user_name/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/

Also, you should run your games with a command line.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal

Sorry, my bad. I didn't make that clear enough. I have indeed checked that
folder. Here is what it contains:


Code:
jacob at linux-c18f:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files> ls
Common Files  Heretic  Internet Explorer  WordPerfect Office X3



The games are really not there....I don't know what I did wrong. I ran the
installers as root, using the OpenSuse su command, like in this example:


Code:
su
wine setup.exe



Is that the error? I couldn't make the installers work without root
permissions.

Best regards,

Daqar

Martin Gregorie wrote:
>  If you run a program with 'sudo' it gets elevated privileges but
will
> still run in your login, so try running the installer this way:
> 
> 	sudo wine setup.exe
> 
DO NOT DO THIS. It will break the permissions in your ~/.wine folder. 
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa287b4288974de0df23351f278b0d41014

Thanks for the help guys. I managed to locate and delete the .wine folder under
root. I managed to install AvP just fine and it runs. I just don't have full
mouse movement. I can't turn 360 degrees. The mouse movement is limited like
this both horizontally and vertical. I guess I should start a new thread with
that...

Thanks again for the help !

Best regards,

Daqar