wine users - Nov 2010 - How to specify a working directory for an app

Hi,

I have a game that I want to run multiple instances of. This game creates a
mutex to prevent this. That kind of limits my options on getting this to work. I
also want to run it in a virtual desktop, side-by-side.

So I copied my .wine directory to .wine2. I created a launcher for the game with
the command:

Code:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/username/.wine2" wine
"/home/username/Desktop/gamefolder/game.exe"



And this works until the game needs to use a file in its directory. At that
point I get a "umm this file isn't here" message.

Not really knowing what I'm doing, I decided to try

Code:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/username/.wine2"; cd
"home/username/Desktop/gamefolder/"; wine
"/home/username/Desktop/gamefolder/game.exe"



But it didn't like that either.

How can I specify a starting/working directory for this game?

I'm on Ubuntu, running all this from a single user account. The game works
fine if I simply click the .exe file using the default wine setup.

And now I've tried using the 'wine start' method, but still getting
the same results:

Code:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/username/.wine2" wine start
'\home\username\Desktop\gamefolder\game.exe'



Seems so simple but I've been at this for 4 hours now :(