wine users - Jan 2011 - Star Wars Empire at War opens blank text box instead of game

After installation of Star Wars Empire at War and it's Expansion with the
latest version of Wine, the game will not start up. I click on the icon and a
blank text box shows up instead of the start of the game.

I have the latest versions of Wine, Ubuntu and I just got winetricks.
I have tried changing the Library with all of the items there.
I have tried adding the .exe to Applications, LaunchEAW.exe
I have tried installing d3dx9 through winetricks.

I thank you all in advance for helping me out! I am new to all of this and know
almost nothing about how all of this works, and I am in awe of the people that
do.

Try to start the game directly by the executable: sweaw.exe or swfoc.exe
If that still doesn't help launch the game from a terminal and post the
output here (or use pastebin if the log is too long).
The game starts fine here using only native d3dx9_36.dll.

env WINEPREFIX="/home/platypus/.winem wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe
/Unix /home/platypus/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Start\
Menu/Programs/LucasArts/Star\ Wars\ Empire\ at\ War/Play.lnk

this was the command to start it ( i think) and it said the following in
response

no such file or directory


and I did try to use the .exe file and the same thing happened...

Alarbios wrote:
> Thanks for the help, somebody else said ie6 by winetricks, what is it and
where can I find it? I keep on getting references to internet explorer 6 when I
look for it...
http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

Thank you for the link, I installed it but the problem persists! I am going to
fiddle with the settings some more and see what happens unless anybody has a
better/more productive idea lol

anybody else have any ideas on what I could do?

Anybody?