wine users - Jan 2011 - Re: Carrara 6 on WINE 0.9.59, Ubuntu Hardy 8.04, Gnome 2.22.1...

Hi VitalBodies, I have just made the switch to Ubuntu myself, Whilst I
understand I may never get Carrara to work, I have successfully installed Corel
Bryce 5, Hexagon and Daz Studio 3 advanced under wine 1.2. The Wine App Database
says that folks have got Eovia Carrara 5 to work with no problem but after
installing this version along with the C++ runtime's,  Carrara 5 under  Wine
will not let me render -  I get "An unknown error has occurred". So
near yet so far!

elthommo wrote:
> Hi VitalBodies, I have just made the switch to Ubuntu myself, Whilst I
understand I may never get Carrara to work, I have successfully installed Corel
Bryce 5, Hexagon and Daz Studio 3 advanced under wine 1.2. The Wine App Database
says that folks have got Eovia Carrara 5 to work with no problem but after
installing this version along with the C++ runtime's,  Carrara 5 under  Wine
will not let me render -  I get "An unknown error has occurred". So
near yet so far!

Thanks for your comments. 
Is there anything special needed to get Daz Studio installed? 
Carrera's render may or may not be the same as Carrera per say. You might
find out what it's requirements are. Like does it need activeX, .net or who
knows what?

Hello again.
Daz Studio 3 just works, so does Hexagon and Bryce 5.

As for Carrara, I have tried Active X but not as yet .net (I think Carrara 5
pre-dates .net). I will give you an update if Imake any more progress - its most
fustrating as it has been reported to work in older versions of wine and Ubuntu.
I will turn off multi threading in the render engine next and see if that works.

I am using an 8 core (two quad core xeons) computer with 18GB ram.  You would
would think that would be more than enough power to run email. Yet Evolution
will bog down the whole computer as it bogs down the hard drive. It is some odd
bug. On a single quad core with 4GB of ram I have no issues. Thus, if you are
using a very powerful computer you might also try a less powerful one and see it
that helps. So are you fully functional other than rendering? Like can you model
and such for lenths of time to make sure the program is steady?
I will throw out some ideas: Do you have to allocate memory and is there enough?
If the renderer has to write a file does it have permissions and did you create
the folder or check that it exists? Are you using Ubuntu 32-bit or 64 bit and is
it worth testing in both? Long shot: could it be video driver related. Are you
using Ubuntu or Ubuntu Studio?
My suggestions are only an attempt to be helpful and not based on any recent
experiance trying to run Carrara.  Also In System > Administration > Log
File Viewer you might find hints possibly.

I got it to work!
It was going through preferences that did it, I think it was changing the
scratch disk location that solved it.
YAHOO!
To answer your question, I am on Ubuntu Studio 32bit

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I am very happy - my advice is to pursue getting V5 to work before attempting
later versions .

... or it could have been unchecking use full-screen mode? Not very scientific I
know. [Wink]

Wow, Exciting! You might want to post what your settings are and where you moved
the scratch disk to for those that follow...

Fair enough, here are some of the preferences I have changed, like I said I was
not terribly methodical about it so I am not 100% sure what I changed that made
the difference but I know it works now so this is a good starting point for
anybody trying to achieve the same thing.

[img]http://4xeyng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pBzzgVj0Ixglj4KROGQhiEbghsnv7uueG2sPw4QOJnwG2neqQBwnjAMn32hnOf8DPOacVSDvazMRPNNrTuT-JUWQIWDHd9kgk/preferences.png?psid=1[/img]

Can I put this break through on my blog? 
I can let Linux users know it works. I would need to use your screen captures
though.

sure no problem, can I have a link?

I PM you a link and some suggestions. 
When we publish the article we can post the link here also. Currently the
article is in a temperary place called the sand box.

Here is the article: 
http://www.vitalbodies.net/site/tech-web/tech/260-getting-carrara-daz-studio-hex-and-bryce-to-run-in-ubuntu.html
VitalBodies would like to thank the Wine Team for all of their effrots!