wine users - Jul 2011 - Re: Run Game In Separate X Server?

The solution provided does not work for me. I use a patched wine-1.3.18
(WinePulse).

I try to run Call of Duty 4 in a separate xserver. Running games in a separate
xserver works great for native Linux games, but I can't get it to work for a
game that needs to start with Wine.

For example, if I run:

Code:
xinit /usr/bin/env WINEPREFIX="/home/serrano/.wine" /usr/bin/wine
"/home/serrano/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Activision/Call of Duty 4 -
Modern Warfare/iw3sp.exe" -- :1


or 

Code:
xinit /usr/bin/wine "/home/serrano/.wine/drive_c/Program
Files/Activision/Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare/iw3sp.exe" -- :1


The screen switches to a new xserver, and in that xserver I'm presented with
a graphical error message:
> WIN_IMPROPER_QUIT_BODY
> [Yes] [No] [Cancel]

If I answer Yes or No, it gives me the following error,
> Error during initialization:
> Couldn't load fileSysCheck.cnf. Make sure Call of Duty is run from the
correct folder.
> [OK]

Anyone know how to fix this?

I assume you use nvidia, it opens it in :2
change :2 to something else if you want it somewhere else,
or heck make it even a command line option


Code:

#!/bin/sh
# cd to dir && run in wine in another X Display

if [ ! "$1" ]; then
	echo "Usage : xwine [gameDir] [exe]"
	exit
fi
if [ ! "$2" ]; then
	echo "Usage : xwine [gameDir] [exe]"
	exit
fi

X :2 -ac -terminate & nvidia-settings --load-config-only
sleep 10
DISPLAY=:2
cd "$1"
wine "$2" $3




1. create new file, name it xwine
2. copy that to that file
3. chmod +x 
4. sudo mv xwine /usr/bin/
5. xwine "/path/to/game/dir" "executable"

Not tested, but should work.