Is there any way this will work - Silent Hunter 3?

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Is there any way this will work - Silent Hunter 3?

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Hi, Is there anyway that Silent Hunter 3 will work on Linux using wine. When I searched the database it looked hopeful although entries were old but on trying it I have had no luck. On trying to install the game I get the error "1608:unable to create install driver instance, return code 2147221164". This happens as soon as I try to install it. Is there no hope or is it worth persevering? Any ideas very welcome.

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Re: Is there any way this will work - Silent Hunter 3?

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... Any ideas very welcome.
Hi Steve,

The simple rule of thumb on any forum is: "the less information you give - the less likely you are likely you are to be helped or are help-able!!"!!
  1. I don't what version of Wine you are trying Silent Hunter 3 out on.
  2. I don't know what Linux distribution you are using.
  3. I don't even know what media version of Silent Hunter 3 you are trying to install (Digital Download, Steam or Retail DVD). Plus what game version.
Have you:
  1. Read the Wine HQ FAQ ? That's pretty essential really ...
  2. Used the official download links for Wine ?
    FYI:
    winehq-devel is more "vanilla Wine" ;
    winehq-staging has a whole set of additional patches applied - in order to "improve" Windows application compatibility.
  3. If you are using a 64-bit OS - then will need the 32-bit libraries for your graphics drivers, etc.
    Silent Hunter 3 is a 32-bit game - it will need to run in a 32-bit context (even on a 64-bit OS and 64-bit capable CPU).
I see the retail DVD version of Silent Hunter 3 is afflicted with the Starforce 3.x CD protection - see https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3260. So this could be a thing if your version has this drm embedded in it...

If you get a console trace - from running Silent Hunter 3. Could you post it here (if short - use

Code: Select all

 tags!!) or (if it's [b]long[/b]) at a [b]pastebin[/b] site - like [url=https://bpaste.net/]bpaste.net[/url] , [url=http://pastie.org/]pastie.org[/url] , etc.

So supply some more info ... [i]Then[/i] we might be able to push this forwards a bit!!  8) 

Bob
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