2 Problems with new Games (COD4 & CnC3)

[cyberfox33]

Hey,
I tried to install 2 new Games in Wine; Call of Duty 4 and C&C 3 Tiberium Wars. Both of them make Problems (Other Games like GTA San Andreas and Crashday runs fine).

C&C 3 start, but I don't have a Cursor. It's Invisible. I tried some Options in Wine and searched an Option to set the Mouse from HW-Cursor to SW-Cursor, but it hasn't a function for that (but I think that's the Problem).

in Call of Duty 4 I can't start the Game because he have a Problem to Iniitialize the Miles Sound System and it means, I haven't enough memory for the DirectX9 code path or there's a Problem with the Drivers.

Both Games aber in the AppDB marked as runable, and I'm not very good in Linux (use it since the last Windows Crash) to resolve the Problems on myself.

My System:
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex (Need the new Kernel for my HDD Controller)
Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 3.0ghz
DDR2-667 6144mb
MSI P45 Platinum Mainboard
nVidia GeForce 9800 GX2 (Driver Version 177 Beta)

It's completely updated and all system Resources are supported. My Wine Version is the current 1.0.

[dimesio]

C&C 3 start, but I don't have a Cursor. It's Invisible.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13239

[vitamin]

in Call of Duty 4 I can't start the Game because he have a Problem to Iniitialize the Miles Sound System and it means, I haven't enough memory for the DirectX9 code path or there's a Problem with the Drivers.

Did you followed howto for this game? http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=10429

[Daily_Lama]

the next version of wine will run call of duty 4 without the need of any patch just "out of the box" (I tried it with the current developer version as found in the git repository).
c&c3 requires you to use a special "mouse cursor patch", that enables you to use .ani-cursors, that wine doesn't support yet natively. the only choice you have (at least at the moment) is to d/l that and compile your own version of wine...

[cyberfox33]

I followed the Instructions for CoD4, but that hasn't an effect. It showed me the Error Message again.

Mmh I miss the Cursor Patch for C&C 3....Now I've downloaded it, but I don't know where I must move it to install. And the precompiled Versions are for i386, but I have a x64 Machine.

[Daily_Lama]

that patch is not something like a "plugin" that you just put in the right subfolder and forget about it.
you must patch the source code and then compile that changed code to get a version that has that feature (patching is easy: just use "patch -p1 < patchfile", but if you are a newbie you might have quite some trouble compiling your wine. if you are still willing to do so have a look at the wine wiki, it should help you).
and if you really choose to do so get yourself the current code as found in the git repository - CoD4 will be working with that.
if you don't want to compile your own version wait until the next official one comes out (should be next week?), then you can at least enjoy CoD4.