Running Windows Vista/7 games on Wine 7.0

[chrisonlinux]

Hello fellow Wine users,

Today, I had a flashback of me playing Chess Titans and Purble Place on my old Windows 7 laptop, so why not play them again? I am currently using Ubuntu MATE 22.10 and Wine 7.0(stable). I have a copy of the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games folder on my computer. When I try to launch Chess Titans by running wine chess.exe on a terminal, I get this output.

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0100:err:msvcrt:_invalid_parameter (null):0 (null): (null) 0
0100:err:msvcrt:_invalid_parameter (null):0 (null): (null) 0
0100:err:msvcrt:_invalid_parameter (null):0 (null): (null) 0
0100:err:msvcrt:_invalid_parameter (null):0 (null): (null) 0
0100:err:msvcrt:_invalid_parameter (null):0 (null): (null) 0

A window opens up displaying

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^

I would really appreciate some help because I want to play this games without creating a Windows Virtual Machine
Thanks,
Christopher

[jkfloris]

Instead of getting the games from a Windows 7 installation, I downloaded them from: https://win7games.com

To get the games working you have to work around bug 43670, because Wine cannot handle mui files.

An easy way to do this is to embed the mui file into the exe file. Download Resource Hacker and follow the instructions iIt is not necessary to embed slc.dll).

Purble Place also needs the Windows Media Player. You can install this with winetricks.

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winetricks -q wmp11

[chrisonlinux]

Thank you so much! It worked