"Windows 7 Games" not working

[Calab]

Hello!

I have used Wine to install the "Windows 7 Games for Windows 10" on my Mint Linux PC. This is a collection of games, mostly card games, that originally came preinstalled on Windows 7.

After the install I was able to start Solitaire.exe one time and play. Now, when I open the program from the CLI I see the following:

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steve@mint:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Solitaire$ wine Solitaire.exe
00d8:err:msvcrt:_invalid_parameter (null):0 (null): (null) 0
00d8:err:msvcrt:_invalid_parameter (null):0 (null): (null) 0
00d8:err:d3d:wined3d_swapchain_resize_buffers Something's still holding back buffer 0 (0000000000727B60).
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF at address 00000001000457DA (thread 00d8), starting debugger...

...and the Wine Debugger window opens. The debugger details aren't helpful to me as it is just a list of ELF and PE-Wine modules.

I have other windows software installed that works, such as Hoyle Puzzle Games 2005, so I think my Wine installation is good.

I have tried renaming my .wine folder and running winecfg again, but that made no difference to the issue. I've also reinstalled the Windows 7 games with no luck. I've also executed "sudo apt reinstall wine" with no change.

wine --version shows "wine-9.0 (Ubuntu 9.0~repack-4build3)". MY linux version is Mint version 22.1 "Xia" with the 6.8.0-55-generic kernel. I'm using nVidia drivers on an X11 display server.

Does anyone know how to get these games working? Where should I start with troubleshooting?

[mainliner]

I'm not suggesting that this is the solution, but you might try winehq-staging.

[Calab]

I'm not suggesting that this is the solution, but you might try winehq-staging.

Gave it a try and the game loads now and I can play, but I'm missing the fonts in the dialogs. Tried installing all fonts using winetricks and installed the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package, but no joy.

Also, double clicking my icons, or choosing them in the menu doesn't start them. I need to run them from the CLI.

Thanks!

[qwertymnb]

This issue has been raised a few times here. Info can be found for example here:

viewtopic.php?p=131815&hilit=mui#p131815
https://github.com/cschuls/WineMUI

viewtopic.php?p=139819&hilit=mui#p139819

In short: You'll need a patched wine for it, see the first two links.

The third link seems to provide another way that I never tested, maybe you could give it a try(?)

[Calab]

viewtopic.php?p=139819&hilit=mui#p139819
The third link seems to provide another way that I never tested, maybe you could give it a try(?)

I checked it out. The instructions link is dead, but it was pretty simple to use the Resource Hacker to embed the MUI file into the EXE.

- File, Open choose the EXE file
- Action, add from a resource file, choose the MUI file (You may need to show all files to see the mui file)
- Choose to Overwrite duplicates and check all, then click Import.
- Save the new EXE file

It should give you the menu's now. Still no sound, but I can live with that for now.

Thanks!